{"id":21304,"date":"2026-03-05T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/why-are-republican-senators-sabotaging-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:03:33","slug":"why-are-republican-senators-sabotaging-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/why-are-republican-senators-sabotaging-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Republican Senators Sabotaging Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">As of today, whether you want to hear it or not, the midterm election season is officially underway. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The first primaries of the year were held on Tuesday in Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas. I must report, first of all, that my personal favorite candidate, Jasmine Crockett, tragically did not prevail in her bid to become the first Senate nominee in U.S. history with a lower IQ than the average pumpkin. Crockett lost her Senate bid to James Talarico, who is smarter than a pumpkin, and even smarter than most of the other members of the squash family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But at least I can say this for Ms. Crockett. She is as dignified and honest in her loss as she has been throughout her entire career. Which is to say that she\u2019s accused the other side of cheating, and initially refused to admit that she actually lost:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 LMFAO! Jasmine Crockett is ALREADY coming out and saying there was CHEATING in the Democrat US Senate Primary in Texas, as it\u2019s looking like she\u2019ll lose<\/p>\n<p>But wait: I thought Democrat cheating was just a \u201cCONSPIRACY THEORY\u201d?! \ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AWp01jrRrU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/AWp01jrRrU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksortor\/status\/2029008692113203255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: @nicksortor\/X.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Remember to update your scorecards at home. It is officially okay to question the results of a democratic election again. Provided, anyway, that you\u2019re black, and a woman, and a Democrat. In any case, it\u2019s shocking that she would lose in this way. Indeed, cheating is the only possible explanation. Especially if you go back and watch her career highlights. Which, even though Jasmine Crockett is not really the subject of our monologue today, we\u2019ll watch them now anyway:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The best of Jasmine Crockett<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uXvN1Lq3FQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/uXvN1Lq3FQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ALX \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@alx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alx\/status\/2029057236425650488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: @alx\/X.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">I cannot, for the life of me, understand how a woman of such eloquence and elegance, a woman who looks and sounds like a part-time Waffle House waitress, could have lost her senate campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But she wasn\u2019t the only shocking loss. There was also the legitimately surprising defeat of the neocon Dan Crenshaw, which obviously signals the direction the Republican Party is headed towards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Tuesday was also a reminder \u2014 and this is what I actually want to talk about today \u2014 that the leaders of the Republican Party are doing everything they can to sabotage the second Trump administration \u2014 and to ensure that a candidate like Trump never wins the presidency ever again. This is the single most important story in the country right now, but because of the war in the Middle East, it\u2019s not getting anywhere near the attention it should. As DHS Secretary Kristi Noem testified in the Senate yesterday, outgoing Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina declared that, because of his frustrations with the DHS, he would go out of his way to undermine the president\u2019s agenda at every available opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ys-0r6sHV8M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Sen. Tillis calls for Noem&#039;s resignation in full questioning at oversight hearing\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ys-0r6sHV8M?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: PBS News\/YouTube.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">In other words, because the DHS Inspector General isn\u2019t happy with Kristi Noem\u2019s responses, Thom Tillis is going to burn everything down. The administration won\u2019t be able to appoint anyone or pass any legislation as long as the Inspector General of the DHS says Kristi Noem is stonewalling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">To be very clear about what\u2019s going on here \u2014 the inspector general of the DHS is named Joseph Cuffari. In 2024, when Joe Biden was president, a committee of inspectors general and federal officials <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/oversight\/2024\/10\/dhs-ig-committed-substantial-misconduct-governmental-watchdog-finds\/400068\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">determined<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> that Cuffari had \u201cabused his authority and engaged in substantial conduct\u201d that would justify his removal. The allegations of wrongdoing included claims that Cuffari had interfered in independent investigations, fired a whistleblower who reported his misconduct, lied during his nomination process, and spent millions of taxpayer dollars to hire a law firm to advance his own interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/RLQDRBFQCIAIKF2ZAZE2BQRCCY_size-normalized.JPG&amp;w=1440&amp;impolicy=high_res\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Source: Washington Post<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">This is the inspector general that Tillis is throwing his support behind. He\u2019s an official who\u2019s obviously corrupt, even though his job is to prevent corruption. This is the person Noem needs to placate, apparently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">In particular, according to Tillis, Kristi Noem needs to answer questions about why ICE is deporting so many illegal aliens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ys-0r6sHV8M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Sen. Tillis calls for Noem&#039;s resignation in full questioning at oversight hearing\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ys-0r6sHV8M?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: PBS News\/YouTube.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">It\u2019s indistinguishable, in every way, from the questions the Democrats asked throughout this hearing. First of all, yes, we want \u201cnumbers.\u201d The more illegal aliens who are deported, the better. It doesn\u2019t matter if those illegal aliens have committed additional crimes or not. The simple fact that they\u2019re in this country is a major problem. They need to be deported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But Tillis disagrees. His position, and the position of most establishment Republicans, is that illegal entry into the United States is no big deal. Tillis also believes that violently interfering with ICE is no big deal, either, which is why he brought up Alex Pretti and Renee Good \u2014 who everyone on the planet has already forgotten about, except Thom Tillis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ys-0r6sHV8M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Sen. Tillis calls for Noem&#039;s resignation in full questioning at oversight hearing\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ys-0r6sHV8M?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: PBS News\/YouTube.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">There you have it. According to Thom Tillis, Leftists aren\u2019t threatening ICE agents because they want open borders, lawlessness, and the destruction of the United States. Instead, Leftists are threatening ICE agents because of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Never mind the fact that the ICE agents were being threatened long before either of those activists died. Never mind the fact that both Alex Pretti and Renee Good decided to attack ICE agents in order to prevent them from doing their jobs. Never mind the fact that the Left openly celebrated the murder of one of the top conservative leaders in the country, simply because they didn\u2019t like his opinions. We\u2019re supposed to believe that there\u2019s a universe where the Left would be totally fine with immigration enforcement if only the DHS had conducted a more transparent investigation into the shooting of the lesbian who drove her SUV into an ICE officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1745-if-republicans-don-t-do-this-immediately-america-will-never-be-the-same?elementPosition=2&amp;row=6&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-976065\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/Matt-watch-now-1-1024x171.jpg\" alt=\"DailyWire+\" width=\"1024\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/Matt-watch-now-1-1024x171.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/Matt-watch-now-1-300x50.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/Matt-watch-now-1-768x128.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/Matt-watch-now-1-1536x256.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/Matt-watch-now-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto,  (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">This is nothing new for Tillis. In 2024, he was the ringleader of a fake amnesty bill in the Senate, which was intended to undermine the president\u2019s immigration policy. But lately, he has become a lot more animated in his disdain for this administration. In case it\u2019s not obvious, Tillis is shouting all of the time because he\u2019s trying to impress some non-profit or university. He wants to get a job when he leaves Washington, which is a day that can\u2019t come soon enough. And that\u2019s why, when he was dealing with Biden\u2019s DHS secretary, he had a very different approach:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Watch very carefully to see if you can spot the difference in how \u201cRepublican\u201d Thom Tillis treats the DHS Secretary who allowed 15M unvetted illegal aliens in the U.S. versus the one who is trying to deport them <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H76jk4ECbT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/H76jk4ECbT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey Inganamort \ud83e\ude9a\ud83c\udf34\ud83e\ude9a (@TheBirdWords) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBirdWords\/status\/2028913740234518540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Source: @TheBirdWords\/X.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Watching this, you might say that Thom Tillis is leaving office because he\u2019s unpopular, so what\u2019s the big deal? He\u2019s just one outgoing Republican senator who\u2019s threatening to derail the president\u2019s agenda. How bad can things be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The problem is that Thom Tillis is not, in fact, an exception. He represents the entrenched Republican power structure in Washington. The leadership of the party does not want to enact Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. They\u2019re doing everything they can to interfere with it. The GOP leader in the Senate, John Thune of South Dakota, is about to send the Senate off to vacation. And instead of giving a speech where he outlined some kind of plan to advance legislation that the White House is pushing for, Thune simply complained about Democrats, over and over again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"N3sgas17sQI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thune: Democrats\u2019 DHS Funding Block Jeopardizes Americans\u2019 Safety\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N3sgas17sQI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: JohnThune\/YouTube.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">This isn\u2019t going to cut it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Democrats are going to use every tool they have \u2014 including a government shutdown \u2014 to get what they want. We don\u2019t accomplish anything by whining about it. Instead, we should be using every tool that we have to achieve our own policy objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">For starters, instead of standing in the way of Trump\u2019s appointments \u2014 as Thom Tillis is doing \u2014 Republicans in the Senate could go on recess for 10 days or longer. Under current law, that would allow the president to make \u201crecess appointments\u201d to key positions, including seats on federal courts, if he chooses to do so. No approval from the Senate is necessary as part of a recess appointment. And that\u2019s important because, as we\u2019ve <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BRchhoffEIY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">discussed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> before, the Senate follows a so-called \u201cblue slip\u201d process, which allows an individual senator to veto a nomination, as long as the nominee is from her home state. It\u2019s an outdated and pointless process, but Republicans are going along with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But here\u2019s the issue: Thune has deliberately prevented recess appointments from occurring. And he\u2019s done so by holding so-called \u201cpro forma\u201d sessions in the Senate. The idea is that, even though the Senate is on vacation, they hold a quick session with basically no one in attendance. And that \u201cresets the clock\u201d on recess appointments. It prevents the Senate from counting as \u201cin recess\u201d for the 10 days that are required by law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Here\u2019s what these pro forma sessions look like. This is from last summer:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">During August recess, Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune plan to call the House and Senate into session every four or five days, with practically no one there, for the sole purpose of preventing Trump from making recess appointments. Here was today\u2019s House \u201cpro-forma\u201d session: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sK1tZTCdYQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/sK1tZTCdYQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1948783442692305007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: @RepThomasMassie\/X.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The clerk gets up there, reads some nonsense for less than 2 minutes, and everyone goes home. The sole purpose of these \u201cpro forma\u201d sessions is to prevent Donald Trump from making recess appointments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Did you know this was going on? Did you have any idea that the president\u2019s own party \u2014 which controls both houses of Congress \u2014 is using a procedural mechanism to block him from appointing administration officials, along with dozens of US attorneys and judges? That\u2019s what Republicans in the Senate are doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">For the same reason, Republicans in the Senate aren\u2019t taking any action to advance the SAVE Act, which is short for \u201cSafeguard American Voter Eligibility.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight:400\">This is, in every respect, the single most important piece of legislation that anyone currently serving in Congress has ever considered.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Passing this legislation is the most important thing that any of them can possibly achieve right now, by far. That\u2019s why Donald Trump specifically called on Republicans to pass the SAVE Act during his State of the Union Address. This law will determine whether we have fair elections, real elections going forward. It will determine if Americans get to decide who leads them, or if foreign invaders get to decide for them. That\u2019s what\u2019s at stake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The terms of the SAVE Act are straightforward: If you want to register to vote or update your voter registration, then you need to present documentary proof that you\u2019re a citizen. And you need to present this proof in person. A passport would satisfy this requirement all by itself. A majority of Americans have a passport already. 170 million Americans, in fact. Which means if you don\u2019t have one, it\u2019s not very hard to get one. 170 million Americans have already done it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But if you don\u2019t have one and don\u2019t want to get one, then a birth certificate paired with a driver\u2019s license will satisfy the requirement. Additionally, the law would require that voters show photo identification in order to cast a ballot in person. If voting absentee \u2014 which would only be allowed in rare cases \u2014 a copy of the photo identification would need to be provided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">There is no good-faith basis whatsoever for opposing this legislation. There is no valid argument against it. The only argument is that some American citizens might be too dumb or lazy to fulfill the rudimentary requirements. But as I\u2019ve explained, far from being an argument against it, that\u2019s just one more justification for it. Anyone who can\u2019t live up to the baseline standards this law puts in place shouldn\u2019t be voting. Either it means they aren\u2019t citizens, or they\u2019re exceptionally stupid and lazy. In any of those cases, they shouldn\u2019t be voting. That\u2019s why everyone, outside of elected representatives in the Democrat Party, supports it. Gallup just <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/652523\/americans-endorse-early-voting-voter-verification.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">ran a poll<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> finding that 84 percent of Americans support the voter-ID requirement. 83 percent support the requirement that first-time voters provide documentary evidence of citizenship. It\u2019s extremely difficult to get broad, bipartisan agreement like this. 83 percent of Americans wouldn\u2019t agree on whether or not the Earth is flat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">So everyone knows why Democrats have an issue with the SAVE Act. As Trump said, they want to cheat. They want to flood the United States with illegal aliens, allow them to vote \u2014 using the honor system \u2014 and permanently seize control of the country. That\u2019s been their game plan for many years now. They\u2019re on the verge of success. And Republicans have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to stop it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">It wouldn\u2019t even take any special effort. That\u2019s what you have to understand. If the Republicans fail here, it is because they chose to fail. They want to fail. They don\u2019t want to protect our elections. They have no other excuse. The obstacle right now is that Democrats are threatening to filibuster the bill. And under normal circumstances, 60 votes are needed to end the filibuster and hold the vote. All John Thune would have to do is keep the Senate\u2019s legislative session open and force a \u201cstanding filibuster\u201d on this particular piece of legislation. Under a standing filibuster, if they want to delay a vote, Democrats can\u2019t simply announce their intent to block the legislation. Instead, they would have to get up, walk to the podium, and talk endlessly \u2014 without taking any breaks. If they take a break, then they\u2019re done. They have to pass the torch to another Democrat. And if they can\u2019t do that, then the filibuster ends, and Republicans can hold a vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Eventually, the standing filibuster would come to an end \u2014 since senators can\u2019t return to the podium more than two times during any one \u201clegislative session.\u201d. It wouldn\u2019t be pleasant for anyone \u2014 including Republicans, who would have to remain near the Senate chamber at all times, in order to ensure that there\u2019s a quorum. If there\u2019s no quorum, then the legislative session ends, the speech counter resets, and Democrats can go back to the podium the next day and filibuster some more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But this is what we elected Republicans to do. This is the most important fight they can undertake. They don\u2019t even have to change the rules of the Senate to do it. They just have to stay near the Senate complex for a few days. That\u2019s it. Instead, here\u2019s what John Thune is up to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">This is one of his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeaderJohnThune\/status\/2028898538466189449?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">social media posts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> yesterday:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cGreat to sit down with members of Ducks Unlimited, including the students who started the SDSU chapter of DU, who are working to further wildlife and conservation priorities in the state.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Instead of sitting down with the members of the Mighty Ducks or whatever and whining about Democrats, John Thune needs to put the SAVE Act up for a vote. And if Democrats want to filibuster, he needs to require them to stand up and talk until they can\u2019t talk anymore. And then, when the bill is passed, the president will sign it. And we\u2019ll have some chance of fair elections in this country going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">If that\u2019s too much for Senate Republicans, they also have the option of eliminating the filibuster entirely. We all know that Democrats will do it, the first chance they get. No use fretting that if you do it, they\u2019ll do it. They\u2019ll do it regardless. The Democrats are fighting fascists and Nazis and Darth Vader, remember? They\u2019ll do anything at all that they need to do to advance their agenda. There\u2019s no reason we shouldn\u2019t do the same thing \u2014 especially since the odds are very low that Republicans will remain in power in Congress for much longer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Right now, Republicans have a real chance of losing Senate races in several key states in November, from Alaska to Ohio to Georgia. Meanwhile, the establishment wing of the GOP is throwing around enormous amounts of money to prop up neocons like John Cornyn, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThomasMHern\/status\/2029043155367067737?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">spent <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">something like $70 million to receive 43 percent of the vote in yesterday\u2019s primary in Texas, while Ken Paxton spent around 4 million to receive 40 percent of the vote. And Paxton probably would have won outright if there hadn\u2019t been a spoiler candidate in the race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">There is ample evidence, in other words, that the Republican Party is in a state of managed decline. The leaders are waiting for Donald Trump\u2019s exit at this point. Frankly, it doesn\u2019t appear that our elected representatives in Congress actually want to hold onto power any longer. What you have to understand about the political scene in modern America is that many politicians \u2014 especially Republicans \u2014 don\u2019t actually want to be in power. They don\u2019t crave power so much as they crave the prestige of holding elected office, and the many ways they can financially benefit from their position, both while they\u2019re in office and once they leave. Many of them want to trade their elected office in for cushy jobs as lobbyists and consultants. Many of them, especially the younger ones, dream of nothing more than being podcasters. It\u2019s a relative few who want power in order to actually use that power. For the rest, having power, being in the majority, is an inconvenience. Why would they actually want to fly the plane when they can sit in first class and drink Bloody Marys?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">As John Thune demonstrated, Republicans are very comfortable complaining about Democrats. And as Thom Tillis demonstrated, Republicans have no problem berating the Trump administration and threatening to shut down his entire agenda. To this point, most of the achievements of the Republican Party in Washington have really just been achievements of the Trump Administration. Republicans have done the bare minimum, if even that. They passed the Big Beautiful Bill, and I guess we\u2019re just supposed to be satisfied with that. We handed them control over the entire government; in return, we got one piece of legislation. That\u2019s supposed to be good enough. Well, it isn\u2019t. That is not going to be satisfactory. And for anyone who is willing to accept the \u201cfilibuster\u201d excuse for Republicans, keep something in mind: Republicans will never have \u2014 and I mean never have \u2014 a filibuster-proof majority. It\u2019s not going to happen. It\u2019s only happened once this century, and that was for Democrats. Republicans are never going to have enough votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster. There is no path for it. It\u2019s not going to happen. Republicans haven\u2019t had one since the 1920s, and the country today doesn\u2019t even vaguely resemble the country in the 1920s. So either they will barrel through, force their agenda through by eliminating the filibuster or doing a standing filibuster, or they will not advance their agenda at all. Not now. Not ever again. Those are your choices. Kill the modern filibuster, or never see an actual conservative piece of legislation passed ever again in your life. That\u2019s it. Either we keep the current filibuster system alive, or Republicans carry out the will of the voters. We can\u2019t have both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Right now, hiding behind these excuses, Republicans have decided against the will of the voters. 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