The House and Senate will return to work Monday in a city that looks very different than the one they left before the long Memorial Day weekend. During the congressional recess, Democrats reached the Rubicon and, with the help of partisan judges and district attorneys who bent the Constitution, convicted a Republican presidential candidate of multiple trumped-up felony charges.
Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Tweeted Despite his passive hope that the appeals process would resolve everything, other senators have launched a smart move: They’re fighting back. In a letter on Friday, the senators vowed to block, halt and derail nearly all Democratic legislation and confirmations this year.
“We will not do so,” the letter states.
1) Approving budget bills that increase this Administration’s non-security related budgets or fund partisan legislative activities. 2) Voting to confirm this Administration’s political or judicial appointees. 3) Expediting the consideration and passage of any Democratic bills or mandates that do not directly relate to the safety of the American people.
The initial letter was signed by Republican Sens. Mike Lee (Utah), J.D. Vance (Ohio), Tommy Tuberville (Alabama), Eric Schmitt (Missouri), Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee), Rick Scott (Florida), Roger Marshall (Kansas) and Marco Rubio (Florida). By Friday night, Republican Sens. Josh Hawley (Missouri) and Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) had also signed the letter.
The move is a welcome change for a Congress that has largely continued business as usual, buying the FBI a brand new headquarters despite it spying on former President Donald Trump, reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act despite it being used to take down Trump, and continuing to fund the Department of Justice, which has long been used as a weapon against conservatives big and small.
“After cheering on the unprecedented politicization of our justice system in a desperate attempt to save Joe Biden, Democrats in Congress cannot go back to work on Monday and expect bipartisan cooperation on their agenda,” Lee told The Blaze News. “Actions have consequences.”
“Republicans cannot sit idly by and watch the weaponization of our justice system against their presidential candidate,” Vance told The Blaze News. “They need to show Democrats that there will be severe consequences for this egregious abuse of power. If Republicans think they can maintain a normal spirit of bipartisanship while their own party leaders are orchestrating a plan to send Donald Trump to prison, they are sorely mistaken.”
This is a good start. When your party’s candidate is convicted of fraud in a trial, when voters ask you what you did, you can’t answer, “Did you see the TV attack I did?” and it’s not enough to say, “I held hearings about it.”
Still, a lot will depend on how much noise Republicans are prepared to make. Ten senators could shut down the Senate if they promised to block any agreements (on basic routine things like setting tomorrow’s schedule or allowing debates). There are good reasons to go that far, but the pressure would be immense and they’re unlikely to go that far.
Supposedly, they would block all political and judicial nominations by consent and force a vote (Like Tubbervillein front He was betrayed By his weak Republican colleagues.
To go any further, he needs the support of 31 more of his colleagues. With 41 senators united, he can block the spending and then talk practical matters. The original group of 10 should grow this week, but he needs to encourage and pressure other Republicans to get behind it. That could change if Trump starts talking about it.
Trump It’s unpopular in Congress. When he was banned from Twitter in 2020, only one Republican senator contacted the company to protest; most of the rest see him as an inept disruptor of Washington’s penchant for one-party spending (tinged with fringe but pointless TV spats).
That doesn’t mean they won’t publicly speak out against Trump. Republicans are so supportive of Trump that most know they need to keep quiet. The Republican National Committee raised $52.8 million in the 24 hours after the conviction, more than double its previous daily fundraising total, despite multiple outages on its fundraising portal. Trump’s unpopularity in Washington means that when he’s under attack, few are willing to fight back.
State Republicans don’t need to leave it all to Washington DC. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is one of many far-left prosecutors funded by George Soros and his associates. What about the district attorneys in Republican controlled states? They need to be investigated and impeached. It’s time to clean up.
As with the culture wars, there can be no truce here: Democrats have crossed the northern border and are marching south, and Republican politicians who continue to approve even the stamp design are simply cooperating.
Glenn Beck: Don’t be intimidated by the bullies who got Trump convicted
From CNN contributor Ellie Honig of New York magazine:Prosecutors arrested Trump but perverted the law
Blaze News:Trump’s ‘banana republic’ conviction won’t be the last for Democrats — barring ‘like-for-like retaliation’: UC Berkeley law professor
Blaze News:How should Republican states respond to Trump’s conviction?
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Although he loves appearing on television more than anything, he hasn’t had many opportunities to see doctors lately. But on Monday, retired American guru Dr Anthony Fauci is due to appear again, this time before the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on COVID-19.
May was a bad month for the former Democratic hero, as Congress revealed that he and his friends routinely and intentionally evaded scrutiny by using his private emails and personal correspondence, and even misspelling his name, to evade official email records searches.
In a series of publicly released communications, Fauci advisor Dr. David Morens candidly discussed a series of ways to avoid public scrutiny of his COVID-related communications. “P.S.,” he wrote in an email to COVID China collaborator and serial gaslighter Dr. Peter Daszak. “I forgot to mention that there are no FOIA concerns. You can send it to Tony on his private Gmail or hand it over at work or at home. He’s smart enough to not let his colleagues send him anything that could get him in trouble.”
In another post, Morens wrote, “I think we’re all safe because the woman in charge of FOIA at NIH taught me how to delete emails after a FOIA and before the searches begin. Plus, I deleted most of my previous emails after sending them to Gmail.”
In a particularly sarcastic email, Morens added, “We are all wise enough to know that we will never have conclusive evidence. Even if we did, we wouldn’t put it in an email and would delete it if we found it.”
Monday will be the first time lawmakers can question Trump since his closed-door testimony in January about the origins of COVID-19. It will also be Trump’s first public testimony since retiring as the highest-paid person in the federal government with the largest government pension in American history.
The hearing comes just in time for a new BlazeTV documentary series to uncover the extent of the 2020 cover-up. For several months, Blaze TV Host Matt Kibbe and the Free the People team have produced a fantastic multi-part documentary series investigating the lies and cover-ups of 2020. Episode 1 of “The Coverup” is available now. Please see here.
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