Posted on 07/22/2022 5:17:16 PM PDT by jfd1776
It is expected – unless the vote fraud is even worse than usual this time – that the Republicans will win back both the US House and the US Senate in November 2022.
This is not certain, and nobody should count their chickens before they’re hatched, though every poll points to it.
Even so, it’s not too soon to talk about what the next GOP Congress needs to do. And this time, some of the absolute musts are unusual.
First, a few ground rules:
1. Republican legislators have a tendency to say “if we don’t hold the executive branch, there’s no point wasting our time on things that won’t get signed.” Wrong. Even if there’s no chance of a signature from the White House, pass the bills. First, to get the Democrats on record for vetoing it, and second, to show what the GOP stands for, and will pass again when there’s someone in place to sign it. Besides, sometimes, some of them will pass with enough of a majority to override a veto. It’s worth a try.
2. There are tons of issues that Republicans shy away from. Cold fear of being called “racist, sexist, anti-gay,” and a hundred other insults has terrified Republicans to the point that they won’t say a word about the crippling welfare state, our emasculated military, the insolvency of Social Security, and perhaps a hundred other subjects. We simply cannot afford such fears anymore. For decades, Republican squeamishness has given the Democrats carte blanche to use those very issues to undermine not only the United States, but Western Civilization itself. Stand up or go home.
3. Finally, unity is imperative. Democrats manage to act united in Congress no matter what, while the Republican caucus always has dozens of self-proclaimed “mavericks” who show off their power by building coalitions to undermine conservative policy whenever the party is on the brink of victory. How do Democrats avoid this problem? By letting such mavericks know that they will be destroyed in the next primary if they dare to dissent. As a result, we can list the number of Democrats who think for themselves on one hand. Imagine what the Republican party could accomplish with that much unity on the side of good.
Now then. What must the GOP focus on in the next term?
Obviously matters of the budget – cutting spending, cutting taxes, and numerous investigations on such subjects as the Biden crime family, the shameful abandonment of Afghanistan, Democrat party support of riots in 2020, etc. Much of this goes without saying.
But there are also certain critical issues that appear to be underappreciated by the national Republican party. These are issues that must be addressed if the party is to have a prayer of winning anything in 2024 or ever again, issues that may determine whether this country ever again bears any resemblance to the United States left to us by our Founding Fathers.
CLIMATE CHANGE
The “manmade global warming” campaign is much more than just an obnoxious “sky is falling” hoax, designed to scare people into buying electric cars and Chinese windmills. That’s what it looks like, but it is more insidious than most can imagine. This global con, which has been utterly disproven time and time again, is being used as the justification for all kinds of unconstitutional, destructive regulations emanating from unexpected federal agencies, from chemical production to banking, from education to health policy. Congress urgently needs to act, stating for the record that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and that no executive agency has any right or authority to promulgate rules controlling CO2 levels in any way. The very crooked concept of the “carbon footprint” must be demolished at the federal level, and to the extent that states can do so, they should as well.
VOTE FRAUD
There are dozens of different ways to commit election violations, and Democrats have made this subject their special arena of expertise for at least a century. Most election law is controlled at the state level, and rightly so. But to the extent possible, the federal government can crack down, through measures such as reducing the number of illegal aliens… making an election fraud conviction grounds for immediate revocation of visas, government grants, or government jobs… facilitating national databases to enable voter roll cleanups, etc.
SECURING THE BORDER
The country has been over this issue countless times in the past half century. We know what we need to do: build the wall, enforce the laws, and put an absolute end to talk of amnesties. The Democrats have long practiced a shameful policy of showing incredible favoritism for gate crashers at the expense of the honorable immigrants who follow the law. The GOP must make this case, vocally and clearly, and start purging and/or closing the many federal agencies on the wrong side of the issue.
THE REGULATORY STATE
We can break down the jobs of the House of Representatives into three general buckets: pass the laws, establish federal agencies for the executive branch to manage, and oversee those agencies through audits, reports, hearings, and corrective measures. Congress has traditionally been happy to pass laws and establish agencies; it’s in the oversight of those agencies where there has been a largely bipartisan lack of interest. As the regulatory state has grown, as seemingly every single agency promulgates an agenda infinitely broader and more destructive than Congress chartered it to do, this is the function that Congress must reassume with gusto. Their very job is to clip the wings of the leviathan, to bind its arms, muzzle its jaw, and chain its legs. As long as it fails to do so, unelected technocrats will continue to increase their chokehold on our country.
THE ATTACK ON SOCIETAL NORMS
In just the past ten years, the Left’s efforts to attack the traditional family unit, by undermining marriage, by encouraging sexual deviancy, and particularly by mainstreaming mental illness such as gender dysmorphia, has reached a fever pitch in the popular culture, infested our schools and legal system, and wormed its way into federal hiring practices and grant allocation. Women’s sports, in particular, are now in jeopardy of utter destruction due to the ability of a few men who have been allowed to dress as women, steal competitive awards and demolish the college scholarship environment. Congress can and must quickly reverse the recent federal orders, particularly in the Department of Education, that have facilitated this cancer.
RESTORE THE MILITARY
Few things exemplify this attack on societal norms more than the pacification of the military that began in force under Clinton and accelerated under Obama. We have all seen the latest US Navy training video, instructing our servicemen to participate in the pronoun game. Personnel is policy, so such a course correction cannot happen overnight. But what Congress can do, it must do. Our national security is in jeopardy.
SOCIAL SECURITY INTEGRITY
The Democrats have spent some fifty years spreading the lie that Republicans want to attack our seniors’ Social Security program, all the while undermining it themselves by using it as an endless piggy bank, to fund social engineering projects and all manner of welfare state programs for everybody but the seniors who are counting on it for their retirement. It is long past time for Congress to protect Social Security by breaking away those other programs, to be dealt with by the general fund, and thereby enabling Social Security to be properly funded and protected from such cannibalizing.
A NATIONAL MANUFACTURING POLICY
This is a dangerous term; it is usually used to call for massive federal spending on programs and subsidies, many of which are illegal under our international trade treaties. But we can support American manufacturing the conservative way too, and so we should. An end to Davis-Bacon, restoration of American energy independence, a broad scrapping of the crippling federal regulations that have driven so much industry overseas, restoration of the temporary Trump-era tax cuts that Democrats practically salivated at the chance to sunset. Congress can make the United States a welcoming home for all kinds of heavy and light manufacturing again, and so they must. Not a penny in new government spending; just a clear embrace of the free market again. It’s the only way our of this economic crisis.
There is more, of course, so much more to be done. But these are the issues that a new Congress will likely think too big to tackle and too unlikely to gain even partial presidential support for. But that’s exactly why they must be on the agenda for 2023. Even if only some of these are fully successful, a Republican majority must be on the record as recognizing their importance and working on them, instead of just holding hearings and spending money, which are all a lot of Americans think Congressmen ever do.
Some of this is purely federal in nature; some of it has state-level and even county and village level aspects as well. If the Republican Party is to earn the majority status that appears to be on the verge of returning, it must demonstrate an understanding of its role in society, and its obligation to restore so much that has recently been undermined.
Copyright 2022 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer, and actor. A one-time county chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009. John's political satires, "The Tales of Little Pavel" and "Evening Soup with Basement Joe", are available on Amazon.
I stopped reading at that point.
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Why, what’s your point?
Look, I’m as furious about vote fraud as you are... I’ve been writing about it for decades.
But the thing is, vote fraud isn’t usually as bad in midterms as in presidentials, and a number of states have cracked down since 2020.
Not enough, of course, but many have done something.
Some states will still be totally stolen, and in others it will likely be kept to the usual 5 to 10 percent range (completely unacceptable of course, but we can win those states; we can overcome it there).
Please keep reading. I did list vote fraud as one of my 8 key points. Just give me a chance, okay? :-)
Thanks,
JFD
Throw the law breakers in jail would be a good start.
Even if the Republican party only takes the House, a lot can be done IF they have the stones. They could require every committee to use its oversight powers and investigate each and every abuse, cover-up, and deep-state corruption. While hearings don’t accomplish much, they do serve the useful purpose of shining very bright lights on things the media will never shows. This will be helpful setting the stage for 2024.
The only way to “fix” the problems we face is to
1) repeal the 17th amendment, and
2) institute term limits on representatives and senators,
using the same language as the limits on presidential limits.
Neither of these things will ever occur without
an “Article 5 Convention of States”,
and that is just “too scary” to the sheeple...
So, the result is, “nothing will ever be done”.
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The republic is doomed.
We know what we need to do: build the wall, enforce the laws, and put an absolute end to talk of amnesties.
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The GOP Amnesty Senators are going to be a problem........
Humbling ourselves before God and prayer before all of these steps.
Agreed. And it’s going to be a big job.
Remember Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
All good points.
I’d add one: demolish the US Dept of Education, take the budget and fund school vouchers to empower parents and promote competition amongst schools.
“Do it for the children” (produce American citizens that can think and reason).
His opening passages said it all...
The “do-nothing” GOP will conduct their historical (for the past 20-years) circle jerk...
Most of their political efforts will be to marginalize Donald Trump and MAGA citizens...
Idealy, post 2024 with veto override capability and a GOP president, the action plan would be:
#1 Slam border shut...
#2 Restore oil pipelines, exploration and drilling...
#3 Fire ALL DOJ AGs and political appointments...
#4 Flush the military AND pentagon of ALL top brass...
#5 Undo every biden EO...
#6 Start mass deportations (46-50 million) immediately...
#7 Pass federal law requiring voter picture ID and proof of citizenship in ALL federal elections...
#8 Never mention the 2020 election again...
1. Purge out and either neutralize or relocate all forms of socialists.
Its very funny he thinks the republicans want to change the status quo.
Gotta get rid of the RINO’s to even stand a chance.
9. RETURN TO A CONSTITUTIONAL MILITIA. Get rid of the unconstitutional Dick Act and return it to what the Founders envisioned: Compulsory service with only three missions, none of which involve them going overseas.
Clause 15: Repel Invasion, put down rebellion, and enforces Laws of the Union.
That is where we went wrong. We can find, fix, and finish gangs and illegals in a very short period of time.
Kill the Federal Reserve - and everything else will fall into place naturally.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
You write that Democrats have been using Social Security “as an endless piggy bank, to fund social engineering projects and all manner of welfare state programs for everybody but the seniors who are counting on it for their retirement.”
Would you elaborate on that?
Social Security is sometimes known as OASDI, to refer to its three components: Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance. The largest is the retirement benefit that eligible workers can claim upon turning 65. If an eligible worker dies before that age, the worker’s widow(er) and children may receive survivors’ benefits. If the worker, instead of dying, becomes disabled from working, then disability benefits kick in.
Those are long-established and legitimate purposes of Social Security. Is the Social Security Administration spending funds on anything else?
Under Reagan, Social Security tax rates were adjusted because of the Baby Boomer problem. Reagan’s people foresaw that the retirement of the boomers would stress the system. The solution was to tax the boomers more, while they were working, to build up a reserve that could pay them benefits. The resulting surplus was invested in U.S. government securities. This didn’t make Social Security a “piggy bank” (which is why Al Gore’s call for a “lockbox” was wrong). If the Treasury bills and notes hadn’t been sold to the Social Security Administration, they would’ve been sold to someone else. Social Security is not responsible for the decision by successive Congresses and Presidents to engage in deficit spending.
What do YOU think the Social Security Administration should do with the surpluses it’s holding? A failure to invest that much money would be imprudent. Government securities are the safest investment.
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