Republicans Need to Fight Now, Or Learn To Wear Their Chains

Sheriff David Clarke (retired)  has let the Congressional Republicans have it with both barrels.  I could not agree more.  Like Clarke, while I do not admire much about the Democrats, I do admire their fighting spirit and their ability to stick together.  They defend so much that is indefensible, I have to wonder at their sense of dissociation.  In normal settings, one would think such people must be clinically insane.

Sheriff Clarke writes today at Townhall.com in an article entitled Dear GOP in Congress: Put Up or Shut Up. He points out that what the Democrats are doing is not gentlemanly, but bare knuckles street fighting. The GOP needs to take off the white gloves and fight the same way.

I give credit where credit is due. I don’t admire much about the Democrat Party but I do admire their ability to fight. They never quit—they never stop advancing, and even when they are on defense like they were for two years after the 2016 election with no power in Washington D.C., they kept the pressure on the GOP.

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In politics, once you win, you have to follow it up by winning at legislation and winning political arguments in the court of public opinion. You must always be advancing. There is no holding on as was the plan of the Republican National Committee in the 2018 midterms. They hunkered down and hoped the slaughter would be minimal. It was worse than that. It was an old-fashioned butt whooping. They went from being on offense to now having to play defense in the House of Representatives. California nearly wiped out the GOP, winning congressional seats long held by Republicans. The Democrats know how to play defense. The GOP does not. On defense, they still try to get along with the left. For so-called intelligent people, they haven’t figured out that there is no getting along with the left. They left wants to kill us, figuratively and literally. Ask Steve Scalise and anybody violently attacked by the goons from Antifa.

Here is how the GOP played on offense when they controlled the House and Senate. Speaker Ryan failed to call the USMCA for approval. Trump signed it on Nov. 30, 2018, with more than enough time to get it done before Nancy Pelosi took the gavel from the GOP. Many on the Republican side forget that. They did not make the tax cuts permanent; they failed to deal with immigration or pass national concealed carry reciprocity. They fought Trump’s attempts at border wall funding, and failed to get an infrastructure bill to the President’s desk. Now they want to blame Pelosi for not bringing these crucial pieces of legislation for a vote? Please.

The promises being made by the Democrats to secure votes make it perfectly clear that those who disagree will be destroyed. Republicans either need to fight, or learn to wear their chains. Please read the whole thing, and ponder.