🧵 1. McConnell’s attacks on Donald Trump & Rick Scott are indefensible
Those running for Senate GOP leadership posts need to weigh in on this & commit never to sabotage Republican candidates & colleagues—particularly those who are less than two weeks away from a close election
2. We must have clarity from the candidates running to replace McConnell on where they stand on these attacks. They must be clear on how they plan to lead the conference, and on the role of its members
3. The Senate Republican leader is supposed to help Republicans, not undermine them
Sadly, we’ve had too much of the latter
That must end now
4. Remember: McConnell’s superpac has withheld campaign support from Ted Cruz and Rick Scott this election season, an incomprehensible move for a Senate GOP “strong leader” who wants to keep Texas and Florida and gain a majority in the Senate
🧵1. Congress should be *passing* the SAVE Act to stop noncitizens from voting—not paying leftists to lobby against it
The Labor/HHS spending bill advanced by the Senate Appropriations Committee contains an earmark giving $500,000 to leftists falsely claiming the SAVE Act would “disenfranchise millions of Americans”
🧵 1. The massive fraud schemes in Minnesota—billions in stolen federal funds from child nutrition, autism services, housing stabilization & childcare programs—aren’t just a failure of oversight
These areas (welfare, education aid, health services) lie far outside Congress’s enumerated powers under the Constitution
And they likely represent just the tip of a much larger iceberg—with other schemes going on in many other states
2. Strictly speaking, the federal government has no sound constitutional authority—rooted in the plain text and original understanding of that document—to run or fund state-level social welfare programs like these
3. When Congress acts where it’s not authorized, that’s an overreach
As the Tenth Amendment makes clear, functions not deemed federal by the Constitution are reserved to the states or to the people
Nothing in the Constitution authorizes Congress to fund Somali daycare centers
đź§µReturn of the Walking Earmarks: A Deadly Epidemicđź§µ
1/ After a decade-long moratorium, Congress has reverted to “congressionally directed spending”—the polite, new name for pork-barrel projects subtly slipped into must-pass bills with almost no review or opportunity for debate
2/ Earmarks are sold as “only 1% of spending,” but that 1% creates a corrupting process that helps perpetuate $2 trillion annual deficits
Let’s talk about why they’re so toxic ok
3/ Legalized Vote “Purchasing”
Members trade votes on massive spending bills for pet projects back home
“You vote for my bridge to nowhere, I’ll vote for your turtle tunnel”
It’s not about good policy
It’s about buying votes with taxpayer money—all to make politicians look good
🚨🧵🚨 1/10 Government shutdowns aren’t a bug—they’re a feature of a system that’s grown too big and too expensive
They illustrate why James Madison insisted the federal government’s powers must be “few and defined”
Let’s break it down
2/10 In Federalist 45, Madison wrote:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”
He wasn’t being poetic
He was drawing a line in the sand
3/10 “Few and defined” includes:
• National defense
• Foreign affairs
• Interstate & foreign commerce
• Coining money
• Post offices & roads
There are a few others, but that’s most of it
Everything else?
Left to the states—“or to the people”
But today?
The feds touch everything—including education, healthcare, light bulbs, toilets, and your kids’ lunch at school
At the “No Kings” rallies, we saw countless, open calls for violence against President Trump and other Republicans
When pressed, some Democrats will shrug and insist that “both sides have bad apples who sometimes say bad things, but that doesn’t mean they reflect the views of their party as a whole”
That sounds like a good argument—and in the past it might have been
But open calls for violence among Democrats have recently become so common, widely accepted, and even celebrated—as they certainly were at the “No Kings” rallies—that this argument rings hollow
Those engaging in such behavior over the weekend appear to have done so with full, unbridled approval of their fellow protesters
And this happened in so many times—and in so many different locations—that it’s impossible to dismiss them as one-off exceptions
Please share this post if you agree, commenting on any examples you found especially troubling
This guy’s promoting the killing of federal law enforcement personnel—with the apparent approval of the crowd
Dick proudly announces that he wants to “kill the president”