Posted on 12/02/2022 11:48:31 AM PST by george76
Fresh off winning back the House of Representatives, Republican leaders have a great idea on how to capitalize on the power voters have given them: Give Democrats exactly what they want.
We’ve already seen that play out with the passage of the Orwellian-named “Respect for Marriage Act,” which enshrined gay marriage at the federal level. A dozen Republican senators chose to not stand up and force the passage of Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment that would have protected religious liberty, and naturally, the next betrayal is already being prepared.
Sen. Mitch McConnell has been meeting with the White House and is pushing to pass another omnibus spending bill that would fund Joe Biden’s agenda for the next 10 months. You might ask why Republicans would want to do that when they are just a month away from having the power of the purse. That’s a good question, and one Ted Cruz is sounding the alarm on.
He appeared on Newsmax on Thursday evening in an attempt to talk some sense into his colleagues.
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Why on earth would a lame duck Congress pass Nancy Pelosi’s appropriation bills?
In just a few weeks, we're gonna have a Republican House.
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To pass an omnibus appropriations bill at this point would be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The entire point of taking back the House was to be able to rein in the Democrat agenda going forward. To sign another blank check covering nearly half of what’s left of Biden’s presidency would be nuts. And guess what happens when we get to late 2023, just before the presidential primaries begin? The argument by McConnell will then be that Republicans must fold again because a shutdown would cost them the 2024 election.
I don’t think I’m alone in saying that I’m sick and tired of these games. If there is never a time to stand up and say enough, then what is the point of even attaining power? Besides, the idea that Republicans are going to be rewarded by voters if they fold and don’t force Democrats to own a government shutdown is not backed by any evidence. Remember, McConnell refused to engage in this fight last year, and the GOP still underperformed in the last election. Contrast that with the fact that Ted Cruz helped lead a government shutdown in 2013 that was followed by a GOP wave in 2014, and there’s just no correlation.
So what is the point of giving in here? What is the point of ceding the power voters just gave you? And why would those voters want to hand you more power if you can’t even be counted on to do something as simple as stand firm on demanding a shorter continuing resolution? Those are questions the Republican leadership needs to answer because they’ve lost all credibility at this point.
Unfortunately, Cruz might as well be talking to a wall. McConnell has already met with Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer, and the details are probably already hammered out. Will enough Republicans grow a spine and refuse to vote for what is ultimately proposed? I wouldn’t count on it.
Republicans may be cowards, but they are bought off cowards.
A lot of Republicans are retiring or being retired by voters so they are wanting their noses in the big slop trough for one last time.
This bill will sail through and the American voter is going to screwed one more time.
We are helpless to do anything about it.
The Republican party needs to excise the RINO's and butt pirates that infest the party. Right now the Republicans are being vastly undermined by RINO's. The Republican Party needs people to get rid of those that advocate "reaching across the aisle" and start a scorched earth policy as do the Democrats. Give no quarter to any Democrat or anything to which they advocate.
I wish you the best, Ted.
But how to make spineless corrupt cowards that do their paymaster’s bidding…not that?
What is the “MSM Media Bill”?
SB number?
GOPe are big spending, open borders Democrats.
Biden take orders from the global elites like Klaus Schwab.
Ted plays a big game of prending to care about the constitution,but what about the constitutional rights of the j6 patriots? For example knowing the charges against you and a speedy trial?Im sick to death of posturing Ted Cruz
All that it takes for one MAGA Republican lawmaker to effectively exercise majority power to stop Democrats and RINOs from destroying the constitutional republic is to publicly point out that feds have no express constitutional authority to do most of the things that they are doing.
"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.
In other words, most federal domestic policy is based on stolen state powers imo.
Patriots, be sure to tell everybody that you learned about this Supreme Court clarification of the fed's constitutionally limited powers from FN.
BWAHAHA!
Welcome to FR noob. Now sit down
Senator, Goldman Sachs, speaks.
Thanks Ted. That goes for you also.
Thank you for the welcome. Took you over a year, but bringing me a chair kind of makes up for it.
RE: tells GOP to Not Be Spineless Cowards
What?
Try something new at this late time? Cowardice is so comfy.
May as well take up wingsuiting and freelying skydiving.
WINGSUITING
Wingsuit flying. Wearing ‘squirrel suits’, an all in one suit that has wings, which the skydiver controls in order to control their descent rate and direction. Wingsuiters tend to spend longer in the air as they are traveling more horizontally.
FREEFLYING
Freeflying is the discipline where we learn to fly our bodies in all orientations and on all axis – not just belly to earth.
This means you’ll see freeflyers flying in head up, seated or standing positions. You may see them flying ‘head down’ (just upside down). Often, they combine all of this into impressive displays, or simply fly around with each other in these positions.
Freeflying is a little more difficult to master than formation skydiving and can go to highly advanced levels. VFS, for example – which stands for ‘vertical formation skydiving’ – is a very advanced discipline that combines formation skydiving with freeflying, resulting in spectacular stunts.
GOP, Inc. gonna save us all! /s
The Circus is the place for the GOP.
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