{"id":186964,"date":"2023-09-19T06:35:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=186964"},"modified":"2023-09-19T06:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:35:51","slug":"the-senate-has-been-broken-as-long-as-i-have-served-the-level-of-dysfunction-is-grotesque-a-sitting-us-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=186964","title":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Senate has been broken as long as I have served. The level of dysfunction is grotesque\u201d — A Sitting US Senator<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wake Up Call for Red State Voters \u2013 Part I<\/span><\/h2>\n

by Renee Parsons<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, it is a truism that if Democrats win the 2024 Presidential or Congressional election, they will cede US sovereignty to the UN and WHO.\u00a0 <\/span>Think about it; there is no time to dally as their plans are in place, awaiting a final launch which may include additional unexpected catastrophes<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As one example, the reality is that if it were not for multiple Uniparty votes, the Ukraine war could have negotiated<\/span><\/a> a settlement months ago. \u00a0 <\/span>Congressional Republican militarists, aka RINOs, continue to provide the margin for generating war sustenance without which the world might have followed a more peaceful trajectory.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While the current Senate line up<\/span><\/a> at forty nine Dems, forty eight Republicans and three Independents might indicate a close Senate; the reality is that the Indies are not Independent but vote 100% with the Democrats.\u00a0 <\/span>In other words, the Republicans are undercut on the Senate floor when RINO votes routinely swing to the Dems. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The once mundane \u2018bi partisan\u2019 faction is now recognized as the unofficial consolidation of power merging the Marxist Democrats with the status quo establishment Republicans as militarists<\/span><\/a> of both parties continue to allocate funds and weaponry while the US foreign policy apparatus urged rejection of negotiations from the beginning \u2013 even as it became patently obvious that a portion of the Ukraine military identified with the Banderista Nazis<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is the Uniparty, including Congressional RINOS<\/span><\/a> along with Speaker Kevin McCarthy who promised no \u2018blank checks\u2019<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>can now take credit for the bloody slaughter that has destroyed a generation of young Ukrainians and destroyed what was always a speculative country struggling for survival.\u00a0 <\/span>That is a heavy burden for RINOS who are generally resistant to their share of the blame, to accept responsibility. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As the Ukraine war continues to intensify beyond the mere threat of WW III, the brazen Ukraine President Zelensky continues to meddle in US foreign policy with a visit to our once sacred White House and plans to lobby friendly Congressional RINOs.\u00a0 <\/span>At the same time Zelensky pursues another $45 billion<\/span><\/a> bail out (minimum\u00a0 <\/span>$114 B) to forestall utter collapse, Ukraine\u2019s deranged military spokesman holds nothing back, making vile death<\/span><\/a> threats as \u201c Russia will see a favorite propagandist pay for their crimes and this puppet of Putin is only the first\u201d<\/i> as she predicts \u2018all propagandists will be hunted down and justice will be served.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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On September 16th, Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) authored a letter<\/span><\/a> to pretend President Joe Biden urging that he \u201c<\/span>immediately send MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to Ukraine<\/i>, citing that \u201cadditional delay will only further <\/i><\/span>undermine U.S. national security interests<\/i><\/span>\u201d <\/i>while, at the same time, suggesting that \u201cThe U.S. is fully capable of providing these weapons <\/i><\/span>without any appreciable risk<\/i><\/span> to its own combat capability<\/i><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, with no details provided of how the ATACMS would undermine US \u2018national security interests,\u2019 Cotton\u2019s letter goes on to assert there are no \u2018appreciable risks\u2019 to US combat capability by not providing the missile system.\u00a0 <\/span>The letter was<\/span> signed by Sens. Roger Wicker (Miss.), Susan Collins (Me.) and Lindsay Graham (S.C.), all considered RINOs who routinely vote with the Democrats. \u00a0 <\/span>Sen. Wicker is a candidate for reelection in 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Another snapshot of RINOs is not unique to South Dakota: \u00a0 <\/span>On September 9<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>, former President Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Rapid City, South Dakota with an enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd of thousands.\u00a0 <\/span>Introduced by Governor Kristi Noem and greeted by a full line up of State officials, its two US Senators<\/span><\/a>, Sen. John Thune and Sen. Mike Rounds and US at large Representative Dusty Johnson<\/span><\/a> were all absent. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thune serves as Senate Minority Whip which is next in line, behind Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and expects to assume the Leadership role upon McConnell\u2019s retirement.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While Thune and Rounds believe the 2020 election results were valid, both Thune and Rounds vote with Democrats on a regular basis.\u00a0 <\/span>They have both endorsed Sen. Tim Scott<\/span><\/a> (SC) for President.\u00a0 <\/span>Meanwhile, Rounds is running for re-election in 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While Johnson may also be counted in the RINO camp, in 2019 Johnson voted inexplicably to override Trump\u2019s veto of a measure revoking Congressional declaration of a national emergency at the southern border.\u00a0 <\/span>Duh! In 2021 Johnson voted to retain<\/span><\/a> former Rep. Liz Cheney in House leadership and supported the Biden debt ceiling bill in May, 2023. Currently, Johnson as a member of the moderate Main Street Partnership<\/span><\/a> caucus is negotiating on behalf of Speaker McCarthy\u2019s continuing resolution proposal.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

These are striking politico-factoids which beg the question what exactly is the problem with the Republican party in red state South Dakota which votes over 60% Republican? \u00a0 <\/span>The same question might be asked about Texas which just prevailed in a massive struggle to retain Attorney General Ken Paxton from impeachment by a Democratically infiltrated Republican majority<\/span><\/a>. However, the potential Paxton impeachment stimulated newly awakened rank n file America First activists who now better understand the need to push-back.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Also in attendance at the Rapid City speech was Sen. Steve Daines (Mont.) who also serves as Chair of the National Senate Republican Committee<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span>The NSRC is charged with recreating a Republican Senate majority.\u00a0 <\/span>Politics is always full of irony and Daines heading the NSRC may seem contrary to the fact that he frequently votes with the Democrats and rarely associates legislatively with Senators who might be considered akin<\/span><\/a> to the House Freedom Caucus ie America First Senators –\u00a0 <\/span>and yet President Trump introduced Daines in friendly terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As chair of the NSRC, Daines recruited former Rep. Mike Rogers<\/span><\/a> to run for an open Senate seat in Michigan. \u00a0 <\/span>A former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Rogers is known as a political moderate, a supporter of NSA surveillance, not a Trump supporter, serves as Chair of the Board at the MITRE Corporation and, according to Wikipedia, serves on the Board of the Atlantic Council which has been a major supporter of NATO and US role in Ukraine since 2014.\u00a0 <\/span>So how exactly will Rogers improve the quality of the Republican Senate caucus?\u00a0 <\/span>The Michigan Rogers is not to be confused with Rep. Mike Rogers (Ohio) who currently serves as Chair of the House Intel Committee, and yet, shares the former Mike Rogers RINO tendencies. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It should come as no surprise that consistent polling puts the public\u2019s Congressional approval rating at a mere 17% with the lack of Congressional approval<\/span><\/a> at a solid\u00a0 <\/span>77%.\u00a0 <\/span>The steadily increasing numbers may be attributed to the Uniparty\u2019s preference for conventional, non threatening policies with no real obligation to improve the American quality of life or its historic commitment to self government; instead favoring a hardline position on the Ukraine war, ignoring debt implications of decades of militarism without a financial audit, increased censorship, approval of Biden\u2019s destruction of the country\u2019s judiciary with unqualified nominees, support for an unelected administrative state and challenges to the First and Second Amendments \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Today, an awakened American public have arisen to recognize that a multitude of Members represent an assortment of incompetent lethargic grifters, professional flim-flam artists and political hustlers who hang on ad infinitum for the generous Congressional salary with benefits that they awarded themselves; yet reluctant to do the work.\u00a0 <\/span>What could go wrong with a stress-free House<\/span><\/a> and Senate<\/span><\/a> calendar of liberal at-home \u2018work periods<\/i>,\u2019 avoidance of a demanding work load, less than engaged intellectual analytics while obeying \u2018leadership\u2019<\/i> dictates topped off by negligible public oversight.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is an ongoing public question of whether a feeble Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky) should maintain control of the Republican caucus with a leadership team<\/span><\/a> of\u00a0 <\/span>sycophants, the majority of which are Republicans from red states. \u00a0 <\/span>For obscure reasons, it is shameful that McConnell is allowed to control the Republicans caucus while lacking a seriously functioning Leader, one who might instill much needed vision, energy and integrity into the Senate Republican Party. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

More worrisome is McConnell\u2019s rule in cultivating new Senators who will personally support him and his neanderthal policies with no interest in recruiting candidates with an independent streak, an analytical mind as he is allowed to reign as if untouchable – which says a lot about the Republican caucus.\u00a0 <\/span>The logical question here is whether Senate caucus members will determine their own leader without being treated like children or forced to accept another insipid Minority Senate leader with Uniparty inclinations. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While a united Senate Republican caucus pulling in the same direction would be a positive move, to encourage new leadership and present a legislative alternative to the Democrats totalitarian regime. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While Senators Mitch McConnell (Ky), John Cornyn (Texas)\u00a0 <\/span>and Thune balk at a Biden impeachment inquiry<\/span><\/a> citing a <\/span>lack of evidence<\/span>, Trump\u2019s two Senate impeachments were both considerably more flimsy by comparison.\u00a0 <\/span>Sen. Bill Cassidy (La), a former Democrat and a red state Democrat voter, supported Trump\u2019s 2021 impeachment, has declared he is \u2018not going there\u2019<\/span><\/a> re Biden\u2019s impeachment. \u00a0 <\/span>In February 2021, after he had left office,\u00a0 <\/span>seven Republican<\/span><\/a> voted in favor of Trump\u2019s impeachment; three have since left the Senate, one is on his way out (Romney) and the remaining three (Sens. Collins, Cassidy and Murkowski) regularly voted with the\u00a0 <\/span>Democrats.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In a related leadership matter,\u00a0 <\/span>Sen. Ron Johnson (Wisc) recently incurred a snit<\/span><\/a> from Sen. Susan Collins (Me.) who serves as ranking minority on the Senate Appropriations Committee.\u00a0 <\/span>Johnson suggested a reasonable request that appropriation bills be voted on separately rather than buried within a mini-Omnibus package which is an essential smart move by the House Freedom Caucus.\u00a0 <\/span>However, Collins who votes with the Democrats 99.5% of the time, may therefore lack the authority to demand that another Republican Senator dance to her tune. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The Senate has been broken as long as I have served. The level of dysfunction is grotesque<\/i>,\u201d Johnson told The Hill in a statement. \u201cWe are $33 trillion in debt, and this year the deficit will exceed $1.7 trillion, and we will spend $1.9 trillion more than we spent in FY2019.\u201d<\/i><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s one suggestion:\u00a0 <\/span>If in fact Collins or any other Congressional RINO has discovered they are not in sync with Republican policies or values, they might consider re-registering as a Democrat – and run for re-election in their home red state \u2013 let\u2019s see how that works out.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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