No Labels (and no soup) for Thom Tillis

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Thomas Roland Tillis — US senator and brother to Thomas Richard Tillis, former Tennessee legislator who reportedly had his desk chair peed upon – is what folks around these parts call *a piece of work.*

His motivation for getting into government? The spiraling debt? deficit spending? Crime? Terrorism?  None of that.  He wanted his local government to pony up for a bike trail. 

Tillis did all he could to cause problems for Donald Trump during his first presidency.  Going on TV to trash the border wall proposal.  That kind of thing.  In spite of all that, Trump was still gracious enough to endorse Tillis in his tough 2020 re-election bid.

Tillis did a great job of thumbing his nose at the rest of us while he was in DC.  Carrying water for the border-crashers, the gays and the gun-grabbers.  Boasting about ‘crossing the aisle’ to make the Democrats happy about judicial confirmations.  He’s mocked the folks back home over “conspiracy theories’ regarding FEMA, even as we are all learning about the horrible job FEMA has been doing in Western North Carolina.

Trump just got re-elected.  So, Tillis has decided to go through the motions of appearing to play nice.  The natives are restless and calling for Thom’s head again. He’s escaped them twice by less than 50 percent.  Thom needs a new grift to make it happen again.

If you ask Thom and his cronies, they will tell you HE is not the problem.  *All of the conservatives — you know, the *crazies* who believe that stuff in the platform — are the ones killing the GOP with the voters.*  Meanwhile, his current home county of Mecklenburg is overrun with leftist kooky Democrats. Nary a conservative GOPer in sight around those parts.

The GOP’s fortunes have been crashing there since Thom’s homie Pat McCrory first said ‘Uhhhhhh, OK’ at his first swearing-in as Charlotte mayor.

(FWIW — Thom Tillis’s voting record this session has been to the left of socialist-leaning independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont.)

Thom’s latest nanny-nanny-boo-boo at us was his decision to speak at today’s *No Labels* national meeting.  (At one point, *No Labels* was spear-headed by the NAACP’s Ben Chavis and Pat McCrory.)

*No Labels* is a confab of Democrats and Republicans really annoyed by people in their parties who stand for stuff and demand that their elected officials stand for stuff.

The list of senators set to speak at the group’s meeting is basically the same group of Republicans who are most likely to vote against Trump’s appointees and policy agenda. The fact that our senior senator is one of those senators ought to tick off a few folks — at least.