Michael10

McCarthy and McConnell both folded like a cheap suit, party before country, party above the people. The republican party has become a clear and present danger to the health of this Republic and equal freedom for all Americans



Arthur Delaney
Thu, April 21, 2022, 10:20 AM
WASHINGTON ― At first, the top Republicans in Congress talked tough about Donald Trump after the then-president incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) privately said he would tell Trump to resign, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he believed Trump’s behavior warranted impeachment, according to a new book by two reporters at The New York Times.

In the weeks following the deadly insurrection at the Capitol, McCarthy and McConnell publicly blamed Trump for the attack, but both stopped short of saying he should be removed from office. The newly reported comments make it all the more remarkable that neither man ultimately made a serious effort to stand up to Trump or hold him accountable.

“What he did is unacceptable,” McCarthy reportedly told his leadership team on Jan. 10, during a conversation in which he also said he would tell Trump to resign. “Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it.”

Three days later, McCarthy had evidently changed his mind.

In a Jan. 13 House floor speech, McCarthy said that Trump “bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,” but said he shouldn’t be impeached. Instead, McCarthy called for a “fact-finding commission.”

One week later, McCarthy reversed himself again, saying he didn’t believe Trump “provoked” the riot. Then in May, McCarthy announced that he opposed the fact-finding commission he’d previously supported.

McCarthy’s office denied to the Times that he ever said he would push for Trump’s resignation. The leader has sought to placate the ex-president in order to maintain enough support in the Republican conference to become speaker if Republicans win the House in this year’s midterm elections.

In a statement on Thursday, McCarthy called the new reporting “totally false and wrong.”

McCarthy paired his denial of the story with praise for Trump: “The past year and a half has proven that our country was better off when President Trump was in the White House,” McCarthy said, adding that the corporate media profits from political intrigue.

McConnell, for his part, reportedly told associates in private that if Trump’s behavior wasn’t impeachable, he didn’t know what would be.

In public, McConnell forcefully denounced Trump that January, calling his actions “a disgraceful dereliction of duty” and saying it was obvious Trump incited the riot. But McConnell still voted to acquit him of the impeachment charge for “incitement of insurrection” on a technicality.

The following month, McConnell said he’d support Trump for president in 2024 if he won the nomination.

McConnell’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this article.

steve66613

It appears that McCarthy and McConnell reviewed the totality of the situation and came to a rational, valid and sane decision.

Michael10

It appears to me they cowered down to party politics, both made public comments then tried to worm their ways out. If you can't see the danger is this type separatists politics and selective morals for party than there's no use posting with you, you're beyond reason.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

So this story is important enough to post two of them………very Rumi-ish, this was one of his favorite ways to relieve his TDS! Find a story and create multiple threads using different sources !

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Talk about selective morals……..remember these? How dangerous were these?……

https://insidesources.com/liberals-in-general-and-democrats-in-specific-have-lost-any-pretense-of-a-moral-compass/

You see it day after day. The mainstream media falling all over itself in an attempt to bury conservatives and the Republican Party for being wrong and out-of-touch with the American public on every issue of importance. Every utterance of Donald Trump is examined. Marco Rubio is made to somehow appear a little sleazy for assisting his brother-in-law, a convicted drug felon, get a license to sell real estate. The drumbeat never ceases.

All the while, the MSM pays scant attention to the recently announced polling numbers that showed the lowest percentage of voters in the 65-year history of the Gallup Poll self-identifying as Democrats (29 percent). It would appear a good idea to examine some of what ails our nation’s oldest party.

From where I sit, I believe the cold, hard reality that the Democrats have lost any semblance of a moral compass is more to blame than any position on a particular issue. Yes, the current President has largely been a failure at home and abroad using any logical basis to evaluate his tenure. It is also true none of this slows Democrats and liberals from lecturing Republicans and conservatives. Other than the demand that whatever Democrats and liberals say is good and right at any given point (thus allowing for more flip-flops than a fish on the beach), our benevolent betters have no set of enduring principles to bind them together.

The total demise of any moral compass gained its primacy during the two terms of Bill Clinton. Time after time, the Clintons (and their supporters) required the rest of us to treat something that had the slimmest of possibilities and plausibility the same as something that was actually true. The whole liberal rulebook on sexual misconduct was thrown into the fire.

Think back, painful as that might be, for a minute. For years we were told that it was impossible for there to be consensual sex any time there was a superior-subordinate nature to the relationship. Then, Slick Willie had his affair with an intern, and suddenly this was no longer the case. One female reporter for Time Magazine (there is no way to call this individual a journalist) famously intoned that she would be more than happy to perform oral sex on the President, if that was required to assure “a woman’s right to choose” had been protected.

Way back in 2008, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton insisted they believed in traditional marriage, coupled with a demand we believe them. Today, they argue that anyone who has that same position is guilty of pure hatred.

Not so long ago, Hillary Clinton strongly opposed illegal immigration. Now, she believes that term should not even be used and is opposed to the deportation program being conducted by the Obama Administration.

This past summer Mrs. Clinton tried to peddle the idea that the use of a private server for her email while Secretary of State had not compromised our security, that it did not involve classified material. Never mind that her use of a private server totally disregarded the rules, the number of messages containing classified material has reached more than a thousand (and we are still counting). The most recent revelation contains her giving written instruction on how to pass along material with classified material in it. With a straight face, she claims her intent was just the opposite of what the words on the page state. Again, let’s just pretend what I want to be true is true.

Most famously, Hillary Clinton said that women who accuse men of sexual misconduct deserve to be “believed, trusted, and supported.” This comes from a woman married to a serial offender. When questioned on it, she glibly said women “deserve to be believed until they don’t deserve to be believed.” Funny, not even this much was the case when it involved her husband. No, it was fine and dandy to call Paula Jones “trailer park trash.”

It might well be true that conservatives and Republicans hold too fast to our basic principles and views in some instances where a little flexibility might result in advancing the cause without compromising away what is really important.

For liberals in general, and Democrats in specific, they have the opposite problem. They will say or do whatever is the liberal end point for what the public will accept at any given point in time. History indicates that translates into a willingness to say or do anything so long as it contributes to their gaining or maintaining power.

It can seem to be impossible that liberals are simultaneously guilty of being unyielding and rigid on every matter under the sun and having no moral compass, no real principles. Yet, it is precisely the case. While liberals and Democrats lurch from one position on an issue to another position in complete and direct conflict with the previous position, they do it without hesitation or blushing. They claim whatever their position is on that particular day to be the only reasonable or morally acceptable one. And, everything is a moral issue.

Nothing encapsulates this behavior any better than how President Obama and his Administration argued for ObamaCare. First, he wagged his finger at those who insisted the individual mandate was a tax, saying that was untrue and nothing more than a scare tactic. Then, after the legislation passed, opponents took the Administration to court only to hear the Justice Department insist the courts had no jurisdiction to rule on the individual mandate because it was, you guessed it, a tax. After that, the Supreme Court upholds the Constitutionality of ObamaCare in part because they rule the individual mandate is a tax. Finally, after the ruling, defying logic and gravity, the President’s chief spokesman claims that the Administration still believes the individual mandate is not a tax. Who can even attempt to have a serious discussion with people who behave in this manner? It was not some lawyer from nowhere who argued the individual mandate was a tax, it was the President’s own Justice Department. Of course, at every turn, the President and his Administration acted with total disdain towards anyone opposing them, exhibiting a self-righteous attitude only a liberal could tolerate.

There is only one problem with what liberals in general and Democrats in specific are doing. Their lack of any consistent set of principles, their lack of a true moral compass, is seen with keen clarity by the 71 percent of Americans who do not self-identify as Democrats. More and more, this huge majority is turning its back on the Democratic Party. It’s time for even the mainstream media to wake up and smell this coffee.

Michael10

The big problem here is the GOP thinks everyone should walk their line, talk their talk and bow down to all their rules Whereas the majority of Democrats I know could care less how you live your life as along as you do it within the law. Republicans ignore laws they don't like and cheer on those who would break those laws they hold them up as a savior for their cause. Republicans have no solid ground to stand on when it comes to morals and certainly don't stand for anything associated with individual rights. You ban words, people who are different, books, teachers, personal responsibility for acts of violence and ignore proven facts and my the good Lord help this country if they are allowed to prevail

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Give me an exact law that we ignore! Exactly what words do we ban! Which people do we ban! You threw out a whole lot of BS………now back it up!

Michael10

Plotting to over through an Election, it was planned and then backed by all you GOP zombies
DeSantis just passed the don't say guy law in Florida.

The whole LGBG community, they don't think like me but they are American citizens and should be treated equally

Florida’s Department of Education has banned 54 mathematics textbooks from classroom instruction, saying they feature prohibited topics,

Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, circulated an ad in which a white woman calls for Virginia public schools to ban classroom discussions of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved.
And on and on and on.

You people have lost the will to live together as a social society and want things your way or no way and if that don't work force it down everyone else's throats.