Governor Greg Abbott meets Biden at the border
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Great reader comment on Speaker election process
From Colorado Cowboy, on Substack:
This speaker election is a tale of two parties.
One party obediently lined up to vote for the "leader" chosen for them by Granny Pelosi. No nominations of alternatives, no debate.
The other party engaged in a vigorous (if occasionally misguided) debate, and after some horse-trading chose a speaker.
Which party to YOU think represents a democratic tradition, and which looks more like the show-parliaments of North Korea and China?
I expect this of Democrats
I want to try and make sense of what was supposed to be a Republican majority House of Representatives starting this week. While the devil and the Democrats stand by laughing hysterically, a small group of Republicans who have the math skills of a 1 year old have shut down the entire House by their belligerence in wanting to keep Kevin McCarthy from becoming the Speaker of the House. Full disclosure: I supported every one of the holdouts through my PAC, HuckPAC. Several have been on this very show. My frustration with them is not because they disagreed with Kevin McCarthy or even expressed their opposition with an initial vote against him. It’s that the 10% of the GOP House members who have demanded concessions from Kevin McCarthy and received them have then added MORE demands in order to end their hostage holding of the entire government. I fully expect this level of extortion from Pelosi, Maxine Watters, the Squad, and Adam Schiff. I expected it from Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. But NOT from authentic conservatives who pledged to aggressively fight spending, hold government officials accountable and conduct real and thorough investigations into corruption and taxpayer-funded abuse of our liberties. The 10% have claimed to be more conservative, more principled, more authentic Republican that the 90% of their colleagues who were willing to work with Kevin McCarthy. While the 10% wants to rule over the 90% (who has ever allowed that or thought it was the way elections work?), it’s revealing that some of the holdouts have said in interviews that what they are “demanding” of Kevin McCarthy is that they get choice committee assignments and a promise they won’t be punished for their attempted coup. That’s not only delusional, but very telling. I’ve been excoriated by many on social media because I expressed disgust with the small handful of self-appointed masters of the universe acting as if they are living out a scene from Spartacus. In fact, the movie they most represent is “The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight.” I reject outright the notion that this 10% of House Republicans are standing for a greater principle. If a person is objecting by sheer principle, one is willing to suffer whatever the consequences for the rebellion. But when a person says, “Hey, this is about ME…protecting MY position, MY role in leadership, and MY being able to take any shot I want at 90% of my colleagues and have no consequence other than being rewarded.” THAT my friend is NOT acting on “principle.” It’s a selfish act of a power grab and publicity stunt. Reward THAT behavior and you’ll keep getting more of it in the future. It’s not that I think the small group of dissidents are bad people. I do think they are being used, manipulated, and led by a few who love being in front of the camera. I dealt with some folks like that in the legislature when I was Governor. They enjoy being in a minority because there is no responsibility for the outcome of governing. They are free to complain and point out the failures of leadership. They can boldly proclaim what THEY would do if in control. But they didn’t do the hard work to GET in control so they take the easy path of being the aginners, the contrarians, and those who can loudly declare the decisions of their colleagues to be squish, RINO, or sell-out. I called them the Shiite Republicans in the Arkansas legislature, whose pride in their perceived purity was easy because they never had to actually govern.
There are those who are the starters on the team. The ones who come off the field with grass stains on their uniforms, blood and sweat dripping from their faces, and exhaustion from the game. But there are some who made the team but will never actually get in the game. Their uniforms are pristine, they didn’t take a single hit, but they sure know what the starters SHOULD have done to win the game. I call them the “towel poppers.” These are the guys who after the game still have all their energy and are reduced to getting in the shower and popping their teammates with a towel. It’s as close to the contest as they will get. Towel poppers don’t win games. Starters do. To those who don’t like the way the game is being played, the solution is simple. Put down the towel, do the HARD work of governing and become a real player. A starter. Don’t tell us how it OUGHT to be done. SHOW us how much better you can do it. And then you won’t be in the 10%. You’ll be leading the 90%. And hopefully you’ll regret the day you were just a towel popper.
Governor Greg Abbott meets Biden at the border
Sunday, President Biden finally visited the Texas border to view the disaster his open border immigration policies have caused. But the Democrat officials in El Paso made sure his photo op wasn’t spoiled by anything ugly, like reality. They cleaned up the streets and emptied the migrant camps in advance of his visit, to make sure that the tragic results of his policies were hidden from public view. Both a volunteer worker and a local reporter used the same phrase to describe it: “A dog and pony show.”
Local officials claimed that was a purely coincidental, regularly-scheduled clean-up, but that seems suspicious, considering it was done under cover of darkness. Redstate.com has some before-and-after photos, showing the crowds, squalor and trash before, and the sparkling clean, depopulated movie set created after Biden scheduled his visit. That visit lasted only three hours, so brief that some critics are derisively calling it a “drive-by” or a “hit-and-run.” Even so, for all the bearing it had on the reality of our border situation, Biden might as well have held it in the Mexico section of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World" ride.
Biden even posed for photos in front of a border wall, after shutting down construction on Trump’s wall and calling it “racist.” And he posed with border agents, but never apologized for falsely accusing them of whipping migrants.
At least Texas Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t play along with the political theater. In a meeting with Biden, he hand-delivered a letter, telling him that Texas had gone from historically low illegal immigration under Trump to “the worst illegal immigration in the history of our country” under Biden. He called Biden’s trip “$20 billion too little and two years too late” and called on him to “do his constitutional duty to protect our nation.”
You can read the letter in full here:
I wouldn’t look for it at any liberal media outlets. They probably won’t report it, and you’ll just get that “It’s a Small World” song stuck in your head.
Related: While President Biden is sending out ludicrous tweets of him posing in front of a racist border wall and calling on everyone to work together to solve our broken immigration system that he broke, some experts are warning that this is all just a pretext for his Administration to announce a plan for mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens that he’s let into the US.