DISASTER

I’m going to focus on three things in this week’s blog. As always, respecting your time, I’ll try to be concise, to the point, and hopefully interesting.

First, of course, the Senate runoff yesterday in Georgia. One Republican, Kelly Loeffler, lost narrowly, and it looks like the other Republican, David Purdue, is going to lose as well, although even more narrowly. There are still a significant number of outstanding votes to be counted, but they appear to be mostly mail-in and early votes in Democratic areas. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think so.

How did this happen?  It obviously didn’t help that there was significant Republican infighting – principally between President Trump and top Georgia Republicans – specifically the Governor and the Secretary of State. “The phone call” over the weekend between the President and the Secretary of State didn’t help either. And Republicans nowadays in big races get outspent significantly by their Democratic opponents. In Georgia, each of the Republican candidates raised and spent over $60 million. A lot of money. But each of the Democratic candidates raised and spent over $100 million. Yes, that makes a difference.

What does it mean that the Democrats won the two Senate seats? Disaster. They’ll now control everything – the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. They can do whatever they want. All the things we warned about that could happen, are likely now to happen. The only thing that might restrain Democrats somewhat, is if someone like Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia is reluctant to go along with the madness. We’ll see. But again, in my opinion, this is a disaster.

Second, the new Congress was sworn in on Sunday (the 117th.) One thing you might find interesting – I am now the only Republican left from the historic 1994 Newt Gingrich, Contract with America, Republican Revolution class (out of 73 of us first elected that year.) There ARE three who were elected to the House in 1994, who have since moved to the Senate (Lindsey Graham being one of the three.)

So anyway, the new Congress has been sworn in, without a lot of the usual fanfare, since COVID restrictions limited the number of visitors who could attend, and not all Members of Congress could be sworn in at the same time in order to accommodate social distancing.

The thing I wanted to bring to your attention about the new Congress, is the drastic changes Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have made in the Rules for this Congress. They are alarming, and should strike terror in the heart of any liberty-loving American. Here are some of the most egregious changes Democrats made, from how the “People’s House” has been run for over 100 years.

The minority party in the House (currently Republicans), for over a century now have had the right to offer at least one amendment to a bill (called a motion to recommit.) The Democrats have unilaterally taken away that important right of the minority (what they fail to realize is that as a result of their arrogant action, they may well be in the minority in the House in the near future, and therefore they will be adversely impacted by their own power grab.)

The Democrats are also attempting to censor Republicans from exercising free-speech, by making it an ethics violation to share information online that Democrats deem unfounded or inappropriate – (in other words, virtually anything said on Fox News, Breitbart, etc.)

The final major change the Democrats made in the rules was to establish that the COST for left-wing policies like the Green New Deal and climate change, will no longer have to be taken into consideration. Currently, under PAYGO rules, such things would have to be offset by cuts elsewhere in the budget. No more. You thought things were bad already when it comes to trying to balance the budget? Hold onto your wallet!

The final thing I wanted to cover this week – today’s joint session of the House and Senate to formally count the votes of the Electoral College. We meet at 1 PM today in the House, and Vice President Pence will preside over the proceeding in his capacity as President of the Senate, just as Joe Biden did four years ago (ironically.)

As I’m sure you know by now, If there is an objection by both a Member of the House and the Senate, each house separately debates for up to two hours whether or not that state’s Electoral College votes should be counted or not. It’s expected that there will be a House Member who objects in at least six states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), maybe more. And it’s expected that there will be senators who object in at least three of those same states.

Where do I stand on this? I do believe that there was fraud and irregularities in a number of states. Whether it was enough to make the difference in the election, I don’t know. And since it’s been my experience in life that I learn a lot more by listening than by talking, I am reserving my judgment on how I’ll ultimately vote until I’ve studied all the available evidence, heard from my constituents on both sides of the issue, and listened closely to the debate on the floor today. Then I’ll decide.

Thank you for taking your valuable time to read my blog again this week. And I’ll see you next week.

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