Yes, I am just another RINO
Posted on 08/02/2021 12:11:09 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who served as the lead Republican negotiator on a previous attempt at an infrastructure package, on Monday praised the newly unveiled bipartisan deal as a major step in the right direction, signaling she is likely to support final passage of the legislation.
Capito didn’t explicitly say how she would vote on final passage but she touted the $1.2 trillion bill, which includes a lot of legislation produced by her committee, as having huge benefits for her home state of West Virginia and the rest of the nation.
“This is a product the American people can be proud of and one that will benefit them and the next generation,” she said, praising the 2,700-page bill on the floor.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Bush League Republicans are giving our country away.
Capito is RINOscum.
“So we saved two trillion by spending 1.2 trillion.
Pigs at a BIG trough.
Gravy for Everybody! Especially union workers!
Hag RINO.
Sheets Byrd would be proud.
He’s a RINO POS.
From a related thread...
Regarding unconstitutional federal infrastructure spending imo, Trump's red tsunami of patriot voters need to get up to speed with the following. State infrastructure is a state power issue, not the business of the feds imo.
In other words, misguided, institutionally indoctrinated state lawmakers are now wrongly depending on the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment, Democratic and RINO-controlled Congress to provide unconstitutional federal funding for state infrastructure. The problem is that such funding derived from unconstitutional federal taxes, unaccountable taxes that will probably ultimately be used to help finance the reelection campaigns of desperate Democrats and RINOs.
A bigger problem with paying unconstitutional federal taxes is that the states are left with insufficient revenue to maintain their own infrastructure.
The bottom line is that Trump supporters need to get the feds out of the unconstitutional business of “helping” the states to manage their revenues and let incumbent Democrats and RINOs find another way to finance their reelection campaigns.
Next, freepers should be familiar with the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions that emphasize the reasonably clear language of the Commerce Clause (1.8.3).
More specifically, regardless what FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers, it remains that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally given Congress the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
”State inspection laws, health, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
The collection of excerpts about Congress's limited Commerce Clause powers has now grown to four excerpts that contain similar language. They seem to have been inspired by President Thomas Jefferson, the most detailed clarification that infrastructure is a state power issue coming from Justice Joseph Story. The excerpts emphasize that Congress has no express constitutional authority to tax and spend for intrastate infrastructure purposes.
"Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc." --Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 1807.
”State inspection laws, health, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embrace every thing in the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, and health laws, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and others, which respect roads, fences, &c. are component parts of state legislation, resulting from the residuary powers of state sovereignty [emphasis added]. No direct power over these is given to congress, and consequently they remain subject to state legislation, though they may be controlled by congress, when they interfere with their acknowledged powers." --Justice Joseph Story, Article I, Section 10, Clause 2, 1833.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
In other words, all that minority federal RINOs need to argue to stop unconstitutional state infrastructure taxing and spending by the feds is to point out that the states have never expressly constitutionally given Congress the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
(Again,) "From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Trumps supporters need to primary incumbent federal and state lawmakers who don't send their supporters emails ASAP that clearly promise to introduce legislation to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxing and spending for state infrastructure within 100 days after start of new legislative session.
Insights welcome.
PORK - it greases all palms in Washington, DC.
She’s “key”? I’ve never heard of her before this
They can shove their bill up their collective rectums.
Trump should “let the health professionals guide where we’re going to go,” Moore Capito said.
“Congresswoman Capito has a long record of support of bailouts, pork, and bigger government,” Club For Growth president Chris Chocola wrote in a press release. “She voted to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for massive expansions of government-run health insurance, giveaways to big labor, and repeatedly voted to continue funding for wasteful earmarks like an Exploratorium in San Francisco and an Aquarium in South Carolina. That’s not the formula for GOP success in U.S. Senate races.”
Time to Primary RINO SenatorsPosted on 7/26/17 at 3:56 pm
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On Wednesday, seven Republicans voted to reject an Obamacare repeal measure identical to a bill that passed in 2015—Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Dick Heller of Nevada, John McCain of Arizona, Rob Portman of Ohio, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Remember these names and support true conservative Republican candidates in the primaries when these big government RINO’s run for re-election.
She wants to hand Biden a victory.
Its always about the money. A few thou goes a long way in W. Va.
And just about as attractive, I might add.
This is not the USA my family has fought for in every war since the American Revolution. I recall Congress in the 50’s and early 60’s, and most were WWII vets or Korean War. I recall as a little boy that my grandfather’s camp on Lake Champlain overlooked Valcour Island. That was very historic. My older sister and I walked the shore line and explored things like old bottles from that naval battle in caves on Grandpa’s shore line. I look around since Vietnam and this nation has been led by TRASH from Kennedy to present.
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