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Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
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@JohnBoozman and @TomCottonAR are giving away a crucial federal appellate court vacancy to Democrats.
NEW: Apparent standoff continues between Arkansas Sens. Cotton and Boozman and Trump admin, over who will be named to the 8th Circuit vacancy, their preference being John Shepherd over Trump-pick Lee Rudofsky.
The Senate Judiciary Committee placed an * next to Rudofsky, indicating his consideration is being postponed to a future hearing.
Preferences aside, Rs DO NOT have the time to be playing these games when Senate control is about to shift.
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
Both sides are now promising to investigate the other side's donors. Garcia says his committee will chase corporate corruption. Asked about it Sunday night, the President said: "Well, then we'll investigate their donors."
Here's where the serious version of that inquiry lives. Last month I coined a term, AstroNGO™️: an NGO with no organic need or demand, totally a creature of Progressive billionaires' lavish donations. I counted three of them on one amicus brief attacking DOJ's California election case. Days later I counted 10 lawyers on a single Norm Eisen filing. That isn't grassroots. It's a funded litigation apparatus.
The right tool for that is sunlight, not a criminal referral: who funds which litigation shops, and how the money moves. Whether conduct is a crime requires evidence and legal analysis. Funding networks require transparency. Don't confuse the two.
And a fair question for the incoming majority: if you're about to subpoena Republican donors, will you accept the same disclosure standard for the AstroNGOs™️ on your side?
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
🚨 JUST IN: The US Senate just ADVANCED the President Trump-backed American affordability and jobs bill, by a vote of 73-25 — a HUGE step toward freeing America to BUILD again
TRUMP: "This Landmark Permitting Reform Legislation will codify our America First Energy Agenda, and ensure that we can build Pipelines, Mines, and Power Plants faster than ever before, lowering Energy Costs for American Families, and creating High Paying American Jobs." 🇺🇸
- Has data centers pay the full cost of the new grid they need
- Speeds up at least $10 BILLION a year in HUD housing money
- Ends automatic historic preservation reviews for many federally backed housing projects
- Requires planning for power lines across regions, with a federal backstop when states or localities block them
Get it to President Trump's desk ASAP!
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
This is who Thomas Massie just stupidly defended in Congress today…
He defended their actions to conspire against the President of the United States.
- Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.)
- Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.)
- Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.)
- Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.)
- Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.)
- Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.)
This is called Sedition….
Sedition falls under 18 U.S.C. § 2384 for seditious conspiracy, which involves plotting to overthrow the government by force. Conviction carries a penalty of fines, imprisonment up to 20 years, or both.
rumble.com/v71yo0q-dem-lawma…
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
Thune is a traitor that said fuck you to almost 80 million Americans that voted Trump into the White House.
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
Nah man. I’m not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can’t.
I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.
We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.
Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.
His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that’s not good.
GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.
We were lectured for years about “courageous restraint.” We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.
And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the fucking sand.
So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.
Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like…. actual enemies for once.
That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.
From where I sit, the betrayal isn’t that Washington finally found some aggression for a chang. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.
No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.
And I’m done pretending those are the same thing. We’re all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.
Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.
Breaking News: Congressman Thomas Massie is reading Articles of Impeachment against @SecWar Pete Hegseth on the House floor now.
Watch here: youtube.com/live/3EmwC0QQ8f8…
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
🚨 JUST IN: Former Clarence Thomas clerk John Yoo just RIPPED APART Democrats' planned legal weaponization against Chief of Staff Stephen Miller
"You CAN'T really go after Stephen Miller."
"Stephen Miller, and in fact all White House aides, may have a constitutional privilege NOT to appear before Congress because the Supreme Court has recognized that privilege extends to the discussion between the president and his highest aides." 🔥
"There's a long tradition. White House aides do NOT have to testify before Congress because they're just acting as part of the White House."
"Congress doesn't just have a FISHING PERMIT to conduct investigations of whoever it wants for whatever reason." 🎯
So what, they're going to spend their midterm win on trying relentlessly to persecute STEPHEN MILLER?
Because Miller wants to deport illegal aliens and enforce laws CONGRESS PASSED?
What a freaking JOKE.
It's Miller time as of today and they aren't getting past AG Todd Blanche!
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
NEWS: Ron Johnson plans to walk out of the room if leadership elections move forward on Tuesday:
“If you hold the election, I’ll leave the room,” he told me this afternoon. “I’m not going to participate in elections for leadership tomorrow.” washingtonexaminer.com/news/…
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
Well said.
Amnesty is suicide for Republicans.Not one of those 12 million who broke our laws will vote Republican.Obama is laughing at @GOP.
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
If the Biden Administration had concluded that Iran was such a serious nuclear threat, why did they give Iran billions of dollars instead of doing something to stop the threat?
This seems like a question that "smart" people like Thomas Massie would have asked. Am I wrong?
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
Imagine losing the Senate a week ago, getting beat from Kansas to Texas, and the first thing the man who ran the place does is send word down the line that he does not want Tim Burchett in the seat Marsha Blackburn is leaving… because Tim might not do what leadership tells him to do.
There it is. Not that he is unqualified, not that he cannot win, not that he did something wrong… he might not obey.
And Tim's answer is the best thing I have heard out of Washington all week. "I love the fact that he's not for me." Then he says the big players in the party, the one or two who pull the strings and write the big checks, have never been for him and are always for him the day after the election. Read that again, because a sitting congressman just told you out loud how the club actually works.
Let me explain why this matters. John Thune just presided over what his own colleagues are calling a "stunning defeat," and Senate Republicans are still lined up to hand him the minority leader job, so much so that Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, Mike Lee, John Kennedy and others had to sign a letter just to ask for a meeting first to talk about what went wrong. How is it that the guy who lost the majority has time to work against a Tennessee appointment but no time to answer for the loss? Who exactly is he protecting that seat from, the Democrats or his own voters?
Here is the reality. The uniparty does not fear losing to the left nearly as much as it fears one more person in that chamber who will not take the call. They can live in the minority, they have done it before and the checks still clear. What they cannot live with is someone who reads the bill, says no to the omnibus, and goes home and tells you what happened in the room.
Now keep in mind, Tim says this came from an off the record conversation with a prominent media figure, and none of it has been confirmed by Thune. Fine. Then Thune can clear it up in public, today, in one sentence. I will wait.
The good news is Governor elect Blackburn already said Washington does not decide who the senator from Tennessee is, she does, and she is exactly right. Tim says he is running in 2028 either way.
@MarshaBlackburn, the people of Tennessee are watching who you listen to. Appoint the man the swamp does not want.
End stop.
🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Tim Burchett just FIRED BACK at John Thune reportedly trying to BLOCK his appointment to the US Senate by Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn (TN), per @toddstarnes
"I LOVE the fact that he's not for me!"
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Burchett says a prominent media figure told him Thune "had sent the word out that he does not want me, because I would not do what leadership told me to do."
His response: "You know what? You're EXACTLY RIGHT."
"The big boys are not for me. The big, big players in the party, the one or two that pull a lot of the strings, that write the big checks, they're not for me. They've never been for me. They're always for me the day after the election."
Keep being FOR THE PEOPLE, @timburchett
Burchett has said he'll just run for the seat anyway if he's not appointed.
NOTE: This is NOT Blackburn giving indication as to who she'd appoint. It's ENTIRELY up to her — her Senate seat, and her governorship!
Hopefully she goes with Burchett, he's a good man 🙏🏻
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
I get why Massie is furious, he got screwed.
But he has gone off the deep end in his quest for revenge.
I thought he actually believed in and lived by conservative principles.
I was wrong.
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
Norm Eisen is one of the main architects of political lawfare & the weaponization of govt. He was also a key player in the treasonous Russia conspiracy. He should already have been held accountable for his crimes.
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE
TWO Maine REPs Appeared To WIN... AAAAND Then Came
The OVERSEAS BALLOTS!
Overseas ballots REVERSED the outcome in AT LEAST 2 races.
Some of the ballots were for voters who have NOT lived in Maine since Childhood
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
Imagine crying “impeach Pete Hegseth!” all while saying absolutely NOTHING about this. My my, I wonder why.
Do you know what I think an impeachable offense is? The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
But since we live in a world where radical ideologues invert reality: success is punished and failure is rewarded. This explains everything about government “meritocracy”.
Stunning displays of martial prowess are now the “impeachable” offense.
Stunning displays of martial ineptitude? Promotions, book deals, adoration.
Pete Hegseth is in the crosshairs for embodying the absolute antithesis of the Afghan withdrawal. And the politicians driven by envy will never forgive him for it.
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
Devastating. Former MLB player and pastor of the Foursquare church I went to in Yakima, WA was hit head-on by a drunk driver. His lovely wife was killed and he's in critical condition. Send your prayers and good energy to Dave Edler and his family. He is a good man.
Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Tim Burchett just FIRED BACK at John Thune reportedly trying to BLOCK his appointment to the US Senate by Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn (TN), per @toddstarnes
"I LOVE the fact that he's not for me!"
🔥🔥
Burchett says a prominent media figure told him Thune "had sent the word out that he does not want me, because I would not do what leadership told me to do."
His response: "You know what? You're EXACTLY RIGHT."
"The big boys are not for me. The big, big players in the party, the one or two that pull a lot of the strings, that write the big checks, they're not for me. They've never been for me. They're always for me the day after the election."
Keep being FOR THE PEOPLE, @timburchett
Burchett has said he'll just run for the seat anyway if he's not appointed.
NOTE: This is NOT Blackburn giving indication as to who she'd appoint. It's ENTIRELY up to her — her Senate seat, and her governorship!
Hopefully she goes with Burchett, he's a good man 🙏🏻
REMOVE SWAMP LIAR @LeaderJohnThune and His Fellow @POTUS 🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump BLOCKERS, THWARTERS who are MITCHES...Barrasso, Lankford, Cotton et al .
While Republicans are prepared to work in a bipartisan way, we will also emphatically oppose Democrats when required to protect hardworking Americans and our system of government. The election wasn’t a mandate for radical policy and socialist fantasies, and I hope Democrats realize this.
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Bethann Poole 🎶🇺🇲 retweeted
🚨 HUGE WIN: The Senate just voted 73-25 to ADVANCE President Trump’s major affordability & jobs bill!
Slashing red tape, unleashing American energy, building pipelines, and lowering costs for families.
America is finally ready to BUILD again. Pass it and get it to Trump’s desk! 🇺🇸