From revolutionaries to surrender monkeys?
When the GOP first took over in Raleigh over a decade ago, we heard a lot about “conservative revolution” and dramatic change in our state government. Unfortunately, the only change we got was a different set of hands pocketing our money and taking care of cronies.
Today, we don’t have much of a political opposition in Raleigh. Republicans have a slimmer majority than they had in 2010. They still have the votes to pass legislation important to their voters and in line with the party platform. Unfortunately, we’re getting a lot more spending, an expansion of Medicaid, and protection of the gay political lobby’s role in administering public education, among others.
Republican “leaders” fret publicly about not having Democrat votes. The absence of a veto-proof majority is flaunted as an excuse for not pursuing conservative policies. Why not pass conservative legislation and make the Dems vote against it and veto it? Some great ads could result: “Roy Cooper and his gang think you don’t need to know what they’re doing to your kids every week at school.”
Instead, we’re getting a lot of what the minority Democrat legislators and the Democrat governor want. Everybody is acting like one big party — one happy family. What happened to the folks who promised to cut spending and shrink government if we voted for them? We’re hearing all this talk about a “red wave” in November. The GOP has majorities now. If they won’t pursue conservative policies NOW, what makes you think they’ll do it with bigger majorities?
The latest head-scratcher comes from Speaker Timmy, who blocked consideration of The Parents’ Bill of Rights. Why? Because it might be too “divisive,” and there would not be enough Democrat votes. Yes, that is your “Republican” speaker speaking.
Why block consideration of something so overwhelmingly popular with your voters? My bet is that there is a big donor behind the scenes who wants to fund the GOP, but likes the gay / tranny influence in K-12 education. With this crowd on Jones Street, it is rarely about principle. It is almost always about MONEY.
The belly-aching about the veto-proof majority is also a sham. Berger and Timmy want to ensure they are the MEN TO SEE to get anything passed in Raleigh FOREVER. EVEN if a Republican gets elected governor in 2024. That person will be set in the corner and will be subject to the whims of Timmy and Phil. There’s an awful lot about THEM, and not a whole lot about serving US.
If this UNIPARTY sham stays on course through November, the GOPe might be stunned at the overwhelming lack of enthusiasm out in the hinterlands. They could be front-row witnesses to the squandering of what should have been a fantastic opportunity.
And our 2 esteemed GOP’ers in the Senate VOTED FOR Dems gun bill.
HOW lucky are we in NC that we GET 2 of the worst suckers in the senate?
THE worst enemy to the gop, NC IS the gop…
Come Nov 2022, I HAVE NO CONFIDENCE in ANY republican from state to the national level.
NONE..
i’m DONE with these frauds.
The same sad spectacle is going on in Washington, and Thom Tillis and Richard Burr are in the thick of selling us out on a wide variety of issues. Gun control, and the horrid red flag laws that goose step all over due process, are front and center right now with both NC RINOs acting like Democrats. Another RINO leading the charge on that, John Cornyn got loudly booed at his state GOP convention in Texas for his selling out on gun control.
But that is not the only issue. Senator Rand Paul put up legislation to require balanced federal budgets. Among the RINOs voting against it were, you guessed it, Tillis and Burr. Now these phonies don’t like balanced budgets either? Having they not been keeping up with what is happening to our citizens with inflation?
Then there is immigration. Tillis has joined a Senate ”gang” to put together a “bi-partisan” immigration bill including amnesty for illegal aliens. Does he think that is what North Carolina voters or indeed the American people want? Turncoat Tillis is just working for the special interests, not the voters who made the mistake of electing him.
Mitch McConnell is in the thick of all of this, backing the gun control fiasco, opposing the balanced budget legislation, and encouraging an immigration sellout. I hope Ted Budd is primed to go to DC to help replace McConnell with a real Republican as Senate leader. That is the most important vote Ted Budd could cast.
We also desperately need to replace liberal sell outs Tim Moore and Phil Berger. Berger has now drifted off to the left of even where Marc Basnight stood. We need real Republican state senators who will “flip the Berger” when it comes to Senate leadership. Ditto for Terrible Tim Moore.
Accurate assessment sadly,
I hear that Senator Cornyn has stated that he would not be influenced by a mob. It’s interesting that he equates Texas GOP Convention delegates to a mob. How arrogant these people are while they are in the midst of betraying the Constitution, our principles, and the people who placed their trust in them.
Betrayal is nothing to be proud of and sabotage is a poor policy.
Now Timmy the Traitor Moore is trying to sell us out on Obamacare Medicaid expansion, in spite of the House GOP caucus voting unanimously NOT to do Medicaid expansion. Suckweasel Tim Moore is now little more than a Roy Cooper operative. He even had Cooper’s DHHS help him draft his Medicaid expansion bill, which seems to use gimmics to claim it is not really Medicaid expansion, a trick tried once before in the House.
Conservatives need to stand up to Moore now and to dethrone him in January.
Amen and amen. NC House “leadership” are all RINOs. We need to unseat all of them and hand power to the real conservatives.
Brant, it sounds like you miss the 7% and 7.75% income tax rates that were in effect right before the Republicans became the majority party 🙂
Tim Moore and Phil Berger’s selling out to Roy Cooper on NC’s Green New Deal, HB951 will cost us A LOT MORE than what we save on taxes. Instead of being full spectrum conservatives, the Berger and Moore show is to be liberal on a whole lot of things and on occasional random things do something conservative. The grassroots needs to rise up and replace this Benedict Arnold leadership with real leaders who will govern across the board as conservatives.
As much as I hate to say it, I don’t think you’re ever going to get any real conservatives elected to positions of power. It is not permitted. Even if we were to get one in, the system is so corrupt that he or she probably would not be able to resist the temptation, and our “conservative” would turn into another Tim or Phil.
I always hope I’m wrong so I will keep working diligently for conservatives. However, it’s getting harder and harder to have any enthusiasm for the system. Look at Jim Perry in the Senate. He’s coming on strong and poised to knock Phil out of his chair. That would be trading a headache for a toothache.
Our local party organizations need to get back into the business of recruiting legislative candidates and not let “Raleigh” do that. Power is being centralized too much in Raleigh.
You are dead on the money as to Jim Perry, who is a special interest hack without a conservative bone in his body, much worse than even Berger, who has gone native within the Raleigh beltway. Berger is a poster boy for term limits. He was actually a conservative at one time.
Nobody in the party had ever heard of Perry until he decided he wanted to be a legislator. Perry was bored and looking for something to do after he sold his company, which specialized in buying out local medical practices and combining them into corporate medicine. Perry is a special interest hack, and big medicine is one of the special interests he works for in Raleigh. Big utility interests and wind / solar grifters are another.. Perry has been one of those leading the charge repeatedly for anti-conservative legislation like sports gambling, Obamacare Medicaid expansion, and the Green New Deal. A telling story is making the rounds that when a delegation of GOP activists from Craven County, one of the new counties in the district he is running in, went to talk to him about the Medicaid expansion bill, Perry haughtily told them “I don’t care what you think.”
Reaganite,
I have known Jim Perry for over 40 years. Our kids grew up together and he coached our soccer and basketball teams for a number of years. You are incredibly misinformed. He was never involved with medical practices. He was in the dental field and they signed contracts with dentists to help them open practices. There was no “corporate medicine.” You just make stuff up. The guy is a friggin modern day success story who fought his way out of the trailer parks.
Those folks in the wind industry hate him because of his defense of air space around low level training routes. His father in law was a helo pilot and had command down at New River.
He HAS risen quickly. He raises a ton of money. He is smarter than you are and he outworks everyone. You were the most ineffective lawmaker in the history of the General Assembly. I called him last night and asked him about you wrote above. “That guy is a liar. The topic was medical freedom and I told him I did not care about his opinions as they relate to someone else choose medical marijuana over opioids. I don’t think we can spend the last two years complaining about the Government interfering with our medical decisions, then then saying Government should force someone to only have Oxycontin as an option.”
I would love to see you debate him on the math regarding any of those subjects above. He will eat your lunch. He always does his homework. Y’all are so full of it. He has no plans to challenge Berger – that is made up too.. I don’t know how long he will stay, but I will take 10 of him up there versus ever having another guy like you. You did nothing but give a bunch of embarrassing floor speeches and vote with Democrats.
Absolutely right, far too many county GOP groups focus on making noise and not making a difference!
NotaYankee,
You do not know who I am, but the info on Perry’s comment was told to me by another legislator, whose information I trust above yours. Again, I trust my sources, which are outside the legislature, on what his company did.
Your comment on the wind / solar issue seems to ignore the fact that 1) he has received contributions from the green energy grifters, 2) he was a major supporter of NC’s Green New Deal, HB951, which is more radical than even the EU’s equivalent, and 3) he received maximum contributions from “woke” Duke Energy which is intent on “virtue signalling” to the green left to build up their left wing “ESG” score.
But, I’ll let Brant school you more on Perry and the Big Wind grifters from this Daily Haymaker article: https://dailyhaymaker.com/ncga-jim-perry-solar-and-wind-goon/
Perry is an operative of Big Medicine and has been pushing their agenda on issues like the Obamacare Medicaid expansion heavily. He is bought and paid for by the special interests.
That was back toward 2010 when the GA GOP leaders still pretended to be at least somewhat conservative. And every year since then, the NC Senate and House caucuses have grown progressively more corrupt, and decidedly less conservative. They think they’re going to get supermajorities this year but they’ve forgotten to unite the Party and even in a red wave, they can’t take battleground districts for granted.. A couple of examples…….the Raleigh boys decided their favorite was going to win House district 5 and they intervened in the primary and in doing so, POed a lot of Kirkland supporters who are not inclined to rally around the Raleigh nominee, in a razor-close competitive to slightly Democrat leaning district. Or in equally competitive Senate district 18 where Republican voters are demanding redress of years-old complaints or they won’t support Phil Berger’s handpicked nominee….and Berger won’t budge. With a Libertarian in the mix, Berger better find his supermajority in another district.
Local Republicans leaders are not allowed to take sides in primaries, but the rotten Raleigh “leadership” can. That stinks and it needs to change. Keep everyone out or let everyone get involved.
One thing local parties can do that would get the message out to the voters is to adopt resolutions denouncing the Raleigh leadership for interfering in their local primary and widely publicize it. We do not need or want arrogant political bosses in Raleigh deciding who our local legislators will be. That MUST remain a local decision. Local party organizations need to start loudly calling them out.
When the Speaker tried to push through the idea of giving money to people to go to work, Then and there I decided to not support any Republican who is ok with his leadership. So it appears that I might not be voting this November.
I understand your sentiment, but I reckon its worth going to the polls to vote in new school board members if nothing else.
They – REPUBLICANS – are really gonna pass that greasy Obamacare BS and sit on the Parents Bill of Rights. I’m so done with this party. Every last one of these frauds. It’s just RINOs as far as the eye can see.