I will hope for the best, but my expectations are this...hopefully, I will be pleasantly surprised
Posted on 10/20/2022 11:01:22 PM PDT by grimalkin
House Freedom Caucus drafts memo to future new lawmakers urging them to hold out for radical change in the way the House operates because Congress "is worse than you thought."
In a pointed message to leaders and lawmakers alike, the conservative wing of House Republicans is circulating a draft guide to new lawmakers urging them to hold out for radical change in the way Congress operates if the GOP wins control in the midterm elections.
"Republicans ran to fix Washington," reads the memo from the House Freedom Caucus obtained by Just the News. "We cannot continue to govern in the same way that broke it."
"Some of the most important votes come before you're even sworn into office. Will you be ready?" the draft memo asks, warning new members that veteran lawmakers will likely try to schmooze them into complacency, starting with the orientation, votes for leadership and House rules in mid-November.
"The simple truth is that it perfectly suits some if you are unprepared or unaware of their significance," the memo warns of the first votes in the caucus set to happen in mid-November if the GOP prevails. "Some will urge you to be a 'team player' by falling in line with leadership and doing what you're told.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Sounds like they better be prepared to work and know what’s going on before they arrive - not giving much if any learning curve.
Well he got this right......
” the People’s House serves almost everyone in Washington except the American people. It does not have to — and it should not — be this way.”
Like Yogi Berra used to say, “Deja vu all over again”.
I just hope they are going to show Ryan and McConnell how
it was supposed to work in 2017 & 2018, only this time
without a sitting president that would have signed all
the good legislation they wanted to present, but wasn’t
given the opportunity.
They need to revert back to individual budget bills, such as Defense, Education, HHS etc. They need to be clear that there will be no more omnibus budget bills. All amendments must be debated in public. All bills need to go through the appropriate committee, amendments proposed, voted on and then the committee votes for the bill. All bills making it to the floor must be available to the public and elected members for a minimum of 1 week before debate can start on it. No proxy voting allowed, if you are not on the floor to vote you forfeit your vote, (and the voice of your constituents).
Any bill on one 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper doubled sided in Arial 12 font; plain English.
Freeze on hiring, wages and spending.
10% cut in personnel, starting at the top, for all departments.
End weakening of military.
Talk to me on Nov. 9.
It’s working. Change from within.
WE HAVE TO BE AS BOLD AS THEY ARE.
Look at all the crap they have managed to put in place.
For Pete’s sake we have the good policies that will save America, guys. Do what those morons do. For the good of the Country be aggressive push and push without fear or favor.
The danger for the new Republican majority is that the remedy prescribed by Liz Truss was virtually indistinguishable from the economic policy undertaken by Donald Trump. If the Republicans with their newfound power force that policy after January 22, will they suffer the same fate as Liz Truss or initiate a season of prosperity as remarkable is that achieved by Donald Trump?
Both Trump and Truss entered office well aware that the economy needed stimulation and proposed a diet of tax cuts, regulation cuts, but, note, neither politician advocated spending cuts. Rather, both politicians emphasized "growth, growth, growth".
When conservatives asked Donald Trump about a deficit grown too large his answer was not to cut spending, indeed he would massively increase military spending, but with a tax cut and regulation cuts he would grow the economy sufficiently to reduce the deficit, especially as calculated as a percentage of GNP.
Donald Trump was not derailed by massive, spiraling worldwide inflation that confronted Liz Truss so his policy effected wonderful growth at least until everything was derailed by the Covid pandemic. It is not clear before Covid whether he was going to close the deficit gap growth but it was clear that he achieved GNP growth. By cutting deadening regulations, Trump did increase productivity which is an inflation fighter. Wages soared along with GNP and it looked like Trump had succeeded brilliantly, then we came down with Covid 19.
In addition, Trump was aided by several factors that kept inflation in check: the American dollar was the reserve currency of the world; cheap goods were flooding in from China, Mexico and the Third World keeping prices in check while they pushed labor costs in America down; a flood of immigrants had swelled the labor force reducing pressure on wages; the Fed, free of pressure to fight inflation, kept interest rates low which favored growth and fixed assets, even as it distorted the economy to some degree. Under these circumstances, tax cuts and spending could hold hands and go forward unimpeded by threats from the bond market, the stock market, or any hint of a sovereign debt crisis.
Liz Truss enjoyed none of these factors which permitted tax cuts to be granted without generating deficits and inflation when spending was permitted to sail on. The bond market said, we won't accept your risk, we think there is a sovereign debt crisis, we are selling your bonds and we are selling your pound sterling. In the absence of spending cuts to match tax cuts, the economy was on the verge of collapse the pound along with it, and the political collapse of the Liz Truss administration was as sudden as it was inevitable.
I believe it is the Liz Truss scenario that will face the American government next year confronting the Republican majorities in both Houses with the dual challenge of saving the economy and, by extension, the Republic from economic and political disintegration. Will the Republicans escape the blame for the pain which must be inevitably endured?
Spending must be cut even as taxes are cut and taxes must be cut. Cutting spending is to tell the American voters to eat their spinach while the Democrats will be telling the electorate to have a second helping of dessert. As usual, the electorate is likely to behave as it has always behaved, to act in its own short-term self-interest. The electorate has never been known for postponing gratification.
Undertaking this dual challenge in a dystopian world in which those in power will likely be judged quickly and as harshly as Liz Truss, the Republicans have to get the policy right and the messaging right. That means the Republicans cannot succeed as a house divided, as conservatives vs. rinos, as House of Representatives vs. the Senate, as Patriots vs. McConnell, as spenders vs. cutters.
The fate of the party and perhaps the fate of the Republic turns on how the Republicans succeed.
Maybe THIS time Charlie Brown will kick lucy to the moon instead of once again landing on his back. We can dream...we can dream.
I believe Liz Truss recognized that reality and professed a policy of drilling and making Britain not only warm in winter but she advanced opening energy production as an antidote to inflation.
Donald Trump was given a chance for his energy policies to succeed, Liz Truss was not. The interesting question for the upcoming Republican majority is will it be necessary to override Biden's expected veto of laws opening drilling and reforming the energy patch and, if it is necessary, will they muster a two thirds majority?
“cheap abundant energy fights inflation”
Yes
But the country needs healing./sarc
First order of business - get rid of McCarthy.
Nice thought, but unfortunately if the Freedom Caucus thinks they can take on the NWO Global Cabal they have another thing coming. They will get picked off one at a time. Plane crashes, Car wrecks, Suicides...
Unfortunately, I doubt that he is going anywhere. He will still be playing patty cake with Pelosi. As for the Republicans who want real change? Yeah. Remember when they cancelled Obamacrap? Grrr. Bark. Snarl. Then - wimper.
Absolutely!
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