Standing up to Trump for the party’s sake.
A growing number of Republicans are learning that their party has to rise above Donald Trump if they want to defeat socialism. They’ve come to understand that voters have an innate sense of fairness. They sense that the oligarch’s retribution and self-aggrandizement have worn thin this election year. They’ve got their own skins to save in the mid-terms.
The President finally shot that man on Fifth Avenue. No longer do any but his most incurable sycophants defend his latest outrage. Real Republicans are learning their excuses only fuel greater assaults on decency.
Lying about losing the 2020 election was bad enough for some of us RINOs. More Republicans left the tent after the President aided and abetted the attempted coup at the Capitol. A few more jumped off the Crazy Train when Trump pardoned the seditionists, 1,600 of them. The more worshipful rationalized that maybe it was time to move on, perhaps the criminals had paid their dues. But this President knows no bounds because MAGA demanded none.
Now he wants to reward his Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and the easily bamboozled with proceeds from a $1.8 Billion so-called “settlement fund” paid for by taxpayers. It’s their reward for smashing windows and bashing cops on January 6, 2021.
Is RoJo a RINO?
“Somebody described it as a galactic blunder, and I think that’s probably true,” Sen. Ron Johnson said of the insurrection bounty fund. RoJo was among the senators who laid the wood to acting attorney general Todd Blanche in a closed-door meeting. Ted Cruz, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal called it:
“One of the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate. Fiery does not begin to cut it,” Cruz said, adding that some senators were screaming at Blanche.
Doesn’t help that Trump endorsed the disgraced opponent to Sen. John Cornyn; the incumbent has only voted with Trump 99% of the time. Or knee capped Republicans Bill Cassidy and Thomas Massie, among others. Has any President ever made more enemies in his own party?
→ Two former police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 are suing to stop President Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded program to compensate political allies. (Video here)
There are still fools who believe that Nancy Pelosi staged January 6 to cover up the election they somehow stole — not that the premise makes any sense at all. Or that the Speaker of the House could out fox a President who had the armed services, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, & Secret Service at his fingertips.
(If Capitol police opened the doors someone should have told poor deluded Ashli Babbitt!)
Somehow this multi-state conspiracy managed to maintain radio silence all these six years! Not one tell-all book on How They Did It!
The only answer to the nuts who believe this nonsense is something along the lines of “Quiet, Dummy.”
All that glitters is not gold
Persuadable voters are turned off. Gasoline prices don’t explain it all. (Gas is cheaper than under Biden). 57% of Wisconsin voters polled by Public Sentiment said they were done with this President even before the Settlement Fund scam. Nationally, the numbers are roughly the same. Even among Republicans, only 57% “strongly approve” — down from 75% in January, according to a Wall Street Journal poll.
Senator Johnson could have rescued his party by setting convention delegates straight on the election and the insurrection. (He did vote to certify Biden’s victory.) A complaisant Congress, pandering to the lowest common denominator, enabled this latest outrage. (An entire room at the hdq of the Dane County Republican party is devoted to disproving the 2020 election. Resembles the paranoid map in the movie A Beautiful Mind.)
Mr. Trump … has become self-indulgent even by his standards. The Trump name on everything, the Beltway “arch” and other monuments to French-like grandeur. And most of all the politics of retribution and lawfare as he seeks to ruin anyone he thinks has wronged him. He seems incapable of rising above. — “Trump has lost the governing plot“
Blaska’s Bottom Line: If Democrats take the majority in the House of Representatives, as many predict, Speaker Jeffries is certain to impeach Trump. Don’t count on the next Senate to acquit.
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