The “Speaker’s Fight” Was A Modern-day Civics Lesson
Joe Sullivan, LCMB President
Friends…
What took place over the past 5 days in the US House of Representatives was a CELEBRATION OF DEMOCRACY and nothing less!
After YEARS of Democrat controlled lock-step tyranny under Nancy Pelosi and her cadre of socialist drones, many Americans may have forgotten that the government’s business is supposed to be an exercise in seeking COMPROMISE and CONSENSUS…
There really is no matter that comes before Congress where some Representatives will see it as being disadvantageous to their home folks. In these cases, we expect our Representatives to seek “change” in the legislation to make the law less problematic for their constituents. Sometimes they win, sometimes they don’t…
SEEKING TO AMMEND (Change) pending legislation is the very definition of “representative government”… What has been happening in the House of Representatives and the Senate in recent years is legislation being “slammed-thru” by tyrannical leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer is what happens under the “tyranny of the majority”. This happened where a heavy-handed numerical majority - driven by leadership hell-bent on “winning at any cost” - trampled under any effort by Pelosi’s own caucus to moderate arch-liberal legislation. Consequently, there are no “moderate Democrats” in Congress anymore.
BY CONTRAST - What just happened in the contest to elect a Republican Speaker of the House is an example of what is SUPPOSED to happen where a relative small - but SIGNIFICANT minority of Representatives held-out against about 200 of their fellow Republicans in order to gain “concessions” from Kevin McCarthy…
Please don’t believe anybody who tells you that this “fight” weakens the Republican Party or Speaker McCarthy’s future leadership… This result is EXACTLY WHAT OUR REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IS REALLY ALL ABOUT!
Now that this chapter is over, JUST WATCH WHAT HAPPENS FROM NOW ON IN CONTRAST TO WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING UNDER THE DE FACTO “SOCIALISTS”!
God Bless America…. DEO VINDICI…
