In an October 2019 post, your faithful Peasant discussed the fierce
rivalry between moderate pro-life Democrat U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski
and far-left pro-abortion Democrat primary challenger Marie Newman
for the seat representing their Chicago-vicinity House district.
Newman was drafted by the abortion lobby and eagerly backed for the
nomination by the district Democrat party, losing narrowly to Lipinski
in 2018 and winning just as narrowly in 2020. Winning the Democrat
primary is de facto winning the general election as well, as the GOP
has a faint, minimal presence in that district and may as well not even
put up even token opposition. So Newman, who came into office
on what was basically a single-issue campaign (and a terrible issue
at that!), had a very easy November that year.
Now fast-forward to the present: Once in Congress, Newman found
herself the target of an ethics investigation. Apparently, in a
clear violation of campaign-finance law, she promised another
potential candidate in the primary a job in her office if that person
promised not to run. There is even a contract bearing Newman's
signature which says precisely that. Ah, but a twist to the story
develops: An Office of Congressional Ethics report produced a
truckload of documentary evidence that contradicted claims by
Rep. Newman had made to investigators regarding the incident.
Due to Illinois losing a U.S. House seat after the 2020 census,
thanks to the state's increasing outflow of residents fleeing the
high taxes and high crime there with the Dems in charge of just
about everything, Newman wound up in the same district as
fellow Democrat Representative Sean Casten, who went on to
destroy her in the 2022 Democrat primary with 68% to her 29% (!).
Although Casten is substantially not much different than Newman
on the issues, it is good to see the back of ex-Rep. Newman as
her time in Congress is now up. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
A similar fate befell a Republican House member in Wyoming's
recent primary. As representation in the House pf Representatives is
based on population, and Wyoming has the second-fewest
population among the fifty states and their scant population is
spread throughout the expanse of the large in terms of square miles
state, Wyoming is its own, one and only congressional House district.
A strongly Republican state, Rep. Liz Cheney, who happens to be the
daughter of retired Vice President Dick Cheney, has been the state's
lone representative in the House of Representatives serving as
Wyoming's Representative-at-large. An long-time conservative,
she became vehemently opposed to then-President Donald Trump
over the course of his term in the White House, taking issue not so
much with his programs and ideas but for surface issues, i.e. his
personality and his ability to get his programs passed and signed
into law, oftentimes not going by the general and generally accepted
way of doing things in Washington D.C. This has been, unlike the
Democrats' and the left-wing's opposition to Trump's ideas, initiatives
and programs an opposition to the style rather than the substance
of the former president yet still lacking anything solid and substantive
in its reasoning. What capped off Cheney's opposition to Trump was
her belief that he had instigated the riot at the Capitol on January 6,
2021 in which some supporters of President Trump broke into the
Capitol and raised hell in protestation of the 2020 election results
which had Trump losing to current President Joe Biden. This is an
accusation which has never been proved, yet House Democrats and
anti-Trump Republicans such as Cheney tried to impeach him on
these grounds all the same. Some other GOP House members either
were defeated by pro-Trump candidates in their party primaries like
Cheney had been or decided to retire and leave Congress of their own
accord rather than be thrown out by the GOP electorate in their
home districts.
Rep. Cheney lost in a landslide to her primary opponent, Harriet
Hageman, by a whopping 37 points. The people of Wyoming were
quite happy with President Trump's performance as president,
cutting taxes, eliminating lots of red tape affecting businesses,
and facilitating the creation of more jobs, all that for a start;
Cheney and her fellow effete cocktail partiers couldn't stand the fact
that this brusque, direct, hang-the-subtleties and nicey-nice and
just get the job done outsider who had never held a government
office before at any level accomplished more god in much shorter
time than had many presidents from either party before him.
And the people liked him. The people loved him! Over 74 million
votes were cast for Trump when he ran for re-election, which was
more votes than any other presidential candidate ever amassed
except for Biden, and we'll discuss the controversies over his
ballot totals another time, don't you worry. But the main thing
to bear in mind is the fact that the Republican incumbents in
the House had been taken to the woodshed by their GOP
supporting voters because Trump accomplished just what the
voters wanted to see done for the longest time but were denied
by many Republican predecessors who didn't have the knowhow
or the guts to get things done. Trump certainly ruffled some
feathers of some in the Republican party but those stuffed shirts
deserved their feather ruffling. Trump offended some people in
the GOP but those who were offended both needed and deserved
to be offended. They, like the Democrats, have forgotten that they
were elected to serve the people, not themselves nor their political
pals. It's like conservatives have two parties to do battle with!
But We the People need to clean house (the House and the Senate),
including the White House, and we shall accomplish the former
this November and the latter in 2024. In the meantime we'll get
the drags on our progress out of the way in both the Republican
primaries and the general elections. Those in the GOP must take
heed from what happened to Liz Cheney, and the far-left "progs"
need to be mindful of what happened to Marie Newman, and
realize that while they are certainly free to pitch their ideas for
governance to the people along with the candidates who would
work for same and enact if elected, they must always, ALWAYS
remember to listen to the people and hear what they want done
and whom they want to do that which they want done; that the
people and their interests are to be served, rather than the people
be forced to serve the interests of self-serving politicians. The
politicians' failure to do so will be at their own peril.
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