From the moment of Joe Biden’s coup d'état “victory,” in 2020, Democrats, who had spent years telling everyone our elections were vulnerable to manipulation, suddenly began telling us it was the most secure election in American history.
Not long after the inauguration, adding insult to injury,
Molly Ball wrote a long piece in
TIME describing all of the maneuvers and manipulations Democrats had used
to steal the election, and their preparations for “protests” – read violence –
if their coup didn’t succeed. But it did,
and they were, gloating about it.
Since that time, we’ve all come to see exactly what
happened, much of it described in Mollie Hemingway’s bible on the coup: Rigged. We’ve read the Twitter files, we listened to Zuckerberg
on Rogan, and watched Mike Benz on Tucker, not to mention the yeoman’s work
done by Jeff Fulgman on investigating the
blatant fraud in Georgia, one of the swing states that was awarded to
Biden.
Mad doesn’t begin to express the rage inspired by watching them
shred the Constitution and the Republic for four years, trying to kill the
golden goose that has produced more prosperity and more freedom for more people
around the world than any nation in human history.
But now, after Donald Trump won a second term, perhaps a
different perspective is necessary. One of gratitude…
Why gratitude? Clarity. Because of the Democrat’s unprecedented
malevolence Trump has an opportunity like no other president, ever. He knows more than any politician in our
history exactly what his enemies are willing to do to stop him. We’ve watched
it play out over 8 years and now he’s in a position to do something about it. Almost…
Despite Democrat fraud that stole GOP Senate seats in AZ,
MI, NV and WI, Trump still finds himself with a GOP Senate. That body,
ostensibly controlled by Republicans, is as much of a swamp as anything you’ll
find anywhere in the Democrat party. The majority recently elected RINO John
Thune as their leader. What’s more, the
outgoing leader, the anti-Trump Mitch
McConnell has just announced he’ll be chairing the powerful Rules Committee
and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.
At the same time, on the
Senate Appropriations Committee, the single most powerful chairmanship in the
Senate will be occupied by the virulently anti-Trump RINO Susan Collins of Maine.
None of that bodes well for the MAGA agenda.
While casting the deciding vote when the Senate is tied is
something he’s likely to be called upon for, there’s much more that he could
do. The Constitution itself says practically nothing about how the Senate
should be run. It talks about voting and
quorums, passing of laws and more, but virtually nothing about what goes on in
the Senate procedurally. As such, most
of what they do is done because… that’s how they’ve always done it, or at least
for a while. Some of the procedures were voted on by members while others were
put in place by leaders. As an example, the leader of the majority is the most
powerful person in the Senate because he has the first right of recognition by
the chair: “This
perception is based on his ability to make motions to proceed to legislation
and nominations…” That “right” didn’t exist for the first 150
years of the Republic until it was created by Vice President Cactus Jack Garner
while
presiding over the Senate in 1937.
And this is where President Trump needs to utilize Vance. According to
the Senate’s website: “The Senate
is governed by the Constitution, a set of standing rules, precedents
established in the course of the legislative process, and special rules of
procedure adopted by statute for particular types of legislation.” Rules are created
and voted upon by the Senators themselves, and unlike in the House, the rules
apply from one Congress to the next. As
such, those would be difficult to change without a rock solid majority,
something the President sadly doesn’t have.
But precedents are something altogether different. Here’s the thing, as we saw with Plessy and
Roe being overturned at the Supreme Court, precedents are precedents… until
they’re not. And there are a lot of them: 1,600
pages worth!
At a minimum, Vance should eliminate Garner’s rule about the
right of first recognition. From that point forward, he is free to guide the
proceedings by calling upon whoever he chooses. Beyond that, Vance should
scrutinize the Senate’s 1,600 pages of precedents and figure out which ones can
be used to help support the president’s agenda, potentially as they may impact committee
assignments, and adjust them accordingly.
But “Wait!” you say, “That’s not the way that’s supposed to
work!” Well, it is true that the Senate was specifically crafted to balance the
passions of the masses as represented in the House and to a lesser degree the
White House. That however was when States were considered equal partners in our
federal system of government and appointed Senators. But of course, the leftists eviscerated the
original intent of that body with
the 17th Amendment and as a result the Senate has become simply
a more entrenched version of the House.
If therefore, a cabal of geriatric swamp loving RINOs wants to try and
shanghai the president’s mandate because the closeness of the balance in the
chamber gives them the opportunity to do so, Trump should, paraphrasing Sean
Connery in The Untouchables, bring a Constitutional gun to their knife fight
and keep them from doing so.
To those who cry that if we do it, they’ll do it later, I
say, so be it. The reality is, Democrats don’t need this in order to try and destroy
the Republic. They nuked
the filibuster, which went back to our Founding
Fathers, they were prepared
to add Puerto Rico and DC as states to permanently alter the balance in the
Senate, to pack
the Supreme Court to turn it into a progressive rubber stamp and they
imported 30 million illegals in order to control
the House. The Democrats don’t need precedent to do anything. They do what
they want, period.
The fact is the swamp is an existential
threat to freedom, prosperity and the Republic. Donald Trump must take
advantage of this moment and the powers the Constitution provides to eviscerate
it, now. If he doesn’t do it now, when the winds of change are so strong and
America’s desires so clear, it will never happen. He should not let a handful of geriatric
RINOs stand in the way of exorcising the bureaucratic cancer of the swamp that menaces
American citizens and ravages America’s prosperity. If he allows them to
prevail it will be a betrayal of the nation and he will go down as the greatest
disappointment in American history.
