Thom Tillis Is Why That Red Wave Didn’t Materialize
Posted By: earlybird, 12/15/2022 1:18:20 PM
Yes, the headline isn’t really fair to Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican senator who wasn’t on the ballot in last month’s midterms. You’ll forgive the unfairness, perhaps. But life isn’t fair. And honestly, Tillis’ lame-duck-session amnesty gambit is deserving of much worse than the headline above. Here’s Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media: One of the more frustrating aspects of being a conservative Republican is the constant need to look over one’s shoulder for stealth attacks by moderate squish members of the GOP on important issues like health care, gun control, and amnesty for illegal immigrants. Such ideological shivs in the back always arrive under the execrable guise of bipartisanship.
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Article dated December 7, 2022, posted with permission.
Requested permission to post this because Tillis’s amnesty gambit has failed. Hurray! And I called him a dunce elsewhere. Squish is better… Thank you,Mr. McKay...