Updating 6th and 14th Congressional District Activity

From Former Quigley Supprter:

And here I was looking forward to enjoy a nice quiet Sunday, in quiet personal reflection on the meaning of Bastille Day, as one whose family comes from France, via Mexico and Native American, Spanish and Basque. 

And like everyone else right now, I woke up to news of this:

From being a real champion and truth teller on Friday defending Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the face of outrageous claims she was a racist by the progressive “squad” in the House, before leaving for Milwaukee to the event(s) attended by 14th congressional candidate James Marter. 

And now President Trump sunk to what he tweeted this morning.  Reaction was swift:

And where is the reaction of the Republicans seeking the 6th and 14th district seats next year as of 8:35 PM Sunday evening? 

  • Evelyn Sanguinetti, a woman of color herself? 
  • Anthony Catella? 
  • Ted Gradel? 
  • Danny Malouf? 
  • James Marter? 
  • Jim Oberweis? 
  • Sue Rezin? 
  • Prospective candidate Allen Skillicorn? 

Throughout today, only James Marter and Allen Skillicorn have taken to social media, with Skillicorn talking about taxes here in Illinois and in Indiana. 

If something was posted by the candidates outside of their congressional campaign social media accounts,

I could have missed it. 

Marter takes shots again at Sue Rezin and Jim Oberweis over the new gas tax, and posts about Texas vs. United States challenge to Obamacare. 

And he also posted this:

Right now, the real garbage on the immediate table is the one President Trump tweeted this morning about four members of Congress who happened to be women of color being told to go back where they came from. 

I have little in common with Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, and all of their politics and what they want to make our country into scares me. 

Yet they are also Americans too, 3 native-born, one naturalized, with the rights as any other citizen of the United States. 

I genuinely felt President Trump telling me to go back to where I came from, even through my family has been within the Untied States going back to the 1820s.

What President Trump tweeted on Sunday morning was wrong, period. 

May God get through to President Trump that he fully realizes what he did this morning, and the President needs prayers, too. 

God can get through to anyone, including the President.

H/T to the DownWithTyranny blog for having the President’s tweet complete for cutting & pasting.

Mona Charen Perspective on President Trump

This past Tuesday morning, like a precursor to the feud between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the progressive “Squad” and the ugly tweets from President Trump, an article from conservative columnist Mona Charen was published in POLITICO magazine. 

To be clear, I have respected Mona Charen and her opinions for nearly 3 decades. 

Like anyone else, I do not agree with her 100% of the time. 

Charen makes some very solid points, and warnings not only to the 2 dozen Democratic presidential candidates, but also to congressional district incumbents representing the 6th and 14th. 

In particular, this:

Charen points out, accurately, that the victories in last year’s midterms, including Sean Casten and Lauren Underwood, were not because of progressive positions, but on commitments to be “independent”. 

Underwood being clear she wants to keep the ACA, and not go to single-payer Medicare-for-All that progressives want. 

In Underwood’s case, her 2018 victory was as much about a Republican incumbent running a terrible campaign than her position on health care, which was the main issue in the 2018 midterms. 

But as Charen accurately points out, the 2010 midterms made people believe President Obama would be a one-termer, and look what happened. 

Additionally, the 1994 midterm, both nationally and even in Illinois (the last time Republicans controlled both houses of the General Assembly), saw President Clinton re-elected to a 2nd term 2 years later.

Charen is warning all that the progressive politics represented by the progressives in Congress, and progressives running for President, can easily send President Trump to a 2nd term. 

Lporen Underwood

Closer to home, Congresswoman Underwood continues to be the most liberal freshman member of Congress, as documented by Voteview. 

But lately, going back to June 27, Underwood has been moving to the center, in opposing the progressive Squad. 

It started with the approval of the Senate-amended emergency aid for the southern border, that passed 305-102, with Underwood and Casten voting in the majority along with nearly all Republicans, and the Squad leading the opposition to final passage. 

Additionally, Underwood is working with Republican Congressman John Katko on H.R. 3526.

On Friday, Underwood tweeted about the House passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and included this graphic:

On Friday’s passage of the House version of the NDAA, there were many amendments to the bill, including 2 from Squad leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) which the House voted down, though Underwood and Casten took different positions on the two AOC amendments..

  •  Prohibit the President from deploying troops on the southern border if the purpose of this deployment is to enforce immigration law, defeated 241-179, Underwood voted in majority, Casten in the minority
  •  Prohibit the President from using the authorized funds to detain undocumented immigrants in Department of Defense facilities, defeated 245-173, Casten in majority, Underwood in the minority

As discussed on Friday, the final House NDAA passed the House and the Squad voted against it. 

A conference committee will need to merge the House and Senate passed bills into the final NDAA legislation for FY2020. 

Remembering Mona Charen spoke out openly at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) meeting against President Trump and had to be escorted out to insure her safety, C-SPAN did an interview with Charen discussing the reasons why she spoke out against the President back then, and given the opinion piece that was published last week, reviewing what she said in early 2018 would prove interesting. 

The C-SPAN interview, with calls, is a little over 40 minutes long.

Please read the entire article from POLITICO.  Charen’s overall message concerning is two-fold:

  • Presidential candidates need to stop trying to out-Trump Trump
  • Don’t go to the far-left that you guarantee a 2nd Trump term.

Comments

Updating 6th and 14th Congressional District Activity — 14 Comments

  1. Re:

    “On Friday’s passage of the House version of the NDAA, there were many amendments to the bill, including 2 from Squad leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) which the House voted down, though Underwood and Casten took different positions on the two AOC amendments..

    Prohibit the President from deploying troops on the southern border if the purpose of this deployment is to enforce immigration law, defeated 241-179, Underwood voted in majority, Casten in the minority”

    Why does the U.S. even have the military, U.S. Troops? What are they for? You have to wonder when Democrat Presidents such as Lyndon Baines Johnson sent one-half million troops/navy to Vietnam when in fact Viet Nam did not attack the U.S. nor possess WMD. Or, when Barack Hussein Obama said “Afghanistan was the war of necessity” and sent more troops there.

    Shouldn’t U.S. troops be used to repel invasions of our homeland? Invasions whereby tens of thousands of invaders from many nations of the world cross our southern border illegally. A strong contingent of U.S. troops all along the southern border would serve to keep out the invaders. The troops would be humane and would gently turn away anyone who tried to cross or if they crossed they would be quickly sent back to their country of origin with proper transportation.

  2. Looks like the “race” card being used again on Trump. Remember the 8 years of the Barack Hussein Obama Administration. Many knuckleheads and those who wanted to suppress freedom of speech quickly branded as racist many who criticized Obama’s actions and decisions. Of course the modus operandi of the mostly left wing media, most Democrats, liberals and far left wing extremists is to use the race card when someone criticizes any politician who is NOT white.

  3. I finally realized bred winner is a satirist because no one could be as stupid as he seems too be.

  4. Unfortunately, Heinrich, you are the deluded (hopefully, its not malicious and intended) Bernie suppporting communist/socialist whose idiocy is frequently on display.

  5. Please do not insult my professor! I am learning a lot of fox news garbage talking points from him. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwww…

  6. Ah Calypso, another sad broken little man who likely lost his job to an immigrant and his wife to someone with a brain.

  7. After reading some of this drivel.

    I’m on board with country’s that have mandatory voting, with a $20-$30 fine every time you don’t.

    I’d cut Uncle Sam $400, with a note telling him to check back in with me in 2070.

  8. Well then Heinrich, I guess I’m “stupid” as well because I don’t disagree with what Trump said in those tweets.

    These congresswomen have been in office a little over an hour now and have done nothing but bitch, complain and criticize this government and those of us that are conservative to anyone holding a microphone and a camera! Calling anyone who disagrees with them a racist.

    They have been running their inexperienced, racist mouths since they took office!

    Yes, THEY are the racists…stirring the pot against white people and Christians.

    I wish someone would stuff a sock in their mouths!

    Ever hear the expression “God gave you two ears and one mouth…to listen twice as much as you talk”?

    Not something they understand.

  9. “They have been running their inexperienced, racist mouths since they took office! Yes, THEY are the racists…stirring the pot against white people and Christians. I wish someone would stuff a sock in their mouths!” Yaaaawwwwwwwwnnn…again, compassionate conservative, fake christians convincing themselves that the victims of their ugly racism are indeed the racists. Of course they wish someone would stuff a sock in their mouths. To them, immigrants and minorities are great as long as they stay quiet, afraid, and submissive. Since that is not the case anymore, they are furious. Shame on this people for directing their anger to the most defenseless and poor in our country. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwww…

  10. I guess Heinrich is with the useful idiots and low information people who get propagandized and brainwashed by the Pravda of the Democrat Party, the mostly left wing media, and the Democrat politicians such as Bernie, Cherokee Liz and the other 20 something group of goofballs wanting to be president. Most of the media was once trusted many decades ago. The mostly left wing media are essentially handmaidens for the Democrat Party. That media are cheerleaders for Democrats and the Democrat Party.

  11. Lauren Underwood suffers from foot in mouth disease. Apparently, it’s contagious among the Democrats.

  12. Compassionate conservatives always entertaining. The liberal media hates my president chump, blah, blah, blah. The liberal media hates this country, blah, blah, blah, blaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh…478 days…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwwwww…

  13. Someday people like Angel will wish they actually were back in Mexico.

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