Renee Parsons<\/p>\n
One result of the 2022 mid term election is that the civil war within Republican Party between its RINO (Republican in Name Only) faction and its more traditional conservative elements has gone public \u2013 and that is a good thing. \u00a0 <\/span>That contentious conflict has been on the political precipice as the RINOs maintained a firm hold on its candidates, its issues and principles leading to formation of the House Freedom Caucus<\/span><\/a> in 2015. \u00a0 <\/span>It is, however, the America First (AF) movement that can take credit for pushing those mostly subdued internal squabbles to the forefront since the Trump Presidency in 2016. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n With the Presidential election on the horizon, there is no time to fritter on meaningless political chitchat as it is to Kari Lake\u2019s credit that she has dug in to expose the depth of electoral<\/span><\/a> corruption.\u00a0 <\/span>Since the mid terms, those ideological inconsistencies have surfaced no more intensely than in the State of Arizona where its electoral fraud is being legally challenged after a clumsy effort to sabotage AF candidates and in the US House of Representatives where the majority Republicans will appoint a new Speaker of the House on January 3<\/span>rd<\/sup><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It is questionable, however, given the 2020 and 2022 success of the unscrupulous Democrats to brazenly and visibly steal a massive number of Congressional elections with no real consequences, how exactly will the Republican party prevent the Greatest Steal of All<\/span><\/a> in 2024?<\/span><\/p>\n The AF movement and the RNC were foolishly gullible to have not anticipated the treachery and untrustworthiness of the Dems to deprive every Congressional candidate out of their legally sanctioned election and paid little to no attention as Florida banned mail in ballots, ballot harvesting and required voter id \u2013 all basic fundamentals to a fair and equitable election.<\/span><\/p>\n The crisis accelerates in Arizona with a dramatic Monday morning Court hearing at 9:30 am to consider the lawsuit<\/span><\/a> filed by Republican Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh (along with the Republican National Committee) to prevent Secretary of State certification by current SOS Katie Hobbs who refused to recuse herself from an election where she was also a candidate.\u00a0 <\/span>The Maricopa Board of Supervisors then quickly rescheduled their own Monday hearing to 8:30 am to certify the election of Katie Hobbs<\/span><\/a> as the Soros-sponsored Governor of Arizona. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As Arizona courts have not been sympathetic to AF by arbitrarily denying<\/span><\/a> their election day request to keep the polls open past 7 pm, Monday morning\u2019s confrontations may see harsh judicial conflicts collide with powerful legal and Constitutional ramifications.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Lake who has not conceded to Hobbs, sued<\/span><\/a> Stephen Richer<\/span><\/a>, Maricopa\u2019s Election Recorder and other state officials, in part, for the release of common-place election documentation and numbers being willfully withheld.\u00a0 <\/span>Richer, a Republican who was elected in 2020, created the Pro Democracy Republican<\/span><\/a> Pac which opposes the election of election deniers, as he remains unconcerned about the impropriety as the county\u2019s top election official acting as a partisan stooge.\u00a0 <\/span>He rationalized Arizona\u2019s questionable 2020 election rig in a 38 page open letter<\/span><\/a> to Arizona voters.<\/span><\/p>\n Controlling Arizona politics is a tight-knit Uniparty coalition<\/span><\/a> which includes the last gasp of the McCain faction<\/span><\/a> along with multiple Soros sponsored<\/span><\/a> candidates and the radical left<\/span><\/a> Globalist<\/span><\/a><\/span>s<\/span> as well as almost all of the state\u2019s top elected<\/span><\/a> Republican officials<\/span><\/a>; all of which are deeply antagonistic to the AF movement which threatens their goal to clean election deniers<\/span><\/a> out of Arizona\u2019s Republican party.\u00a0 <\/span>As the McCain coalition maintains its hold on the insidious corruption<\/span><\/a>, Arizona\u2019s wide open border corroborates its status as a human trafficking<\/span><\/a> state. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is that no one knows with any certainty exactly what happened on Election Day in Arizona; and that there has been no real truthful reconciliation of the Maricopa County numbers with statewide vote totals.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n * * * *<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to the Arizona electoral confrontation, House Republicans, including its 44 Freedom Caucus members, are in its own partisan struggle to create a more meaningful House caucus with 220 Members providing majority control.\u00a0 <\/span>Previously dominated by a caucus of fence sitters in the name of consensus, minority leader Kevin McCarthy appeared to make the flawed assumption that he would automatically step into the Speaker position.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The reality is that even before McCarthy alienated the entire national AF movement with the deliberate sabotage<\/span><\/a> of AF candidates for the House, McCarthy\u2019s lack of support within his own caucus was not sufficient to provide him with the necessary votes to become Speaker.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In a vote immediately after the mid-terms, McCarthy failed (188-36) to achieve the necessary votes as multiple Freedom Caucus members continue to publicly declared<\/span><\/a> there is \u2018no way\u2019<\/i> McCarthy will be elected Speaker on January 3rd. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Despite Steve Bannon and allegedly President Trump\u2019s tacit support for McCarthy as well as Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green<\/span><\/a> (Ga), the AF movement across the country are predominately independent thinkers and do not show any sign of caving in to support McCarthy.\u00a0 <\/span>A reasonable assumption is that AF activists will hold their own Republican Representatives accountable for their vote on January 3<\/span>rd<\/sup><\/span>. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As McCarthy\u2019s opposition continues to solidify, his almost pathetic scramble to save his own political butt is little more than a transparent political gesture; yet when he had an opportunity to be a forthright leader<\/span><\/a>, McCarthy failed to openly oppose Biden\u2019s multi-prong attack on the American people.\u00a0 <\/span>Freedom Caucus Member Rep. Andy Biggs (Az) has announced his candidacy<\/span><\/a> for Speaker.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As Republicans assume Chairmanship of House Committees, there are at least two contests<\/span><\/a>; one for Chair of the Ways and Means Committee and another for Chair of the Homeland Security Committee. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n With three candidates, Ways and Means has jurisdiction over fiscal issues including the insolvent Social Security system and Medicare program as well as oversight of the IRS and its 87,000 newly hired, armed agents. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Homeland Security Committee has jurisdiction over Secretary Mayorkas and US border policies with Rep. Mark Green (Tenn.), a member of the Freedom Caucus and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (Tex.) both vowing to hold the Biden Administration accountable at the southern border which has allowed five million illegal crossings.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n How many of the 188 Members of the Republican caucus who supported McCarthy in November as Speaker will be willing to realign<\/span><\/a> with a populist agenda? \u00a0 <\/span>Rep. Tom Cole (Okla) suggested that McCarthy is <\/span>\u201c<\/span>our best strategist. He\u2019s our best fundraiser. He\u2019s our best candidate recruiter. Isn\u2019t that the guy you want to lead you? I think so.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Will the Freedom Caucus and its friends remain true and prevail to elect a Speaker with a conscience and the savvy to build the House caucus into an effective political machine?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n One test whether there is a new energy within the caucus will be whether its 220 Republican Members will vote to reject passage of the notoriously malevolent 3,853 page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) loaded with almost $1 trillion worth of woke goodies that will take a decade to unravel and a massive give away to defense contractors that does nothing to address inflation, the economy, deficit spending or corruption in Ukraine?<\/span><\/p>\n Renee Parsons\u00a0served on the once prestigious ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and as president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, staff in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth and a staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC. She can be found at\u00a0<\/i>reneedove3@yahoo.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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