Burr, Tillis voted to confirm Biden AG Merrick Garland
We sure aren’t getting much in return for our investment in TWO registered Republicans in the US Senate. We’ve been told by party leaders we need Burr and Tillis in place to support GOP judges and nominees, and to oppose those offered by Dems.
Richard Burr has been there a while. He’s backed liberal judges who have done things like overturn HB2 and OK gay marriage.
Tillis, who sits on the judiciary committee, has helped sweep a number of liberal nominees through the Senate. He left a good conservative judicial nominee, Raleigh’s Tom Farr, hanging out to dry.
Merrick Garland has been in the news quite a bit. Biden’s attorney general has made headlines for rounding up Trump supporters for the crime of being in DC on Jan. 6, 2021 — many without charges or bail or court hearings. Garland has boasted about how HE approved the unprecedented warrant and mission to raid President Trump’s Florida residence. (Burr knows a wee bit about being stalked by FBI agents.). Garland has pushed for federal hate crime charges for Louisville cops cleared of murder charges by a state jury.
Garland’s troops targeted irate parents who showed up at local school board meetings. He and his team also refused to protect Supreme Court justices following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Remember the mobs in front of their houses?
This guy sounds like the type we were told Burr and Tillis would go to DC and vehemently oppose. But sadly, they did not. It appears our pair of dingleberries were two of 20 Republican senators to vote with Democrats to confirm Garland. Some might argue that neither Tillis nor Burr could know that Garland would turn out so radical. From what I’ve seen, Garland made it pretty clear in his confirmation hearings what he was going to be all about:
After Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice oversaw an FBI raid on the private home of former President Donald Trump, the 20 Republicans who joined Democrats to confirm Garland’s nomination as attorney general must emphatically condemn the nominee they once supported or voters should replace them in their primaries.
When Garland was confirmed in March 2021, only 30 of 50 Republican senators voted against it. The other 20 — Senators Blunt, Burr, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, Grassley, Inhofe, Johnson, Lankford, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Thune, and Tillis — all joined Democrats to approve Garland’s nomination.
Some of those 30, like Grassley and Johnson, have since strongly criticized Garland’s tenure as attorney general and had already condemned the raid by Tuesday morning, to their credit. But others have been conspicuously silent, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who praised Garland’s “long reputation as a straight-shooter and legal expert” at the time of his confirmation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Garland “would be a sound choice to be the next Attorney General. He is a man of great character, integrity, and tremendous competency in the law.” […]
Wow. *That’s SOME opposition party we’ve got there.*
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Although some tried to portray Garland as a “moderate,” he had already shown by the end of his confirmation hearings that he was far from it. In accepting Biden’s nomination, Reuters reported, “Garland said he believes the department’s top priorities will be ‘ensuring racial equity’ and ‘meeting the evolving threat of violent extremism.’” That’s easy code for pushing leftist race politics and targeting conservatives whom Garland views as a political threat.
In his hearing, Garland refused to answer “whether illegally entering the country should remain a crime.” He also refused to say whether he would protect female athletes from having their privacy and victories interrupted by men, and refused to commit to releasing special counsel John Durham’s report probing the Russia collusion hoax against Donald Trump. Those red flags and others contributed to opposition from senators like Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and others.[…]
So, anyone who paid attention to Garland’s confirmation hearings should have known. (*Ol’ Tilli$$$ must have been asleep up on the committee dais.*)
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[…] Cruz explained his “no” vote on Garland’s confirmation because Garland had “refused to make clear that he would stand against the politicization of the department, which we saw during the Obama-Biden years.” Scott called Garland a “radical” who might “politicize” the Department of Justice. In a scathing takedown of Garland’s positions, Cotton said that “when he did answer questions, he sounded more like a liberal ideologue who would embrace the radical agenda of the Democratic party’s far left base.”
“If confirmed,” Cotton added, “I’m afraid that he’ll enable extremists in the Justice Department to undermine our police, our Constitution, and our rule of law.”
Since his appointment, Garland has continued showing himself to be nothing but a partisan hack. One of his most stunning acts of corruption was the reliance on a letter from the National School Boards Association — since revealed to have been planted by the Biden Education Department — to sic the FBI on concerned parents showing up to school board meetings.
After the Supreme Court’s leaked Dobbs decision saw radical abortion activists firebombing and vandalizing pregnancy support clinics around the country, Garland put more public effort into opposing the decision than opposing the violence. He refused to enforce the law when demonstrators waged a pressure and intimidation campaign at justices’ private homes, culminating in an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s life.
In other Supreme Court decisions too, the Garland DOJ has shown its politicization by “respectfully disagreeing” with outcomes it has no legitimate reason to comment on. It has raided other Republicans’ homes in an obvious lead-up to its Mar-a-Lago raid. And Garland has ignored whistleblower reports that the FBI covered up evidence against Hunter Biden in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election involving his father.
Under Garland, the DOJ refused to investigate the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents at the hands of incompetent blue state leaders who forced Covid patients into their facilities. Garland personally announced the DOJ’s lawsuit against Texas for its law protecting the lives of babies in utero after a heartbeat is detectable.
It’s obvious Merrick Garland is no “straight shooter,” and Republicans who aren’t actively opposing the political weaponization of his federal law enforcement agency are part of the problem. Voters should be watching how their elected representatives respond — or don’t — to his most recent and most outrageous abuse of power.
Our two dingleberries need to explain to all of us WHY they voted to confirm this guy when all of this troubling information was out there. If Republicans would have stood firm, there would have been at least a 50-50 tie. The optics of VP Kamala herself casting the tie-breaking vote would have been worth their weight in gold.
Even more important — a strong stand against radical leftism would have sent a strong message to the folks back home that DC Republicans have not forgotten them. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell.
NC and SC have the worst senators in the USA.
HOW supposedly 2 conservative states and ‘conservative’ is meant very loosely end up with the likes of Tim Scott and Lindsay Graham and Burr and Tillis.
Cue Ted Budd! IS HE alive? Does he exist?
NOW would have been the time he’s gun’s a blazing out in front of all these disasters we call Ukraine (voted for it). FBI, DOJ, Biden Bills, and on and on ….
I find no senators that call themselves ‘conservative, worth a darn, across the USA.
The GOP has become one big joke of bigwigs that are as determined as dems and all other politicians with lining their pockets with lobby $$$ and dam** the voters they represent.
Insider Trading is an everyday occurrence. Paul Pelosi, Jr on Nancy’s Asian/Taiwan trip SHOULD BE AN IMMEDIATE outrage and call for censorship; knowing full well he’s on that trip for personal gain. Unannounced member of trip and hopefully never to be discovered….
FBI, DOJ, IRS, Wray, Garland, McCabe, et als WILL NEVER see the day there is any honor or respect and definitely any trust among them. It’s GONE and never to return. They are seen ‘as the enemy’ and they are used as political weapons and armies to keep the little (and some big) people in line and fearful of ‘the boss/bosses’…..Get out of line and see who comes calling. Rise up and see how long before the IRS destroys you, your biz and your household…. Life in a 3rd world country, regime; yet, it’s the United States of America.
Burr was about to be tripped up; got the message and straightened right up and got ‘right’ with the bosses and it all went away, conveniently, for him and b-i-l. That’s ‘the game’.
I don’t think dingleberry Republicans, like Burr and Tillis, have forgotten the folks back home in North Carolina. I think those dingleberries hate us. I hope and pray I’ll see the 17th Amendment repealed in my lifetime. The GOP as a whole: Worthless.
In the long history of the U.S. Senate, I’m sure there are few (if any) Senators who have so consistently disappointed, failed, and betrayed their home state constituents as have Richard Burr and Thom Tillis. Burr will soon be out of office, and we can all be thankful for that. Tillis will continue to be an albatross around our necks until 2026. We can only hope he rides off into the sunset at that point, and that a solid conservative will clean up the mess he leaves behind.
Voters need to pay very close attention to the candidates Tillis is funding in 2022. While Tillis may not be on the ballot, EVERY candidate he is fundraising for or with will be owned by him and his left policies. Tillis wants amnesty (already working on this with Durbin), overhaul of the Electoral College (working on that with Susan Collins) and EVERY candidate he funds will owe him their vote on these issues. Nothing in the SWAMP is free.