This past Sunday marked 100 days until the upcoming midterm elections. We always seem to say that this is the most important election in history (or some equivalent of that), and whereas I can’t say that is necessarily true this time, this election is nonetheless quite important.
Although the presidency is not up for grabs, both the House and the Senate are. Dems have controlled the Senate for the last two years, and the House for the last four. And I would argue that they’ve done a lot of damage during their recent monopoly on power.
Inflation is at a 40 year high due to the Democrats’ profligate spending and counterproductive energy policies. Our southern border is a shambles, and illegal aliens are overrunning the country like never before. Crime is on the rise because of lax enforcement, defunding police policies, and left-wing Democrat-installed prosecutors and judges who won’t enforce the law. And our foreign policy projection has been one of weakness and retreat, starting with the debacle of a pullout from Afghanistan.
The Democrats’ latest contribution to the undoing of our country was the deal announced late last week between Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin. Democrats call it the Inflation Relief Act, but it would be more accurately called the Recession Extension Act.
This is, of course, nothing new for the Democrats – naming bills exactly the opposite of what they actually do in order to fool the public. For example there was a $2 trillion so-called COVID Relief Bill that only spent 9% on actual COVID relief. And who can forget their proposed Disinformation Governance Board (which sounded a lot like a 1984 Orwellian Ministry of Truth), fortunately which was dropped like a hot potato when the public learned what the devious Democrats were up to.
Rather than relieve us from inflation, the Democrats’ cooked-up scheme would in all likelihood drive up prices, rather than reduce them. Why? Well because their terrible bill would raise taxes by $300 billion, and add $370 billion in new spending, principally on Green New Deal stuff.
Instead of inflation-causing Democrat policies, we ought to be, in my view, doing the following: reining in the out-of-control spending; encouraging energy production and energy independence once again; ending global COVID restrictions; encouraging, not discouraging through excessive unemployment payments, people going back to work; aggressively dealing with our broken supply chain; cutting taxes; and reducing, not increasing, regulations.
But in order to make progress in any of these areas, it’s critical that Republicans take back the House and the Senate in the fall elections. I feel quite confident that we are going to take back the House. The Senate is a bigger challenge.
I am, of course, focused principally on holding the First Congressional District of Ohio. As a result of redistricting, looking at the Trump versus Biden numbers, it became the toughest Republican-held seat outside of California. Biden would have defeated Trump in it by 8 1/2 points.
Nancy Pelosi and all the left-wing groups know this, so they will be spending millions of dollars trying to replace me with my leftist opponent. We can’t let that happen. We don’t need to match the Democrats dollar for dollar in this race, but we do need to have enough to get our message, the truth, out. So if you could help by making a contribution to my campaign, I’d really appreciate it.
You can contribute online or you can send a check to Chabot for Congress, 5750 Given Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45243. I can assure you that I will continue to fight for the values we share.
Thanks again, and I’ll see you next week.