Sorry it took so long to respond.
I’m not “turning a blind eye to reality”. Democrat’s accusation that “McConnell made it clear from the beginning that his job was to obstruct everything Obama attempted to do” is based on a false narrative. Most often they point to an interview where he basically said his job was to make sure Obama was a one-term President.
However, that was not “from the beginning” of the Obama Presidency. The words were spoken in 2010.
What happened before that? Democrats passed Obamacare and Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform largely on a partisan basis with little if any input from Republicans.
If the entity that controls the “legislative ball” is going to take their ball and only play with their friends when you’ve been hired by your constituents to play ball too, isn’t it logical to make it your mission to replace that entity?
Besides, you aren’t really arguing that Chuck Schumer had any different opinions regarding President Trump, are you? He just hasn’t been vested with the Senate Majority where he could wield Senate power in opposition to a President of a different Party. But, wield it he would if the opportunity presented it.
Democrats in the House were talking impeachment LITERALLY before President Trump was inaugurated and it’s not like Senate Democrats (led by Schumer) were cooperative on many of President Trump’s legislative or foreign policy initiatives. Oh, they were cooperative on issues like criminal justice reform which President Trump advocated for and signed into law. It was a Democrat priority since the Clinton Presidency and disproportionately was beneficial to POC yet neither Clinton nor Obama could get it passed (I don’t think Obama even tried). It was the supposed racist, President Trump, who advocated for it and helped secure the votes for it.
With regard to Merrick Garland, Senate Republicans were simply following the Biden Rule which had been established by former Senate Judiciary Chairman, then Vice President, and now President, Joe Biden. That rule being that, in the fourth year of a Presidential Term, when the Party of the President and the Party in Senate Majority are different, the President should not nominate a new Supreme Court Justice, and if one was nominated, the Senate should not hold confirmation hearings.
Of course, Joe Biden claimed in 2016 that there was no “Biden Rule” and what he said was taken out of context. You can judge for yourself; but, his words and meaning in the video seem pretty plain to me.
If Republican legislators played a role in the despicable January 6 incursion at the Capitol, they should feel nervous regardless of who’s doing the investigating. Besides, AG Garland won’t actually be investigating himself. It will most likely be “career” staff who are supposed to be nonpartisan (at least that’s what we’re always told).
I do not believe Senator McConnell nor any other Republican who may become the Senate Majority Leader in 2022 (McConnell is rumored to be considering retirement) thinks getting rid of the filibuster would be a good thing.
If by paying off his debts to his biggest donors you mean that Mitch McConnell is a politician, I would agree. It’s what they do as most politicians are more interested in keeping their job than DOING their job.
Mitch McConnell owes most of his riches to his marriage to former Transportation Secretary, Elaine Chao. Secretary Chao benefited from a family inheritance from her parents who were wealthy business owners.
HR1 is bad policy. It has significant Constitutional issues with respect to trying to usurp authority that is granted to the States in determining how states choose their Presidential electors and it codifies things like ballot harvesting and universal mail-in ballots, that, whether you will admit to it or not, increase the likelihood of fraud.
A person doesn’t have to look very hard to expose your assertion that Republicans need “voter suppression” to stay in power as a “minority party”. We are often admonished by our Democrat overlords that the 2020 election was the most fair and secure election in the history of mankind.
Given that universal Democrat axiom, how is it possible to define Republicans as a “minority party” when:
Republicans hold 27 of 50 governorships.
Republicans extended their majorities in State Legislatures from 59 chambers to 39 chambers where it’s now 61 chambers to 37 chambers after 2020.
Of the 38 state “trifectas” where one Party holds the governorship, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House, Republicans hold 23 trifectas and Democrats 15 after the 2020 elections.
https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_governors
Republicans narrowed Democrat’s majority in the House and didn’t lose the majority in the Senate as they still hold 50 seats.
Democrats only gained with Joe Biden’s election to President and the slimmest of gains in the Senate.
The essence of HR1 is control and power, nothing more, nothing less. It has nothing to do with fair elections.
I’m not sure where you get “The freedom to have valid elections in the US is being undermined in many states”. How exactly is that being done?
Is it because they require a government-issued voter ID?
Is it because states are purging voter rolls of individuals that have died or moved away in accordance with the law?
Is it because states haven’t extended early voting to two months, three months, six months, or whatever Democrats think it should be so voters cast their vote before Democrat candidates can be fully exposed for the poor candidates that they are?
The kids like to play a game called “there, I fixed it for you”. Let me give it a whirl:
“The Supreme Court has at least four and maybe five people who seem to want to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution”. There, I fixed it for you.
The Justices you reference aren’t trying to keep the country a “hyper-capitalist, white, Christian country”. They do work to ensure the government does not infringe on citizen’s inalienable rights and to apply applicable checks and balances on the other two co-equal branches of government. You know, doing their job.
I’m not sure how you believe President Trump-appointed judges made the election “closer than it should’ve been”. If anything, judges all the way up to the Supreme Court dismissed cases for supposed lack of standing and never heard the merits. Even the Supreme Court punted on the eminently Constitutional issue of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and election officials making changes to election laws SPECIFICALLY designated to the Legislature by the State and US Constitution.
A decision in that case would not have tilted the Presidential Electors balance from President-Elect Biden to President Trump. But, it would have established precedent to forestall such usurpation in future elections.
Unless you were actually lamenting that a large number of your fellow citizens preferred a president who put America First, who worked to ensure they could keep more of their hard-earned money rather than sending it to a bloated and inefficient federal government, who exposed BIGLY the phenomena of biased and fake news, who honored a US commitment to Israel made many administrations prior to move our US Embassy to Jerusalem, who established the objectives and set the rules of engagement to decimate ISIS, whose administration brokered not one not two but three historic peace deals between Muslim-majority countries and Israel, who set policies leading to historic unemployment levels for Americans of all races and genders, who extricated the US from unfavorable trade deals while renegotiating some, who strengthened NATO by getting more member nations to live up to their treaty obligations, who promised to end America’s “forever wars”, who exited the horrendous Iran Nuclear Deal that gave the pariah regime funds to finance terror throughout the region and will ultimately lead to Iran having US+5 sanctioned nuclear weapons, etc., as opposed to a 47 year politician whose signature achievement is crime legislation nearly universally despised by members of his own Party.
In other words, they didn’t agree with your preference for President.
Which was it?
