My co-blogger and I have often acknowledged that the Republican Party is full of spineless, misguided charlatans, hypocrites and incompetents. However, we also maintain that the GOP is all that stands in the way of hard-left, radical Democrats taking the levers of power and steering our nation straight into the ditch.
In recent months, Democrats, their media stooges and the crackpots of academia have become more unhinged with their actions, statements and proposed policies. Openly socialist candidates have been winning Democrat primary elections, and ugly gutter language is regularly used to demonize conservatives and Republicans, with liberals not batting an eyelash. Calls for civility are basically hollow, as the leftists usually don't practice what they preach. Besides, the two camps are so many light years apart, it is the epitome of naivete to think they could actually find common ground on the major issues.
We've known for a long time that the rabid Left wants to impeach President Trump if it can succeed in taking over the House of Representatives. But while the Blue Wave may not be as likely as Democrats think, even if it does happen, a Democrat-controlled House by itself is not the end of the world. However, should the Democrats take control of both the House and the Senate, THAT would present serious problems.
Although the Democrats would not have enough votes in the Senate to remove the president from office if he is brought to trial through the impeachment process, they would have enough votes to torpedo any and all Supreme Court nominees President Trump would present. Then, heaven forbid, if a Democrat were elected president in 2020, the makeover of the Supreme Court into a leftist cudgel would proceed in full force.
So I would submit that Senate Republicans who don't have a spine, who are lacking the cajones, regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the reckless 11th hour charges being brought against him, are digging their own grave. If the GOP doesn't promptly move through the confirmation process, but instead allows the Democrat senators, media and social media shitstorm to scare them into backing down (whether than means withdrawing the nomination or voting against Kavanaugh, as Jeff Flake and others have threatened to do), there will be hell to pay.
I can foresee a scenario much like 2006, when millions of Republicans were disgusted with George W. Bush and the GOP for scandals, for spending money like drunken sailors and also for demonstrating appalling incompetence in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. My guess is there were more Republicans sitting on their hands than there were independents voting Democrat, but there were plenty of both. Consequently, the Democrats took over the House and Senate, and won a majority of the state governorships.
Republicans and conservative independents are already restive, as spending continues to be out of control, the president has not moved forward with his vaunted wall on the Mexican border, and the hard-left IT world is practicing censorship of conservatives with utter impunity. A word to the wise in the Senate: Let down the public on the Kavanaugh nomination, and you'll be digging your own graves and those of your GOP buddies.
One of the most interesting sub-plots will be to see whether Sen. Flake and Sen. Bob Corker, both of whom despise Trump, will vote to tweak his nose even though they know Kavanaugh is an excellent choice for the Supreme Court and that their 'no' votes will harm our nation. Surprisingly, both voted for the tax cut / tax reform bill back in December. So there is still hope.
But for those of us with a jaundiced eye, who subscribe to the old "Evil Party / Stupid Party" dynamic, it wouldn't be surprising at all to see this whole fiasco blow up in the Republicans' face.
Oh well, there's always prayer...
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