Tillis: “Just call me a conservative.”
Actually, I’ve got a plethora of things I’d like to call him. (“Conservative” ain’t one of them.)
CNN has handcuffed and crazy-glued themselves to Thom Tillis. After all, they finally have a registered Republican saying all the things they’ve been saying. (And he won’t shut up.). Tapper & the gang can’t afford to let ol’ Corn Pone get away from them. To them, Tillis is hellaciously good TV.
Just recently, Tillis held court with CNN and Politico to trash anything and anyone remotely conservative. The guy who took three decades, about three dozen community colleges, and ONE online college to get his college degree wants us to all know he’s the smartest guy in the room who has all the answers to *fix* this country:
TILLIS: […]
Now, there’s a question right now. Earlier this week, I was called a RINO by the president. And I will tell you, if the Republican Party stands for standing with insurrectionists who assaulted police officers, turning a blind eye towards Putin and what he’s doing in Russia, negotiating a deal that may be subpar to the Obama deal, then don’t call me that Republican.
Just call me a conservative. […]
Holy cow. A foaming-at-the-mouth Democrat could not have said it better. There’s never been an honest investigation of January 6. There is all kinds of video evidence indicating the police agitated and encouraged the protesters. There were five deaths – all protesters at the hands of police. People got scooped up and arrested for merely standing on the sidewalk — and got more jail time than drug traffickers and human traffickers and murderers usually get.
The Republican majority promised full transparency on that travesty. They promised an honest hearing that never happened. But here’s this guy proudly regurgitating Democrat nonsense.
And “call me a conservative”? Really? Are we just supposed to ignore that session where his voting record was to the left of Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders?
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[…] And I’m waiting for my Republicans to come back, if in fact they think they can argue that effectively. They can’t. The American people want right-of-center conservative policies that have been successfully proposed by this president.
But these distractions are harmful to our chances in November. And anybody that gets in the way of my colleagues, Republican colleagues, getting reelected are a problem. […]
But it was apparently OK for this turd to get in the middle of Madison Cawthorne’s primary. and for Trump to chase away his 2020 primary challenger.
Oh, and remember why this guy is not running for reelection. He wants you to believe he’s “tired of Washington.” Actually, Tillis was running for reelection full-bore until he saw those RNC polls saying he would lose by at least NINE points to any and all-comers.
He’s going to make us pay for *abandoning* him.
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[…] TAPPER: Does Congress have the authority to stop this $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund?
TILLIS: I think that it wouldn’t surprise me, if we get back to reconciliation, and I believe that we should, because the underlying bill funding Homeland Security, because the Democrats have refused, even shut down our government, we have got to get back to it.
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But I wouldn’t at all doubt that there will be amendments to rescind the agreement and to defund it, to do whatever they can.
And it’s a shame, because what Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, was coming to the lunch for was describing the anti-fraud funding that they wanted that we’re not — there’s no way that we’re going to be in a position to fund $1.5 billion for an anti-fraud division, when we have got this bogus 1776, I called — I call it a payout pot for punks, that you just can’t have those two equivalent numbers at the same time.
It makes no sense. So, it’s politically tone-deaf. Whoever did it should be fired. Let’s figure out a way to help people who are victims of warfare, but not people who were convicted by a jury of their peers or pled guilty to assaulting a police officer, please. […]
Let’s see. The freaks in the DC jury pool don’t count as my peers or anyone else’s — outside of San Francisco, NYC or Chicago or Los Angeles. Tillis knows full well too that federal court is different from state court. You get dragged into federal court when the government has you basically in a strangle-hold. Your choices are: (1) stand and fight and likely go broke, or (2) negotiate a deal that gets you off relatively easy. It’s rare to see a defendant just completely get scot-free acquitted at that level.
The J6 folks faced juries made up of Obama-Biden voters, Biden-appointed prosecutors, and Obama-Biden appointed judges. It was straight-up Soviet. They didn’t stand a chance.
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[…] TAPPER: I wonder — you mentioned how the president was attacking you as a RINO.
In addition, of course, the president defeated Senator — pushed to defeat Senator Bill Cassidy in his Republican primary in Louisiana not long ago. And now the president’s endorsing the challenger, the ethically challenged Ken Paxton, in his race against incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn, and there’s a chance that Cornyn is going to lose his primary on Tuesday.
Is there going to be pushback, not just from you, but from Kennedy — I mean, sorry, not Kennedy — from Cassidy and Cornyn, Senator McConnell when it comes to all sorts of things, the ballroom, the anti-weaponization fund, anything else?
TILLIS: Well, number one, I hate that Bill Cassidy lost. He’s a great American, great senator, and I still look forward to working with him through the remaining tenure, our tenure here, in the U.S. Senate, Cornyn the same thing.
And to call Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. This guy is an empty suit and will do us no service by being in the U.S. Congress. I hope that Texans realize how tough John Cornyn is, how pro-Second Amendment he is, how pro-limited government he is, how pro-America first he is. […]
Tillis frequently collaborated with Cornyn and Cassidy on issues like amnesty and gun control. He’s full of it here. Paxton got dragged into court and attacked on flimsy ethics charges like what happened to Trump. Much of it came from the liberal Bush political machine in Texas.
And Tillis – once again – proves the theory that RINOs would rather see a Democrat (or a liberal Republican) win before a conservative one. If those people would only exert as much effort against leftists as they do against conservatives.
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[…] And when they go to the polls on Tuesday, I hope that they know that they have got a great American who deserves reelection, and the other guy is going to be nothing but an anchor on our conference for as long as he’s in the U.S. Senate.
TAPPER: And last question, though, is there going to be something of a you only live once YOLO caucus of Republicans on their way out the door that President Trump has helped pressure and instigate?
TILLIS: Well, it’s — you know, what I try to tell everybody, folks, if you’re not running for reelection, then that one filter that you need to make sure your words are measured so that the Democrats can’t use it against you and maybe some Republicans, you have just got to have that extra filter.
And I’m telling you, it’s great not having it, so that you can you can get the same point across, but now you can use unambiguous words. And I’m being unambiguous on Paxton. He is a failure. He doesn’t deserve to be in the U.S. Senate.
And John Cornyn is one of the most powerful, one of the most influential, one of the most patriotic members I have had the privilege to serve with over the last 11 years. […]
That last sentence? I’d clip it and feature it a Paxton ad. A Tillis endorsement! Talk about a political neutron bomb! (You don’t see Mike Whatley asking for one of those, do you?)
