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[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

@SenAshleyMoody No. Stay in recess. Don’t gavel in and finally allow our President to make recess appointments. At least HE is willing to do something constructive actual work for We The People.

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

@ChuckGrassley @mrddmia Go into recess until the end of your term so at least our President can do something constructive and appoint judges that we will want 10 years from now.

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

@MarshaBlackburn @POTUS Those are all things in the bottom 10 of our top 20 priorities. Tim Burchett, the SAVE America Act and then go into recess for the last 45 days so our President can make recess appointments. THAT would be a success!

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

@RonDeSantis At least 11 of the 18 need to be primaried in 2028…

[Donald Whitlock @dwhitlock1970]

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[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

Yes! Appointment Tim!

[Joe Oltmann @Joeoltmann]

Imagine losing the Senate a week ago, getting beat from Kansas to Texas, and the first thing the man who ran the place does is send word down the line that he does not want Tim Burchett in the seat Marsha Blackburn is leaving… because Tim might not do what leadership tells him to do.

There it is. Not that he is unqualified, not that he cannot win, not that he did something wrong… he might not obey.

And Tim's answer is the best thing I have heard out of Washington all week. "I love the fact that he's not for me." Then he says the big players in the party, the one or two who pull the strings and write the big checks, have never been for him and are always for him the day after the election. Read that again, because a sitting congressman just told you out loud how the club actually works.

Let me explain why this matters. John Thune just presided over what his own colleagues are calling a "stunning defeat," and Senate Republicans are still lined up to hand him the minority leader job, so much so that Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, Mike Lee, John Kennedy and others had to sign a letter just to ask for a meeting first to talk about what went wrong. How is it that the guy who lost the majority has time to work against a Tennessee appointment but no time to answer for the loss? Who exactly is he protecting that seat from, the Democrats or his own voters?

Here is the reality. The uniparty does not fear losing to the left nearly as much as it fears one more person in that chamber who will not take the call. They can live in the minority, they have done it before and the checks still clear. What they cannot live with is someone who reads the bill, says no to the omnibus, and goes home and tells you what happened in the room.

Now keep in mind, Tim says this came from an off the record conversation with a prominent media figure, and none of it has been confirmed by Thune. Fine. Then Thune can clear it up in public, today, in one sentence. I will wait.

The good news is Governor elect Blackburn already said Washington does not decide who the senator from Tennessee is, she does, and she is exactly right. Tim says he is running in 2028 either way.

@MarshaBlackburn, the people of Tennessee are watching who you listen to. Appoint the man the swamp does not want.

End stop.

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

Scott @ScottPresler always with the good ideas!!! Thank you!

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:

1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements
15) Freeze rent increases

Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.

[juicystar1908 @juicystar1908]

@SenAlexPadilla As someone who is a legal immigrant who filed the paperwork and waited in line, absolutely not.

It tells every legal immigrant that they went through the process for nothing, and that they could have just jumped the queue.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@SenAlexPadilla No, we need a pathway for mass deportations for illegal immigrants who have spent years taking American jobs, stealing from taxpayers, and committing crimes against Americans.

We need to deport them all.

Hope this helps.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Tim Burchett DROPS this line after Republicans' midterm defeat

"I think Washington needs to quit blaming TRUMP and start blaming THEMSELVES for the mess we're in right now. We had SEVERAL opportunities to fix things. The stock-trading ban, I had a really strong bill that just said, no stock trading!" 💯

"The other, of course, was the price of fuel. I had a bill to deal with that on controls, export controls, and you know, that would have dropped it overnight over a DOLLAR according to oil experts!"

"We got to get some GUTS we got to start doing what's right and quit lying to the public and we need to message better."

He's not holding ANYTHING back, and he's right.

Republicans need to become the NATIONWIDE LEADERS on issues like stock trading bans and gas prices through 2028. That's how we make a comeback @timburchett

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

Wow! Literally everyone…maybe post the 1 or two who haven’t. Primary them all!!!

[Crazy Mom @ThnKMyMmsGnCrzy]

Just going to keep posting the list of RINO's who have gaveled in pro forma to obstruct recess appointments by @POTUS

Katie Britt - Alabama @SenKatieBritt
John Boozman - Arkansas @JohnBoozman
Tom Cotton - Arkansas @SenTomCotton
Ashley Moody - Florida @SenAshleyMoody
Joni Ernst - Iowa @SenJoniErnst
Chuck Grassley - Iowa @ChuckGrassley
Mike Crapo - Idaho @MikeCrapo
Jim Banks - Indiana @SenatorBanks
Roger Marshall - Kansas @RogerMarshallMD
Jerry Moran - Kansas @JerryMoran
Bill Cassidy - Louisiana @SenBillCassidy
Roger Wicker - Mississippi @SenatorWicker
Josh Hawley - Missouri @HawleyMO
Steve Daines - Montana @SteveDaines
Tim Sheehy - Montana @TimSheehyMT
Pete Ricketts - Nebraska @PeteRicketts
Deb Fischer - Nebraska @DebforNebraska
Ted Budd - North Carolina @TedBuddNC
Thom Tillis - North Carolin @SenThomTillis
Kevin Cramer - North Dakota @SenKevinCramer
Bernie Moreno - Ohio @berniemoreno
Alan Armstrong - Oklahoma @SenArmstrong
Dave McCormick - Pennsylvania @DaveMcCormickPA
Tim Scott - South Carolina @SenatorTimScott
Mike Rounds - South Dakota @SenatorRounds
Marsha Blackburn - Tenness @MarshaBlackburn
Bill Hagerty - Tennessee @SenatorHagerty
Mike Lee - Utah @BasedMikeLee
Shelley Moore Capito - West Virginia @SenCapito
Jim Justice - West Virginia @JimJustice_WV
Ron Johnson - Wisconsin @RonJohnsonWI
Cynthia Lummis - Wyoming

@SenLummis
John Barrasso - Wyoming

@SenJohnBarrasso

[Crazy Mom @ThnKMyMmsGnCrzy]

Just going to keep posting the list of RINO's who have gaveled in pro forma to obstruct recess appointments by @POTUS

Katie Britt - Alabama @SenKatieBritt
John Boozman - Arkansas @JohnBoozman
Tom Cotton - Arkansas @SenTomCotton
Ashley Moody - Florida @SenAshleyMoody
Joni Ernst - Iowa @SenJoniErnst
Chuck Grassley - Iowa @ChuckGrassley
Mike Crapo - Idaho @MikeCrapo
Jim Banks - Indiana @SenatorBanks
Roger Marshall - Kansas @RogerMarshallMD
Jerry Moran - Kansas @JerryMoran
Bill Cassidy - Louisiana @SenBillCassidy
Roger Wicker - Mississippi @SenatorWicker
Josh Hawley - Missouri @HawleyMO
Steve Daines - Montana @SteveDaines
Tim Sheehy - Montana @TimSheehyMT
Pete Ricketts - Nebraska @PeteRicketts
Deb Fischer - Nebraska @DebforNebraska
Ted Budd - North Carolina @TedBuddNC
Thom Tillis - North Carolin @SenThomTillis
Kevin Cramer - North Dakota @SenKevinCramer
Bernie Moreno - Ohio @berniemoreno
Alan Armstrong - Oklahoma @SenArmstrong
Dave McCormick - Pennsylvania @DaveMcCormickPA
Tim Scott - South Carolina @SenatorTimScott
Mike Rounds - South Dakota @SenatorRounds
Marsha Blackburn - Tenness @MarshaBlackburn
Bill Hagerty - Tennessee @SenatorHagerty
Mike Lee - Utah @BasedMikeLee
Shelley Moore Capito - West Virginia @SenCapito
Jim Justice - West Virginia @JimJustice_WV
Ron Johnson - Wisconsin @RonJohnsonWI
Cynthia Lummis - Wyoming

@SenLummis
John Barrasso - Wyoming

@SenJohnBarrasso

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

@NHnewsUpdate NH was always way down on her list of priorities…just like mom.

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

@REGRVR @realDonaldTrump Sununu was an absentee campaigner…he did nothing to get a message out to voters…probably because he didn’t have one.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

The Midterm is Not the Endterm

It is too soon to calibrate the direction of the post midterm Democratic and Republican Parties.

But if the first 72 hours are any indication—and despite the soon to be Speaker’s denials—the Left is already bragging about subpoenas, and it is intoxicated by the notion of investigations and impeachments.

Heady Democrats have entirely forgotten the politically suicidal fashion of the 2021-4 five civil and criminal courtroom circuses, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and the blue state deballoting efforts.

All that and more fueled the Trump recovery.

Wild talk of multi-trillion-dollar new agendas grows, like socializing the health care system, a renewed Green New Deal, student loan forgiveness, and illegal alien amnesties, along with new punitive income and estate regulations and taxes.

This socialist dream is reminiscent of the 2021 giddy splurging that gave the country a 9.1% inflation rate by midterm year 2022.

Along with the Afghanistan disaster (the Left’s correction for a Middle East ‘forever war”) the inflation would ensure Biden a 40% popularity.

The idea that the Left, which cannot do much real lawmaking without a veto-proof Congress, will try to reach deals with the White House, adopt a 1995 Clinton-like realist agenda, simply claim credit for the growing Trump economy, or moderate its rhetoric is highly unlikely.

Instead, we hear crazy talk of confiscations, new billionaire and millionaire punitive taxes, imprisonments, changing the Constitution—all in full suicidal 1972 McGovern style.

Republicans are blame-gaming each other, which can be constructive if over issues and reforms rather than social media ad hominem. But they need to message far better, about both the administration’s successes and the dangers of a socialist future.

There will be likely be no planned presidential succession, or gentlemanly agreement on a front runner. That’s likely good news. More likely as of now a triangular race between front-runners De Santis, Rubio, and Vance emerges—all of whom are far preferable to any ticket with a Newsom, Harris, AOC, Mamdani, or el-Sayed.

If the Republicans can stay reasonably united, they can ensure permanent presidential vetoes of crazy leftwing legislation, fight back on the Democratic committee inquisitions, and see the economy in the final two years become an asset in recovering their popularity.

Absent in all conversations is that there is increasing evidence that the economy is actually expanding and has the potential to boom in 2027, or at least the data indicate such potential.

The jobs report came out yesterday with a stunning 165,000 jobs created in October (accompanied by the usual journalists’ adverb “unexpectantly”), dropping unemployment to 4.1%.

Revised 3rd GDP stats now show a robust 3.4% growth—likely ensuring at least 3%+ growth for the year.

Third Quarter consumer spending soared 3.8%.

Private domestic investment surged with 19.4% growth.

Just reported last week: median family income in 2025 hit a new record ($87,460)—the highest in 60 years adjusted for inflation. And poverty dipped to its lowest rate (ever 10.2%).

In October manufacturing activity grew faster than at any time in the past five years.

Yes, prices are too high, and final 2026 inflation, given gas hikes, is scheduled to increase by one point (3.7%) from last year’s (2.7%). But it is still lower than the pan-European average (ca. 4+%)—and much lower than the Biden average over four years of 5.1%.

Gas prices are already falling. On November 6 prices fell to a $4.06 average—as global oil transit is mostly back to prewar levels and refineries scramble to handle the increased deliveries.

U.S. companies are dominating all the top 10 rankings in market capitalization/usage in key area such as software, AI, digital media, space, satellite launches, and bio/genetic engineering.

Note that today gas prices are not that much higher than 4 years ago at the 2022 midterm time ($4.06 vs. ca. $3.80), and haven’t once spiked to $5 a gallon as they did in 2022, just four months before the Biden midterms.

Yet oddly, the red wave sputtered in 2022 when the U.S. was in far worse economic shape than this week when the blue wave became a tsunami.

Messaging, media, and communication count, so note:

Four years ago GDP growth was lower than today—even though the pandemic was about over and there was a dramatic return to work and spending.

The inflation rate was almost three times higher in 2022 than now.

Median family income was $14,000 lower than now. The poverty rate was higher in 2022.

The Dow was 20,000 points lower. Foreign investment will likely end the year 30-40% higher than in 2022.

Real wage growth (nominal wages minus inflation) while not great in 2026 is likely to end the year far better than in 2022 (when real wage growth fell 2-3%).

So why would “affordability” have been decisive in the 2026 midterms when it was not in 2022?

The 21% aggregate inflation rate Trump inherited force-multiplied the average 3.15% Trump inflation rate of 2025-6— yet in a way the aggregate first-term Trump inflation rate (7.7% just a third of the Biden total) did not exaggerate all that much the 9.1% inflation rate in 2022.

Messaging, however, matters. The administration did not explain adequately that a 21% rise in prices cannot be lowered without radical deflation or recession, but only ameliorated by medium family income growth and lowering the inflation rate from the Biden 2021-5 averages, both of which occurred in 2025-6, but were forgotten.

Media coverage of the Biden 2022 weak economy were muted, while Trump’s 2-year inflation rate was exaggerated during 2026.

The Iran war became the culprit as a war of choice that made the inherited Biden 21% high prices and the inability to lower were them solely Trump’s fault. Again, there was inadequate explanation of either the economic reality or why the gamble to denuclearize Iran was defensible–with the caveat that stopping the bombing at day 38 and talking with theocrats for seven months was an unfortunate mistake.

The domestic and foreign policy activism of the lame-duck Clinton (1998-2000} and Obama (2014-2016) presidencies increased after their loss of Congress. Indeed, their popularity climbed from a once nadir of below forty to sixty percent approval or above.

There is no reason why the Trump administration cannot have a successful last two years. The economy is growing.

The crime rate is at historic lows.

The border is closed shut. The radical pro-Western political transformation of South and Central America has remade the entire Western Hemisphere.

European NATO is rearming.

Oil and gas production is at highest levels of any nation in history.

The bloated federal work force has been trimmed by over 270,000 jobs.

There is no longer a 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment. The forced reforms in higher education were long overdue.

The verdict on Iran is still out.

If it is denuclearized, the crippling sanctions continued, the Strait kept open, the provincial opposition armed—and our military gone home— the regime will face an increasingly restive population

2026 was an unequivocal defeat, but 2028 need not be.

If the administration and Congress stay disciplined and united, and can message better, while the Left goes utterly berserk, drunk on their midterm successes, socialism/Islamism, and Trump Derangement Syndrome 2.0, the tide will soon radically turn— as the economy already has.

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

@GadSaad @BernieSanders The only way I would agree with healthcare for all is if we get added to the Senators’ plan…

[Angie Pratt @ArkansasAngie]

Tim Scott ... why did you do it? Tell MAGA why you decided to gavel in the Proforma Recess Session today.

Tell us without lying through your teeth. Tell us the frigging truth for a change. Are you capable of being honest? at all?

@SenatorTimScott

your true colors are showing and they are NOT Red

Respond turkey. Here, Now

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

A long but fairly complete assessment of the choices…

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history.

My side of history is Cato the Elder, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Irving Babbitt and William F. Buckley.  Your side of history is Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin, Mao’s Little Red Book and Noam Chomsky.

My side of history is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.  Your side of history is Tories who fled to Canada, Jefferson Davis, Woodrow Wilson, Bull Connor, George Wallace and Nancy Pelosi.

My side of history is freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and spirited debate.  Your side of history is ThoughtCrime, Speech Codes, religious persecution and Cancel Culture.

My side of history is Brown v. Board of Ed., Loving v. VA, Gitlow v. NY, and Heller v. DC.  Your side of history is Dred Scott, Korematsu and Roe v. Wade.

My side of history is Jackie Robinson.  Your side of history is Colin Kaepernick.

My side of history is head held high, standing straight, hand over heart.  Your side of history is sullen glances at the ground, kneeling.

My side of history is the family as the foundation of society. Your side of history is mutilating confused children.

My side of history is the rockets’ red glare.  Your side of history is imagine no religion.

My side of history is firefighters going up the stairs into the Twin Towers.  Your side of history is 28-year-old men playing Call of Duty in their mothers’ basements.

My side of history is smoked brisket.  Your side of history is a no-foam, no-sugar, soy latte.

My side of history is Lincoln freeing the slaves and General Patton liberating Buchenwald.  Your side of history is Fort Sumter, the Gulag and Pol Pot’s killing fields.

My side of history is Mel Brooks.  Your side of history is Amy Schumer.

My side of history is all men and women are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.  Your side of history is critical theory and only some lives matter.

My side of history is 20-year-olds storming Omaha Beach. Your side of history is 20-year-olds in their safe spaces with adult coloring books.

My side of history is American men and women disabled by an IED.  Your side of history is American men and women disabled by anxiety.

My side of history is the Kentucky Rifle, the Springfield 1861, the M1911, the M1 Garand, the M14 and the AR15.  Your side of history is whimpering submission.

My side of history is Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Apollo 11 and Jonas Salk.  Your side of history is “global warming,” 100+ genders and porous cloth masks stopping viruses.

My side is of history is laughing babies.  Your side of history is selling aborted baby parts on the open market.

My side of history is the Sistine Chapel and Monet’s water lilies.  Your side of history is an inverted crucifix in a bottle of urine.

My side of history is construction.  Your side of history is deconstruction.

My side of history is civilization.  Your side of history is nihilism.

And, MOST OF ALL:

My side of history is liberty.  Your side of history is tyranny.

*finis*

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵 THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup

@PeteHegseth named the institutions... CFR, Brookings, the general class... in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a color revolution planning document cited him as an insider threat.

They didn't go after him because of drinking. They didn't go after him because of women. They went after him because every color revolution manual ever written says the same thing: you cannot topple a government unless the security forces defect. And a loyal Secretary of Defense is the one person who makes sure they don't.

I have the receipts. Their own documents. Their own training sessions. Their own words on camera.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

[Howgoodiwas.com @HGIW]

@RepThomasMassie “while he can still get the replacements confirmed in the Senate”??? What delusional world are you actually living in?