The RINOs. It’s always the RINOs who doom Republicans when they win a majority in either chamber of Congress. ‘Muh principles,’ or some such BS. Principles won’t stop Democrats from running roughshod over our rights and our country if they somehow manage to win again, and four RINOs just made it easier for them to do just that.
Any conservative with a pulse who pays even passing attention to politics knows that the vast majority of Americans, from both sides of the aisle, want requirements for a national voter ID and proof of citizenship to cast ballots in any federal election. It’s at least an 80-20 issue; even 70-plus percent of Democrat voters want it. It’s the literally definition of a legislative lay-up. But because President Trump wants it, and Trump Derangement Syndrome is just as high among RINOs as it is among elected Democrats, the latest effort to get it passed failed:
Four Republican senators often critical of President Donald Trump voted against instructing the chamber’s rules committee to find a way to add SAVE America Act elements to the budget reconciliation package.
Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., broke with much of the GOP conference, opposing an amendment from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., aimed at advancing key election integrity provisions backed by Trump, The Hill reported Thursday.
The proposed measure would have directed the Senate Rules Committee to craft legislation ensuring only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections, requiring voter identification, and limiting early voting — central components of the SAVE America Act, a top priority for Trump ahead of the midterms.
The vast majority of the residents of those states – Maine, Alaska, North Carolina, and Kentucky – want these requirements. But these RINOs don’t two pieces of excrement about their own constituents; Trump hate always takes precedence. Who cares what voters want? Who cares if it will dramatically improve election integrity? Who cares of Democrats cheat to steal more elections?
The House, with it’s razor thin GOP majority, did its job in February by passing the SAVE America Act. The measure has been languishing in the Senate ever since. Even more frustrating, Murkowski – who keeps eking out election wins in her state thanks to the ridiculous ranked-choice voting (which always favors Dems and RINOs) – is now against some of the same measures in the SAVE Act she previously supported (and voted for) in a Democrat bill.