I get a lot of flak for saying Texas is the next Georgia when it comes to professional politics and the ideological shift from Red to Blue. However, the grief matters not, because the reality of Texas turning left is very real even if Texans don’t want to admit it; here’s yet another datapoint. The only two GOP congressmen who did not support the reformed rules package were both from Texas. Representative Tony Gonzales voted against it, and Rep. Dan Crenshaw, did not vote.
Overall, the House of Representatives passed the rules package Monday night 220-213 with relatively little drama. It was the first order of business for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s new majority on the first day of the 118th legislative session. The 55-page package includes most of the concessions McCarthy made to the conservative caucus.
The new rules include the motion to vacate provision, allowing just one member to make a motion to remove the House speaker – one of the top conservative demands that will keep McCarthy in check.
WASHINGTON DC – The House rules plan that amounted to Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s first legislative victory on Monday night brings much bigger consequences than 55 pages suggest — it will shape the chamber’s operations and what bills can win approval over the next two years.
Adoption of the rules package is a routine step in setting up any new Congress, but what is traditionally seen as a “housekeeping” issue will effectively determine how Republicans can govern the chamber. That’s why the rules measure was the centerpiece of high-stakes negotiations between McCarthy and the crop of rebellious conservatives who kept from the gavel for much of last week, talks that started just after the House was called for Republicans in November.
[…] At the heart of the rules push by rank-and-file conservatives, including many in the Freedom Caucus, is a desire to shape a more inclusive legislative process that concentrates less power with leadership. To that end, they have secured promises from leaders that aren’t formally written down in the rules, such as allowing more amendments to be considered on the floor and more widely distributing committee positions. (more)
We have a few more election cycles to stop the arc of history from repeating itself. However, it is best to be prepared just in case…. Because if the slow descent into controlled chaos and big government dependency continues, the more self-sufficient you are – the longer you will be able to retain a freedom lifestyle of familiar reference.
Stay gray and remember, the potato alliance grows underground and gains multiple eyes in sunlight.
There is a reason why Austin has been infected for decades.
All states have been corrupted at some level for decades and now it’s all right in the open and isn’t the saying in Austin “keep it weird”
Or as I like to say, “Keep the weird in Austin.”
Republicans are not conservative anymore. Never were. They were posers who were liberal. Now it’s out in the open.
MAGA is conservative. Trump is conservative. Together they ARE the Republican party. Establishment Republicans are walking dead zombines—their supposed “moderate” constituency exists only in their imagination. There is no moderate Republican constituency. The beltway bandits are walking dead. They don’t want to admit it but MAGA rules!!!
Trump and maga are not part of the Republicans party
Nah, ship ’em off to San Francisco.
Well, it is nice to have all these misfits corralled in one place, Austin, SF, Mpls, Seattle, Portland etc.
Or my favorite, ” I never knew a creek had water until I left Texas.
Liberty or Death.
You said the magic “A” word.
There’s also a magic “H” word.
And, magic “D” word.
And, the entire border region that the GOP has to pander to.
I believe Portland, OR coined the term. Trust me, you don’t want that kind of weird.
Unfortunately Austin went from weird to woke years ago. Even the old lefty hippies have moved out of the city.
College towns are all infected with The Liberal Illness. And the artsy-fartsy types that make Austin interesting with funky restaurants, bike trails, art, etc. tend to be owned/run by libtards. Goes with the territory unfortunately. When I was at UT in the 80’s is wasn’t nearly as bad, so it’s definitely a “progressive” disease (pun intended).
College towns would not be so infected if one went after the commie tenured professor class with extreme prejudice and/or defunded the public colleges.
We can cut out the worst departments. No need for hyphenated-studies. Focus on stuff that makes us competitive. Engineering, hard sciences, accounting. There will always be a few Liberal Arts colleges for the actual scholars of obscure ancient history, etc.
just defund them…stop giving federal loans for useless degrees with no hope of payback…..they use the MAP system to FORCE students through those same classes to help subsidize them by requiring “Diversity and Sexism” instruction as a part of academic study even in the STEM fields
i used to live in Silicon Valley in the 90s. I was in the employee benefit business so I called on many of these high tech companies, some that were just beginning and some that were established but most were paying their employees exorbitant amounts of money for doing nothing. Anyway because of the high taxes in California even then a lot of those companies decided to move to Austin to avoid the CA taxes. Unfortunately they brought their very liberal employees with them and they are well established now,
they are not liberal. They are leftist!
Austin hasn’t been weird in 15 years.. Austin in currently known as “Bigger Than San Fran” that’s not a complement.. Used to love to go hang out with my cousins, see the bats, shop, play in the river and hike the hills.. Now we all meet up two counties East to play .. The current state of Austin is nasty, it’s been californicated
That used to be what they said about Portland and look at it now that it’s a cesspool.
Austin was great to live in during the 80s. People were actually liberal, not fascists appropriating the name. They were nice and respectful of military, and believe me, I’ve lived in places that weren’t.
We left in ’88, and when we came back in ’94, the difference was noticeable. By 2000, it was unrecognizable, sigh.
Portland’s motto as well. Weird= communist.
Me too
1 cent up-sell for premium. Outrageous!
I remember 24¢ Reg. Gas With Full Service.
I remember when I was about 10yrs. old, we were going to mow the yard and my Mother gave me a gas can and a dime to walk to the gas station at the end of the road to get gas for the mower. This would have been about 1968.
I sometimes tell almost exactly the same story, except it was my dad who gave me the dime and the gas can.
I must be older; it was 19 cents for regular when I started driving.
Lol! I remember asking the attendant for 25 cents of regular for my VW Bug.
I remember gas at 14 cents a gallon regular back in 69, back then a handful of loose change could get you a full tank of gas. Minimum wage was $1.60/hour, in todays money that would probably be $14/hour. Inflation is not your friend and neither is government that sez they are just trying to help you.
In 1964 silver was about $1.30 an ounce; today silver is about $23.85 an ounce. so is this saying minimum wage in 1964 was about $1.50 an hour?
$1.15 but it was higher in some individual states
gas wars, I remember 13 cent a gal… Corpus Christi TX, early 60’s
I pumped gas for .25/gal., including checking the oil and washing the windshield while the gas pumped. Great job in those days to meet chicks.
Pumping gas was one of the first services to go self serve.
and Green or Blue Chip stamps given for each fill-up!
cigarettes .25 a pack. You could also buy 3 for a nickel.
Don’t get trapped in nostalgia.
Things aren’t going back.
Get ready for what’s to come.
The facts on this sign alone has got me mentally prepared for whats to come. Its the good people who still believe in the manufactured hoax pandemics that im concerned about.
This is the Tyranny of the federal government.
Exactly
Fond memories are not entrapments. They’re merely temporary comfort zones:) Sort of like Libs “safe zones” without the stuffed animals and coloring books… The difference is, most of us don’t take up permanent residence in our memories. We just pull them out from time to time and then tuck them away again.
Part of getting “ready for what’s to come” is being able to envision what life used to be like and striving towards that. Won’t happen in my lifetime but might for my grandchildren.
Sometimes I just need a break from the evil that is determined to destroy us.
Then I return to reality and pick up my cross and carry on, a little stronger for the break.
Beautifully put, Val…
Amen, Val… 😘
The nostalgia simply hardens my resolve and ices my anger to accomplish what must be faced and done… It is an excellent motivator.
Talking about nostalgia and what is to come…long ago, my Dad insisted that I take typing in high school. I hated it…Dad always had a keen inner sense of ‘what was to come’ regarding the technology world…and this was in 1974. He never said “why” I would need it…except ‘for college’. Which I did. I don’t think he really knew…but he did have an inkling on technology (as he saw the engine rooms and the bridge of ocean going ships, change).
That was when classes in high school, along the business realm…included “shorthand”.
Retro to keyboarding and early computer programing classes…and here we are.
Unleaded gas…computers in our telephones…who would have thought?
The nostalgia is what makes me happy that I was alive to experience those days. I sure was lucky and blessed.
The Welsh have a word for that, Mass…
Hiraeth (here-rithe)
“A homesickness for a home to which you cannot return; a home which maybe never was; the yearning, the grief for the long lost places of your past.”
There is no English word which is equivalent.
It is my favourite word to describe all the feelings I’ve been experiencing about our lost country.
Never give up, Mrs Betsy.
No indeed, Piggy. Blessings to you.😌
We are in the early WEF whether we like it or not.
Old Zonians, pre Panama Treaty, suffer from that, me included.
Memories are also funny…we remember the good, warm, fuzzy and peaceful…and tend to put the less pleasant on the back burner, forgotten.
Hmm….the past seems awfully White. I wonder how things were for people that looked like me back then. Oh wait, I know from my grandparents. It was a simpler time but I never heard them reminisce about wanting to go back to segregation era Virginia.
What would they think of a culture that reviles Christianity, promotes drag shows for little kids, and has a single parent family rate of over 70 percent?
No moment in time has ever existed since the fall of man that did not have significant evil, and divisions, and injustices.
When I look at a culture that is more demonic every day, I see that there exist some moments in time are definitely worse for everyone. This is one of them. We are on our way to universal slavery if we stay on this path.
My grandparents, and probably yours, had a saying about what the pathway to Hell is paved with. We have a surfeit of good intentions, and no common sense or grounding in Truth.
Praying God turns this thing around.
Remembering a time when white and black children alike grew up in a home with a married mother and father and who started their school days with a Bible verse or two, and who were not bombarded with drugs and porn – that touches on values that girded our society and made it flourish. It isn’t weakness to remember that time with a real sense of loss.
Yep, those countries that are 90% White. They are soooo bad that the entire rest of the world wants to migrate into those horrible places. So awfully White. Yuck.
I remember when gas prices went up to .50/gal, and folks got upset.
I also remember when CCTV cameras were the slim exception, and far from the rule.
Everyone was thin and fit
Most people smoked cigarettes, appetite suppression. We weren’t poisoned by chemical junk foods, and fast food. Kids went outside and played.
Schools had physical education programs too.
And no free lunches.
few additives and chemicals in the food on the counters
Compare those body types to what you see at the beach today.Or at Wally World. It wasn’t that we didn’t have access to food back then but something changed. My jungle fatigues still fit but I’ve had to work at it.
Chemicals in the food and fast food became main stream. Frozen dinners/women’s lib.
Food was grown on family farms and farmers grew their own grain, (even the wheat for flour), and sent it to the mill to grind. Sugar and Cotton and other commodities were homegrown. Fewer chemicals were used in growing food and maintaining properties.
Everybody MOVED their bodies from morning to night.
We didn’t eat junk food. It was meat, fish, poultry, potatoes, other vegetables too and we grew our own fruit.
Our diets were based on our locality and what would grow there.
If we wanted candy (twice a year), it was homemade.
We even grew our own popcorn. Mom made pizza out of leftover bread dough. We made our own sausages.
We made our own butter, buttermilk, sour cream, fresh milk daily, cottage cheese, cheddar cheeses and on and on.
It was a different time.
Food was much, much healthier.
We were lean and mean.
I remember when organic food was just food.
I grew up on the Orange County coast in a world that is gone now. How lucky we were!
Austin will always be weird.
After weird comes wild. After wild comes dangerous.
Weird as in queer.
Wow, sniveling, whining liz cheney with the eye patch is certainly showing his true colors.
As Breanna Morello observed it so succinctly “I didn’t think the men’s bathroom needed tampons until Congressman Dan Crenshaw started speaking.”
I’ve half a mind to poke him in the eye.
Haha! You’re mean!
It is deserved at this point. Crenshaw better be primaries HARD in ’24.
Isn’t he a “Weffie”, one of Klaus’ mockingbirds?
His good one!
HA!! 🤣🤣
Whatever took its eye obviously took his brain. What a pathetic eunuch
Afghanistan.. he is a combat vet.. he was also the hat of a jackass before he put on the elephant skin
So how many R’s for Texas this year? Lose any? If we gained, was the net positive on this vote?
A couple years ago everyone said Beto was the future. Since then, a number of blue districts flipped red, even at the border.
Yet you see the sky falling. OK. Sounds like you are a bit ahead of the curve and cherry picking data.
We still lost some new good ones who really won.
In Texas?
The fraud in the cities is thru the roof, we barely hold the line.. with the addition of 5-6 million foreign nationalist in 2022 chances of holding the line in 2024 is slim.. The cartels are running a war behind the scenes with drugs, sex/child trafficking and property theft.. Even LEO’s are attacked on a weekly basis… You can call us another Mexican state in less than ten years.. Theft/fraud is so prevalent cars on the road every day with paper tags or license plate 10 years older than the car .. Before you question my invasion number remember for every one documented there are 4-5 that are not..
Like all places, the yuuuge city/counties such as Dallas/Dallas County, and Houston/Harris County, etc., are deep blue due to mass immigration.
And those places are huge. Harris County is almost 5 million population. Majority Democrat now.
That out-numbers a lot of rural “red” counties that may have 10,000 to 70,000 people at 60% GOP. Do you see now?
Add in the cheating machines. We are watching a disaster in the making.
#Texit ain’t purple.
https://tnm.me/news/political/bombshell-poll-66-of-texas-voters-want-texit/
We have a few more election cycles to stop the arc of history from repeating itself.
2022 was a repeat of 2020. The cabal cherry picks and targets the wins they need to maintain power. The loopholes created during the fake pandemic are mostly to blame for this new normal. click on the img below for a dose of common sense. Look carefully.
Im going to keep saying it because it means everything and for some reason few are talking about as the global cabal push to finish off their greatest threat in many years….The MAGA Movement.
There are many ways the system allows major fraud, but first of all we have to insist on free speech about elections (elections, like science, SHOULD be questioned, and the questioners should be honored, not shamed!)
And we have to insist on transparency in every step. (Mail-in ballots are not transparent; no chain of custody. Ballot boxes are not much better and in some ways worse. Voting machines are literal black boxes that only a programmer could know what’s going on inside, and only if they get access, which voters are being denied.)
Thanks for posting, MA,
It’s also interesting that the State Treasurer garnered about 70,000 more than might be expected-????
OTOH- If the “less sexy” State Treasurer race is in fact the true Republican/Dem. benchmark number, then the
shifting (R to D) and padding of the (D) ballots in the other 4 statewide races is easy to see.
Lots of interesting push and pull going on here, and it’s blatantly transparent that something is amiss.
Problem: Judges and many observers do not have the pattern recognition or math skills to see what is right in front of them.
Also, in the non statewide races (AZ Senate and US House) any incumbents running unopposed would skew things.
SO, I’d leave out those races and focus on the statewide races to simplify the analysis. (and chances of communicating the
“weirdness” these numbers present).
The whack-a-mole phenomenon is even harder to detect in Presidential races. They had set their algorithms in 2016 to target ‘red’ precincts but then an interesting thing happened. Formerly blue precincts, like Miami, went red too!
The grifters were not prepared to address that (Obama was President after all) which is why Donald Trump squeaked through their algorithms! Of course NOW they know and will never allow the same thing to happen again.
The steal was much more blatant in 2020 because they had to change *both* red and blue precincts and try to make it look believable. In that, they failed miserably.
California was – not so long ago – reliably red.
Unchecked illegal immigration has consequences.
Don’t forget the massive contribution of “judges” to thwart the will of the electorate.
The change in voting where the top two, by numbers, vote getters in the primaries, regardless of political affiliation, run off against each other in the primaries had a hand in changing California’s electoral map.
The Democrats in Nevada are trying to have that same plan installed here, plus open primaries where now all primaries are closed to those registered in their party to be the only ones to vote on those ballots.
Both of those Democrat initiatives passed in 2022, if they pass again in 2024 that forever changes Nevada from being reliably red (every where but Las Vegas and until recently Reno) to being solid blue.
Very upsetting that these California voters who moved to Nevada are bringing the same source of their problems in California with them when they moved.
Think that’s what is happening to Texas, and I do think Florida too. Keep remembering Gillum almost won that election against DeSantis, who most assuredly would have lost if not being endorsed by PDJT.
Joe: Plus motor voter registration through the Dept of Motor Vehicles and universal mail in ballots.
That motor voter started in the 1990’s; we’re paying for it now.
That’s how illegals get to vote.
it is also how they inflate the voter rolls with ghost voters….need those available ballots for the mystery wins at the end
Yes! Once they are registered at DMV, all that’s needed are the manufactured ballots, as opposed to ‘real’ votes.
I was shocked the last time I went into DMV! The people crammed in there looked like they were just dropped off by the traffickers!
They were there to obtain IDs, and voter registration was prominently displayed on all the flashing signage. These people were obviously NOT American citizens. Right off the boat, as they say..
The avalanche started with Reagan’s 1986 amnesty.
And it is/was… an avalanche.
Sounds like the reality of today’s Colorado, with 31,000 illegal aliens sent postcards on how to register to vote (before midterms). Now D asst Sec of State won’t release the names and addresses to impacted county election officials.
And a rumor so far that our new almost super majority legislature desires ranked voting.
Illegal immigration does have consequences. So do inflated voter rolls, and mail-in ballots, and voting machines, and having to guard everything for a whole election season instead of one election day…
We are fighting a thousand-front war. But then again, so are they, and there are more of us than there are of them.
Legal immigration is just as bad. Almost all immigrants come from socialist countries and they want to stay socialist.
And wannabe Bolshevik rejects from other states come here for college. California has more colleges than any state. The indoctrinated graduates remain in California, often with a government job or with a do gooder NGO.
California has been using programmable computers to count ballots for over 20 years.
Election fraud is alive and well in California. I believe that’s where it started.
Dominion was started by Chavez in 2004
Commiefornia made “ballot harvesting” a thing, as well! The commie gov targeted certain red precincts, then sent his minions to gather more ballots for WEEKS after Election Day, until they could flip the cherry-picked precincts.
Started in big part by Reagan’s amnesty program in 1986. He has admitted it was the biggest mistake of his Presidency.
And mass legal immigration.
Over 1,000,000 per year since 1991 – almost all from socialist countries.
Do the math – that’s more than 30,000,000 socialist legal immigrants.
And no one wants to talk about it.
My wife and I moved to Texas due to its ted state strengths. We see the shift and the danger. When Texas is lost all hope will be gone.
Even once red Dallas has turned blue.
And formerly red Houston, same downfall. Harris County is a deep blue pocket of 5 million Democrat leaning votes.
It is very hard for the Texas small counties of 50,000 people to overcome those numbers.
Has there been any evidence of “THE BIG UGLY” in the last few days?
Mike Rogers stepped down from his committee and Den Crenshaw didn’t get Homeland Security Committee.
Mike Rogers changed his mind and is not stepping down after all.
He needs to feel some pain.
“The new rules include the motion to vacate provision, allowing just one member to make a motion to remove the House speaker – one of the top conservative demands that will keep McCarthy in check.”
Does that mean a Democrat can make a motion to remove, or is it reserved just for Republicans?
I believe any can make a motion, but then that motion has to be voted on. It isn’t like one person has the power to knock the speaker out.
Yes. It will still take a majority of votes to oust though.
Funny, my son went into the trades and purposefully moved to the Austin area because there is such a large market there–educated liberals can barely change a lightbulb even if they wanted to.
Good for him 👏 I hope he charges the liberals 4 times more for the jobs he does.
WEFfer Dan Crenshaw lost his bid for chairman of the Homeland Security committee to Dr. Mark Green of Tennessee.
The Homeland Security committee sounds like it would be a prime target of Klaus Schwab. He was proud to brag about how many such positions in various governments are held by politicians aligned with him.
I don’t know anything about Dr. Green, but I like him just for beating out Crenshaw.
Texas is fake. The guv has very little power compared to other states. They have guns but let the utility companies freeze them out in the winter. The border is wide open and the cities run amok.
Texas republicans in Congress have always been among the worst.
Lemme tell you about Wyoming.
And Indiana
Texas have mail in balloting? Or open primaries? Or ranked voting?
If it does it will be assimilated to the horror.
Absentee ballot by mail is available but limited.
We have open primaries.
No ranked choice voting.
Voting machines are enough to change everything by themselves. All these other things help, though.
Our two Senators from Texas, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are far MORE Blue.
Noticed TED CRUZ go very, very quiet after NEWS about JFK assassination begins to creep back into the headline, also.
The only thing red in the Cruz family is daddy’s hands.
What’s that about?
There were some stories circulating a few years back Cruz’ dad was a communist and involved in JFK”s assassination.
CANADIAN Cruz…the citizen imposter ILLEGALLY occupying a US Senator’s seat from TX
Cringe-shaw is no surprise.
I will say again: “I want to personally read all fifty-five verbatim pages of these new ‘rules!'”
And then, if there are “unspoken promises,” I also want to read a thorough analysis of them.
“I am a twenty-first century American Citizen!”
Here you go:
https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/h-res-5
Thanks very much Sherri, I bookmarked it for posterity.
Thank you. Should have been included in the original post.
But, dear God, if these were the “rules” concerning “how I was to earn my daily bread,” then any local grocery store would suddenly become “a tremendously more gracious opportunity for employment!” 🤡
“Not only ‘no,’ but, ‘hell no!'”
I listened to a bit of the debate. I heard a bunch of sniveling hypocrites on the left. Shouting- “transparency-transparency” blah blah blah.
Here is what I would have said….
1). Elections have consquences
2.) We have to pass it to find out what is in it.
FU -Have a nice day!
Well I believe if they follow Sundance’s requested guidelines there will be so much transparency that the Dems and Rinos will be crying “national security” and “separation of powers”.
I watched long enough to hear Barbara Lee and Pramila Jayapal include in their comments that they have had abortions.
it seems to begin at the Universities
Actually, it begins before a child turns 7 years old.
Then sewer pipes to the govt schools.
I heard a while back that ACORN had started back up on Texas.
Where is James? He needs to get on that.
So awesome that the rules passed. Very proud and impressed with the 20 congressmen that held firm. Their is hope for the future. God bless America.
Dog on Texas, but Ohio isn’t any better. Chabot got the boot to a Dem, he was a C grade on liberty score. Most of them are that or worse excepting Jordan and Davidson. Portman was a loser, 36% score. We basically had two Dem senators. DeWine is a jug eared idiot of the highest order. He’s just spineless enough not to cross the Statehouse when they can remember we have rights. He’d be like Newsome on gun control if he could. All about as useful as South Carolina Republicans, they just get less air time because they are even less photogenic.
Our Governor Abbott is awesome!!
He handed Biden a sternly worded letter when Biden was being shoved around El Paso.
Wow!!! I couldn’t be prouder.
It was a great letter, but, If Biden doesn’t read the sternly worded letter, then what good is it?
Exactly. Abbott is lazy and a poseur. Has a page on the WEF website…just like McCarthy. That’s where his heart is.
I voted for him only because he was not O’Rourke. We couldn’t have that.
I did not vote for Abbott this time. I’d rather be able to see my enemy. Never voting for the lesser of two evils again when the evils are nearly identical. Had no worries about Beto though, Abbott is far more useful to the cabal.
The letter was made public by Abbott. So others know what’s in it even if Biden tries to ignore it.
Did you purposely leave off the /sarc tag?
You know me by now, Abigail😉
Where can we see the letter?
Here you go, mom…
https://crankers.com/text/here-read-texas-gov-greg/
Abbott is “awesome” for doing basically nothing to stop the illegal invasion into Texas over the last two years? Like your Governor, you don’t have a leg to stand on!
Perhaps I should have put that sarc tag on…
Crenshaw is garbage.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In Crenshaw’s case, however, he’s still a schmuck!
Slogans that can be retired:
Is the Pope Catholic?
Don’t mess with Texas.
I think we should keep both, 1) To continue questioning the current ‘pope’, and
2) To keep real Texans, of which I’m proudly one, motivated and activated.
Speaker of the House McCarthy should immediately speak to both of the renegade Texas Republicans and have a come to Jesus moment.
If he does not, he has a LOTH……..(lack of testicular hair).
Agreed.
Eyepatch Danny is pouting because Mark Green (TN) of the Freedom Caucus beat him today .
That’s why he refused to vote for the rules, feelings was hurt
I listened to some of the House discussion.
A lot of the reps are bright eyed, and really going after some topics of concerns with thought out, spoken words- with equal time….
towards action / results.
The dems using sympathy of the budget, and ( fake) fiscal responsibility to defend adding 86,000 + IRS agents…yowser….
[ folks, don’t take their wooden nickels…they are an inflationary debt builder…its proven.. ]
Good to see action – with people – in the House again.
p.s.
yes we know that dem senate will obfuscate House legislation….
that’s on the senate….
Does the IRS vote, i.e. rescinding their funding for 87K new IRS agents, need to be approved by the Senate and White House? If so, this entire process is Kabuki Theater. Nothing will change. Is it only done in order to mail out “fundraising” letters.?
If you have a chance, watch the HBO DOCUMENTARY “The Swamp” – to get a real glimpse of how the Congress really works. Starring Matt Gaetz. I was pretty shocked!!
Correct. The House will pass 100’s of bills in the next two years, and they will go nowhere. All smoke and mirrors to show that they really tried to do something.
ALL spending originates in the House…..they just have to hold the line on appropriations….does not matter what Turtle, Cryin Chucky, or Slo Joe want
LBJ was from Texas.
(that’s it. that’s my entire comment)
(JFK remains unavailable for his comment)
Yes he was and I remember him well; not that I want to.
Followed by the signing of Agenda 21 by Bush1. then the Patriot Act by Bush2.
Knowledgeable Texans have no love for LBJ
There was a reason Jackie sought protection from Onassis….
It’s tragic how the totalitarian fascists always create a crisis and get multiple benefits from it. Normally it would be a negative when large numbers of people leave a state but the state migrants just turn red into blue. So what if the blue state losing population loses tax revenue or whatever ? The Uniparty makes it up to them in federal revenue sharing or spending schemes.
Anyways, I’m glad CTH sees more and more that the totalitarian takeover can’t be stopped and focuses on survival strategies which will allow at least some people enjoyment of their lives for as long as possible.
Of course the Totalitarian takeover can be stopped….but maybe not in your lifetime.
Snark?
The rules package that was passed. Just the News released an exclusive look at the new rules package (link below)
I’m reading thru it –here’s what caught my eye so far:
(1) No more omnibus bills, only Single Subject Bills.
Assume this means if the Senate passes an omnibus bill and sends it to the House for approval, that it will need to be split into individual bills when the House drafts their version for a vote. Good-bye trillion dollar monster bills.
(2) Creates new Select Subcommittee titled “Weaponization of the Federal Government” –this new subcommittee is under the Judicial Committee. Members will have access to the most highly classified information. To the alarm of the Dems this includes access to the Special Counsel investigation into PDJT.
(3) Creates Select Subcommittee looking into the Covid Pandemic (haven’t yet read thru the details there)
(4) Initiatives to Reduce Spending and Improve Accountability. Lots of weeds to read thru but it looks multiple ways it improves control over spending and blocks some of the maneuvers used by the Senate and Uniparty to slide things thru
(5) Increases to 3/5 majority required for any new tax rate increases.
(6) 72 hours minimum to review any bill before voting. Prevents forcing votes before members have time to read the bill.
(7) Holman rule — can attach amendments to any bill to defund a particular official or part of an agency (87,000 IRS agents and SC against PDJT etc)
(8) Reps now have the ability to put forward amendments.
Previously this was the power of the leadership, not the rank and file.
If you want to read it yourself, here it is:
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-01/House%20Rules%20Package.pdf
So according to One Eyed Willy’s philosophy and previous rant against Gaetz and Boebert, now is he to be considered an enemy to America and the Republic….?
Texas has the same ballot issues in its big Democrat controlled cities as they have in Atlanta, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Detroit and the others. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin all are controlled by city and county Demwits that lie, cheat and steal for the Democrat candidates.
The only thing that has kept Texas from becoming a Georgia or Arizona is the large rural populations that control the rest of the state.
Chip Roy is my Congressman and his district includes part of San Antonio but the rural Texas hill country counties that make up the rest of his district typically vote 80% or better for Republicans. Same thing happens around other Democrat big cities. That is the only thing keeping Texas red. The big cities cheat but Texas has huge rural counties that are 80% conservative and so far have overcome the dead people voting in the big cities.
The only man I ever knew who could counteract this passion on the part of Democrats for voting, was Robert Roach, carpenter of the steamer Aleck Scott, “plying to and from St. Louis to New Orleans and back,” as her advertisement sometimes read. The Democrats generally came up as deck passengers from New Orleans, and the yellow fever used to get them right and left – eight or nine a day for the first six or eight hundred miles; consequently Roach would have a lot on hand to “plant” every time the boat landed to wood – “plant” was Roach’s word. One day as Roach was superintending a burial the Captain came up and said:
“God bless my soul, Roach, what do you mean by shoving a corpse into a hole in the hill-side in this barbarous way, face down and its feet sticking out?”
“I always plant them Democrats in that manner, sir, because, damn their souls, if you plant ’em any other way they’ll dig out and vote the first time there’s an election – but look at that fellow, now – you put ’em in head first and face down and the more they dig the deeper they’ll go into the hill.”
In my opinion, if we do not get Roach to superintend our cemeteries, enough Democrats will dig out at the next election to carry their entire ticket.
– Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 2 1864-1865, (Univ. of California Press, 1981), pp. 313-14.]
How can we get a Roach in every big city. In fact we need a lot of Roachs
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/house-passes-bill-repeal-funding-87000-irs-agents-0?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Looks like they voted to repeal the funding of the 87,000 IRS agents, however, it’s DOA when it reaches the Senate.
I suspect much of that to be the case throughout 2023; as intended when they passed the 740 B Inflation Reduction Act.
BUT, the HOUSE must continue to make the noise and expose the waste and fraud.
Under the new rules they can attach an amendment to any bill to repeal the funding, so they will just wait for a must pass bill that Biden cannot veto.
Good, missed that somehow.
Thanks for clarification.
I was wondering why there was not a ‘work-around’ in place.
Yep, dems do it all the time
Tried to warn all of my friends who moved to Texas in the past two years that it was NOT the red paradise they thought it was…and if the cartels get overly confident, they’ll smash through that border so fast it will make everyone’s head spin!
Tell your friends to move to a rural county in Texas. They can still work in the big city if needed. They don’t want to live in Harris, Dallas, Bexar or Travis counties.
We’ll take them in Oklahoma, if they’re red!
A vote of “Present” utilized by those too scared to say “Nay,” or “Yea,” should not be allowed.
Refusing to indicate one’s choice is a cowards way out (it was Barry’s most used vote in his short stint in IL congress.) Not voting is the same thing.
It isn’t surprising Crenshaw abstained. I’d like to know his and Gonzales’ reasoning…
The show begins, sit back folks. We’ll see time and again who votes with the libs as in this case.
They need to align their votes with the constituents who voted for them.
Not doing so is dishonest and cowardly as they hide behind form letters and controlled websites that do not allow real access to the ‘legislator’…not to mention the office ‘gatekeepers’.
Dan Crenshaw called his colleagues terrorists and enemies. He wanted to be head of Homeland Security Committee. He did not get that assignment. Maybe that’s why he decided not to vote because he was mad in the face? I guess they could call him a terrorist now but they wouldn’t wanna lose their committee assignments😂.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Texas_US_Congressional_District_23_%28since_2021%29.tif
this is ElPaso to SanAntonio, the 23 district for Tony Gonzales…the other one is Crenshaw Houston..both dem held territory
https://postimg.cc/xNb9CTNb
Can anyone tell me how to post images?
Dan Crenshaw is a true schmuck.
Gonzales from Texas as is an interesting bird. He has a mixed his voting record. He did support establishment of the 1/6 Commission as well as the Gay Marriage ACT. Yet, was endorsed by President Trump.
He is or maybe was the Republican assistant House Whip.
He IS NOT from Austin by the way, but is from the San Antonio area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Gonzales
I don’t think either one of them agree with any budget cuts to Defense. Crenshaw’s District is not a Democrat District. Ted Poe held that seat before him. Being in the military helped him win that seat.
Looks like Cringe-shaw is in a party of one.🤣 Even Nancy Mace had to fall in line.
Emailed my representative, Tx. Tony Gonzales, to express my disappointment in his vote against the rule changes. Expressing my opinion, maybe enough of us will message him that’ll he hear our displeasure.
“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.”
-Gandalf
The Hobbit, The Unexpected Journey
Texas is already a “Blue State”. Our Democrats just continue to call themselves Republicans. John Cornyn, Dan Crenshaw, and Dade Phelan are the most powerful Democrats in Texas. The only thing that keeps Greg Abbott halfway honest is Ron DeSantis of Florida.
Bravo, I expected much different outcomes. Perhaps Mcarthy will do his dirty deeds (payback) behind closed doors.
Happy to see the House turn this corner!
And therein lies the stinging rub. The Democrats need the brand “domestic terrorism” to follow the jailed citizens the rest of their natural lives.
Those being held in jail are NOT “domestic terrorists”. They are political hostages of the demented Democrats torn away—and kept away—from their loving families.
WHO is going to save them?
https://canadafreepress.com/article/who-is-going-to-save-the-governments-political-hostages-branded-as-domestic-terrorists
Dan Crenshaw, big fat hypocrite, calls the minority of 20 – terrorists – for not voting with the majority.
And he then he himself fails to support the majority on the very next vote.
You ain’t fooling us with your rhetoric, Dan. You were angry only because your leftist side was losing to conservatives. You are a RINO. I pray Houston primaries you (Cheneys you) in a big way in ‘24.
It is soooo difficult to be consistent. 🙂
Dan Crenshaw might as well wear a rainbow colored eye-patch.
Crenshaw is anti-gun, anti-2nd Amendment. Enough said.
But but he made a commercial with politicians using…rifles.
Everything Woke Turns to Sh!t?
Everything Joke Turns to crenShill.
Cringe-Shaw is not a Republican. He is a communist weenie.
WEF grad.
So did Joe Manchin.
And he’s pro big pharm.
Crenshill.
Too little said. The democrat that is pro gun, is a uniparty crenshill.
The verbal abusers shoot words, not bullets, in the information wars.
When the battles began, they didn’t begin on the streets, they started in your mind.
MAGAPEDIA: Crenshill
A crenshill is a political pronoun that tries to make you feel guilty or scared about something to gain your confidence for a money scheme. A sophisticated confidence trick.
If you don’t feel guilty about what a crenshill wants you to feel guilty about, a crenshill will try shaming, shunning, or slandering you and when that doesn’t work, the crenshill pretends to cry..and cry, so you think the crenshill is a victim and give the crenshill money.
If you don’t give the crenshill money, the process repeats in an infinite loop.
Marxists call this social money struggle. Crenshills call this democracy. /s
Cringe-shill.
That’s terrible news.
Great ladies.
Loved watching them on Newsmax, they spoke the truth, but made you laugh too.
Sad news indeed. WAY too many “completely unexpected” deaths.
And still most are in denial.
Yet pro war
Crenshaw (one eyed Liz) is to Texas what Brian Mast is to Florida.
This is so sad. Blessings for her family and friends.
Actually, he’s just a dip#@*t, not too bright, who has sold his soul to the corporate paymaster/globalists. Compromised or paid off? Evil or just plain stupid?
With all these things coming out about Crenshaw, I wonder what his former Seal Team members really think about him.
Crenshaw sure doesn’t seem to mind giving his opinion about someone. Then, when the blowback comes, he uses the “it was just the turn of a phrase” excuse to try to weasel out from under it. If he does that now, I’m sure he did the same thing back in the Teams. A leopard doesn’t change his spots…
Apparently he wasn’t stupid enough to screw up marketing himself to Our Corporate Overlords.
That is why he was picked. He’s just their type.
next thing you know he will be roomies with KM and luntz
Pride Gurls Better
Zelensky’s Rainbow Globolutionaries. Global Democracy Better.
Crenshaw Pride Marching Again? Woke Back Mountain…
twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1529243924648407042
Crenshaw is the new McCain. Like kleenex pop-up tissues, just when we get rid of one, another one pops up.
In 2019, Crenshaw was a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “127 Young Global Leaders,” along with Democrat Mayor Peter Buttigieg.
Explains a few things…
Explains a LOT.
Add Tulsi Gabbard to the WEF Young Global Leaders. I bet Sundance knows..
do you mean Pete, the failed mayor of
south
Do you mean Pete, the failed mayor of South Bend(over) Ind? Say it ain’t so!
He’s also done extremely well on his stock trading since being elected. I would have never thought a former seal would be this disappointing.
The House passed a bill to defund the IRS. Doesn’t it have to pass the Senate before it takes effect? Then since the Democrats control the Senate , the Passage of the Bill is meaningless.
The Dems and McConnell, but I repeat myself, control the Senate.
The intention of the framers, was that there BE contention, between the Senate and the House, and between each and the WH, that was the idea.
This thing where leadership in House and Senate, both wings of the Uniparty, behind close doors reach a consensus for omnibus bills, is NOT what they had in mind, at ALL.
Lets have a little chaos around the place, its a GOOD thing to be forced to defend what you are doing.
“Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.”
–Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1813
Not to mention the main intent of the Senate was to have each state represented by Senators who were supposed to fight for their state’s interests and could be recalled if they didn’t do the job.
Our current Senate is like the varsity team compared to the Jr. Varsity team over at the House. It’s the “big time”, and when you get there, you can retire a millionaire.
By the time many of the “get there” they’ve arealy joined the millionaire’s club via county and state corruption. Then they graduate to The Big Money.
We can’t get real lasting victories at the moment so I’ll settle for swamp monsters exposing themselves. After all the enabling factor in all this is the continued ignorance and apathy of the still-asleep segment of the voting pop.
Not so much “asleep” as continually massaged with freebies and payoffs.
One reason “RINOS vote against us . . .” is direct election of Senators.
Repeal the 17th Amendment!
Huh… They need to get an Eternal perspective?
Realize that Jesus is either God in flesh, or that He was the biggest loon ever?
That’d be a great place to start….
There are no “good men,” no real love and respect, and certainly not any humility among men, who haven’t faced the Eternal reality as revealed in the Old and New Testaments.
The Founder’s clearly had that understanding. Their own words demonstrate it!
has to pass the Senate AND get a signature from Slo Joe….it is a posture vote….the REAL thing they need to do is send the Omnibus to SCOTUS as UNCONSTITUTIONAL…..according to the US Constitution ALL spending bills MUST start in the House of Representatives….THAT started in the Senate
All budgetary legislation originates in the House. They have been finagling the procedural hurdles to pass their bloated budgets. They need to abolish baseline budgeting.
It is meaningful to continue the illusion of choice between parties.
You just watch as the house passes all sorts of America first, patriotic, God bless America bills.
Unless,until they can actually pass and become law.
Nevertheless, a point has been made.
Nah, unless you’re too young to remember Obamacare votes. The only point is that they think we’re really stupid and they hate us with every fiber of their being.
There’s two or three issues at work here. First, the 2023 fiscal year has been “funded” with the passage of the $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill. That has been signed by Xiden. Done deal.
Now, the 2024 fiscal year appropriations will be where the Freedom Caucus rubber meets the Democrat and RINO contingent road. And we should keep in mind that 2024 is not only an election year, but a Presidential election year.
The new House rules will prevent some-perhaps even a lot-of previous House budget gimmickry and chicanery, but it won’t stop RINOs from joining up with Dems to pass appropriations bills. And any thought about Freedom Caucus members trying to gum up the works by refusing to pass appropriations bills, or, hold the debt limit hostage is wishful thinking.
I give a lot of credit to the 20 or so congressmen-and women-who held tight and forced McCarthy to accept badly needed changes to the House Rules, including committee assignments, responsibilities, etc. But presidential election politics will overwhelm everything, so don’t expect too much in the way of heroics in 2024
Everything passed will be meaningless, like their meaningless votes on Obamacare.
But,if it doesn’t pass the senate,then it is mute as I see it.THEN,the arm twisting begins?