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I know, that headline may be hard to swallow, but some news gives me optimism.
CONTRACT WITH AMERICA II? – I’ve learned that former President Trump has been meeting with his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, Sen. Lindsey Graham and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to begin crafting an agenda along the lines of the GOP’s 1994 Contract with America.… read more
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Appearing on CBS Face the Nation Sunday, Robert Gates criticized the values and the principles of the Republican Party, saying he didn’t think the five Republican presidents he worked for would recognize the Republican Party today.
It’s difficult for me to criticize Gates, a man with a truly impressive resume of public service to America, but apparently values and principles weren’t important to him when he worked for Barack Obama, among three Democrat presidents.… read more
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“Plastics.”
That quote from the 1967 film, “The Graduate,” isn’t from the most memorable scenes. In fact, few people will remember it all. It took place just minutes into the movie.
It took place when the newly graduated Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) was approached by a neighbor, Mr.… read more
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We heard it from the late John McCain and most recently from a campaigning Joe Biden, who talked about his good friends in the Senate. They talked about reaching across the aisle to find common ground. It’s just that … talk. Because there is no common ground between the visions of the two parties.… read more
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IF ONLY – If only our lawmakers had the same concern for residents of cities like Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Kenosha and others as they do for the nation’s Capitol building.
While residents witnessed federal and city buildings breached, major portions of these cities burned, businesses looted and destroyed, their Democrat city fathers and elected representatives in Washington seemingly couldn’t have cared less. … read more
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BIDEN MADE HIS BED, now he must lay in it. Signing a host of executive orders and memorandums written by the MOB, those radicals who have commandeered the Democrat Party, Biden has emboldened them to push him even further to the left.
Speaking of the current clash between Israel and Hamas, Rep, Rashida Tlaib insisted during an interview Monday on MSNBC, “Enough, President Biden, you will not do this on our watch. … read more
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TARGETING RINOS IN 2022 – I had high hopes for Adam Kinzinger in 2009, a Republican returning from his third tour of duty with the Air Force in Iraq, deciding to run and unseat Democrat Debbie Halvorson in Illinois. He was consulting with the right people, Congressmen Mike Pence and Peter Roskam.… read more
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Apologies to Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media for lifting a quote from his Morning Briefing, “The GOP Isn’t in Turmoil, It’s Growing the Hell Up,” as the headline on this edition of my blog. It was too good to ignore.
Regular readers will recall my recent attempts to encourage Republicans to change from their usual passivity on issues and grow a backbone.… read more
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It has been said that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” but that doesn’t faze Democrats, especially now, when they are wielding it in Washington.
However, they want to shore-up that power and they are taking some embarrassing steps to bring that about.
In April, a group of Democrats met to introduce their plan to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court, but Nancy Pelosi indicated she had no plan to bring it to the floor for a vote.… read more
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HE DID IT AGAIN – You may recall my May 7, 2021 plea to “Old Joe” to cut the home spun folk lore tales, repeating stories of his dad … “A job is a lot more than a paycheck, Joey … it’s about your respect, your dignity, your place in the community.”… read more