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Quote of the Day: Calling Out Fellow Republicans
Gov. Ron DeSantis calls out his own party–
‘If they get majorities in the Congress, I’m sick of them talking,’ he said during the ‘Victory Dinner’ event as dessert was being served. ‘I’m sick of them telling us what they’re going to do. I’m sick of them going on cable and doing this, and prattling. In Florida we don’t just talk, we do,’ he added.
When you contemplate the changes that might actually happen in Congress after the November elections, do you think anything will be different? I think Gov. DeSantis is in the ideal position to lecture Republicans in Congress on actually doing something. He’s repeatedly demonstrated taking action: defying the federal government to assist Floridians regarding the pandemic, protecting our children from early gender training, to the corruption of our school curricula; preventing banks from discriminating against customers who might not fit their criteria for “woke” corporations. He doesn’t just speak out; he initiates legislation and takes the continual onslaught of criticism.
Do you hear any other Republicans actually criticizing their own?
I hope our legislators will take his advice and actually do more than talk. Let’s see some defiance against the Left and some initiative to correct the path of the legislature and get some things done!
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This won’t be a popular take ’round here, but Liz Cheney criticized a fellow Republican and lost her seat for it.
Maybe it matters if you have legitimate beefs. Making stuff up doesn’t count (such as in Trump threatening our Democracy and the constitution). Just sayin’ …
From where I sit it looks like Trump is the one making stuff up.
We were talking about Liz. Not going there on Trump.
Fair enough, but you can’t really discuss the accuracy of Cheney’s criticism without addressing the veracity of Trump’s “stop the steal” campaign.
Point taken. Then again, I really don’t want to have much to do with either of them!
Scott Walker.
You really should read Jerry’s post in the Main Feed
https://ricochet.com/1300183/liz-cheney-is-the-real-threat-to-our-republic/
It lays out exactly why Cheney’s rhetoric is so dangerous. At this point anyone who claims that there were no problems with the 2020 election just isn’t paying attention, or is purposefully lying. Cheney is in the second category. For her, looking backwards was more important than looking forward. Trump does as well, but he looks forward considerably more than Cheney is. She didn’t lose her job for criticizing Trump, she lost it because that’s all she did.
Trump has issues with the Trump, mostly through hyperbole, but his concerns about the 2020 election were valid at the core. Some work has been done to stop some of the most egregious antics (outside funding of state & county election operations being one, and much like the effect that the 2000 election had in modernizing elections after the FL debacle, we should ensure thta the cheating and rigging from 2020 is stopped in the future.
Okay. I was thinking at the federal level, but okay. I’ll give you that.
The top rots. That’s just the nature of any political top, and the further it is from the people who elect, appoint, or pay them the worse it is. Our founders knew this. That is why they made us bottom up. There may be no fix within this giant country and that includes failure for the delusional Democrats. The US is too huge, diverse and the economy too deep and complex to be run from the top. If Democrats and powerful Republicans succeed in consolidating power at the top as they have been trying to do for about a century, the place won’t survive rich and diverse. Not even considering what China will attempt to do to crush our power, we will consolidate, narrow and then collapse and it won’t take long. Why it this not obvious?
That wasn’t his only mission or his only success.
You couldn’t even get a majority of Ricochet to agree on what should be done instead of ObamaCare. It’s no surprise that Republicans didn’t have a bill ready.
They sent up plenty of bills when they knew Obama would veto every one. They had nothing when President Trump would have signed it.
Double-plus like!
Of course. There was no momentum behind any plan, because their constituency didn’t agree on what should be done.
I don’t think they gave a rodent’s hindquarters about their constituency.
Unless you’re talking about the Donor Class Chamber of Commerce Republicans — that constituency.
I’m talking about Ricochet. Every time the topic came up here, there was great disagreement on what should be done. Just because some people thought they had the greatest idea about what should be done with health care doesn’t mean there was any agreement.
Ricochet doesn’t have elected representatives in Congress.
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Good work missing the point. You should consider turning pro!
Good work being a jerk again! I thought we were finally healing our relationship. Alas!
Her name is Liz Cheney.
Reagan also killed inflation and lowered the top marginal rate from 70% to 50% to 28%.
Oh. My. God.
I haven’t seen any examples where she has stood up to the leftwing hate machine.
Paul Volker killed inflation (Carter appointed him, FWIW). Reagan had the good sense to stay out of the way.
My brother in Christ, “our situation” has nothing to do with monomaniacal focus on Donald Trump.
Cheney is toast. I’m certain there is professional help available in Flagstaff. Seek it.
I’m rewatching the TV show Fringe. I think Gary is Walternate. From that other universe.
@garyrobbins
Hat Tip to Balzer. If you’ve lost Mittens, you aren’t just toast, you’re badly burnt toast: