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Republicans Don’t Give a Damn About Americans
REPORT: The House could vote as soon as Tuesday night on a $40 billion package of military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
Trump wanted $4 billion for his Wall and the GOP couldn’t come up with it. The GOP has had massive power time and time again over the last 40 years and hasn’t secured our border. But they can get behind giving 10 times that amount to a country it isn’t in our interest to worry about.
Why don’t conservatives move as swiftly to stop the endless fentanyl killing Americans? The child molesters destroying our children? How about the murderers and gang members infesting our streets and terrorizing our communities? The GOP will win and they’ll do nothing to stop any of it but fundraise and beg for the White House. A curse on both parties. They’re all trash.
Ben Sasse has spoken up more for Ukraine in the last 24 days than he did for Americans getting forcibly locked down, choked out, and experimented on for 24 months. And he's hardly alone among Republicans. I had almost forgotten he was actually a U.S. Senator.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) May 10, 2022
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That used to be the Democrats, Kennedy, Carter, Clinton, Obama. Then they started running Hillary, Bernie, Warren, Biden, etc.
The GOP is still smarting from Trump’s primary win. They’re going to make sure that never happens again. Primaries will be tightly controlled to make sure the octogenarians remain in power.
To be fair, while the GOP does have some old people who need to be routed, the average age of a GOP congressman is about 20 years younger than the average age of a Democrat congressman.
The DNC is the party of old folks.
I doubt that. The last primary I attended was full of Trump supporters (not surprising given the rural nature of my county). Primaries still are run by those who show up.
Sure, but then term limits are even less likely.
Not if the old guard is kicking challengers off the ballots.
I don’t disagree, but still, when it comes to the office of President, I think both parties need to factor age into it and not nominate people who will be serving in their eighties. The job is more demanding than most 80-year-olds are able to handle.
Both Republicans and Democrats have latched onto Modern Monetary Theory. If you print the currency, you can spend all you want, as long as inflation stays low. If inflation does rise, then the answer is to….
As opposed to the value of having security on our own border?
Russia is a brilliant distraction while the political class continues to sell us out to China.
Not only are we not securing our own borders, we’re sending our military equipment to Ukraine, with no plan to replace it, so should Russia get expansionist on our doorstep, we’ll already have a weakened military of our own.
And I don’t think Ukraine will come to our aid.
Steve Deace makes a funny comment in his tweet – that he had almost forgotten Ben Sasse is a US Senator.
That is how a majority of them seem to me – forgotten. Apart from approving judges, what in the world do Senators do in this day other than go on TV and talk (nonsense). Yes. I know. They do stuff. But man, they just seem useless.
And yes, let’s build the wall along our southern border. Let Europe fund Ukraine.
Ukraine really seems like it should be a European problem, but heaven forfend Germany or the other NATO countries cough up more than 1.5% of GDP on Defense.
Sasse is just a preening pony. Get rid of him. Any Republican who is not “America First” needs to be shown the door. These people are supposed to be working for us, not bowing down to Zelenskyy and meeting his every demand.
Well, I’m a senior myself, at least by the calendar. So I would not advocate that. But there is a choice for those who want to change the direction of the party in Congress. It’s a pretty safe bet that if you’re talking GOPe, you’re talking mostly about people who have been there for at least 10-12 years. So primary them, something that’s happening in dribs and drabs. You may or may not hold the seat.
In a district near mine, Tea Partier Dave Bratt beat GOPe-er Eric Cantor in a primary–a win for a challenger. Bratt won the general election twice, but then lost a formerly very safe Republican seat to a Democrat.
Not opposed to at all. In addition to.
More coalition-building, I see…..throwing out people who are mostly on your side is a fine way to hand victory to the Left.
“Sometimes you have to kill a chicken in front of the monkeys.”
I wonder if the Congressional vote on the 39.7 billion dollar aid package for Ukraine will be as lopsided as the vote on the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend Lease Act, which passed the US Senate unanimously and passed the US House by a vote of 417 to 10.
6 percent of Americans have confidence in Putin to do the right thing in world affairs.
72 percent of Americans have confidence in Zelensky to do the right thing in world affairs.
So, is this a case of both Democrat and Republican politicians following the polls?
Which is fine as long as you don’t mind losing voters.
They are following the inclinations of their voters as expressed in the polls, yes.
Part of Glen’s point is that even when Republicans are in control, they don’t seem capable of – or at least interested in- doing much if any better than the current mediocrity in the Oval Office.
The Pubs didn’t push for border security even when they had the majority.
Let’s hear it for populism!
Maybe they were persuaded to run as Republicans and then made false claims, so now they need to be wounded for not following through?
Seems like she speaks the truth a lot more than many “Republicans,” and way more than the left does.
It’s clear now they’re not on my side.
Populism is not a dirty word. But hey, if you’re against populism, you must be pro-oligarchy.
Which is definitely the vibe I get from you.
I am certainly one who has not been happy with Republicans spending money anymore than I’m happy with the Democrats spending money. That they don’t do what we here want them to do, though, might be that the voters who put them in office really don’t mind lots of government spending, even if they disagree with Democrats as to where it should be spent. Entitlement reform, for example, gets nowhere because the voters do not reward – and in some cases, they punish – those who call for it. Also, within the GOP there are different factions, and politicians are going to react to the voters in their area, which may have different views and different strengths of particular factions than the GOP in another area. So you have a few choices if you’re not happy: try to throw everyone out of the party who doesn’t see things your way, as is advocated by some here on this thread; or persuade as many as possible as to the value of your position and accept that not everyone has to share your position exactly in order to be a valuable ally in the fight against the Left.