‘Riverboat’ Thommy explains the DC shell game to the lil’ people
Don’t you just love it when one of the honorables on Capitol Hill steps down off his or her pedestal to lecture us on how THEY are right and WE are stupid?
Our soon-to-be senior senator Thom Tilli$$$ took to the in-state airwaves today to lecture those of us who still cling to that *sillly* conservative stuff.
The host quizzed Thommy on his vote for the budget-busting scam known in the drive-by media as “The Infrastructure Bill”:
[…] “If you’re upset with me for doing that, you are with the liberal progressives that came to my yard, camped out and opposed the bill because they understood it preserved the filibuster and ends the opportunity for the Green New Deal.
First off, it’s a $550 billion dollar package, what the folks who are opposed to it need to
know is that every 5 years we have to reauthorize the surface transportation plan.
If we don’t do that, then our current spending rate every 5 years goes away.
That’s half of it. The other half of it is $550 billion dollars, that is paid for, that carves out
from the three and a half trillion the Democrats want to pass true infrastructure.
So if you want $9 Billion Dollars of infrastructure flooding in to this state to help us with
roads and bridges, if you want our ports to be upfit, if you want our shorelines to be more resilient for the next storm, then you should like this bill.
But let’s say you don’t like that, you should like the fact that we were willing to vote on a
compromise bill to save the filibuster. If you want us to vote against it, then you
own, what would likely be the nuclear option on the filibuster, federalizations of elections,
the Green New Deal and every other bad policy that Nancy Pelosi would love
Chuck Shumer to pass without a single Republican vote. This is bigger than the
Infrastructure Bill. This is about the institution of the Senate and keeping Democrats
on board with respecting the institution of the Senate.” […]
The long list of scoundrels who have passed through the Senate since its founding have already done quite a number on “respect” for “the institution” of the Senate. Why not make the other side eat the budget-busting and the pork? Why give them “bi-partisan” cover to dig us into a deeper hole?
But Thommy wasn’t done:
[…]”You want to take it in pieces, that’s fine. I don’t have the luxury of doing that. That’s why I stand by the vote and I think over time, it’s a vote that’s going to age well.
It’s this simple. If I listen to my friends who say you gotta vote no against everything, then the Democratic conference, the people that are standing with us to hold the filibuster, are going to say “Guys, you’re not working with us at all.I’m getting hammered from my left and even my center left over time because you won’t demonstrate any willingness to work with a government that is led by the Democrats. ”[…]
Gee, I wonder how many good, honest conservative Republicans are worried about being “hammered” from the left (or even center-left)? That’s why we send Republicans to DC — to fight tooth and nail against statist nonsense. Not hug up to Monty Hall and play ‘Let’s Make A Deal.’
[…] WE LOST LAST YEAR. THEY OWN THE WHITE HOUSE, THEY OWN THE
SENATE, THEY OWN THE HOUSE.
At some point, if we don’t demonstrate to Democrats that will we settle for something less
than we would ever pass than if we were in the majority, then just think through the logic of
that over the next two years. Does anybody honestly believe that even those who are
holding firm on the filibuster right now, if we continue to say no to them, those who
are willing to preserve the filibuster, over the next two years, what would you do? […]
It sounds like Thommy is talking about other people when he references defender of the filibuster. Our founders wanted the filibuster to protect minority rights within Capitol Hill’s upper chamber. Contrary to Thommy’s delusions, they never never never wanted it to be easy to “get something done” on The Hill.
More from Susie’s guy:
[…] We’ve got people that are willing to preserve the filibuster, willing to do the work
to get 60 votes. If we just go and continue to say NO, they’re ultimately going
to say NO to preserving a 60 vote threshold in the US Senate.
That would be devastating and would do irreparable harm.
Kinda like expanding the social welfare “safety net” and the national debt, or busting a bigger hole in the federal budget?
MORE:
That’s why, as far as I’m concerned, the criticism can come, but it falls on deaf ears. There are bigger issues at play that are more important in the long term for the American People and people in North Carolina.
Right now, we are trying to do everything we can make that three and a Half Trillion dollar
package half of what it is. To make the taxes Half or More. They’re going to pass
something. But we think it creates downward pressure on whatever they will do
with 51 votes. Whatever they do, they can no longer say it’s a Infrastructure Bill because
we passed an Infrastructure bill. Remember, they were calling it human infrastructure
and they wanted to weave in roads and bridges? That ship has sailed.
We actually carved out the segment of what would have been a three and a half trillion dollar spending bill that’s really focused on Infrastructure.
I’ve said to the press, I understand if you’re only thinking about this transaction,
why you’d be opposed to it. If I thought that’s all that it was, I would be
opposed to it. But this is about the future of the Senate.
The Senate. NOT the country. Got that?
The host asked Thommy about criticism he is getting from Rand Paul and other conservatives about his work with Democrats:
I’d ask Rand Paul what his batting average is in the US Senate. Passing legislation to the President’s desk, during a Democrat majority, with a Democrat President. What’s his batting average?
When I was speaker of the House, we overrode a Democrat governor with Democrat votes eleven times. I would be criticized of going short by my friends in my Party of where they wanted to go, but you go find another Legislature that accomplished that in the same period of time. It didn’t happen.
We don’t actually recognize that the numbers are against us.
Look, Rand Paul is a friend of mine. But you know me, I’m a pretty plain spoken person.
Name one major piece of legislation that Rand Paul has gotten passed in his entire tenure in the Congress. Because he’s swinging for the fences.[…]
Thommy also offered up his two cents on the per-mile-driven gas tax contained in the bill:
[…] It’s a component of the bill, that would take 4 to 5 years to implement, when hopefully
we recognize, if we don’t fix this and figure out a way to capture revenue for
electric vehicles, that the federal government is giving $7500 in tax credits to
people who on average make $75,000. We’re going to have millions of electric vehicles,
that are 25% heavier than their combustion engine counterpart,
think Mach E versus the Mustang GT, we’re gonna give a free ride to RICH People
getting tax credits. We’ve gotta figure out a way, it’s not an immediate.
Everybody should read the bill and at least not spend just 30 minutes trying to
understand the technicalities of the bill. It’s a 2 year process to study how to do it.
It’s a 3 to 5 year process to implement it for cars for which the technology would fit.
It’s not like you’re going to be a truck driver and keep an odometer log.
That’s what I mean. People are cherry picking things, if they want any details on this,
Call my office and we’ll read out the details. If you just rely on what you hear on the
Internet, or on the news, you’re not getting the full story.
That’s why I think it’s very important to speak plainly about it.[…]
NEVER TILLIS
What fools we were. Cunningham and his moral depravity would have been no worse. He would have voted the same; so again, what do we have with Tillis? Shame on me for my vote. Duped, but not like I didn’t know I would be. Republicans NEVER change their dark sides; they despise, hate us and detest having to deal with us. They follow the almighty $$ and there is not one republican on Capitol Hill today I would vote for. Not 1… Almost becoming the same in NC’s Gen Assembly….
“What fools we were. Cunningham and his moral depravity would have been no worse. He would have voted the same; so again, what do we have with Tillis? Shame on me for my vote. Duped, but not like I didn’t know I would be. Republicans NEVER change their dark sides; they despise, hate us and detest having to deal with us.”
A lot of people said exactly the same thing in 2008 when they voted for Obama for “change”. Think what you will, but I will never believe that even a good Democrat (not that there is such as thing) is better than a bad Republican (there are many).
In the midst of the Tillis buull shee-it marathon, broadcasted on the Thursday morning ‘Talk of Town’ program trying to sell the so called “infrastructure” bill to us peons, Thommy even managed to blame Trump for the disastrous Afghanistan fiasco. Now fellow Republicans, please explain to me the difference between Cal ‘Jody’ Cunningham and ‘Riverboat’ Thommy Tillis.
NONE. Cal would straight up tell you he’s for it, support it and vote for it. 100% transparent. Tillis going to lie, deceive and work in the dark of night, like a thief. But, is he any diff than any other republican? They all talk the talk, but in the dark of the night, they none walk the walk. NONE…NOT 1.
Character-wise, there is none. I knew Tillis would betray us at every opportunity but voted for him because Georgia was already looking doubtful. Not the primary, however, and if anyone voted for him in that election, they only have themselves to blame when there were three better alternatives.
How hard is it for the Senator to understand that the Democrats will now take everything else they want, put it in the reconciliation bill and pass it with 50 votes plus Kamala Harris??? Additionally, the “Infrastructure” bill was 27% for infrastructure and the rest for other things. The debt was less than $18 trillion when Tills went to Washington. It is now over $29 trillion with an unfunded liability of over $100 trillion from what government has already promised in law. So instead of addressing this situation, which will lead to the destruction of America if not addressed, the Senator votes to add over a trillion more to the spending.
Thom Tillis sucks. He’s so full of crap. He’s probably owned by the special interests or being black-mailed or both. North Carolinians better start voting for better people in the primaries, because our Senators always suck, since Jessie Helms anyway. Anyway, we should focus more on our state government, because the USA as we know it may not be around much longer. Roy Cooper needs to be GONE! No more Pay McCrory type losers. Even his radio show sucked.
Tillis did more than vote for this Democrat big spending bill. He was one of the Benedict Arnold Republicans who actually helped negotiate this excrement sandwich with the Biden Democrats.
What little window dressing of infrastructure was actually in the bill, and some count it as only about 10%, did not even include the one infrastructure improvement that would have enhanced national security, hardening our electric grid against EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) attacks. EMP is part of the military doctrine of China, North Korea, and Iran, and we are currently helpless against it. EMP uses high altitude nuclear explosions to send EMP pulse waves over a wide area, destroying most electronic equipment. It would take at least a year to get the electric grid back up, and it is estimated that 90% of the population would be dead by then. EMP nuclear detonations would be so high that they would have no blast or radiation ground effects, just destruction of electronic components. It is calculated that only two of them, at the right places could take out the entire lower 48 states and parts of Canada and Mexico. Hardening the grid, which would not be as expensive as some of the things the Tillis bill funded, has been discussed for years, including in the Trump administration. Hardening the grid would also protect against similar destruction of the electric grid from a geomagnetic storm like the Carrington Event of 1859 which wrecked havoc with the telegraph network of the era which was much less vulnerable than today’s electronics.
Tillis would rather waste money on his Green New Deal buddies, who have funded those ads radio praising Tillis on his fake “infrastructure” bill than actually increasing our security by hardening the electric grid. Hardening the electric grid would have been a genuine infrastructure improvement, but it was not something that Tillis was interested in.
Some have wondered why the Green New Dealers would be spending money to protect Tillis on this vote with those radio ads since he is not on the ballot again for over five years, The answer is that it probably has more to do with trying to make the issue go away for the Republican left’s 2022 candidate, Pat McCrory. McCrory is nothing but another Tillis or Burr.
It was politically stupid putting those ads on conservative talk radio, because those listeners are informed on the issue and immediately reject the ads as total BS. All it accomplishes is rubbing the anger toward Tillis in deeper with listeners. Many held their nose to vote for Tillis and Burr, even recognizing what duds they are, and are angry with the result. Those ads will make them even less likely to do that again with a Tillis / Burr clone like McCrory.
The only thing republicans, in the Us Congress, have ever received for ” reaching across the aisle are amputations.
Can Tillis be recalled?
THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS STOLEN AND BURR NOR TILLIS COULD CARE LESS – LETS ELECT TED BUDD NEXT AND GO FROM THERE…TOO BAD WE DIDN’T GET RID OF TILLIS IN THE PRIMARY….ANYWAY, BOTH SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES>> MAKING A DEAL WITH A DEMENTIA RIDDEN – SOCIALIST PRESIDENT>> WHILE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER IS BEING INVADED BY ILLEGALS ALL DAY/EVERYDAY…THERE IS NO “INFRASTRUCTURE” IF YOU DON’T HAVE A BORDER ! IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE NEXT 9/11 >>>WITH POTENTIAL TERRORISTS POURING THRU OUR SOUTHERN BORDER…….WHAT A SHAME !