No more mister nice guy, no more patty cake, no more milk and cookies.
I give credit where credit is due. I don’t admire much about the Democrat Party but I do admire their ability to fight. They never quit—they never stop advancing, and even when they are on defense like they were for two years after the 2016 election with no power in Washington D.C., they kept the pressure on the GOP.
Only because of President Trump did the GOP get a few things done like tax cuts and the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, but that is because Harry Reid went nuclear on judicial nominations against the wishes of Mitch McConnell. Reid’s decision to wield power there turned out to help the GOP later on. McConnell still refuses to get rid of the Senate filibuster rule.
Take the following to the bank, folks. When the Democrats win back the Senate, they will get rid of the filibuster rule and run roughshod over Republicans. When Democrats wield power, it’s not halfheartedly or with shame. When you have control, you have to use it. It doesn’t last forever. The Democrats did that with Obamacare. They shoved it down the throats of the GOP and the American people and at a political cost. We’re still trying to get out from underneath it thanks to the late John McCain.
n politics, the name of the game is to win. There are no style points. Losing sucks. Democrats do not care how it looks when they win or lose. Take Stacey Abrams for example. She still refuses to concede the Georgia Governor’s race despite losing by 30,000 votes in November 2018.
In politics, once you win, you have to follow it up by winning at legislation and winning political arguments in the court of public opinion. You must always be advancing. There is no holding on as was the plan of the Republican National Committee in the 2018 midterms. They hunkered down and hoped the slaughter would be minimal. It was worse than that. It was an old-fashioned butt whooping. They went from being on offense to now having to play defense in the House of Representatives. California nearly wiped out the GOP, winning congressional seats long held by Republicans. The Democrats know how to play defense. The GOP does not. On defense, they still try to get along with the left. For so-called intelligent people, they haven’t figured out that there is no getting along with the left. They left wants to kill us, figuratively and literally. Ask Steve Scalise and anybody violently attacked by the goons from Antifa.
Here is how the GOP played on offense when they controlled the House and Senate. Speaker Ryan failed to call the USMCA for approval. Trump signed it on Nov. 30, 2018, with more than enough time to get it done before Nancy Pelosi took the gavel from the GOP. Many on the Republican side forget that. They did not make the tax cuts permanent; they failed to deal with immigration or pass national concealed carry reciprocity. They fought Trump’s attempts at border wall funding, and failed to get an infrastructure bill to the President’s desk. Now they want to blame Pelosi for not bringing these crucial pieces of legislation for a vote? Please.
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