Deliberate Attempts to Eliminate Their Majority & Install Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker?
Steve Dittmer | AFF Sentinel
Colorado Springs, CO
Originally sent to subscribers 03/27/24
Many years ago, Will Rogers said he didn’t belong to any organized political party: he was a Democrat.
But in recent times, the Democrats are organized and the Republicans are not.
Worse, the Republican Party is beginning a descent into a place more seriously damaging than disorganization. At least two House members have betrayed their constituents, the party and the conservative movement by resigning before their term ends -- and in the most damaging ways possible to the party and their state’s citizens.
When we first heard of Ken Buck’s intention to resign suddenly and create havoc in the Colorado’s political delegation, we kept waiting for the other boot to drop, i.e. he had been diagnosed with an immediate, serious illness. He was already divorced from the daughter of a cattle feeder we knew from the old days, so it wasn’t a sudden marital problem.
No such rational explanation has come forth. Buck has only said he is tired of the “mounting frustration” of Congress’ “dysfunction” and the infighting in the Republican Party. He has no regrets. As Dan Bongino said, the working people of Colorado and the nation don’t want to hear a “sob story” from some member of Congress about how tough life is. Absent any other explanation, Buck has thrown off his elected responsibilities, conspired to do it in a way to most damage the Republican Party and revealed himself too immature to help the party fight through difficult times.
Buck’s complaint that Congress is not focusing on the most important national priorities is valid. But he was elected to do his part to fix that. Buck did not have the stomach for holding officials accountable, complaining about impeachment inquiries and even refusing to vote to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Because of the deliberate timing of Buck’s resignation, Rep. Lauren Boebert, who is running in the primary to run in November, can’t run for Buck’s vacated seat in June’s special election simultaneously with her primary run. So someone else will be elected to serve for five months before the fall election.
By process of elimination, we have to conclude that Buck’s ailment is a disgusting case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). Never mind the voters in his district that voted him into office when he campaigned multiple times as a conservative Republican. Despite the polls indicating strong majority support for Trump and his being the standard-bearer of the party, Buck is quitting and turning coat to damage everything.
Mike Gallagher in Wisconsin timed his resignation very carefully so that there will be no time for a special election and his district will go without representation from April to January. He is another petulant pouter, tired of the rigors of Congressional activity, suffering from TDS and willing to burn down his seat on his way out.
Rep. Marjory Taylor Greene (R-Ga) has suggested the House should expel Gallagher earlier so Wisconsin has the time to hold a special election and not have the district unrepresented for six months.
Vacant seats to be filled by special elections are scheduled one for late April, one for May, two for June, not counting Buck’s and Gallagher’s seats. The Republican margin will be just two seats in May, The Hill notes.
All of this juvenile abdication of responsibility is bad enough. But the ultimate goal is more despicable, with national implications unthinkable up to now.
Democrats always contend that the right is doing what they themselves are really doing. In this case, some Republicans are really on the precipice of destroying democracy in an unfathomable, unpatriotic, inexplicable disregard for the Constitutional republic that is the United States.
It seems hard to imagine but multiple observers have concluded that the machinations and ultimate end game for a few Republicans is to throw the House of Representatives to the Democrats, under the leadership of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). It would be a coup of monumental proportions, affecting not only this election year but the potential term of Donald Trump.
If this does not initially make sense to you, keep in mind that this is all about Trump hatred -- but from Republicans, not Democrats or independents, but Republicans who want things in the swamp to stay that way. In other words, they are embodiments of what Bongino always talks about in classifying most of the creatures that roam the D.C. swamp: there are no Democrats who are really Republicans but there are Republicans who are really Democrats.
So what are these maneuvers about? The longest shot possibility would come into play if no presidential candidate gets the minimum 270 electoral votes and the election gets thrown into the House. Each state gets only one vote, presumably with the state’s votes cast according to its majority party numbers. The heretics want the Democrats to have the most states and decide the election, ironically, exactly 100 years since the last time the House picked the president.
On the electoral front, Trump might have gotten a break Tuesday, as RFK Jr. picked as his running mate a far left attorney once married to one of the Google founders. Kennedy is more likely than ever to draw votes from President Biden.
Another reason certain Republicans want the Democrats to take over the House is so the Democrats can quickly pass a bill that specifies that no one who has participated in an “insurrection” -- their definition, not the armed insurrection actually led by someone, as historically regarded -- could run for president. They would, of course, use that to disqualify Donald Trump. Of course, a Democrat majority in the House would stop all investigations of political wrongdoing, stop any impeachment proceedings, flip all chairmanships and committees to Democrats and give subpoena power to those committees. They would then start investigating Republicans. That last could be important if Trump were to somehow win the election and Democrats needed to challenge.
If all this seems farfetched, seems difficult to imagine Republicans purposely enabling these things, recall what the mental disease is called -- Derangement.
The anti-Trump crowd is also vindictive enough to try to leave a Democrat House to oppose him if he wins in 2024. And even in the Senate, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a RINO type senator for sure, announced this week she would resign her seat if Trump wins in November.
It is critical to remember that this never-Trump stuff is not just about him. He is the figurehead, the symbol. But his “Make American Great Again” theme is so hated by the left and the mushy Republicans because they don’t want America back again. They want a new, big government, socialist-style government. And they want that for all of Trump’s supporters, some 50 to 60 percent or more of America. And that includes those who might not like Trump personally but want his policies, rather than four more years of the slide down to socialism we’re on now.
The House is on Easter recess for two weeks -- necessary for them to rest from the rigors of daily Congressional life. If all this makes you angry with the Republican Party, this is a great time to lean on your representative if Republican, both to keep his or her head and seat, and to enlist them in the cause to put pressure on the rest of the Republicans. They need to be true to their constituents, to keep the country from descending into socialist/Marxist/communist government sooner rather than later.
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