HOW FAR WILL WE LET THEM DESTROY OUR COUNTRY STARTING AT OUR BORDERS?
$450 MILLION TO MUSLIM DICTATORS OVER THERE TO PROTECT THEIR BORDERS AND FUND THEIR ANTI-CHRISTIAN, ANTI-JEWISH DICTATORSHIPS.
The senators talked about drugs and cartels, crime and chaos, sexual abuse, welfare, taxes, and even national security — but not the damage caused by the imported flood of wage-cutting, rent-spiking, investment-shifting migrant workers, renters, and consumers.
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GOP Senators Talk About Immigration but Don’t Mention the Money
Six Republican Senators walked into a press conference to complain about the massive civic damage created by President Joe Biden’s flood of illegal migrants — but all six walked out without mentioning the massive economic damage to Americans’ wages, jobs, and regional investment.
The senators talked about drugs and cartels, crime and chaos, sexual abuse, welfare, taxes, and even national security — but not the damage caused by the imported flood of wage-cutting, rent-spiking, investment-shifting migrant workers, renters, and consumers.
Yet the senators repeatedly touted mass legal migration as good for the United States.
“We have to stop all of the consequences of illegal immigration, including the fentanyl, including the sexual abuse, including the way [migrants’] children are treated,” retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said at the December 21 event.
But, Portman insisted, “I don’t think anybody behind me disagrees that America is great because of our welcoming of immigrants over the years, and we all support legal and orderly immigration.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) made the same legal = good, illegal = bad, claim:
The [Biden] plan is to let anybody and everybody who wants to, come to our country. Not only does this benefit the human smugglers that are charging thousands of dollars … but this also enriches the drug lords and drug runners that smuggle drugs into the United States that took the lives of 108,000 Americans last year alone.
“We [the GOP senators] all believe legal immigration is a positive good for the country,” Cornyn said, adding, “It makes me angry that the Biden administration has poisoned the well [for more legal immigration] by allowing this [illegal migration] to happen.”
“Well, they’re not wrong about all those [civic] problems that are created by … illegal migration,” Jessica Vaughan, the director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News.
She continued:
But they are forgetting that the main reason we have immigration controls is [economic] — to protect job opportunities for Americans, to avoid distorting our labor market, and to avoid a race to the bottom in wages that is inevitable with open borders or even very lenient admission rules.
The federal government has operated an economic strategy of “Extraction Migration” since 1990. That strategy pulls human resources from poor countries and uses the imported people to increase investors’ revenues and profits.
The inflow has forced down Americans’ wages and boosted rents and housing prices. The influx has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and has reduced native-born Americans’ clout in local and national elections.
The federal government’s supply of imported wage-cutting workers has also shifted job-creating investment away from heartland states and towards wealthy coastal states, such as Florida, California, New York, and Texas.
The pocketbook damage is also ignored by the GOP’s candidates during elections even though it can pull swing voters to their side.
In the press conference, four other GOP senators also downplayed the economic strategy that drives migration and ignored the pocketbook damage to American families.
“For whatever reason — and I don’t know who will be able to explain it to anybody — the Biden administration believes our borders should be completely open,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said, adding:
We’re going to continue to see terrorists come across our border, criminals come across our border, drugs come across our border, more Americans are going to die. We’re going have more crime, and the Biden administration is not going to change.
However, he added, “I’m from an immigration state — we like legal immigration.”
“None of the President’s positions on this make any sense to me,” said Sen. John Kennedy, (R-LA), adding:
Unless I view it from the perspective of, well, maybe he wants this [illegal migration] to happen. Maybe he’s listening too much to the berserk wing of his own party — the immigration activists who think that vetting people at the border is racist.
But legal immigration is good immigration, Kennedy insisted. “The American people support immigration [and] every year America welcomes about a million of our world’s neighbors to become American citizens.
“Many Republicans are free marketeers in general and don’t naturally gravitate to arguments on behalf of [wage-earning] employees,” responded Vaughan. “It’s just not a habit with a lot of Republicans.”
She continued:
Concerns about the size of government and the cost of government are always at the forefront [for Republicans] as well as national security concerns, and so they naturally gravitate to those [non-economic] arguments.
[And] they are sensitive to the pressure that they get from big donors who may be employers that rely on illegal workers. And so they don’t want to offend them, they don’t want to cross them.
“This is a very real crisis, and for whatever reason, many people are ignoring it,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-OK). “We just want to have a legal immigration system — we just want this to be able to work and for the administration to actually enforce existing law,” he added.
“Moms and dads and brothers and sisters in our communities have all experienced the impact of fentanyl in our communities, the lives that have been lost, the families that have been wrecked because of the drugs that are coming across that southern border,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
Blackburn, however, did describe some economic aspects of migration. But her description focused on the costs imposed on local governments and taxpayers, not on ordinary Americans’ pocketbook income:
They’ve created this situation at the southern border that they cannot contain and the border communities are saying “You’ve got to do something — you’re overrunning us.” So the Biden administration comes up with a plan: “Let’s make every town a border town, let’s make every state a border state, and let’s take those that are illegally entering, and let’s shift them to other communities.” … That means those states, those cities, their taxpayers are going to have to bear the cost for social services — health services, education, housing, food — for those that are coming in the country illegally.
Both legal and illegal migration drives much of the government spending that Blackburn deplored.
Immigration increases government spending because it imports millions of poor, government-dependent people, pushes working Americans out of jobs and onto welfare, drives up housing costs, reduces workplace productivity, cuts family fertility. and fuels resentful tribalism and chaotic personnel policies.
The reporters at the event did not question the GOP senators’ avoidance of Americans’ pocketbook concerns.
Reporters ignore the pocketbook damage from migration, said Vaughan, because they believe “immigration is a human rights issue.”
She continued:
They’re ideologically oriented to a “Save the World” mentality, a globalist mentality, but also because their news organizations often are owned or run by people who are interested in open borders for a [cheap] labor market. In other words, the employer class.
Also because many of these reporters themselves are part of the elite class in America that favors more immigration because they aren’t affected negatively by it … [and] all kinds of social engineering types of policies can be better provided there’s a huge underclass of new migrants.
“They don’t seem to care as much about Americans who are struggling,” she added.
GOP Rep. Malliotakis: Omnibus Is Much Longer than COVID Relief Bill that Had Tons of Waste and Fraud
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) pointed out that the omnibus bill far exceeds the length of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan COVID relief bill Congress passed in early 2021, which “was riddled with tons of debt and waste and fraud.” And argued that we’ll now have to try to find out what’s in the omnibus after it passed.
Malliotakis said, “Think about this, [the] $1.9 [trillion] COVID bill that we passed in the beginning of this Congress, that bill had 900 pages. I voted against that as well. And that was riddled with tons of debt and waste and fraud. Now, think about this, this bill’s 4,100 pages. So, what is in here? And that’s what we hope to find out. But we shouldn’t have to pass this bill to find out what’s in it. It’s wrong.”
Malliotakis also said that she and her staff tried to do what they could to actually read the bill, but members did not have enough time to read the whole bill.
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Omnibus Bill: Don't Get Mad, Get Even
There is a general consensus that a dozen or so U.S. senators who are mostly aligned with the America First movement have screwed up royally by allowing the 4,100-plus-page omnibus $1.7-trillion budget to be adopted — and they know it.
None of them was willing to play hardball on behalf of their constituents or on behalf of the country. None apparently recognized that a nay vote was not sufficient or had the fortitude or common sense to filibuster or read the entire document into the Congressional Record in order to slow its progress into the new session of Congress. How else could the American people or even members of Congress know the exact specifics of runaway government spending and what mysteries are hidden within this largely sequestered omnibus?
There is also general consensus that about twenty U.S. senators who are part of the McConnell Club (AKA RINOs) also screwed up royally by repeatedly joining the Democrats for assorted omnibus votes as the country's indebtedness rose to an unconscionable $31 trillion (not counting Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid). Meanwhile, the Uniparty have yet to discover exactly how severely their constituents and rest of the country have been alienated.
Predominately a blueprint for the Democrat/Marxist agenda through 2023, its malicious details are being revealed daily elsewhere, so a better focus here would be to understand who allowed this travesty to come into being and how. It is no secret that the federal government's fiscal year begins on September 30, and at that time, Senate leadership was not prepared to present a draft budget, thereby delaying ninety days to complete its work. At ninety days, Congress had still not completed its work, and the 2023 budget was still not ready for congressional review and approval until the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
In what can only be described as an unwelcome and unprecedented achievement of such phenomenal largesse to be so utterly blind and oblivious to the tribulations and suffering of the American public, the resulting omnibus spending package was contrived by a shady cast of perpetrators without anyone having seen its details, literally in the dark of night. The majority of senators who remained outside the loop had scant knowledge of the full extent of what evil lurks within the document.
Hence, within four days of its deadline, the mammoth 2023 budget was presented with little to no opportunity for a thorough fiscal or policy analysis. Clearly, the Senate leadership's game plan was known in advance to deliberately put senators in a bind: either vote four days before Christmas without knowing the omnibus's contents, or shut down the government. Unfortunately, the minority of Republicans who originally resisted ultimately allowed themselves to be manipulated by McConnell et al. without formulating their own opposing strategy. A hint for those who want to be in the U.S. Senate: if you are getting into the pit with alligators, it would be advisable to know how to wrestle alligators.
A dispassionate look at the facts reveals that the first Senate vote indicative of serious trouble brewing was on the December 20 Motion to Proceed, which was required to begin discussion of the omnibus. Twenty-one Republicans voted with the Democrats (70-25), who vote in lockstep, and a review of that list easily identifies those senators who might be defined as traitors to the American people.
Tracking the votes will show that the majority of those who voted aye continued to vote with the Democrats leading up to omnibus final passage (68-29) on December 22. As you review these votes, note that retiring on January 3 are Senators Roy Blunt (Missouri), Richard Burr (North Carolina), Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma), Rob Portman (Ohio), and Richard Shelby (Alabama), all of whom voted against the best interest of the American people on their way out the door.
Even after a series of comparatively insignificant pro forma amendments, which had no realistic chance of adoption, went down to defeat or were sabotaged by the Democrats, Senate approval of the $1.85-trillion omnibus, in effect, undermined the House's ability to pressure the FBI or the DOJ or the DHS, as it removed all incentive for their cooperation by providing them with their 2023 funding upfront.
The point is that few of these alleged Republicans appear ready for prime time or ready for the mantle of true constitutional leadership to save the country from the clutches of the wicked World Economic Forum. They have all allowed archenemies McConnell and Schumer to dominate, to prove who is in charge...and that members of the U.S. Senate are merely infantile dullards unable to handle the responsibility of adulthood.
In terms of how this disaster occurred, these senators repeatedly vote with the Democrats, especially during the omnibus debate, which spanned four days. And most importantly, these Senators are all up for re-election in 2024: Senators Mitt Romney (Utah), Mike Rounds (South Dakota), Todd Young (Indiana), and Roger Wicker (Mississippi), with Senators John Barrasso (Wyoming) and Kevin Cramer (North Dakota) who repeatedly "took a walk" by not voting when their votes were essential.
In addition to the above, repeat violators who are not up for re-election, yet who voted with the Democrats on omnibus amendments, include Senators John Boozman (Arkansas), Shelly M. Capito (West Virginia), Susan Collins (Maine), John Cornyn (Texas), Tom Cotton (Arkansas), Lindsey Graham (South Carolina), Jerry Moran (Kansas), John Thune (South Dakota), and Mitch McConnell (Kentucky).
These fifteen senators consistently, almost on every occasion, regardless of the issue, vote with the Democrats and are rarely considered reliable Republican votes. The awareness that these fifteen senators may consistently not be representing their constituents should become a catalyst for citizens to become more engaged to hold these senators accountable for their votes, to demand transparency for how they function outside the glare of public awareness.
Given the dire state of the country, it is essential for American citizens not to let anger or frustration stifle a creative response, but to fully participate and check it out for yourself by following your senators on the Senate floor and monitoring live Senate debate and votes at U.S. Senate: Votes.
If your senator is not representing what you assumed he was representing and especially if that senator is looking at 2024 re-election, it may be time to become involved in soliciting an alternative candidate who better represents your values and the welfare of the country. Considering whether any members of the state Legislature, county commission, or city or town council, or other prominent Republicans, or even someone with potential who may not yet have achieved public attention might be a fruitful search to find a candidate with the necessary mojo to win an election.
A good question for each senator would be why a government shutdown would have been more egregious than adopting this fiscal travesty of staggering mathematical miscalculations with substantial totalitarian policy shifts since monthly federal entitlements would not suffer.
Renee Parsons served on the once prestigious ACLU's Florida State Board of Directors and as president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, staff in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth, and a staff member of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. She can be found at reneedove3@yahoo.com.
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Despite Chip Roy’s best efforts, the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill is law
It’s official: Despite Chip Roy’s best efforts, the Democrats in the House passed the $1.7 Omnibus Spending Bill, making it law. It’s not even pork; it’s pork fecal matter. Although we proved helpless to stop it, Americans should know and care about what’s happening. If we don’t step up, we are complicit in this.
The 18 ostensibly Republican Senators who speeded the bill’s passage should be publicly reviled and primaried out of political existence at the earliest opportunity. Sadly, some, like the execrable Lisa Murkowski (D-Alaska, and no, that’s not a typo), just got reelected, so we’re stuck with them. Likewise, a handful of Republicans in the House chimed in supporting the bill. They, too, should be removed from office—an easy task given that they reappear on the ballots in just two years.
Regarding those primaries, remember that Murkowski wasn’t the only one whom the GOP backed against a MAGA candidate. The GOP hates MAGA even more than the Democrats do. That’s because GOPers have indistinguishable values from Democrats. Unlike Democrats, though, if MAGA candidates win, while Democrats can keep feeding from the trough, the GOPers will lose their places.
Mitt Romney (D-Utah, and, again, that’s not a typo) doesn’t come out and say that explicitly, but it’s implied:
My thoughts on the government funding bill ↓ pic.twitter.com/yhDE2Eku0i
— Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) December 22, 2022
Behind that gobbledygook lies this thought: It’s entirely possible that actual conservatives in the House, the ones the Americans just elected, will come up with a budget that the Democrats and I don’t like. So come on, folks, do the right thing and bow before our Democrat masters now. (Bonchie savages him very well.)
It was, of course, a foregone conclusion that the bill would pass in the Democrat-controlled House. Chip Roy, however, gets kudos for putting up one heck of a fight to stop it:
"Everything the American people is watching right now is a complete SHAM, it's a FRAUD...The American people deserve us to be here over Christmas actually FIGHTING for them!"
— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) December 23, 2022
"What you see here on the floor of the House of Representatives should make everybody ASHAMED!"
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Roy published a slightly different transcript here. It’s not as good as his speech, so I strongly recommend taking the time to listen to him. With righteous passion, he complains about the tyrannical way in which the bill was forced to a vote, he castigates the bill’s contents, and he shames these people for “destroying the United States of America.” It’s epic.
People with intact moral compasses would have felt shame upon hearing Roy’s words. Sadly, shame is an emotion alien to the establishment side of our political class (i.e., almost all of it). The representatives whom we pay to look out for our interests are partying likes it’s end times in the Roman Empire. We all know what happened when that party was finally overrun by barbarian hordes. Let’s just say that it wasn’t a good time for Roman citizens.
$1.7-Trillion Omnibus Bill Passes Senate With Support from 18 GOP Senators
(CNS News) - On Dec. 22, the U.S. Senate voted to pass a $1.7-trillion omnibus bill to fund the government for fiscal year 2023 by a vote of 68 to 29, with three senators not voting. The fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, 2023.
All 50 Democrat senators were joined by the following 18 Republican senators in voting “yes” on the spending bill:
Roy Blunt (Mo.)
John Boozman (Ark.)
Shelley Moore Capito (W. Va.)
Susan Collins (Maine)
John Cornyn (Texas)
Tom Cotton (Ark)
Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
Jim Inhofe (Okla.)
Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
Jerry Moran (Kan.)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Rob Portman (Ohio)
Mitt Romney (Utah)
Mike Rounds (S.D.)
Richard Shelby (Ala.)
John Thune (S.D.)
Roger Wicker (Miss.)
Todd Young (Ind.)
The following three GOP Senators did not vote:
John Barrasso (Wyo.)
Richard Burr (N.C.)
Kevin Cramer (N.D.)
Senators Burr, Blunt, Shelby, Ihofe, and Portman are all outgoing senators.
The full-text of the 4,155-page omnibus bill was released to lawmakers early in the morning on Dec. 20, just two days before they voted on it.
GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate have spent the past week riling up opposition to the bill and attempting to place enough pressure on the GOP to gather the “no” votes needed to block the measure.
One of these lawmakers was Representative Chip Roy (R-Texas), who led a letter signed by 13 GOP House members threatening to whip votes against the legislative priorities of any GOP senator who votes in favor of the omnibus bill.
“Kill this terrible bill or there is no point in pretending we are a united party, and we must prepare for a new political reality,” the 13 lawmakers wrote.
House Minority Leader and potential Speaker of the House in the 118th Congress Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) re-tweeted the letter, vowing that any bills from GOP senators who vote yes on the omnibus “will be dead on arrival,” if he becomes Speaker.
Senate Republicans did not appear to be swayed by this move, with Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) referring to the lawmakers’ remarks as “chest thumping and immaturity.”
Shortly after the omnibus vote was announced, Roy tweeted a list of the names of the18 GOP senators who voted “yes” on the bill.
This was the last Senate vote of the 117th Congress as the lawmakers now head home for Christmas. New members will be sworn into the 118th Congress in January 2023.
The bill now moves to the House of Representatives, where it is expected to pass sometime late in the evening on Dec. 22 or early morning on Dec. 23, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Only 5 GOP Senators Voted Against Record-Breaking $857.9 Billion Defense Budget
(CNS News) – As the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Dec. 15 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023, only five Republican senators voted against the measure.
As CNS News has reported, the NDAA passed the House of Representatives on Dec. 8 by a vote of 350-80, with 35 Republicans and 45 Democrats voting “no.”
The record-breaking defense budget totals $857.9 billion, which is $45 billion more than President Joe Biden had requested.
The NDAA passed the Senate on Dec. 15 by a vote of 83-11, with six senators not voting.
The following five GOP Senators voted against the defense budget:
-- Mike Braun (Ind.)
-- Josh Hawley (Mo.)
-- Mike Lee (Utah)
-- Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.)
-- Rand Paul (Ky.)
The following six senators, all of whom are Republicans, did not vote:
-- John Barrasso (Wyo.)
-- Roy Blunt (Mo.)
-- Richard Burr (N.C.)
-- Ted Cruz (Tex.)
-- Bill Hagerty (Tenn.)
-- Thom Tillis (N.C.)
While none of the five senators who opposed the NDAA made public statements explaining their reasons for opposing the bill, many have expressed criticism of the bill’s contents or of increased spending in general.
Senator Braun told CNS News at the Capitol last week that while he believes providing defense is “the most important thing” that Congress does, he does not “hold it sacrosanct.” He also expressed his desire to cut spending “across the board.”
On the morning after the NDAA vote, Senator Hawley tweeted, “The Senate’s defense bill ended up pretty lousy,” because it “failed to do right by our service members kicked out over the #covid vaccine,” and “was full of climate garbage.”
On Dec. 16, Senator Rand Paul published a commentary in the New York Post entitled, “It’s not just Democrats – Republicans are breaking the bank too.” In the piece, Paul claims that “big-government Republicans are really secretly tied at the hip to spendthrift Democrats.”
Paul also criticizes the final price tag of the NDAA, asking, “is adding $45 billion more to a military budget that exceeds the next 10 nations combined improving our national security?”
While the NDAA rescinds the COVID-vaccine mandate for service members, it does not reinstate any members who were discharged as a result of the mandate.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) proposed Senate Amendment 6526, which called for the reinstatement of previously discharged members due to the mandate. The amendment failed by a vote of 40-54.
The following four GOP senators joined the 50 Senate Democrats in opposing the Johnson amendment:
-- Bill Cassidy
-- Susan Collins
-- Mitt Romney
-- Mike Rounds
The NDAA now heads to the White House for President Biden’s signature.
