Donald Trump has been a complete disaster for conservatives and the restoration of common sense policies to the US. He is an egomaniac who wasted the two years of his presidency when he had complete control of government. He could have enacted voting reform to prevent Dem cheating. He could have actually fixed illegal immigration. He could have reined in spending for real. He didn’t do any of that. What he did do was create a new generation of dingbat candidates who can’t win, so the Reps lost the House in 2018, barely hung on to the Senate, and lost everything in 2020, all due to Trump’s incompetence and his support only of those who hang on his every word and kiss his ass endlessly. And so we get the Biden disaster.
The Reps should have taken the Senate in 2022, but Trump backed absolute morons for a number of seats and they all lost. And the House was retaken by the narrowest of margins. Enter Matt Gaetz et al. Gaetz is an asshole, you take one look at him and you know exactly what he is, a mini-Trump, another narcissistic asshole who cares about nothing but himself. He and a few others are determined to ensure that not only do Dem policies prevail, but that Reps will lose the House in 2024, probably along with everything else. 430 Representatives in the House hate Matt Gaetz, including almost every Republican. How about we remove Gaetz instead of McCarthy.
Gaetz thinks he will be the next governor of Florida, so he doesn’t care what he does to the House or the country and he doesn’t care that he is helping Dems. But I suspect Ron DeSantis, who has a machine in Florida and must hate Gaetz, will do everything in his power to ensure that his successor is anyone but Gaetz, and that asshole supreme will get a beatdown. Not that it will stop him from being an asshole.
Conservatives have to be smarter and realize that being disciplined and cheerful are not inconsistent with pushing conservative policies without apology or backing down. We have more than enough assholes in the movement, let’s get rid of them before they destroy the country.
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Paul Ryan. That’s what was wrong with Trump’s first two years. Trump could have been the best, and Ryan would have still screwed us. The first two years were also hurt by the administrative state, Trump’s poor hiring — so many of the people he hired turned out to be awful. Then he got rolled by Fauci. What more do you need to know? Your description of Gaetz may even be a little understated. He’s going to make Paul Ryan look really good before this week is over.
Amen! What a colossal asshat Gaetz is!
How could he have enacted voting reform?
Uhh, pretty simple, people have written the bills for years–for federal elections, at least, require voter ID, ban ballot harvesting, limit mail ballots, etc.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was made 20 yrs before I was born with it’s main theme being politics is an a-hole sport. In 2012 Mitt Romney looked the part of a statesman and got bowled over by a-hole Obama; Romney gave kudos to Obama as a father and husband, he just didn’t agree with Obama’s policies. Obama painted Romney as a misogynist, dog-abuser.
I hate politics and never paid attention to it but the managed decline of our country, with the subsequent loss of liberty, has caught my attention. Am I wrong that the one bargaining tool we hold now is “the power of the purse.”? It’s time for someone to hold the line, time to be an a-hole against the destroyers.
I know you rarely allow dissenting opinions from your’s Kevin….but I think that Matt Gaetz is a hero…We are sick and tired of old school RHINOS that talk….talk…talk and do nothing! Our government spends $5 trillion dollars/year…while it only takes in $2 trillion. All Congress ever wants to do is kick the can down the road….well, here we are $35 trillion in debt… soon unable to even make the interest rate payment on our huge debt and all McCarthy did was lie and sell out to demented Joe. We are tired of the same old BS. Oh, and DJT is one of the best things that has ever happened to this country. Stay tuned Kevin….things are going to get very interesting…
I publish every comment unless they are abusive, so not sure what the reference to dissenting opinions is. I don’t agree with a lot of what people say in the comments but I don’t censor them. And all I can say about this comment is we have a lot of supposed conservatives who 1) must love losing, because that is all their actions lead to, 2) are secret whacked Dem supporters, because like this move, what they do only helps the Dems. Just like Gaetz and his idiot cohorts only needed a few votes to dump McCArthy, it will only take a four Reps in marginal districts to decide to vote with Dems on budget stuff and they will. How does that help conservatives. This is absolute stupidity and lunacy. And Trump is largely to blame, and he ran up deficits just as big as Biden’s even before the epidemic.
I gotta say I don’t like the charged curseword, but the voter aspect is VERY important. “And the House was retaken by the narrowest of margins.” should include that unexpectedly New York voted red. So a surprise is how other areas didn’t do the same. We do need to look at how we can harvest ballots on both sides. Moreover, we need a bigger middle which is why you’re seeing the Gaetz split. Some see him as “real” and not part of the “uniparty.” That can’t be overlooked.