Rules package passes

[MacDaddy67]

Crenshaw has really turned into a swamp ****...he must be primary out....get with it Kingwood

[hpdrifter]

Kinda why it was a big deal to keep America first candidates running for senate in the mid terms out of those seats. Please see Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia for examples.


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kinda what I said during/on one of the election threads: they made sure they won just enough CRITICAL elections.
Notice everyone one of those take longer to decide.

[donpablo]

I believe the only government leaders who weren't there for money or power were the first generation patriots - the ones who fought in the War for Independence. We started down the wrong path when the the government started voting for welfare - taking money from the masses to give to a select few in the early 1800's. Then they couldn't take enough from the masses so they created the income tax to pay for wars. Then it became too easy to increase that, so they continually gave themselves raises.

I believe there were some, but to believe that none or even a minority of the founding fathers were working diligently to secure both power and wealth is naive. Even the root cause of the civil war (slavery) was really about wealth and power.

[OldRiverRat]

[QUOTE=DapperDan;16599270]Dan Crenshaw didn’t vote on the rules package at all. Imagine that…


looks like those 20 idiots that held out are doing well


Freedom Caucus Rep. Defeats Crenshaw for Homeland Security Chair - Has Big Plan Biden Will Hate

By Warner Todd Huston
January 9, 2023 at 5:53pm
With the long list of deals that Kevin McCarthy made so he could advance to become Speaker of the House, a number of House committee chairmanships are going to conservative members, and one important one saw Rep. Dan Crenshaw lose his Homeland Security Committee Chairman bid to conservative Mark Green.

Crenshaw, who made a splash as a conservative when he first got elected to Congress from the 2nd District in Texas in 2018, has since made some turns toward the establishment that have annoyed many conservatives.

In fact, during the four-day Speaker vote fight, Crenshaw actually said the conservative holdouts who were seeking concessions from McCarthy were “traitors.”



He later tried to walk that back by calling it just a “turn of phrase” and insisted in hindsight that he didn’t really mean traitors, exactly.

With his blatant support for McCarthy, Crenshaw, who was a United States Navy SEAL officer, was looking for the plum job of chair of the Homeland Security Committee. The Homeland Security Committee oversees border security and cybersecurity. It is also the main oversight committee for the Department of Homeland Security.


But it wasn’t to be.

Despite his loyalty to Speaker McCarthy during the four days of voting, on Monday House members elected Tennessee’s Mark Green to the position, the Washington Examiner reported.


Green, who is a member of the House Freedom Caucus which held up the Speaker vote, is also a combat veteran who served as a special operations flight surgeon through several tours during hostilities in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s. He was first elected to Congress in 2018.

The gentleman from Tennessee now serves on seven other committees and subcommittees.


On Monday, Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas — also a member of the Freedom Caucus — celebrated his fellow caucus member taking the important Homeland chairmanship.

“Congratulations to fellow Freedom Caucus member @RepMarkGreen on becoming the new Homeland Security Committee Chairman,” Nehls tweeted. “He’s planning to have staff stay at the border and work with CBP. BIG WIN!”



Politico reporter Olivia Beavers noted that Green has said he intends to have staff stationed down near the border to be able to work in real time with the problems and issues there, as Joe Biden’s disastrous open border policies continue to endanger the country.


“Mark Green tells reporters he plans to have a permanent staff member staying at the border to work with CBP and other entities,” Beavers tweeted on Monday.



“For the sake of our national security and homeland security, we must secure our border,” Green told Fox News Digital. “We have no choice. We will empower our brave CBP agents to do their jobs and hold President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas accountable for the crisis that they created.”

Along with the long list McCarthy gave conservatives, Green’s plan to have someone reliable on the border that can tell him exactly what is going on at any given time is going to be a nightmare for the Biden administration and the fumbling Deptartment of Homeland Security that has utterly failed to keep our border secure.

If Green plans it right, Congress will finally have actual facts about the border and not just Biden’s propaganda.

[WItoTX]

I believe there were some, but to believe that none or even a minority of the founding fathers were working diligently to secure both power and wealth is naive. Even the root cause of the civil war (slavery) was really about wealth and power.

No, it was not the root cause. But keep believing so.

The Federal government was infringing in states rights well beyond the slavery question. Not only that, but read about the "freedom" black people had in the north. Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a perfect book to read about this supposed freedom.

[hpdrifter]

I believe there were some, but to believe that none or even a minority of the founding fathers were working diligently to secure both power and wealth is naive. Even the root cause of the civil war (slavery) was really about wealth and power.

sure was. the right to keep your acquired wealth and not let the King seize it and the power to be free and work for prosperity, not to make the King rich.

[donpablo]

No, it was not the root cause. But keep believing so.

The Federal government was infringing in states rights well beyond the slavery question. Not only that, but read about the "freedom" black people had in the north. Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a perfect book to read about this supposed freedom.

That's what I'm talking about. The northerners were (for the most part) just as racist but the slavery issue was at the heart of what was simply a power struggle. I'm sure that if the south had agreed to absolve the 3/5 compromise and get no voting representation for their slaves, the north would have had no problem with extending slavery into the territories. And for the southerners, slavery was never (at least until the civil war) in danger of being abolished in the states. The fight was over the territories. Why did the south care so much about territories that weren't even part of their state? Because back then, the slave states were fairly cohesive and worked together to maintain the power (legislative) that the 3/5 compromise guaranteed them.