I’m a Republican and if you listen to Democrats and their lapdog media mouthpieces, I should be ashamed of what happened in Kevin McCarthy’s pursuit of the speaker’s job in the House of Representatives.
I’m not ashamed. Instead, I’m heartened.
The holdouts among Republicans were not willing to rubber stamp more of the same. They even resisted a call from Donald Trump to throw in the towel and just give the job to McCarthy.
If you are a Republican and have been paying any attention to the party’s Congressional leadership, you know that both McCarthy and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell have been less than stellar in their stewardship.
They are more than willing to go along with what Republicans always seem to settle for – Democratic lite policies.
Rather than sign on for more of the same, the Republican holdouts put McCarthy through the wringer, following procedure, to exact concessions.
That it took four days and 15 votes shouldn’t really matter. What should matter is the end result and that is promises from McCarthy to end the go-along-to-get-along strategy with Democrats that has allowed that left-wing party to control the agenda whether or not it had the majority in either house of Congress.
If reports are to be believed, McCarthy now has accountability to every single member should he fail to live up to his concessions. Also, there will be investigation of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies being weaponized for political gains. Votes will be taken on term limits. The border will be addressed. Spending caps will be codified. COVID will cease to have never-ending funding to oppress the American people with arbitrary and draconian regulation. Members will have 72 hours to study bills before voting them into law.
This all sounds like big wins to me. This country is on autopilot to disaster by the combination of an incompetent president in Clueless Joe Biden and an unholy alliance of Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
It’s is time to change course.
Only the Supreme Court has stood in the way of this one-party, apocalyptic rule and that resistance has been spotty.
A neighbor’s yard sign says it best: “Stand up for your country before it’s too late.”
This obstruction of McCarthy by Republicans was a great stand in attempting to do just that. It took courage, which opponents will mischaracterize as insane stubbornness.
To understand the degree of this victory, know that Maryland’s Steny Hoyer, a prominent member of Democratic House leadership, opined that McCarthy gave away “much more than I wish he’d given.”
No doubt Steny and the Democrats preferred the old, spineless Republican party methodology.
But Steny seems to have forgotten the words of one Barack Hussein Obama, who in 2009 lectured Republicans that he had won the election for president and “elections have consequences.”
Yes, they do. The Republicans won some elections, too, to take the House and some of the more conservative members of that new majority weren’t willing to sign up for more of the same domination by Democrats and subservient Republicans.
They deserve credit, not scorn.
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