By DEXTER DUGGAN
In the waning days of Democratic control of the U.S. House, some Republican leaders seemed eager to provide support for Dem goals instead of laying down markers for a new House GOP majority in 2023.
With a deep bow to the entrenched political establishment that GOP citizen-activists find so repellent, 12 Republican senators gave their blessing to all 50 Democrat senators’ united support for a bill further attacking traditional values which is misnamed the “Respect for Marriage Act.”
The bill is to return to the House for a final-passage vote before Joe Biden signs it.
National conservative activist Charlie Kirk said on his November 29 radio program that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) could have stopped the Republicans from supporting the bill if he wanted.
After the midterm elections, McConnell easily was voted by his GOP Senate colleagues to be their leader once again — despite his image of GOP passivity and deal-making with cunning Democrats.
The conservative-values Federalist website posted that “the legislation would enable LGBT activists, as well as the highly political Department of Justice, to use the legal system as a weapon to target and harass religious Americans who believe firmly in God’s definition of marriage.”
It said Republicans who voted for the bill were Senators Roy Blunt, Mo.; Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, N.C.; Shelley Moore Capito, W.Va.; Susan Collins, Maine; Cynthia Lummis, Wyo.; Rob Portman, Ohio; Mitt Romney, Utah; Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, Alaska; Joni Ernst, Iowa, and Todd Young, Ind.
On another topic, The Federalist reported on November 30 that Congressional Republican leaders were working with Democrats to pass a massive omnibus spending bill before the end of 2022 as Democrats hope to lock in their spending priorities.
The Federalist story said, “If Congress passes the bill before the end of the year, any and all leverage an incoming Republican House majority would have in securing critical spending priorities would be shelved until the end of 2023.”
The story added: “The decision by Republican leadership to throw in with their Democrat colleagues’ spending shenanigans is the second slap in the face to conservative voters this week after 12 GOP senators crossed party lines on Tuesday [November 29] to help Senate Democrats pass the wrongly named ‘Respect for Marriage Act,’ which seeks to codify same-sex marriage into federal law.”
Open Rebellion
Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s lawlessness in throwing open the borders reportedly finally was being met by some federal air marshals’ rejection of their being reassigned to duties on the ground as nannies for illegal immigrants.
I’ve asked in the past when would federal workers rise up against bad Catholic Biden perverting their roles of border protection into becoming processing agents who simply facilitate the Biden-mandated tsunami of unauthorized entry.
The Washington Examiner’s well-sourced homeland-security reporter, Anna Giaritelli, posted on November 30 that air marshals were rebelling against being told to leave their vital in-flight work so that they could fill in for the undermanned Border Patrol.
“Just this week, air marshals pulled from planes and sent to the border were ‘heating up sandwiches,’ driving immigrants in custody to the hospital and waiting inside for hours on hospital watch, and effectively babysitting adults who are already in confined spaces, Londo said,” Giaritelli wrote.
Londo is David Londo, president of the Air Marshal National Council.
Giaritelli reported, “U.S. air marshals are planning to stage an open rebellion against the Biden administration over a plan that would strip 99 percent of commercial flights from federal protection as people take to the skies during the busiest time of the year for air travel.”
Unfortunately, Border Patrol agents reportedly increasingly were killing themselves in frustration over lawless Biden’s open-borders mandates. A person could argue that a far better use of their energies would have been spent in campaigning to remove Biden and his far-left administration from power.
On September 28, Giaritelli had posted at the Examiner: “Frustration among agents in the Border Patrol has increased over the past 18 months as illegal immigration arrests spiked and agents were forced to release more than one million illegal immigrants into the interior of the country rather than remove them.
“Due to the volume of people illegally entering, Border Patrol redirected half of its agents to transport, process, and watch over people in custody,” she wrote.
As of September 2022, 11 Customs and Border Protection employees had died by suicide this year, she wrote, although other issues also could have been a significant factor, as well as loss of their identity as border protectors.
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