By DEXTER DUGGAN
Just after Republicans knocked Democrats for three or four loops in the November 2 elections — to the surprise of all the best-informed left-wing know-it-alls — 13 GOP members of the U.S. House needlessly rushed to give radical Democrat House Squeaker Nancy Pelosi and radical Prez Joe Biden the majority they needed on November 5 for his $1.2 trillion Dem wish list of pork squandering.
When Republicans around the nation had proved how attractive their party is to more voters, GOP dissidents in D.C. rushed in to pour cold — in fact, freezing — water on the celebration. Hey, winter’s coming.
This small number of Republicans didn’t try tough bargaining to extract from desperate loser Biden something the American people really wanted and deserved — like, say, restoring a secure Southwest border, or opening up American energy access again instead of imploring OPEC for more oil.
Conservative national radio talker Sean Hannity asked on November 10, why is it okay for Biden to beg OPEC for fossil fuel in order to reverse Americans’ soaring gas prices that Biden caused, but not okay to obtain it from the United States’ own energy-producing states that would love to provide it?
Three months earlier, 19 of the 50 Republicans in the Senate joined upper-chamber Democrats in also voting for this Biden boondoggle, passing the bill with a solid 69-30 majority. GOP big names voting yes included Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, Chuck Grassley, Mitt Romney, and Lisa Murkowski.
By so doing, these senators gave Biden momentum for his agenda, on spending and otherwise. Why say no to the bleary presidential master of national destruction when maybe there’s some pork for their own states?
Shortly after he took up residence at the White House, Biden had some left-wing historians assure him of his looming greatness. Why, another FDR or Lyndon Johnson. That prophecy looked pretty pathetic already, but who knows? Maybe some pathetic Republicans can rescue Biden from his own doom.
On November 8, a few days after the House surrender, conservative Cong. David Schweikert (R., Ariz.) told Phoenix talk-radio host James T. Harris (KFYI, 550 AM) that construction-materials lobbyists sought approval for Biden’s $1.2 trillion, even though only about 10 percent of it was for roads and bridges, because “at least we’ll make money” from some of it.
After the House vote, national conservative commentator Quin Hillyer told The Wanderer: “Those 13 Republicans didn’t just vote for a bloated bill mislabeled ‘infrastructure,’ but also helped Democratic radicals save the chance of passing an astonishingly reckless social-spending boondoggle that will cost $4 trillion and send inflation skyrocketing.
“It was an utterly irresponsible vote by the 13, and bad for the American people,” Hillyer said.
The Los Angeles Times posted on November 5, “While the infrastructure bill makes up only a portion of Biden’s agenda, it marks a huge new infusion of money.”
The bill passed in the House 228 to 206, with six Democrat defections. It would have failed without the 13 Republicans’ backing. GOP leadership urged that they reject it.
Also answering a Wanderer question about the 13 House Republicans, conservative GOP political strategist Constantin Querard said: “When you look at the list of Republicans who voted for the bill, there aren’t any real surprises. . . . Several are on their way out of Congress, several from New York state, where they’ll be seeing lots of the spending, etc. None are reliable conservatives.
“That said, for those in office, they didn’t suddenly start voting this way, they’ve been doing it for years and their districts have re-elected them, so they may largely escape the consequences of voting for the bloated spending package this time as well,” Querard said.
Freedom Is Being Killed
Northern California conservative commentator Barbara Simpson told The Wanderer on November 9: “Staunch Republicans must be tearing their hair out after the betrayal by the House and Senate members of their own party who voted for Biden’s destructive infrastructure bill.
“Those votes made it possible for the bill to be approved and, if indeed it goes into effect as it stands, Americans will not recognize their country,” Simpson said. “They call it ‘pork barrel.’ It’s that and more! If Biden gets his way, he will change the role of the individual citizen and the power of the state over him.
“Every single day of the Biden administration, freedom in this country is being killed and, unfortunately, too many people are blind to it, especially Republicans who are willing to be executioners. Heaven help us,” she said.
As if Democrat leaders’ arrogance wasn’t already familiar to voters, such as Vice President Kamala Harris’ clueless cackle, Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughed at a question on November 5 about boosting American oil production, calling it “hilarious.”
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson reported on November 8 that the Biden administration was eyeing shutting down another vital pipeline, too.
Meanwhile, the Washington Examiner posted a column on November 10 saying, “As people are getting whacked with runaway inflation, the Biden administration is setting up a second punch by imposing the highest number of costly federal regulations in five years.”
Will Americans really be stuck with continuation of Biden’s huge spending if Republicans sweep into congressional majorities next November? After all, open-borders Biden had voided contractual obligations to keep building the border wall and just left construction materials lying on the ground, rusting.
Would Republicans just wave their hands helplessly and say they can’t do anything to stop Biden’s waste because, after all, he really wanted it?
Putting less than 7 1/2 gallons of unleaded regular into my small car in Phoenix on November 10, with a 10-cent-a-gallon shopper’s discount, cost me just over $28, nearly twice as much as in 2020. I didn’t find that “hilarious.” Nor does anyone else suffering from Biden’s intentionally inflicted roaring inflation at every turn.
Donald Trump’s former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, MD, posted at the Washington Examiner on November 11 about why energy costs have risen so much and so quickly.
In part, he said, “Biden has implemented regulatory requirements related to carbon use across a host of industries, drafting the securities and finance world into his attempt to control the weather. Indeed, the administration and its ideological allies here and abroad have signaled that they will do everything in their power to make using fossil fuels prohibitively expensive.
“All of this restricts supply and inflates the cost of energy production — a cost ultimately borne by the citizens of this nation,” Carson said, adding:
“As we pursue policies that restrict coal, natural gas, and oil production based upon the unfulfilled promise that green energy would replace them, the result is that energy, when we need it, is not readily available. Renewable energy sources still require massive subsidies and mandates, which make them more expensive.”
It appears that widespread voter anger so evident against Democrats in this November’s elections is bound to carry over to worse losses for this cruel party next fall.
However, a potential cloud on the horizon against a GOP sweep would be the possibility that the cognitively impaired president would have sneaked enough illegal aliens into the U.S. interior on secret night flights, as he desperately is trying to do now, and given them fraudulent ballots.
Would Republicans tolerate this, or insist that they won’t let their nation be stolen by coup plotters?
After all, even New Yorkers soundly rejected some initiatives on November 2 that would have expanded so-called ballot access. The left-wing UK Guardian was puzzled at this “stunning result,” but some online feedback said Empire State voters didn’t intend to approve initiatives that would allow illegal immigrants to cast ballots.
A Guardian story said, “None of the measures came anywhere close to passing. Republicans waged a well-funded and aggressive campaign to oppose the amendments, a move that caught supporters of the proposal off-guard. . . .
“The failed ballot measures mean that for now, New York will remain in a category with conservative states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, all of which require voters to give an excuse if they want to cast a mail-in ballot,” the Guardian added, no doubt only dimly aware that universal mail balloting is a favorite Dem fraud tactic.
Injection Tyranny
The dystopian future being crafted for everyone by Democrat leaders was limned in a Wall Street Journal story posted November 10 on the Dem-dominated Not-So-Golden State. The Medical Board of California, the Journal said, is “increasingly scrutinizing” — hmm, which suspicious individuals?
Abortionists? Assisted-suicide doctors? Aborted baby-parts sellers? Planned Parenthood? Nah.
“As some California parents scramble for ways around a new COVID-19 vaccine mandate for schools,” the newspaper said, “the state is increasingly scrutinizing doctors issuing suspicious medical exemptions.”
Gotta crack down on any medically accredited dissenters from Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s injection tyranny.
Whatever happened to left-wingers’ sacred right to arrive at decisions about your own body with your personal physician? Oh, that only counts when some ill-informed teenager wants an abortionist she has never met before to kill someone else’s little body.
On November 6, “SoCal Independent” (that’s a contraction of Southern California, for the uninitiated) tweeted a thread of why he (or she?) was glad to be departing for Texas, after living in West LA for five years. The weather won’t be as great, but he won’t have “the feeling that you’re being watched, monitored, analyzed for dissent.”
SoCal Independent said, “My voting behaviors have shifted significantly in the past 20 months. Don’t worry about me turning Texas blue. I am single-issue voter at this point — mandates — and there is only one party rallying against them.”
Plus: “I don’t have any intentions of changing Texas or bringing sociocultural pieces of California with me. It’s a new start and will be treated as such. I love and admire Texas culture.”
Insufferable Democrat behavior may drive some voters to change their preferences, but Republicans working hard to win new voters is important. On November 4 national conservative radio host Charlie Kirk read some remarks by truck driver Ed Durr, the Republican New Jersey giant-killer who had little money but did lots of work to defeat powerful Democratic State Senate President Stephen Sweeney.
Durr’s success wasn’t due to commissioning a study by a think tank.
Kirk told his audience that Durr said he walked on his campaign to talk to voters for four to eight hours a day even though he didn’t like the weather, his feet and ankles hurt, and he had a few volunteers as helpers.
He is, however, about 20 years younger than Biden. On November 4 the hosts of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton national radio program recalled how the weight of the presidency had visibly aged younger men like Bill Clinton, so how is the office treating the elderly, feeble Biden?
Well, maybe one factor is how hard Republicans might make Biden work to win what he wants. If they roll over like the House 13 or the Senate 19, he’ll just have more time for naps.
Biden attracts shame like a magnet. When he was asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on November 3 about a Wall Street Journal story that his administration might pay $450,000 per person to separated illegal aliens, the prez snapped that this was a “garbage” report that’s “not gonna happen.”
When the American Civil Liberties Union quickly corrected Biden about what was under consideration, he spun around and had press spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre say he was “perfectly comfortable” with huge payouts, which were, in fact, supposedly a way to save taxpayers’ money.
However, conservative commentator Carol Platt Liebau contrasted this fortune for lawbreaking aliens with the fact that legal immigrants aren’t handed such a windfall, nor are the children of U.S. service members who are separated forever from their parents.
Grandpa Dementia’s Victory
Conservative activist Ned Ryun posted at the American Greatness site on November 7 that Republican help to pass Biden’s $1.2 trillion bill means “things like the $213 billion ‘allocated for retrofitting two million homes and buildings to make them more sustainable,’ whatever that means. Or the $20 billion for racial equity and environmental justice.
“Or the mileage tax, as in yes, they want to explore taxing you for every mile you drive in your car,” Ryun said.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of California, couldn’t even hold all his Republicans together to defeat this waste, Ryun lamented, observing:
“All he had to do was get his caucus to toe the line and vote no on a bill that is so obviously bad, has almost nothing to do with infrastructure, and accelerates us into the coercive socialism of the Green New Deal — and he couldn’t even do that. In a week when Republicans were flying high, McCarthy utterly failed and gave Grandpa Dementia a significant victory.”
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