U.S. strategic petroleum reserve down to 17 days — less than 1/2 of when Biden took office. He drained it to artificially lower prices for the midterm elections.
Let's cut to the chase
Gaetz is a POS demagogue who repeatedly lied during the House floor debate yesterday, and then, of course, simultaneously was fundraising and collecting email lists on behalf of the people. He insisted that the House failed to bring up 12 separate appropriations bills. The fact is they could not get them out of committee because Democrats wanted to spend a great deal more, which would have blown up the budget further, and conservatives opposed the bills. It had nothing to do with a refusal by McCarthy to oppose regular order. McCarthy refused to go along with a CR that essentially adopted the Senate omnibus spending agreed to, yet again, by McConnell and Schumer. Yet, Gaetz kept insisting otherwise. Gaetz said he's sick and tired of deficit spending and pointed to the $33 trillion debt. I know of few conservatives who disagree. But what has he done about it? He didn't go to the House floor, certainly not on a regular and sustained basis, and hammer away on the outrageous, massive spending for COVID funds, which were used for every imaginable purpose other than COVID and drove the debt through the roof. Gaetz demanded that the former speaker intervene in his ethics investigation and kill it, and despite text messages to the contrary, denied it. During his ramblings yesterday, Gaetz blamed House Republicans, who passed the most aggressive bill to secure the border from the ongoing invasion orchestrated by Biden and the Democrats, for not securing the border. And the worst, to me, is Gaetz working with the Marxists in the Democrat Party, who are literally destroying our country politically, culturally, and every other way, then denying it, while accusing the former speaker of being the Democrats' speaker, trashing Jim Jordan and Jamie Comer's investigations, accusing Chip Roy of being a RINO, and not uttering one word against Hakeem Jeffries, AOC, or the rest of the reprobates. At the same time, he was frantically fundraising off his anarchy, on behalf of the people and the republic, of course, positioning himself as the David taking on Goliath. Gaetz and the others wound up killing the greatest effort to slash domestic spending in our lifetimes (30%), worked out with the Senate conservatives who wanted to use the House bill as leverage against McConnell, and now the Democrats control it all. This had nothing to do with saving the country, regular order, the debt, etc. This was an unprincipled, personal, political attack led by a demagogue who repeatedly lies to conservatives and the public generally, and who is the favorite Republican of the Democrat Party and their media.
St Francis heard Jesus on His cross say, “rebuild my Church”. We find His Church devastated by lies from within, let us be living stones of faith in this dark time. Let us cling to Jesus no matter what stormy forces tempt us to turn away. Jesus is Lord, find His Eucharistic Face.
@Sean_McDowell 2000 years of unbroken apostolic succession & evil has not prevailed against Holy Mother Church! King Jesus established a Kingdom through His Church. You can't love the King and dismiss His kingdom." No one has God as their father who does not have the Church as their mother."
@queenfan1984 There's more. Prayer, fasting, sacrifice, charity to neighbor, growing in grace, the sacraments, communion of saints on earth and in heaven. Put on the Full Armor of God, Eph. 6. And there's much more.
@OneMadMomBlog On the surface this appears calculated; we can not know. But Francis has since 2016, "Don't be surprised if I am the pope who divides the Catholic Church."
@OneMadMomBlog He said nothing against Church teaching. The problem is widespread misperception of what he said. The real problem is his making bishops & priests individual arbiters of truth, thus undermining the authority of Holy Mother Church = a house divided = will fall
@carolmswain Thank you for for your thoughts, Dr Swain. Like me, most are un aware of Speaker McCarthy's trust issues. But I hated the way Matthew Gaetz divided the GOP. He was hateful not charitable. If he is in any way right, he is right the wrong way, which undermines his own credibility
@DrFrankTurek IT IS ABSURD FOR THE EVOLUTIONIST TO COMPLAIN THAT IT IS UNTHINKABLE FOR AN ADMITTEDLY UNTHINKABLE GOD TO MAKE EVERYTHING OUT OF NOTHING, AND THEN PRETEND THAT IT IS MORE THINKABLE THAT NOTHING SHOULD TURN ITSELF INTO EVERYTHING. GK Chesterton
@Ammariel_Melwas@DrFrankTurek Ammariel, What you have in your statement is a logical fallacy. Just because we might not know all the how, or any of it for that matter, doesn't mean we cannot believe the evidence or accept solid arguments for a designer in an obviously designed universe