Republicans in Congress need to get on board or get out of the way.
The Trump team has lost one nominee already, and the GOP is showing the familiar wobbliness with Pete Hegseth as well as several others.
This from frontpagemag.com.
They have announced no clear plans for the first hundred days, and when someone does not tell you the plan, you can assume there is no plan.
Trump 2.0 is focused and eager to keep his promises and make America great again. The GOP Congress, however, seems to be going back to their old habits of selecting congressional leadership based on loyalty and the good-old-boy system rather than merit. This will not do.
The old-school GOP types are failing to read the big America-shaped room.
There’s a new sheriff in town and you better not leave him to face the bad guys all alone at high noon.
An election is coming in just two short years; 2026 should be, if history is any guide, a bloodbath for the president’s party. But it does not have to be. Trump has shown that the old rules do not apply to him. This could be a triumph, but the Republicans in the House and the Senate need to get on board.
It’s either the Trump dance or
[Go YMCA]
the usual failure Kabuki dance.
The GOP must put “squishy dislikes” aside and unify on Trump’s appointments.
Advise and consent is a thing from the Founders, but if you oppose a Trump nominee:
[I]t had better be for a better reason than Deep State hacks are upset, or she allegedly loves Putin, or the [Left’s] go-to of bogus sex charges.
After Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, the GOP should know full well how the scam works. Unity is required to the extent Trump can get it. Sure, Lisa Murkowski is next to impossible and Susan Collins, as a Maine Republican, is not to be depended upon, but everyone else needs to fall into formation.
Trump does not have time for “showboats, wimps, or losers.” John Thune needs to pull his Senate majority together–“no slackers, no dissenters, no more scalps” for the communists/globalists.
Over in the House, Mike Johnson has his work cut out for him with a narrow majority complicated by several folks taking off for administration jobs.
[H]e already wavered on the transexual bathroom issue before finding some spine and taking a stand.
His problem is that he wants to be nice, while the rest of us want to be victorious.
Nice will not cut it. He has a key role in getting the Trump agenda passed. What’s the plan? What are the priorities? Who knows? Not us.
There has been a long tradition of the GOP caucus leadership keeping We the People and the members in the dark, then dropping a garbage download at the last minute and demanding it be rammed through without thought, reflection, or amendment. That model cannot continue.
Not only do the members need time to review legislation, but We the People do too—because we will catch the nonsense ourselves.
Johnson needs to be organized and focused to get President Trump’s agenda moving. But first, he must ensure the right Republican is in the right job. Committee chairmen picked because they are pals of the Speaker or have longevity is bad business. Trump needs people committed to his agenda wielding the gavels.
Sadly, it is not clear that the GOP gets this. One example is the fight for the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair. The choice for this critical slot is simple and obvious, yet the GOP is making it hard.
Darrell Issa of California, who previously chaired the House Oversight Committee during the first Trump term, is an Army vet and a supporter of Trump on Ukraine and everything else. He’s up against Ann Wagner of Missouri, who was an ambassador to Luxembourg, which is barely a country, and is a huge Trump backstabber.
Oh, she also identifies as a girl, which some of these hacks think matters. We’d take differently-abled lesbian Hindus of color chairing every committee if they were America First.
But Wagner is an establishment snake. She just adored Trump over the last few months when she was running for reelection, but she will almost certainly revert to form if chosen. In 2016, she withdrew her Trump endorsement because he said mean stuff. She wanted to censure Trump over J6, though he did nothing wrong.
Who needs that kind of invertebrate playing to the Washington Post chairing a key committee when you can get someone like Issa who will be with us in Ukraine and whenever else it counts?
This is the kind of unforced error the GOP needs to avoid. But the problem is that the GOP caucus has traditionally been unable to avoid unforced errors.
The House needs to come out swinging with the legislation Trump needs to:
– cut the budget and our taxes,
– focus on high-payoff investigations, and
– hold its tiny minority together.
Everything depends on what happens up on the Hill. That is Trump 2.0’s Achilles heel, and the communists/globalists realize this even if our own people do not. And do not doubt the Left will be actively seeking opportunities to peel away the GOP’s weak links.
