Is It Time To Purge The Right?
My good friend Congressman Chip Roy was one of the few Republicans who attempted to hold his own side accountable for the massive government spending bill that passed on Friday. The bill prevented a government shutdown but increased the size and scope of government after it was passed through the two-seat majority House.
I don’t think he’d mind me saying that he texted me over the weekend perturbed that I had settled into the position that there’s not much we can do given a two seat majority. After reflecting on this, I think he may be right.
When conservatives negotiated for Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker of the House, they did so by extracting significant concessions from the moderates. The transactional nature of McCarthy’s leadership along with relentless pressure from principled conservatives like Chip Roy and others resulted in tangible wins for those of us on the right.
When McCarthy was ousted by the ethically challenged gentleman from Florida, the moderates wrote off all of the conservatives and went back to their nominally right-of-center position. Chip’s point is that if the conservatives wait for this super-majority of fellow conservatives, the time will likely never come. It’s time to fight now. But, right now, conservatives are not showing up. They are not organized. They are distracted by shiny objections. They are willing to say we only have a two-seat majority and are not even contemplating how to change the dynamic now with outside conservative movement pressure. In fact, I dare say, a lot of the conservative movement is willing to cash in on outrage over culture wars as we run off a fiscal cliff.
On this Holy Monday when Jesus cleansed the Temple by throwing out the money changers nearly 2,000 years ago, I think it is time to cleanse the conservative movement. Watch:
Matt Gaetz is not the problem with the Republican Party. The problem is that the GOP has far too many members overly concerned with how the press, the mainstream media in particular, will portray them. The media loves bi-partisanship, but it bi-partisanship that has resulted in $35 Trillion dollars in debt with a yearly deficit of $2 Trillion dollars. It’s the by-partisan war machine that wants to continue to send money to Ukraine and prop up a corrupt regime that is only in place because the U.S. wanted their guy - thanks Victoria Nuland - and staged a color revolution. Bi-partisanship has failed. At least Gaetz believes in something. You might not like his tactics, but he has a North Star and he’ll reach it. The establishment GOP is going to need to come to the realization that their time is just about up,
And they call the Democrat Party the big tent, but with only one idea. Republican's actually have the big tent and a lot of ideas... a bunch of ideas... some different ideas.... maybe of a handful of different ideas... and can't get a long because big money is in the way.