The Sins of Trump

George Rebane

2024 will be a tumultuous year that will tax all of our ‘goodwill toward men’.  The world is full of wars, incipient wars, and hot spots.  In America we and much of the rest of the world will be focused on our November national election.  And embedded in the run-up to that election will be the indictments and trials of former President Trump and the impeachment and scandals of the Biden administration.  RR commenters of all stripes have circled the ‘sins of Trump’ barn innumerable times over the last couple of years.  Here, for the record, I want to enter my own take on Trump’s sins.

The 2020 national election was unquestionably fraught with irregularities that may well have affected the outcome.  As just one piece of evidence to support that we have the governors and other judicial agents in a number of important Democrat controlled swing states modifying election laws and procedures to favor Democrat candidates’ and therefore Biden’s vote counts.  All of these machinations were unconstitutional since they were done independent of the states’ legislatures or Congress contrary to what is prescribed in our Constitution - Article I, Section 4, Clause 1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing (sic) Senators.

We need go no further than this to condemn what happened in November 2020 and its aftermath.  America’s now corrupt justice system made it clear that appealing to the violation of this constitutional provision would be futile.  This has given the country’s Democrats and leftwing activists their talking point that no indictments or guilty verdicts resulted from the rightwing efforts to adjudicate the matter.  So, the election stood as confirmed by the Senate’s 6jan21 acceptance of the electoral college’s vote.  The Left’s and their lamestream media’s answer to ‘what happened on 6 January 2021?’ continues to be “The heavily armed, Trump-incited mob attack of Jan. 6, 2021, was an attack not just on the U.S. Capitol building, but also on democracy and the rule of law.”  Today every Democrat believes it was an attempted “insurrection” to overthrow the government and install a rightwing autocracy in its place.

However, the recorded facts indicate otherwise.  First, let’s be clear that the spontaneously assembled mob’s break-in to the Capitol was an unlawful act with more lawlessness by a minority of individuals when they gained access to congressional chambers and offices.  But there is no evidence that these trespassers were armed, let alone “heavily armed”.  Nor were they organized to do anything beyond possibly go to the Capitol and demonstrate their displeasure of the impending electoral college vote confirmation.  Most certainly there is no evidence that then President Trump’s speech that preambled their march down Pennsylvania Avenue contained any directions, let alone exhortations, to actually storm the Capitol and interrupt the proceedings in the Senate chamber.

All Trump asked the assembled crowd to do was to go to the Hill and protest in front of the Capitol and exhort Vice President Pence to return the electors to their respective states and then return a recertified cohort of electors to the Capitol – a perfectly legal process which many scholars maintain that Pence had the constitutional authority to do.  (The interpretation of this is so murky that Congress is now planning to pass additionally clarifying legislation to make clear the VP’s prerogatives in this process.)  There was nothing unlawful or criminal in the President’s asking his supporters for this kind of undertaking.  And again, most certainly there was no inciting the crowd into an insurrection to topple and replace our democratic form of government.  All of that has been successfully fabricated by Democrats as part of their ongoing yearslong effort to undermine Trump’s administration and destroy his political career.

The charge that President Trump criminally interfered in Georgia’s election is specious, plain and simple.  By all the available evidence Trump spoke with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger requesting him to “find 11,780 (additional) votes” that would then make him the winner in Georgia.  This request was after two previous recounts each had already reduced the margin of Biden’s victory.  It is a matter of historical record that no vote count is ever a definitive and perfectly reliable result of the actual number of votes cast for any issue/individual in a large election involving millions of voters and their votes.  The complexity of such elections is such that every recount yields a different number.  The recounts are usually halted by agreement between the contending candidates, if not by a court.  All Trump did was to request that the recount be continued in the hope that the new results would supply him the added number of votes needed to win the state.

There is nothing criminal in issuing such a request, which in this case was denied by Raffensperger and Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp, both of whom certified (by legal fiat) the results of the last recount giving the state to Biden.  Charges against Trump were trumped up later by bundling his request with subsequent criminal allegations against his supporters who, following a labyrinth of legal procedures, unsuccessfully attempted to continue the appeal to reopen the recounts.  In spite of all this, former president Trump was indicted and booked (mugshot and all) on the charge of criminally trying to overturn Georgia’s election.

Finally, we come to Trump’s New York real estate doings.  According to The Independent, “the case centres around what New York Attorney General Letitia James has described as an ‘astounding’ level of fraud and deceptive business practices over more than a decade, during which the former president and his associates ‘grossly and fraudulently’ inflated the value of his properties to obtain tax, loan and insurance incentives.”  In short, according to the newly minted real estate maven Letitia James, the former president asked too high a price for real estate that he was refinancing or selling to various established real estate professionals like banks and other New York developers.  The record and subsequent testimonies show that all participants were profitably satisfied with the transactions that involved the alleged over-valued properties – no one was harmed.

But what this really indicates is the Left’s willingness to back this know-nothing pinhead James in her previously admitted intent to nail Trump.  But the entire leftwing braintrust that formulated the basis for this indictment shows the world that they understand nothing of how markets, especially in real estate, work.  And their dogged pursuit of this attack is further proof that Democrats in general and specifically their socialist core understand nothing about market capitalism save for some Marxist inspired propaganda slogans.

In a free market the seller can put any price he wants on what he intends to sell.  It is the buyer’s responsibility to do the due diligence that will inform him about prudently accepting or rejecting the deal.  The seller will, more often than not, overprice his goods/services at the beginning of any negotiation, it was ever thus and expected.  From such leftwing machinations, supported by the legions of market distorting regulations they have already passed and proposed, the informed American voter can easily tell what the prospects are for a road to serfdom when these socialist finally fasten their autocratic grip on the country.

I end this diatribe for the record by wishing all RR readers a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2024.

Comments

[Paul Emery]

George how do you account for the over 60 legal decisions that concluded there was no frauds in the elections that involved significant numbers of votes?

"After the 2020 United States presidential election, the campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed and lost 62 lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in 9 states (including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) and the District of Columbia. Among the judges who dismissed the lawsuits were some appointed by Trump himself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_U.S._presidential_election

[Gregory]

Not the sins of Trump... the Sins of Punchy.

Forgetting all of the times he's demanded the answers to the same questions... and forgetting the answers he got the last times.

[Individual Juan]

The sins of Trump post seems to be misnamed. A more accurate description of the post would be "Apologists for Trump"

We are reminded today of all of Trump's violations of the emoluments clause. Trump brought in millions and foreign money while he was president.
And that was after only looking at four of his properties, Trump has hundreds of properties.

James Comer immediately shut that investigation down after seeing where it was going 😂😂😂😂😂

Yes, Trump has violated the Constitution yet again.

... but what about all the smoke coming out of Hunter Biden's laptop? 😂😂😂😂😂

[Scott O]

"Trump brought in millions and(sic) foreign money while he was president."

Yeah, it's exactly the same as the Biden family's deals.
Exactly.
Next Juanita will tell us that Trump used flush toilets just as Hitler did.
What a maroon.

[Gregory]

Imagine if a holder of McDonald's stock ran for President.
Billions sold.

ij 756a don't be so bloody stupid.

[Gregory]

It's been nearly seven years since Trump was immaculated as president.

Plenty of time to have brought suit and have the Supremes make a ruling... there never has been an Emoluments clause case brought before them. Never, ever.

That's the best you can do?

The Bray and Cluck show used Starbucks a few minutes ago as I did McDonalds at 929a... it's ridiculous.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 503pm - You didn't address by point about the irregularities which fraught the 2020 election.

[Scott O]

George - "You didn't address by point about the irregularities which fraught the 2020 election."

He never has and never will.
Instead it's always - "whutabout Trump"

[Individual Juan]

Scott, "Trump brought in millions and(sic) foreign money while he was president."

Yeah, it's exactly the same as the Biden family's deals.
Exactly.

So... You were saying that we should go full steam ahead on prosecuting Trump.

I agree.

Since there is no evidence against Biden we should drop that. which hunt?.

Got it

[Scott O]

Juanita - "So... You were saying that..."
Taking lessons from Paul, are we?

"Since there is no evidence against Biden we should drop that. which hunt?."
Also taking lessons from Paul regarding your ability to write correctly.

Maybe a little remedial English would help.

[Mike Ell]

Individual toilet…president Trump did not run the hotel business while he was president. His son, Eric, said all of the profits made from foreign nationals staying at the Trump properties was donated to the US treasury.
Unlike what Buydumb and family were doing, the Trump organization was providing an actual service, ya know a clean and comfortable hotel room.
I could just imagine the uproar of the TDS crowd, such as Paul and yourself, what as racist bigots the trump hotel business is if they barred foreigners from staying at their hotels.

[Individual Juan]

bunghole Mike,

I think you might have stepped in a pile of Trump.

It is good to know that I can assume MAGAs regularly contribute to the Treasury.

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html

I am sure James Comer will not need to see the cancelled check/wire transfer evidence that at least $8 Million was gifted to the Treasury to verify Eric's Twitter claims.

I mean, this is nothing like the Hunter Biden scandal where kids play on their parent's notoriety. We know that Jared was totally qualified for his job at the Whitehouse based on his resume and it was a total coincidence that the Saudis decided to let him play with a couple of $Billion after he left the Trump's Oval Orfice.

We know that money is fungible and Trump's kids earned all the money they have because of their hard work, and in no way benefited from President Daddy.

[Scott O]

"...decided to let him play with a couple of $Billion..."

Money management is a job. Jared probably is well suited to invest based on political connections. Ever notice how our Senators and Congress-critters make millions in investing with returns far above what the average person can hope to make? Clinton making a 400% return on cattle futures in one year? Remember? As long as it's Dems making those kinds of killings, it's never bothered Juanita. You may not like it, but it's legal. I'd like for Juanita to spell out how Trump altered our nation's foreign policy because of money paid to Jared. And maybe Juanita can point out where Jared failed to report millions of income to the IRS. And when did Trump claim he had no idea of any of Jared's business dealings?
The Biden family is operating a pay-to-play operation whereby our foreign policy was being sold to countries all over the place with payments coming through shell corporations. Biden has now been caught lying through his teeth about it.
And the Biden family for some strange reason doesn't seem to want to cooperate with the investigation. What are they afraid of that will be found?

[fishanthrope]

Posted by: Mike Ell | 06 January 2024 at 08:56 AM

Individual toilet…president Trump did not run the hotel business while he was president.

Rookie mistake Mike!

Since it’s jeffy it really is a case of “communal toilet” based on size considerations alone.

[Bacon and cheddar]

You can say that Trump did nothing wrong when getting his fans riled up on 1/6. What you failed (glaringly) to address is that Trump watched the riots on TV for hours and did nothing to stop them. He obviously has the power over his sheep to make them stop. But, instead, he watched them storm and loot our capitol building.

[George Rebane]

Bacon 147pm - You may have half a point there. According to Reuters, "The House of Representatives Select Committee used its eighth hearing this summer (of 2022) to detail what members said was Trump's refusal to act for the 187 minutes between the end of his inflammatory speech at a rally urging supporters to march on the Capitol, and the release of a video telling them to go home."

So you leftwingers' claiming that "Trump watched the riots on TV for hours and did nothing to stop them" turns out to be less than about an hour when you consider the time it took the protesters to march from the White House to the Capitol, get fired up for some to launch the assault (which Trump did not advocate in his speech), make it inside in sufficient numbers to cause concern, and then for Trump to make and release the video calling for the law breakers to go home. You have to remember that TV coverage of the beginning of the event in real time was spotty and delayed, and the public did not have access to the scenes released later from news cameras finally inside the Capitol, and much later seeing the security videos showing what happened inside the building.

[Individual Juan]

You can't fix stupid. From James Comer to this guy, WTF is wrong with these people, lead poisoning syndrome?
Lots more heavy smoke found???

"Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to justify his ludicrous threat to have President Joe Biden removed from the state’s electoral ballot spiraled into chaos over the most basic of questions: “How so?”
“What would then be your justification for removing Joe Biden from the ballot in Missouri. Has he engaged in your mind in some kind of insurrection?” Sanchez asked.
“There have been allegations that he’s engaged in insurrection,” Ashcroft replied. He was then met with the most dreaded predicament amongst grandstanding blowhards: a follow-up question.
“How so?” Sanchez asked, prompting Ashcroft to demand that Sanchez stop interrupting him. “You can’t say something like that and not back it up,” Sanchez countered.

“You interrupted me before I could back it up,” a flustered Ashcroft complained. “Are you scared of the truth?”

Ashcroft went on to say that “there have only been allegations” of insurrection against Biden. When pressed to specify exactly what he was talking about, Ashcroft cited statements from Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who has also threatened to have the president removed from the ballot in his own state, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He still wasn’t able to say what Biden did that could be construed as insurrection."

[Individual Juan]

link,

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/missouri-secretary-state-jay-ashcroft-flubs-biden-ballot-push-1234942700/

[Individual Juan]

More Trump sins,

"The Republican 2024 front-runner claimed gas is now selling for “5, 6, 7 and even $8 a gallon” during an interview with former Fox News host Lou Dobbs that aired Monday on LindellTV, the platform founded by MyPillow CEO and longtime Trump ally Mike Lindell.

Attorney Ron Filipkowski shared the clip of Trump’s false claim on X and a reader-added community note was soon added to the post.

It read, “GasBuddy finds not one single station in their database of ~150,000 gas stations at $8 per gallon.”

In fact, according to the American Automobile Association, the national average price on Monday was $3.077 per gallon. An AAA press release last week also noted that “like holiday decorations, gas prices are coming down.”

Welcome to the Fact Free Zone

[Individual Juan]

Apologists for Trump take note, your own party thinks Trump sucks.

"A Republican political action committee opposed to Donald Trump is taking its message straight to some of the former president’s most loyal supporters with a new spot airing on Fox News this week.

The video from Republican Accountability PAC features Trump’s own words as he egged on the mob in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, shortly before they attacked the U.S. Capitol and tried to block the certification of the 2020 election.

Running nationally on Fox News during the Haley, DeSantis, and Trump town halls on Jan. 8-10.

“Trump did this,” the ad states over footage of the assault. “He’ll do it again. He can never be president again.”

The spot also includes clips of Republican figures such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) blaming Trump for the events of Jan. 6."

[Scott O]

Idiot Juan 7:47 - A bunch of never-Trumpers from the blob do not represent "the Republican Party". You might want to check the polling numbers from actual registered Republicans.
Bill Krystal and an ex-CIA guy? Hardly the Republican Party.

[Individual Juan]

Ah yes, Trump - a gift from God.

https://youtu.be/AqWWCxo0JGA?si=cKfbqN1_y3pzj-xQ

Praise the Lord, and pass the donation basket, the pastor wants another jet.

[Gregory]

No, praise the lord and pass the ammo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVQ3ourS8BI

[Scott O]

Hey Idiot Juan - did Trump's govt go after Christians?
Biden's govt sure has.
Big difference.
Get a clue.
Money goes to where it's treated the best and Christians back the politician that treat them the best. This is apparently hard for Idiot Juan to figure out.
Not to mention that Obozo and Bite-me handed billions to the Iranian govt for them to persecute Christians.
As well as women and gays.
You lefties sure know who the good guys are. Hey - they hunt down and kill gays - let's give them billions. And whuppin' them uppity wimmin'- yeehaw, we love 'em.
Why do the Dems hand these guys money?
Answer from Idiot Juan and Paul:
whuddabout Trump?

[Individual Juan]

Cracker Barrel cracker Scotto is on a roll! :)

Why didn't Trump.gov go after all the fake tax-free "churches" springing up everywhere?

Why didn't Trump.gov decriminalize cannabis?

Iranian money was Irans to begin with. The accounts were frozen.

Democrats are about helping the less fortunate.
Republicans are about helping themselves.

[George Rebane]

History shows that Democrats are about creating the less fortunate who consume wealth, and Republicans are about enabling people to create wealth.

[Individual Juan]

"History shows that Democrats are about creating the less fortunate who consume wealth"

If that were true, Republicans would be cheerleaders for the less fortunate creating less "unfortunates", and be totally behind liberal abortion rights.

[fishanthrope]

Posted by: Individual Juan | 11 January 2024 at 12:12 PM

Democrats are about helping the less fortunate.

Wow…..that’s Keachie grade stupidity!’

[Gregory]

IJ (aka jeffy), how many potential children of yours were aborted?

Just wondering.

[Individual Juan]

Gregor, I don't think George R was referring to the likes of you or me who are college educated and financially secure as being the "less fortunate", although you are most definitely "morally superior", in your own mind at least. 😅

[Gregory]

Me? I'd perhaps cop to being immorally superior.

You, not superior in any shape or form. A bullshitter.

[Gregory]

So, IJ... you think that abortion rights are mostly for the downtrodden low income folks of color, not so much for folks of no color?

My biomom was as "white" as I am and her friend and confidante, the infamous Margaret Sanger, was also quite "white".

[Gregory]

Thinking more about George's statement, he was on firm bedrock stating Democrats being all for creating more of the poor and downtrodden.

[Scott O]

Idiot Juan - "Republicans would be cheerleaders for the less fortunate creating less "unfortunates"..."

Bingo!!!

The "less fortunate" in the US were clearly IDed decades ago (by a Democrat) as people who make poor choices in life.
The Dems celebrate the poor choices and tell us the answer is to give the folks making poor choices more and more money to continue to make poor choices with and take the money from the producers to do so.
Idiot Juan has no answer for the fact that our country has handed trillions to the poor and yet we have more poor than ever.
Should we help the poor? Of course. We should give them food and shelter and tell them if they want to get more of the same, they will have to start acting like any good citizen and work to contribute like the rest of us. They have the freedom to say no, but then they will go hungry in the cold.
If Idiot Juan doesn't like that, he and his idiot friends can buy a big bus and go around and collect these hungry folks and take them into their homes and take care of them with their own money.
Of course that will never happen. Idiot Juan - like all affluent lefties - are hypocrites and full of BS.
A comfortable life does not stem from the govt unless you believe the animals in the zoo are to be envied. A comfortable life begins with a solid, stable family unit, a desire to strive and better yourself and the opportunity to do so. It comes from within. If you don't have that, there is nothing a govt can do to change it beyond letting you enjoy the results of your free choices.
If Idiot Juan wants to start objecting to what I'm saying consider that the Dems have completely controlled California for decades and CA now has more of the nation's poor (outright and per capita) than any other state.
Yet he wants to claim that the Dems are best at helping the poor and unfortunate.
Maybe Idiot Juan should go live among the Lord's good creatures in one of CAs large cities and see how that works out.

[Scott O]

More along that same line of idiot thought:
"DEI chief claims ALL whites, males, Christians, able-bodies people and English speakers are 'privileged'"

This woman's ability to process information is gone if it ever was there in the first place.
Whatever she makes is others' hard-earned money set on fire as some sort of burnt offering to a sick and repulsive religion.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12950961/Johns-Hopkins-Medicine-DEI-chief-brands-whites-males-Christians-ENGLISH-speakers-privileged-letter.html

[George Rebane]

Re Rights and Privileges -
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2010/03/rights-and-privileges.html

[Gregory]

Gr 911p

Ixs nay on the ivilege-pay

Woke overloads the meanings of many common words... your piece from 2010 muddies these waters.

[George Rebane]

Gregory 315am - today the woke overloads have muddied the water of many common words. For 'privilege' and 'rights' my piece provides clarity in its operational definitions which can easily be existentially verified.

[Gregory]

Your "clarity" is fine for a 1960's encyclopedia, but the Woke control the classrooms today, not to mention the DEI orifices of places like Johns Hopkins.

Perhaps such classical treatments will be agained welcomed in the future but in the meantime, it's best to fight fire with fire.

[George Rebane]

Gregory 1048am - Point well taken. Then would you be good enough to provide us with today's woke-compliant definitions of 'privilege' and 'rights'?

[Gregory]

No can do. I don't speak woke like a native.

My spidey sense tells me such definitions are too white and white adjacent.

Better to steer around such steaming piles in our way:

"She further noted that privilege is “characteristically invisible to people who have it.”

“People in dominant groups often believe they have earned the privileges they enjoy or that everyone could have access to these privileges if they only worked to earn them,” she added.

“In fact, privileges are unearned and are granted to people in the dominant groups whether they want those privileges or not, and regardless of their stated intent.”

Privileges are magic. You need a priest on staff to help guide you. A priest like Dr. Golden at JH.

[George Rebane]

Gregory 1207pm - Good enough; then I'll stick with my stated definitions so that RR readers understand my use of those words and the reasonable bases for their definitions.

[Gregory]

Of course, George. I wouldn't expect any different from you.

[Individual Juan]

Barrel of Crackers Scotto, nice word salad @705pm signifying nothing.
I hope your hangover wasn't too nasty this morning.

[Don Bessee]

Why does it smell like rancid french-fries? he show trial in nyc will never survive appeal and even they know it -

While the legal analyst said that he felt "Donald Trump inflated the value of his assets by a lot," there was still "a separate question whether anyone was actually harmed, because the banks made the loans, they knew what they were doing, they got paid back.

"That's not something she said once. She said it dozens of times. She said it in writing. She fundraised off it. And she wasn't even specific. She didn't say, I'll get him for inflating his assets. At one point, she said he could be indicted for money laundering. At one point, she said -- the day after she was elected, she said, and I quote, 'we're definitely going to sue his a**. He'll know my name.'"

But back to Honig: "When you make statements like that, how can you say there's no political angle to this? You can maybe say the facts are there, but it's also political. That's Letitia James' own doing."

Even CNN's legal analyst says: “It is a fact that Letitia James campaigned for attorney general in 2018 specifically on a promise of ‘vote for me and I’ll get Donald Trump.’

…When you make statements like that, how can you say there’s no political angle to this?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/even-cnn-legal-analyst-sees-through-new-york-ag-s-political-case-against-trump/ar-AA1mRYeb?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=154b0593c2c54aa8b452497cf0010d47&ei=38

;-)

[Scott O]

Idiot Juan 7:28 - Hilarious, dude.
I can always tell when I've hit home. You can't come up with an intelligent response or even try to deny what I posted was true.
So you try to project your own drinking problems onto me. Is that really the best you can do?
Pathetic.

[Individual Juan]

Au Contraire Scotto,

as soon as you saw my post, you flipped out 😅

[Individual Juan]

Bad day at Black Rock,

Fox cancels the Cry Pillow Guy.

The sins of Trumpers come home to roost.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-kicks-mike-lindell-and-his-mypillow-ads-to-the-curb#:~:text=The%20pillow%20magnate%20claims%20Fox,hasn't%20paid%20his%20bills.

[Scott O]

Idiot Juan "as soon as you saw my post, you flipped out"

Evinced by what?
You're just posting more BS.

You understood my original post and you had no answer, so you replied with personal insult.

[Scott O]

We can go back and forth all day long, but this essay really nails our nation's problem:
https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/shattered-consensus-revisited
The very first sentence sums it up. A "good" Republican (middle of the road moderate) admits he was naive.
About our growing debt problem, Gov Daniels thought:
"...leaders, in a crunch, would step up to make those decisions and accept the necessary sacrifices."

Thought they would.. based on what?

This excellent essay fails only in its estimate of the time-line of events. For example:
"What happens when a majority of the population loses confidence in the legitimacy of the political order? Will they still send their sons and daughters into the military?"
This has already started.
The author has identified the correct train, but fails to see that it has already left the station.
The leftists that post here may gloat over such trivial events as My Pillow having their ads removed from FOX, but tragic realities are starting already to manifest themselves in ways our nation is trying to paper over.

[Individual Juan]

What happens when a majority of the population loses confidence in the legitimacy of the political order?

You forget, your ilk are in the minority.

And this is how the majority in the House spends their time,

"Steve Doocy, a co-host of "Fox and Friends," blasted the House GOP and its leadership Thursday as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) faces strong conservative backlash over a recently agreed-to spending deal.
"The Republicans in the House are in such disarray, the Speaker of the House is hanging on to his job by a thread" Doocy said on Fox's flagship morning talk show.
"Please say they're not going to go down that route again, co-host Ainsley Earhardt exclaimed."

[George Rebane]

Critical Republicans - Ever notice that Republicans are quick and free to criticize their own, and do it often when they don't agree with what the party or another Republican is proposing? (As an example consider the entries - my posts and conservative commenters - that have always appeared in these pages.) Now compare that with leftwingers criticizing the Democrats, especially in butt stupid California. It never happens.

[Gregory]

"You forget, your ilk are in the minority."

IJ 1043a

And Jeffie, you are just as deluded that your "ilk" are the majority, and possibly even that demographics is destiny.

[Scott O]

Idiot Juan - "You forget, your ilk are in the minority."
My "ilk" are the majority of producers of value.
The middle class and the wealthy are fleeing NY and CA and some are leaving the country.
So just keep gloating about how wonderful mob rule is.
The left is great at obtaining power but they have no idea how to operate a govt beyond borrowing money and spending it.

[Scott O]

"faces strong conservative backlash over a recently agreed-to spending deal."

I'm glad to see some one is willing to try to stop the madness. It takes 2 to Tango. It is just as much the fault of the other side for refusing to cut spending.