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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/01/31/kamala-harris-sends-joe-manchin-and-kirsten-sinema-a-not-so-subtle-message-n1419768

Joe Biden is putting pressure on moderate Democrats in the Senate to follow his lead to enact his agenda. With no margin for error at all in the Senate, the president is sending a not-so-subtle message to West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema that they better toe the line or suffer the consequences.

The pressure came from Vice President Kamala Harris who made two appearances on local TV stations — one in Arizona and one in West Virginia — to deliver the message.

Fox News:

Whether the Harris interviews were designed to pressure Manchin and Sinema into backing the American Rescue Plan was not immediately clear. Following the TV appearances, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked why the vice president chose to address local media in the two states.

“We want to make the case to the American people across the country. … This is a way to do just that,” Psaki said. She added that Harris would likely do more regional interviews in other states.

In her TV remarks, Harris explained the “urgency” of the $1.9 trillion plan that would give out an additional $1,400 in stimulus checks to Americans, expand unemployment insurance, and increase the child tax credit.

https://issuesinsights.com/2021/01/25/the-conservative-purge-isnt-over-its-just-getting-cranked-up/

Not quite two weeks ago we noted that Big Tech was settling the family business with its suspensions, bans, and deletions of then-President Donald Trump and as many of his supporters as it could pull into its dragnet. It was only a start. The left wants to wipe the right from the political map as quickly and effectively as possible.

Playing the role this week of Michael Corleone, who in the first of “The Godfather” installments eliminated his families’ enemies, is the Democratic Party. Congressional Democrats are going forward, with the blessing of the new president, whose plea for unity is clearly a sham, with a domestic terrorism bill in both chambers of Congress.

The public is being told the legislation is needed to thwart “the potential threat of more terrorist attacks in Washington and around the country,” says Rep. Brad Schneider, an Illinois Democrat and co-sponsor of the House version. Among other co-sponsors is Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who in July denied that Antifa, which was wrecking Portland at the time, even existed.

One lone Democrat stands out among this jihad, and, unfortunately, she’s no longer in Congress. Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii told Fox News on Friday that should the bill become law, it would undermine “our civil liberties, our freedoms in our Constitution,” while “targeting of almost half of the country.” That half being a collection of Trump supporters, conservatives, Christians, and anyone who refuses to go along with the Democrats’ legislative agenda, surrender to Black Lives Matter intimidation, and yield to the dominant narrative.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/22/mitch-mcconnell-needs-to-go/

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has done very good service for the American people. His Merrick Garland gambit was one of the riskiest and best political plays in congressional history. He has seated an enormous amount of conservative judges. He deserves our thanks for that.

But he also has to sit down now and let the conservative movement grow into its new form — a form he seems completely opposed to.

McConnell is playing a ridiculous game of footsie with the idea of convicting Donald Trump in his absurd impeachment. It’s a bridge too far and an obvious power play, and he lacks the power to pull it off.

American conservatives know that after Democrats all but cheered on violence and rioting for months, the idea that Trump incited an insurrection is pure nonsense. It’s a lie and McConnell’s parroting of it is disqualifying for leadership.

So why is McConnell playing along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s charade of impeachment? He thinks he can get the conservative movement back on his and the Chamber of Commerce’s team.

He can’t. If he pushes this impeachment conviction, as he seems to be, he should have no place in Republican leadership. It is nothing short of a betrayal of Republican voters.

I don’t know who McConnell thinks he is appealing to here. It is obvious that conservative voters have not abandoned Trump, even if he has. He seems to think that we will just go back to the pro-war, pro-corporate party he came up in. We won’t. That party was destroyed by Trump and good riddance.

And why did Cocaine Mitch get the opportunity to fill all these judgeships? Why did his Garland gambit pay off? Only because of Trump. Maybe he forgot but Mitt Romney, his buddy in dragging Trump, lost his bid for the presidency in 2012. But luckily for conservatives, Trump won. And yeah, we have a lot of judges to show for it — because of Trump.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/20/two-wyoming-republicans-announce-2022-primary-challenges-against-liz-cheney-after-impeachment-vote/

Two Wyoming Republicans have filed papers to challenge House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) in the 2022 primaries following her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump.

Wyoming State Sen. Anthony Bouchard and Rep. and business owner Marissa Selvig both filed statements of candidacy in the 2022 primary election on Wednesday.

Citing Cheney’s recent vote to impeach President Trump, Wyoming State Sen. Anthony Bouchard called her “out of touch” with Wyoming voters.

“Wyoming was President Trump’s best state both times he ran. That’s because Wyoming voters are strong conservatives who want their leaders to stand up for America, defend our freedoms, fight for our way of life, and always put working people first as President Trump did,” Bouchard said in a press release. “Liz Cheney’s long-time opposition to President Trump and her most recent vote for impeachment shows just how out-of-touch she is with Wyoming.”

Bouchard added that Wyoming needs “a voice in Congress” who will stand up to Speaker Pelosi and the radical Democrats in Congress.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/15/liz-cheney-suffers-impea

By S.A. Miller – The Washington Times –

Rep. Liz Cheney’s vote to impeach President Trump put her political future in jeopardy back home in Wyoming, revealed a state GOP official.

Doubts quickly surfaced about her viability in the 2022 GOP primary after she announced her support of impeachment and then led nine other House Republicans on Wednesday in voting to impeach Mr. Trump for inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

“She couldn’t win a primary today for dog catcher,” said Martin Kimmet, chairman of the Republican Party in Park County, Wyoming.

Ms. Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican leader and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, went from a rising star into a political nosedive virtually overnight.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/01/13/never-forget-these-ten-republican-turncoats-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-n1336625

The House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Trump a second time. This time over accusations that he incited an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. Anyone who watched or read the words Trump spoke on the day can’t say with a shred of honesty that Trump ever incited violence upon the Capitol.

And yet ten Republicans joined with Democrats in their never-ending witch hunt of Trump. These Republicans have seen endless accusations being lobbed at Trump. From accusations of racism to colluding with Russia, or the bogus claim of a quid pro quo with Ukraine… yet they joined in the pile-on. For what? To make nice with the left? What good does being a pawn in their attacks on Trump do? The Senate will never convict him over these absurd allegations. The left will not be better to these Republicans once they’ve outlived their usefulness.

So, here they are. Here’s the list of Republicans who voted with Democrats to impeach Trump over bogus charges.

Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) – GOP Conference Chair
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio)
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.)
Rep. John Katko (N.Y.)
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.)
Rep. Peter Meijer (Mich.)
Rep. Dan Newhouse (Wash.)
Rep. Tom Rice (S.C.)
Rep. Fred Upton (Mich.)
Rep. David Valadao (Calif.)

Remember these names. Don’t give them any money. Support primary challengers in 2022. These people have no business being in the Republican Party when they knowingly go along with a party that has been desperate to impeach Trump and remove him from office since before he even took the oath.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/01/13/mitch-mcconnell-not-ruling-out-convicting-trump-n2583101

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is no longer going to be the Senate Majority leader. He’s furious with Trump. He thinks he cost the GOP the majority and is pleased with the Democrats’ push to remove President Donald Trump. It’s a big endorsement from the GOP side of the aisle for sure. Unlike the impeachment push that was launched based on the Russian collusion myth, McConnell doesn’t see this current push as a partisan exercise. Apparently, how he will vote is still up in the air, which means as of now, he hasn’t definitively ruled out convicting the president (via Fox News):

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republican colleagues Wednesday that he has “not made a final decision” on how he will vote on impeachment, despite signaling that he supported House Democrats’ move to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump.

“While the press has been full of speculation, I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate,” McConnell told Senate Republicans.

McConnell’s comment comes after sources told Fox News that McConnell is “done” and “furious” with the president, and as the House considered an article of impeachment against Trump, saying he incited “insurrection” ahead of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. 

One source told Fox News on Tuesday that McConnell does not see House Democrats’ efforts to impeach Trump as a partisan exercise like the previous impeachment effort in 2019.

Another source told Fox News that McConnell told associates that impeachment will help rid the Republican Party of Trump and his movement.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2021/01/13/the-morning-briefing-squish-republican-turncoats-are-more-vile-than-democrats-n1334062

One of the unfortunate by-products of being on the side of the political aisle that isn’t a hive mind is that one often finds oneself at odds with members of one’s own party. That’s something the Democrats rarely have to deal with. Yeah, they have their little spats, but they play nice when it counts. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Squad have enjoyed giving Nancy Pelosi grief since they got into office, but they all voted for her re-election as Speaker.

It’s that way with legislation too. When the Democrats need the votes, the majority of the time they’ll bury a hatchet or two and do what’s needed.

Republicans aren’t like that, and a lot of that has to do with — you guessed it — the media. Democrats get love from the media no matter what they do. Not so much with the Republicans, of course. The weaker among us are tempted by occasional flashes of attention from the media. There’s a formula to getting the attention: all they have to do is side with the Democrats.

The Republicans who like to go begging for favor from the mainstream media will always tell you that they’re driven by conscience and deep principles.

That, my friends, is a trainload of hooey.

They’re pathetic emotional midgets who are desperate for attention. If they became full-time Democrats, they’d just be one in a big crowd. If they remain Republican, they’ve got an easy, albeit brief, attention fix. Whenever their fellow Republicans need them, all they have to do is slip a shiv in their backs and they get a pure hit of New York Times love for a few days.

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2021-1-12-its-time-to-get-to-know-joe-

For the past four years, the Republicans have held voting control of the U.S. Senate, but by very narrow margins. Since 2017, the Republicans have had either 51, 52 or 53 seats, out of 100, at various times. That has meant that on any given vote, a handful of Republican defectors would be sufficient to sink whatever initiative was on the table. And thus a very small group of independent-minded Republican Senators — most prominently, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, and (until his death in 2018) John McCain of Arizona — held the keys to any Republican plans to get legislation enacted or government officers confirmed.

As a prime example, who can forget the Hamlet act of Senator Collins in the run-up to the Kavanaugh confirmation?

Now, the Senate is going to be split right down the middle, 50/50, with Vice President Kamala Harris having the ability to break a tie when everyone shows up and the vote goes along party lines. Suddenly, the question of whether there might be a couple of potential defectors on the Democratic side — or maybe even just one — becomes significant.

The situation of an even split in the Senate, with the VP breaking the tie, has occurred a few times in U.S. history. For example, one such time was during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, when the tie-breaking VP was Richard Nixon. Most recently there was a 50/50 Senate split in 2001, after the very close 2000 presidential election. VP Dick Cheney had the swing vote; but that only lasted for a few months. In May 2001 a Republican Senator from Vermont named Jim Jeffords decided to switch parties and become an “independent,” however “caucusing” with the Democrats. That act immediately swung the balance of power in the Senate to the Democrats.

https://issuesinsights.com/2021/01/11/an-open-letter-to-sen-joe-manchin-its-time-to-change-parties/

Last week’s Senate runoff elections in Georgia gave the Democrats full control of the federal governing apparatus. America is now a one-party state, and the Californication of the country will soon begin. But there’s one man who can slow it down if not stop it, at least for a while: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

The West Virginian could erase the Democrats’ de facto Senate majority (the Democratic vice president is the tie-breaker in the 50-50 chamber) simply by changing parties. This is no radical suggestion. Manchin is the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, if not all of Washington, and the possibility of him flipping parties has come up before. But he remains a Democrat, and as recently as last week said he had no intention to switch.

However, we would like to make a formal pitch, inviting him to follow an honorable path taken by others. Here is our open letter to the senator.