GOP House Turmoil Is Real Democracy
'Democratic' Party permits no debate
Democrats are gloating over the Republican turmoil over picking a House Speaker. The opposite is true. Everyone talks about preserving “democracy.” But this is Democracy in Action. The House was created by the Framers as the body closest to the people. The representatives are elected in local, democratic elections to represent the local people and there interests.
But consider how the “Democratic” Party is run in lock-step with party dictates from the Speaker or Democratic (now Minority) Leader. That’s how Pelosi ran things for 20 years. And new boss Hakeem Jeffries will do the same.
Last year Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and The Squad of Progressives, which she led, was among 30 members of Congress asking President Biden to negotiate an end to the Ukraine War. Pelosi stepped in and they quickly caved. They’re fake “Progressives.” There’s as much freedom to disagree in the Democratic Caucus in Congress as there was at the 18th Congress of the Soviet Union in 1939.
By contrast, consider what Republicans are arguing about:
Ukraine War funding. Is the money being spent well? Or is the money going to Joe and Hunter Biden’s corrupt cronies? Why are we even in this war, which even Biden said could lead to “Armageddon”?
FBI and other intelligence agency interference in social media. Matt Taibbi, one of the few honest liberal journalists left, said on Tucker Carlson not just the FBI, but “every single wing” of the national-security state pushed Twitter to censor what they didn’t like. This is the height of tyranny. He said, “The government was in the censorship business in a huge way. That’s provable now.”
If that’s true, and it seems obvious, Congress needs to ferret that out. Only Republicans will do so.
The border. Biden and the Democrats have opened the border entirely: to illegal immigrants, terrorists, fentanyl peddlers.
The budget. How much more waste can the country stand before the whole edifice collapses?
Vaccine mandates. The whole COVID episode, now more than three years old, needs to be investigated. What really happened over there in Wuhan? Why was our country shut down? Why are deaths up so high? Are young athletes dying like flies from the vax? I don’t know. I’m just asking. Only Republicans might find out the truth.
Abortion, marriage, etc. The Democrats are obsessed with violating every social and biological norm.
Rep. Matt Rosendale put it well in a tweet: “We have had more discussion and debate over the last 3 days than I have participated in, on this floor, for the last two years. We cannot restore a functioning legislative body under current rules and leadership.”
If Rep. Kevin McCarthy eventually becomes Speaker, he will be tied down by promises to enact a conservative agenda. If it’s somebody else, the message will be even more emphatic.
Either way, it’s the Republican Party that’s discussing the real issues affecting America, and the world.