There are many people who think that if Donald Trump is elected President of the USA, he will deport up to eleven million illegal immigrants back to Mexico. This had caused hysteria on the Left and is much used by the Hilary campaign. Is it really possible for a President Trump to order an immediate deportation of eleven million people? No it is not! But it is possible for a President Trump to uphold and enforce the immigration laws of the USA.
It is silly to think that Mr. Trump’s position is an immediate roundup of illegal immigrants. Such a action would require a massive and expensive effort. It could only be done by a military force. Think about it! Eleven million is a lot of people. So, let the far right be a little more sensible and sophisticated and not imagine that such a campaign statement could be actualized by a real time round up and deportation of eleven million people. Likewise, let the hysterical liberal Left stop the screaming and over reaction. Let the liberal left stop the race baiting and the incendiary shouting of racist, bigot and the similar reprehensible slurs.
Let’s instead begin with a question. How did we get to a place where there are eleven million illegal immigrant in the USA? It came from lax law enforcement on the federal level. It came from the massive numbers of south of the border people entering the USA across its one thousand mile southern border. It came from sympathetic popular thinking that the immigrants were poor and down trodden people who wanted a better life, loved the USA, and like our pilgrim ancestors, were fleeing oppression. But is this the actual image of the modern day southern border immigrant? The answer is too long for this blog, so I will let the reader give the answer.
Whatever, you answered, the fact is that over time, a time before Donald Trump as candidate, there evolved a massive influx of people who did not want to be American citizens, preferring to retain their language, culture and national affiliation as Mexican, or South American, while living in the USA illegally. These people, overwhelming the social services of many border States, were also given free education for their children, food stamps, and even cash welfare payments. Indeed, many advanced economically, learning English as a second language and getting a job. However, they did not become citizens and the pressure of their numbers forced changes in the USA that were unanticipated and many would say were unwanted.
Why is this a problem for people? All USA citizens are children if immigrants. (Some would exempt the American Indians, but they too migrated from Northern Asia.) It is a problem because of the changes to American social culture that eleven million people of Spanish language have forced upon American society. The key word is “forced” because it is a result of massive illegal action and persistent government laziness that has produced it And now people are hearing talk of the importation of one hundred thousand Muslim immigrants by the Obama government. Please note, that this author is calling the southern border immigrants by culture and nationality. It is not common to call them eleven million Roman Catholics. However, the importing of a possible one hundred thousand South West Asian immigrants is according to their own designation, namely, Muslim. This self designation is significant because of its association by the immigrants as to who they are and who they intend to remain. As the southern border immigrants forced an acceptance of Spanish upon the whole nation, so the Muslim immigrants would force acceptance of Muslim Sharia law upon the nation.
Mr. Trump is the only candidate willing to assert that the answer to the continued immigration crisis is a simple assertion that immigrants must become citizens of the USA and that they must accept the laws of the USA as supreme. Of necessity, this applies to those already here illegally, and to those being imported by the Obama administration. How can this be done? Simply by faithfulness to already existing US laws and a consistent and intentional enforcement of the laws. This is nothing new. If you have ever been to Ellis Island, in New York harbor, you realize that our ancestors were closely examined by the government, were registered, and those who were With-Out-Papers were investigated and given temporary residency. These temporary residents were allowed entry, taught English and US law, went to citizenship classes and eventually became US citizens.
The force of Mr. Trump’s campaign rhetoric is to focus a pin point laser upon the reality of USA immigration policy. His intention is to solve it. He is a problem solver. Some would said he is the best hope the nation has to solve this and many other problems that face the USA. This author agrees with that assessment. I have read his book, “The Art of the Deal”. It is not the whole of his credo, but in his book, Donald Trump shares a philosophy of winning by creative deal making. It is a philosophy he will bring to the Presidency. It will be a guiding principle to his compassionate and visionary solution to a problem that many believe to be unsolvable. But Donald Trump has surprised his critics before. He will surprise them again.
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People of Islam Claim we Must change our Laws
In an article by the Gatestone Institute published on Internet, the Institute reported on a month long emphasis in Britain upon the topics of multiculturalism and Islam. A quote from their article says: “This area is home to a large Muslim community. Please have respect for us and our children and limit the presence of dogs in the public sphere…those who live in the UK must learn to understand and respect the legacy and lifestyles of Muslims who live alongside them.”
Can we say the same for the Muslims, namely, that having migrated to UK from a foreign country and having accepted the hospitality of the people of Great Britain, that it is necessary for the Muslims to learn to understand, and respect the legacy and lifestyles of English people into whose country they have moved? After all, multiculturalism is a two way street of interaction and interchange between groups with equal rights and equal status. But this seems to not be acceptable to the so called Muslim community. Instead, they tell others to respect, consider and understand, while they continue to be closed minded.
This writer does not know if the Muslims of Great Britain were invited to move in or they just moved in! Nonetheless, the Muslims are immigrant visitors to Great Britain and if they were born and raised there, it seems they have not accepted the nation, its people or its culture. But they have accepted the safety, security and freedom affirming policies of a parliamentary, historically Christian society. Instead of integrating into the society of Great Britain, the Muslim community has banned together voluntarily as a religious ghetto exclusive to itself and demanding of exceptions from others.
The problems with Muslims that Great Britain is facing are the same problems that could flare up in USA. The Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump, is not a bigot, a religious zealot or a racist. He is merely reflecting the strong opinion that in USA, America and Americans have priority. It is a strong political position because Mr. Trump is reflecting the consensus of popular public opinion when he says that only people who love America, love the American political system, and love the American people, should be let into the USA.
Trump Does Not Hate Hilary
Many of those who oppose Trump also oppose the people who voted for Trump in the primaries. They are against regular, hard working American citizens who got out and went to the polls and voted for Donald Trump. These antagonists to Trump say that the people who voted for Trump are ignorant, or misinformed, or low information voters, or just bigots, racists, or whites who have been left behind, or Uncle Tom Blacks. The anti Trump people, who are both Democrat and Republican, are themselves arrogant snobs, and elitists, who look down on so called “working class” or so called “blue collar” people. They are the problem and not the solution. They are the cause and not the remedy. They are the disease and not the cure. They are repugnant and must be rejected.
The Trump revolution is real. It includes a host of real people who have real lives, and real jobs, and real families and do not live on Park Avenue, New York, or the various haunts of the rich and powerful. And it is their realness that is swelling in power as it rises up to overwhelm and utterly reject the arrogant pride of the anti Trump forces. It is a rising tide of power that will drown the prideful voices of the privileged and smother them under an overwhelming vote of popular affirmation for Donald J. Trump and his intentional preference for the regular and the ordinary and the citizens of America.
This is a real revolution. As of now, it is a political revolution. It is the last desperate gasp of hope by a long suppressed silent majority. It is their last desperate faith in a system that has been corrupted and rigged against them. And they are the ones, the so called clueless taxpayers, who are arrogantly expected to pay for it,-they are the ones who are still hope filled by one man, Donald J. Trump–a billionaire, who like a champion, has entered the arena and volunteered to fight for their cause.
If you, my friend, are reading this, I ask you to vote for Mr. Trump. If you are indeed a friend, and I acknowledge that assertion to be a bold one, nonetheless, if you are a friend, I ask you to share the hope filled and faith filled and reality filled message of Donald Trump. American is supposed to be great. I really believe that is our destiny. Not as a matter of undue pride, but as a humble acceptance of the burden of greatness.
Friends, this writer is a Christian. I am not afraid nor am I ashamed of it. However, I accept and acknowledge that there are Jews, and Hindus, and witch-ans and Confucians, and Shinto-ans, and many other good people of God’s Spirit who are anxious about our America. Trump has no exclusive claim on them nor they on him. But please allow me to assert, that he, Donald J. Trump, and he alone, is standing forward and bravely accepting the derision of those who mock and laugh and deride our faiths, and mock us as they say that we “cling to our guns and our Bibles”.
The author of this article has been involved in political and social revolution before. These have failed. Why? Because good people, people who said that they were on our side, failed to follow through. Your author is afraid of the same result, but I am asking you not to accept the same result–failure. My heart and soul cry out to you to rise up and to go out and to vote for a successful political revolution. Vote for Trump. Your vote is important. If you vote, it will change America for the better. It will change America forever.
Trump is The Future
This blog entry is written at 9.28 after a seven hundred and thirty mile car drive from Lexington, Kentucky. It is a stream of consciousness blog entry concerning Donald Trump for President.
Donald Trump is the future and Hilary Clinton is the past. Yes, it is nice and nostalgic to think about the simple past. But the past is the past and there is no return to it. Hilary Clinton with her “first” husband Bill Clinton is the past and there is, no doorway to that past. It is over.
Donald Trump is the future. He is new. He is bold. He is not afraid. He is willing to go where no politician has ever gone before. This writer votes for the future. He votes for his own future which is tied to the bold initiatives of Donald Trump. He votes for the future of his children which is tied to the honesty and basic human integrity of Donald Trump. He votes for the future of his grandchildren which is tied to Mr. Trump’s sincere promise to do the best he can (and that is formidable) to undo the toxic policies of the past and to initiate a brand new policy that will benefit all American citizens whether they are new after being her illegally for fifteen years or they are born of parents who came here in 1838.
Friends, and I regard you as friends even if you disagree, we have an option in November. We can vote for Hilary and the past or Donald and the Future. I vote for the future.
Trump, Hilary and Obama
Much is made of the idea that a vote for Hilary is a vote to extend the Obama policies. This is because they feel that the Obama policies were the wrong policies. These people fear that Hilary is politically and perhaps financially indebted to Obama and his billionaire backers. Why is this a problem? It is because voters want the person they elected. They do not want the backers, lobbyists, power brokers and political careerists who are backing Hilary. To think that Hilary will be her own person and reject the demands of her financial and political backers is to believe that such people, with such a heavy investment in her, will allow her to be independent. That is unlikely.
What is wrong with the Obama legacy? It starts in Cambridge Mass. There, President Obama inserted his own brand of black racism into a neutral situation,. His assertion that the Cambridge police were acting “foolishly” when they tried to protect the property of a black professor was a huge signal that he intended to interpret things from a black versus white prejudice. This racist philosophy evidenced itself again and again. Notable for this writer was the George Zimmermann and Evon Martin Case. Again Obama inserted his racism when he made several public comments on the case. He went so far as to say that if Obama had a son, he would look like the victim. This seemingly innocuous statement was Obama’s taking sides in the judicial case identifying himself with the victim and thereby casting a shadow of guilt on George Zimmermann.
The next episode for our remembering is the method of passage for Obamacare. The President used obvious bribery of political support, public contracting support, and favoring the pet projects of Senators who would sell their convictions for money and the promise of patronage. Additionally, Obama, in typical fashion, moved quickly, once he had bribed votes, to cut off any opposition. Some would call this politics as usual, this writer calls it blatant interference in the legislative functions of the Congress. This strident disregard for the separation of powers clause of the Constitution is further revealed by Obama’s use of Executive Orders. Executive Orders are the same as writing and passing legislation without permission of the legislature. The most prominent expression of Obama’s lack of respect for our constitution was his statement that with his phone and his pen he would bypass Congress and impose his will on the citizens without their consent.
The concept that the so called Constitutional scholar Barrack Hussein Obama should want to usurp the Constitution by a dictatorial use of his phone and his pen is very troubling. For this writer that alone, if extended by the Hilary administration, spells more Federal intrusion into our lives and more dictatorship of the federal government over business, education and personal life. Therefore, a vote for Trump is a vote against an overly dictatorial federal government and its continuation under a Hilary administration.
Moderates for Trump
When is it time to moderate your viewpoint in order to achieve success? This is a very important question for the voters in this 2016 election. It is not concerning only the Presidential candidates, but also the Senate and House of Representatives candidates.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 Republican House member Paul Ryan won his primary battle against a newcomer. It was an important event because Representative Ryan is also Speaker of the House of Representatives. Therefore, he is third in line of succession to the Presidency if both the President and Vice President should be killed. He is also the leader of the House and it is from there that a great deal of legislation originates and it is from there that all money legislation starts. As the Speaker of the House, Ryan is either an ally or a foe of the President and Executive policies. In a very real sense, Speaker Ryan is the head of the legislative branch, even as Chief Justice Roberts is the head of the Judicial branch and if elected, Donald Trump will be of the Executive branch. All of them supposed to be equal in power so as to safeguard against any one branch of government becoming dictatorial.
Ryan is a member of the Republican party. At the beginning of this election cycle Speaker Ryan seemed hostile to the potential of Mr. Donald J. Trump becoming the Republican nominee for President. Eventually, Mr. Trump became the nominee, and met with Mr. Ryan to overcome any objections that Speaker Ryan had about candidate Trump. Recently, a seeming disconnect occurred when Mr. Trump seemed to support Mr. Ryan’s opponent at the Primary level. Much commotion was caused by the media, but Mr. Ryan affirmed his support for Mr. Trump and Mr. Trump officially endorsed Paul Ryan.
Does it matter? Who knows? But it was a symbol to this writer that voters will need to moderate their political positions in response to the extraordinary opportunity to elect a truly non politician Mr. Trump. Why? Because there is a new American Revolution happening. It is a political revolution. It is a revolution of the workers against those who do not care to work. It is a revolution of business people against those who would tax businesses out of existence. It is a revolution of union workers against those who approve of exporting their jobs to foreign countries. It is a revolution of citizens against those who seek citizenship by breaking the law, It is a revolution of middle class people against effete snobs in universities who take their money and use it to turn their children’s values against them- a middle class that is tired of Black Lives Matter, of Occupy Wall Street, of Ferguson and looting, of agitators who burn down neighborhoods hooded Muslim athletes, spitting out their hate for America and of anti morality advocates who claim that if a man wants to pretend he is a women and enter a woman’s bathroom, it is OK. It is a revolution of all Americans against liars, cheaters, phonies, manipulators, and elite political careerists who think that they are owed the Presidency because they are the “best qualified” for the job.
Yes, this writer is a Trump advocate. Yes, this writer is a moral conservative. Yes, this writer identifies with the Republican party. However, “yours truly” supports Mr. Trump because I believe that the New American Political Revolution that we daily experience has made him the voice of the disenfranchised American who is told to give over America to immigrants who for twenty years have succeeded in breaking the law. A Revolution of disgusted Americans who see the results of a President who disparages them for clinging to their Bibles and guns and who started his administration by claiming that the White (his words) cop in Cambridge, acted foolishly; of Americans who are still startled by Secretary of State Clinton’s testimony about the murder of four embassy personnel in Benghazi, Libya, ” What difference does it make, they are dead?!”
The New American Revolution represented by Donald Trump is a political revolution. It is one last expression of American citizens that they may be able to save the USA from its spiral into the oblivion of Presidential executive orders and a newspaper and news reporting system that constantly treats them as stupid people to be used, manipulated, lied to and propagandized. And Donald Trump? Billionaire business man and Republican nominee for President, what of him? He did not make the New American Revolution, It made him. He did not convince people to believe as they do, they find in him a leader willing to listen to their beliefs and to respect their opinions and to honor them as citizens of the USA. This New American Revolution is political for now. It is based on hope, the hope of a majority of citizens who have been ill treated by their leaders, lied to by their media and who have seen their beloved nation delivered to illegals, law breakers, and college teachers who despise them and seek to turn their own children against them.
Will this phenomenon remain political? Who knows! If the religious right cannot moderate their views to embrace Donald Trump, the revolution may fail. If the Conservatives cannot moderate their views to accept a less than “pure” conservative in Donald Trump, it may fail. If the vast rank and file of adherents to the Democrat party cannot move toward Mr. Trump, it will fail. But its failure, if it happens, may be the new strident revolution that dismisses politics and like a Phoenix from the ashes rises to create a new reality, a viable third political party that will forever change the power structure of America.
Trump is a Leader and Not a Politician
Much is made about Trump not being politically expert. Those who oppose him, like the fifty former Republican operatives of previous administrations, claim that he is not like them. Therefore, he is not qualified to be President. This is funny because they think that being like them is a asset. It amazes this writer that they do not understand that it is precisely because Donald J. Trump is not like them that millions of Americans have joined the New American Revolution and made Trump their voice. The failed programs and political and economic policies of the past are being rejected by America. We want a business man to be our national Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Commander in Chief, (President). In Donald Trump we have even more, we have a very successful businessman, an experienced CEO and a very qualified CFO.
And as far as Commander In Chief, we have someone who understands the enormous military power of the USA.Donald Trump appreciates the great value of the life of every Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine and Coast Guard member. He will never waste their lives on foreign soil for mere political reasons. He will never sacrifice, needlessly, the lives of our CIA, FBI, or Ambassadors, like Obama and Hilary did in Benghazi. Donald Trump regards our military with profound respect.
This writer has a dear friend in the Security Services of the USA and he tells me that unlike Hilary, who regards security personnel with disdain, Donald Trump treats his federal protectors with very deep respect and appreciation. He thanks them regularly, he is interested in their lives, their life stories and their families. He is cooperative and always tells them that he does not want to act in any way to compromise them or their safety. They say of him that he has all the qualities and personal attitudes of a leader and not merely a politician. Donald Trump is not a politician. He is the leader America needs and the Leader America wants.
Paul Ryan is Needed as Speaker
Paul Ryan is a senior Congressman who is Republican and Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is very important for the success of the Trump revolution. Speaker Ryan is experienced in creating legislation, in putting forward cohesive budgets, and in helping the people of his Janesville, Wisconsin, district play a very big role in guiding the nation. He is being threatened by outsiders like former Governor Sarah Palin and a host of other enemies who want to use the primary process to deny him a spot on the Republican ballot in November. The loss of Speaker Ryan to the nation, the Congress and the people of Janesville district would be a very big mistake.
If Mr. Ryan is denied the Republican spot in the primary, his challenger will have unseated a Speaker of the House of Representatives without even having to win the general election. That means that Nehlen and his small group of discontented people will have, with a mere fraction of eligible voters, denied the talents of Congressman Ryan to all of us. A vote against Ryan is a vote against the New American Political Revolution and its Voice, Mr. Donald J. Trump. A vote against Ryan is also a suicide vote by the people of Janesville because it will be a wholesale give away of their power to help guide the nation during either a Trump or Hilary Presidency.
Remember, that if Congressman Paul Ryan is defeated in the primary by this obscure newcomer, then all is lost. Mr. Nehlen will not be the Speaker. He will merely be a new freshman congressman without seniority, chairmanships, committee position or the clout that goes with being a senior among your peers. The cost for the ideological defeat of Paul Ryan is far too great. Please remember, also, that his challenger must go on to win the election which is not a sure thing, so the net result could be a loss of the Speakership, the loss of senior committee chairmanships, and the loss of the seat itself to a Democrat. And for all of the people of Janesville district, Republican and Democrat, the loss of Paul Ryan would relegate them to obscurity as just another small town in the vast Wisconsin landscape.
Much is being made of Mr. Ryan and Mr Trump not agreeing. Good! Disagreement is good! We definitely do not want the Obama/Clinton robots who don’t even dare to disagree with them. We want a strong Speaker Ryan standing tall alongside a strong President Trump confident in their strengths and equally confident that they can agree to disagree without fear of reprisal. Such a relationship of strength is good for our Republic and good for the future of our freedom. In fact, such strength and respect is a key ingredient of the New American Political Revolution being spearheaded by Republican Donald Trump.
Paul Ryan gets things done. During his many years in Congress he has gained the respect of everyone who meets him. They do not all agree, but to have the respect of those with whom you openly disagree is a testament to Paul’s integrity , and the honesty of his commitment to serve as a doer and not just a talker. Paul Ryan knows what he is doing. He is a Congressman of principle. The key principle is Paul’s dedication to the Constitution and its provision for the separation of powers between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government. He is also a proponent of limiting the power of the Federal government because the Constitution provides for fifty state governments which are sovereign in their locality. Because Paul Ryan has a comprehensive and inclusive philosophy of government, many who claim pure Conservative or pure liberal credentials see him as unworthy of their support. Frankly, many of these people actually hate him and call him names like RINO and traitor and Judas and the like. Sad for them and sad that they hate. (RINO means Republican In Name Only.) But America does not need a Speaker who is so purely ideological that he cannot work with others, cannot respect differences of opinion and cannot make a deal and get the job done.
If anyone should know about the art of the deal, it is candidate Donald J. Trump. He based his successful business career upon it. It is the title of one of his books. He does it better than anyone else. That is why the endorsement of Mr. Ryan by Mike Pence is a very big deal. It says that the non endorsement of Mr. Trump should not be considered a signal to defeat Speaker Ryan. Rather, the wholehearted endorsement of Mr. Ryan by Mike Pence is a signal to all who care about the New American Revolution that they should vote for Ryan and not against him. Remember Pence will be chairman of the Senate and will be working very closely with Speaker Ryan for the implementation of the programs that will make America great again.
Rand Paul’s Speech to Senators was Courageous
Senator Rand Paul stood up in the Senate and addressed his fellow Senators to not allow the continuation of irresponsible spending. He pointedly used charts to show graphically how the Continuing Resolution by the Senate will allow spending to foolishly increase. His speech was informed, bold, accurate, and courageous. It was a well researched speech that used facts and figures to state his case for the American people. He used graphs and charts as visual aids so that people could see as well as hear the facts. Unlike others, Senator Paul was not simplistic, or shrill in his speech. He did not embarrass the American people or the Senators by using accusations sullying the character of his fellow Senators. He boldly spoke to them in person. He boldly asked them to change their minds and vote down the Continuing Resolution. He was accurate in his statements that the American people expect their Senators to made the tough and right decisions to stop runaway federal spending. And he was courageous because he stood up personally on the floor of the Senate chamber in the US Capitol and went on the record explaining why he was voting against the Continuing Resolution.
Mr. Donald Trump, also a candidate running for the Republican nomination, has stated that Senator Paul and others should drop out of the race for the nomination. This writer thinks of it as Mr. Trump’s issuing a “you’re Fired” to Senator Paul. One thing, all of the candidates are running for the Republican nomination. We are not even to the election year contest. There is no reason for Senator Paul or anyone else to drop out until the Republican party has chosen its nominee. This will be done through the votes of registered Republicans at the State level and through the groups called Caucuses. It should not be done by news polls, media polls, conservation talk show hosts, or the TV network debate system. It is not their prerogative to arbitrarily decide for the voters who they will be allowed to nominate. Members of each party reserve that prerogative for themselves.
Senator Rand Paul is a reasoned political personality who has been elected and has served with honor and distinction in the US Senate. His campaign staff is professional and he has raised enough money to pay for that staff and their expertise. Unlike Mr. Trump, Senator Paul is not a billionaire. He has money, indeed, from his practice of Physician. And his fiscal responsibility is a legend. He has returned sizable amounts of money to the federal government from his Senate operations budget. This he has done each year and this year it amounted to a refund TO the federal government of over one million dollars. In every way Senator Rand Paul is distinguished by his disciplined, reasoned, informed, bold and courageous programs to help America get better.
Speaker John Boehner Resigned, He was not Ousted.
In a transcript from the Rush Limbaugh radio show dated Sept 28th, 2016, Mr. Limbaugh says that John Boehner was ousted from the third most powerful position in the United States. As Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Boehner, according to the US Constitution, was third in line of succession to the Presidency.
The cause for the Speaker to resign was not stated by the Mr. Boehner. But the headline to Rush Limbaugh’s transcript is that the third most powerful man in America was ousted by forces lead by Senator Ted Cruz. According to this theory, Senator Ted Cruz was an instigator and advocate for conservative Republican congressmen to consistently and persistently oppose Speaker Boehner’s leadership. He did this, according to Limbaugh, because Senator Cruz had no support for his conservative views among fellow senators. Therefore, he decided to go to the other house, Mr. Boehner’s house, and spoil it.
The quote from the transcript is the following:
“The point is, Ted Cruz was aware of all this, and he decided there was no way since he was so vastly outnumbered in the Senate, that what he instead did was to work with the conservative members in the House to strengthen them, to focus them. Not that they needed it, but just to form some unity and have a coordinated effort that was aimed at Boehner’s resignation, since Cruz was not gonna be able to engineer a similar thing in the Senate because he was basically a party of one.”
The transcript relates how Mr. Limbaugh rationalizes all of this as being a good thing. He has his opinion. Why not, he gets paid millions of dollars to tell us what he thinks. But if he is correct in his opinion of this event, I do not see it as credit to Senator Cruz but a shame. I guess you could credit Cruz with being savvy in understanding, as Limbaugh says, that in the Senate he is a party of one among 100 elected Senators. I guess you could praise him for being smart enough to know that he could gather the discontented, unhappy, miserable conservative congressmen who did not like Speaker Boehner and form them into a focused, united group of mostly freshmen congressmen who in their disgruntlement could work in a coordinated effort to oust the Speaker. I guess you can compliment him for subverting the office of Speaker of the House of Representative instead of fighting and winning better credibility in his own house, the Senate. But if Mr. Limbaugh is correct and according to the transcript, ” So there’s any number of people who you might…if you want to consider this in a doling-out-of-credit sense, Cruz is right there at the top.”
All of us wonder about the resignation of Speaker Boehner. He also will not stand for election to his congressional seat. He is retiring. It seems to me that there was a day not long ago when powerful forces were in motion to do something or other. The accomplishment of it, back then, may have involved the resignation or the retirement of some powerful person. However, I seem to remember, that there was a sense of grace and largeness on the part of the winners over the vanquished. It may have been called, back then, a sense of class or classiness. The winners were the first ones to come out and congratulate the defeated with words of praise for their service, and with a reminder of their many accomplishments and the excellence of their career and the honorable and praiseworthy things for which they stood. But according to Mr. Limbaugh, this sense of class and honorable victory is not true of the Value Voter’s Summit in Washington (DC) where, as Limbaugh states, (Senator Rubio is speaking) and says: …Just a few minutes ago Speaker Boehner announced that he will be resigning..AUDIENCE (wild Applause) Rush: Now, that (applause) went on and on and on. It was over the top. And this was something that a number of people have been attempting to make happen for months now going into years.
This writer is aware of the advertisements on Facebook and Internet to get rid of Speaker Boehner. I have always wondered who these disgruntled and discontented people were. I even imagined that the advertisements were planted by Democrats to defeat the Republicans. Now, I know that it is something (as Limbaugh states) ” a number of people have been attempting to do for years.” Really!? Is there a secret group of political outsiders trying to subvert the political process? Were there powerful people, like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Senator Cruz, trying to revolt and oust the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I am not one of them. In fact, I get very nervous around discontented, disgruntled, malcontents who are in positions of power and are fighting against their fellows who are in positions of power.
Are they so sure that they would do a better job? Are they so sure that if their man gets the power he will not use that power against the revolutionaries who put him or her there? Do they want the power for themselves? Are they willing to blame the so called leadership for their own inability to cooperate and focus on passing meaningful solutions to the nation’s problems- preferring to blame, as Mr. Limbaugh does, ” The …insider class, or ruling class or whatever you call it elite mind-set.” I wonder about people who are willing to subvert and collaborate in a focused, united, cooperative campaign against someone else, are they going to be better or worse than those they ousted? After all, they got to the top by subverting the authority of those they replaced. They can expect the same for themselves, unless they are the first to attack and remove the attackers.
Limbaugh goes on to state his agenda for the ouster of Majority Leader McConnell. He uses a quote from somebody else to hide behind, Gerald Selb, of the Wall Street Journal, who claims that the so called Tea Party forces are increasing their power and loosening the Republican (so called) establishment’s grip. So, after all, this transcript of the Rush Limbaugh show is actually a self proclaimed testimonial to Rush Limbuagh’s success at fostering the take over of the Republican party by his brand of conservatives?
Progressive Politics 