Posted on 10/26/2020 6:01:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
With Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the verge of confirmation, Democrats are showing utter disdain for their constitutional duties and the American people.
While the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously recommended Barrett for a full Senate vote, anti-Trump Democrats boycotted in protest, taking their #Resistance to a whole new level. This is unprecedented: Despite finding no legitimate flaws in Barrett's nomination (because there are none), the Left decided to grandstand anyway, sending a clear message that bipartisanship is dead. Today's Democrats want Americans to know that they are not interested in sharing power, just consolidating it.
The Left’s strategy is two-fold, the first one being more obvious than the second. The lead strategy is for Democrats to press healthcare reform—read: health insurance—as the key message heading into Election Day. Republicans, the Democrats argue, don’t care about the sick and they’re actively working to strip Americans of the health insurance secured under Obamacare. During their recent boycott, Democrats placed large posters of insured Americans on Obamacare, framing them as victims under attack.
The Left’s ultimate goal is to frame all non-Democrats as heartless and hostile to Americans, who need health insurance to survive and thrive—particularly in the age of COVID-19. The mainstream media peddled Democratic talking points that Republicans are so heartless and hostile, in fact, as to secretly appoint and approve a judge whose sole purpose is to kill fellow Americans—particularly Black ones—by striking down the Affordable Care Act. In the words of Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI): “People are going to be without health care in the middle of a pandemic, no less.”
Of course, Barrett believes in health insurance just like any American. As the mother of seven children, she is obviously compassionate. She is obviously not waging a war against the sick or Black Americans.
The Left’s duplicitous strategy is to box Barrett in by either putting her in a position to prove them wrong when she is confirmed or guilting her into making liberal decisions when that day comes. If Barrett were to rule against Obamacare, Democrats would immediately come out and say “we told you so,” accusing Barrett of viciously attacking health insurance—and, by extension, putting American lives at risk. In the Left’s worldview, ideology is more important to Republicans than people.
This fallacy will then prompt Democrats to pack the court—or, at least, go down swinging. Joe Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), essentially suggested as much by urging Barrett to recuse herself from Obamacare-related cases. Guilt into submission.
Of course, Barrett believes in health insurance just like any American. As the mother of seven children, she is obviously compassionate. She is obviously not waging a war against the sick or Black Americans.
The Left’s duplicitous strategy is to box Barrett in by either putting her in a position to prove them wrong when she is confirmed or guilting her into making liberal decisions when that day comes. If Barrett were to rule against Obamacare, Democrats would immediately come out and say “we told you so,” accusing Barrett of viciously attacking health insurance—and, by extension, putting American lives at risk. In the Left’s worldview, ideology is more important to Republicans than people.
This fallacy will then prompt Democrats to pack the court—or, at least, go down swinging. Joe Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), essentially suggested as much by urging Barrett to recuse herself from Obamacare-related cases. Guilt into submission.
As President Trump often says, the Republican Party must learn to “get tougher and fight.” Republicans cannot allow Democrats to paint them as heartless and hostile to American lives, when it’s so clearly not true. As parents and as children, we should find it disrespectful for the Left to turn politics into a showdown between good and evil.
The Supreme Court fight is just the latest example. By promoting their people—the many millions who oppose Obamacare—Republicans will be able to protect Barrett from the Left’s attacks, but they will also set themselves up for electoral success in 2020 and beyond.
If and when the Republicans retain control of the Senate, they must ignore all precedent and mercilessly snuff out the Democrats’ hope. The Republican Party should never surrender.
The age of compromise is over—the war is here.
its actually the DC Swamp that is fighting for it’s lives.
Most “Republicans” only rise to a fight if their perks re election chances or lobbying gratuities are jeopardized.
THAT’S all they care about...and it’s more obvious all the time.
I do NOT regard myself as a ‘Republican’
The DC Swamp and the old dominant progressive media are one.
Democrats are petulant children - don’t get their way and they throw tantrums.
They scream and kick and they throw things. Heaven help you if they kick you or throw things at you.
How long will we put up with this?
Maybe they will wear themselves out by the time the right takes up arms and moves forward in glory. We have not yet begun to fight. They are punching at their own shadows right now. Wait until the right lets loose on them. Their heads will spin right off their torso.
I think the Dems held back on attacking Coney Barrett as they would if there weren’t an election so close.
She’ll be confirmed today and this will be a moot point.
This is why all Republicans need to vote as if their lives depended on it - if Biden gets in, he’ll quickly reverse everything Trump has done (stop construction on the wall, immediate amnesty, start up catch and release) - and he’ll refill the swamp, with himself as the evil Frog King.
Americans are slow to anger, quick to forgive and a Holy terror in the battlefield.
I think the Antifa children will continue to tantrum more matter which way this election goes, I dont think America’s patience will. I hope they will respond to a good spanking like an egg sucking dog, but I am as a good country gentleman prepared to put them down if they don’t.
I have buried a few bad dogs in my time. So has everyone who has experienced the reality of life outside cities. Death is a final solution for rabies.
Its fun discovering strategy and tactics when you are a boy, its not fun but quite valuable when you are a man pressed into the battle for life. It will cease to be fun when the Pantyfa discover that while the tactics of many thugs attacking unarmed people is easy, so also is the array of tactics of armed men attacking many thugs.
And in non gun controlled areas, America is a nation of armed citizens. Ones who are running out of patience with unruly children and egg sucking dogs.
The Barrett affair is a case in point. What should have happened was the Dems sitting down with Trump in 2018 and saying hey, we have the majority in the House now, power of the purse, and we also have an 85-year-old Supreme Court justice who would like to retire and we'd like some input on her replacement. Let's deal.
It would have had to be a pretty good offer to work, such as maybe funding the wall, but that's how adults practice politics. What did happen was a you-get-nothing policy - two dreary years of it - which left the Dems with no say in the matter at all. Whose fault was that?
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