“Politically beyond stupid”
Well the stupid party did it again. Instead of uniting to pass a continuing resolution that the democrats would have never let become law, fourteen republicans voted with all the democrats but three to oppose Speaker Johnson’s CR. His CR was for six months and contained the SAVE legislation which would have required documentation to vote in federal elections. Again the republicans should have united around any CR knowing that it would not pass the Senate and if it did Biden would veto it. Then the onus of a federal shutdown would have been on the democrats. Instead the stupid republicans doomed their own CR meaning that any shutdown would fall on them. Mitch McConnell called the actions of the republicans in the House “politically beyond stupid.” Indeed. And who were these recalcitrant republicans? They are Jim Banks, Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Elijah Crane, Matt Gaetz, Wesley Hunt, Doug Lamborn, Nancy Mace, Cory Mills, Mike Rogers, Matt Rosendale, Gregory Steube, Beth Van Duyne and of course our own Tim Burchett. Note that all other members of the Tennessee delegation voted with the speaker as did firebrands Majorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan. I really don’t understand how that fourteen, especially Burchett can be comfortable voting with AOC and the rest of the Squad.
Speaking of which, have you noticed that the democrats do a much better job of herding cats than the republicans? Case in point is the presidential campaign where the media has transformed the least liked national politician into a beacon of hope and joy who is leading in the national polls. A word of caution here. Harris is leading in the national polls because she is a democrat and will win the majority of votes regardless of her positions. The key is whether she is leading in enough states to give her 270 electoral votes. Currently she isn’t but part of the media campaign is to discourage republican turnout by giving Harris the victory in October rather than in November. Note the discipline of the democrats as contrasted to the republicans. In the campaign nothing has been heard from the left wing of the party. As a good friend of mine has noted, the democrats have hit the Squad and the far left with the “mute” button. What have you heard from AOC who must be having withdrawal pains by not being in front of microphones? Even Omar has shut up whining about the Administration’s quasi-support of Israel. They are letting Harris lie her way to the presidency while the republicans are undermining their own candidate. Some have called the democrats the evil party, Well on this score, the democrats are the smart evil party.
I had lunch with another dear friend. This one hates Trump with a passion and was wearing a cap that said “Prosecutor versus Felon.” We literally have virtually everything in common – life experiences, tastes in clothes, drive the same car with the same color – except politics. He is convinced that Trump will do all he can to be a dictator and do all he can to further enrich his billionaire buddies as opposed to Harris continuing to enrich the democrat’s billionaire bros. We don’t talk about politics. But I found his cap amusing. He somehow has convinced himself that Trump got a “fair” trail in New York, despite having a partisan judge, a partisan jury and convicted on “trumped” up charges that stretched a misdemeanor with expired statute of limitations into a felony. He should realize that when he was growing up in the deep south, that blacks were routinely subjected to the same “justice” imposed by all white judges, all white juries, all white law enforcement and an all white legal system. I guess he doesn’t realize that this mockery of justice makes Trump another black president.
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