…”Meet
at The Old Mill, We Ride at Midnight”
After many months of professional political class “gaslighting”
Americans, the patriots in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Alaska, Colorado,
Minnesota, and Wyoming now engage their moment to have their voices
heard.
A visible and quantifiable moment to rise, unite, join with us
and and state their collective refusal to be co-dependents in our
national demise….
We Remember – December 23rd 2009 when
Majority Leader Harry Reid passed a version of Obamacare through forced vote at
1:30am. The Senators could not leave, and for the two weeks previous were kept
in a prolonged legislative session barred returning to their home-state
constituencies. It was, by all measures and reality, a vicious display of
forced ideological manipulation of the upper chamber; shared again as a
constant reminder for what set the stage, and what followed.
Riddled with anxiety we watched the
Machiavellian manipulations unfold, seemingly unable to stop the visible
usurpation. Desperate for a tool to stop the construct
in December 2009 we found Scott Brown and rallied to deliver $7 million in
funding, and a “Kennedy Seat” victory on January 19th 2010.
Unfortunately, the trickery of
Majority Leader Harry Reid would not be deterred. Upon legislative return he
stripped a House Budgetary bill, and replaced it with the Democrat Senate
version of Obamacare through a process of “reconciliation”. Thereby avoiding
the 3/5ths vote rule (60) and instead using only a simple majority, 51 votes.
Angered, we rallied to the next election (November 2010) and handed the
usurping Democrats the single largest electoral defeat in the prior 100 years.
The House returned to Republican control, and one-half of the needed Senate
seats reversed. Within the next two election cycles (’12 and ’14) we again
removed the Democrats from control of the Senate.
Within each of those three
elections we were told Repealing Obamacare would be job #1. It was not an
optional part of our representative agreement to do otherwise.
However, from the writing of
Jonah Goldberg, an advocate for modern conservative political opinion, you find
the following:
[…] If you want a really good sense of the damage Donald Trump is
doing to conservatism, consider the fact that for the last five years no issue
has united the Right more than opposition to Obamacare.
Opposition to socialized medicine in general has been a core tenet
of American conservatism from Day One. Yet, when Republicans were told that
Donald Trump favors single-payer health care, support for single-payer health
care jumped from 16 percent to 44
percent. (link)
With control of the House and
Senate did Majority Leader Mitch McConnell or House Speaker John Boehner use
the same level of severity expressed by Harry Reid to put a repeal bill on the
desk of Obama for veto?
Simply, NO.
Why not? According to NRO’s
Goldberg it’s the “core tenet of American conservatism”.
If for nothing else, but to
accept and follow the will of the people. Despite the probability of an Obama
veto, this was not a matter of option. While the method might have been
“symbolic”, due to the almost guaranteed veto, it would have stood as a promise
fulfilled.
Yet the professional political
class speak of “core tenets” and question our “trust” of Donald Trump?
TRUST?
We are not blind to the
maneuverings of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and President Tom Donohue. We are
fully aware the repeal vote did not take place because the U.S. CoC demanded
the retention of Obamacare.
Leader McConnell followed the
legislative priority of Tom Donohue as opposed to the will of the people.
This was again exemplified with
the passage of TPA, another Republican construct which insured the
Trans-Pacific Trade Deal could pass the Senate with 51 votes instead of 3/5ths.
This is limiting government? No, this is usurpation of the will of the people.
However, the TPA bill passage
provides both an example and a contrast.
We are not blind to the reality
that when McConnell chooses to change the required senatorial
voting threshold he is apt to do so. Not coincidentally, the TPP trade deal is
another legislative priority of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Yet you question the
“trustworthiness” of Donald Trump’s definitions of conservatism?
Another bill, the Iran
“agreement”, reportedly and conveniently not considered a “treaty”. Again, we
are not blind; nor are we blind to Republican Bob Corker’s amendment (Corker/Cardin Amendment) changing agreement
ratification to a 67-vote-threshold for denial,
as opposed to a customary 67 vote threshold for passage. A profound difference.
Yet you question the
“principles” of Donald Trump?
A truly representative
political body would be questioning the “ideological conservative principle” of
their leader, Mitch McConnell. Or questioning Bob Corker. Both McConnell and
Corker working to deny the will of the electorate within the party they are
supposed to represent.
Of course, you need to remain willfully
blind. You need to keep acting as if we are not aware of these closed door
machinations. If you faced us, if you opened yourself to really being
questioned by us, it would force you to admit some uncomfortable truths.
In years past our confrontation
would have included tar and feathers.
Read it all at: Conservative Treehouse
