On today's episode of "How is the GOP-controlled State Senate screwing us again?"

As most of you know by now, all too frequently, when folks get elected around here... but in most other places as well, they lose their fricking minds.

Locally, it's the county council, who governs like they're the city council of Baltimore.  Dominated by fake Republicans Boldt, Olsen, Stewart and that numbskull Blom-enidiot, there is nothing to differentiate these political scum from their leftist opponents from their past elections.

Of course, in the run ups to those elections, I correctly predicted that all save Stewart, who I was so badly fooled by, would in fact, vote exactly the same as their leftist candidate opponents should they be elected.

And how right I've been.

Taxes are up, fees are up, their pay-offs to that despicable rag of a daily democrat newsletter paid off when they bent the taxpayers over by doubling the costs we've been paying for official notices in the newspaper.... these fake Republicans have screwed us every way imaginable, by engaging in the Steve Stuart school of "I don't care what the people want, I only represent Steve and sometimes you're going to disagree with me" school of thought.

That, of course, brings us to the GOP-Controlled State Senate.

Because of the GOP-Controlled State Senate, not to mention that pathetic excuse of a state senator representing the 18th District who ran on a platform of OPPOSING the largest gas tax and tab fee increases in this state's history... lying every step of the way and hanging a $700 million bill around each man... woman... and child living in Clark County... which put us all on the hook for roughly $1523 for every man, woman and child living here... we became one of the states with THE highest gas taxes in the country.

And who was the author of this gas tax travesty?

Why none other than "Republican" State Senator and Transportation Committee Chair Curtis King of the 14th District... part of which intrudes into Clark County.

All to bail out King County's massive wastes of money... such as the "Big Dig" tunnel, massively late and, of course, massively over budget (Amounts are in the hundreds of millions) and, of course, their floating bridge replacement that cost $400 million before a shovel full of dirt was turned.

The GOP-Controlled State Senate also brought us the Washington State version of the federal Dream Act, which made illegal aliens eligible for state funding in our colleges and universities, because GOD knows we've got so many seats available in our schools for citizens that, well, hell, what difference is adding a few tens of thousands of illegal aliens to the eligibility pool... and then giving them student aid... over American and Washington State citizens going to make?

It was the Republican State Senate that made it possible for males in this state to demand to be able to shower with females if they felt particularly feminine of a given day... you know, in our schools and even private gyms?

They did that by failing to get rid of that idiotic rule change that allowed that sort of insanity.

I mean, after all, what could possibly go wrong, right?

And NOW, we have the Republican State Senate screwing us AGAIN, only this time, over driver's licenses.

Senate Bill 5008, now "Engrossed Senate Bill 5008" (ESB 5008) would provide two types of driver's licenses for this state.

One type, where you have to prove citizenship, will cost in excess of $100 according to our State Representative Liz Pike.  This variety of license is required for such mundane purposes as boarding commercial aircraft and entering military bases.

The other type will continue to be for illegals and those who don't want or can't afford the "enhanced" license, which we have now, will have no such requirement to provide proof of citizenship.

And the sponsor of THIS bill?

Do you even have to ask?

Why none other than "Republican" State Senator and Senate Transportation Committee Chair Curtis King of the 14th District... part of which intrudes into Clark County.

And who here locally claiming to be a Republican has voted for this steaming manure pile?

Why, RINO Senators Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers and Lynda "Tracy yanks my strings like the puppet I am" Wilson.

The reality is that illegal aliens shouldn't get driver's licenses or any OTHER kind of license.

The arguments for aiding and abetting the sheltering of illegals do not overcome the one, major fact confronting us: they are not supposed to be here at all.

And if your warped reasoning processes disagree with that conclusion, THEN the reality is that we as American citizens should never be PENALIZED because of our citizenship: and the way to approach this is simply to allow our current license fee structure to be used to prove our citizenship and charge those who can't prove their country of origin or their legal status the higher fee.

These votes are how democrats vote.  And if you're gonna vote like a democrat, then why not just VOTE for a democrat and kick you out of office?

This is just a little data point for you to think about.  When the GOP-controlled Senate comes crying to us for money to pay for the campaign of the GOP's candidate in the 45th District, running to replace Andy Hill (Who's demise was unfortunate, but let's face it, he could hardly be called a "conservative") with  Jinyoung Lee Englund, it's this kind of "screwing your constituency" type bills that I'll be thinking about when I slam my wallet shut.

You see, if you want to govern... you had better act the way you campaigned.  You'd better not lie to us (Rivers) and you'd better represent your constituency (Wilson) because if you don't?

There's no reason to vote for you at all.

Does anyone know where Herrera is holding her town hall meetings during the House recess?

Instead of staying in DC and addressing the issues that got them elected, the RINO Ryan Congress has a very long Easter recess.

The purpose of the Easter Recess? To allow Members of the House to go home to their districts... hold town hall meetings... and get input from their constituents.

So.  Where's our Congresswoman holding her town hall meetings?

Look, I get that she's held... two or three town hall meetings... since she was first elected to Congress.

I can get that they're strenuous.  Exhausting.  Require preparation.  And a talent for verbal dexterity which she apparently does not possess.

And frankly, I admit to being spoiled by Brain Bard's willingness to mix it up with weekly town hall meetings in various places throughout his district... which, if memory serves, was quite a bit larger back then.

Our congresswoman could do so much more.  But she has set the bar so low that the odd photo op and staff-generated oped are typically the best we can hope for.

She... or her office... would point to the carefully screened little meetings she's held or  the tele-town halls where she actually doesn't have to show up.

Meanwhile, since she parachuted into this job over a much better candidate who lacked the McMorris puppet strings, I've been waiting.

Waiting for her to step up.

Waiting for her to become a power in the House. (By her 5th year in Congress, McMorris became Vice Chair of the Republican Caucus.  In her 7th year in Congress, she became the Chair of the Republican Caucus.  By Herrera's 7th year in Congress, which, sadly, she is in now... Herrera is not in leadership at any level.

These positions are elected by the rest of the caucus.  I don't even begin to wonder why Herrera can't get a committee chairmanship.  (The obvious: she hasn't run for one since she knows she can't get elected... or she's simply too lazy to even try)  There's a reason we don't see her as a talking head on TV.  (And why wouldn't they want her out there?  Why isn't she making the rounds on the talking head shows?))

We see her making heavily orchestrated photo ops... like in today's democratian.

What we DON'T see is her solving our problems.

We DON'T see her coming up with federal solutions to the problem of the Federal highway known as I-5 here, locally.

We DON'T see her addressing the pressing veteran's care issues in this district. (The nearest Emergency VA Hospital is on the other side of Portland's worst freeways and our bridge.) and prescriptions are far cheaper at Fred Meyers than what we pay at the VA.

And those are just our local issues.  Her silence on the national issues...  her failure to take positions... all are a part of the most recent wave of politicians that run as beauty queens saying as little as possible so it makes it more difficult to hold them accountable... not that it matters when they ARE held accountable... right, Ann Rivers?

That said, the RINO-GOP in the House seems unable to organize a bin of socks, let alone keep their year's long campaign promises of getting rid of Obamacare and tax reform.

And what has our Congresswoman done about it?

I pointed out the recently elected Congressman from the 3rd District of Louisiana, Captain Clay Higgins, has held more town hall meetings since he took office in January than our cardboard cutout of a fake member of Congress has in her seven years of wasting our time in that office.

But apparently, he's Satan incarnate, so that was, somehow, a bad example (allegations of not paying child support, allegations of 4 marriages and so forth... allegations known to the electorate before they elected him) as if this congressman's PERSONAL life makes any difference in the execution of his JOB responsibilities...

Here's the guy:

Some believe he should be shot.

Here's the thing: he's done more in the 4 months he's been in office than our fake congresswoman has done since she was given the job 7 years ago.

And nothing he's done or failed to do in his personal life changes any of that.

Reminder to President Trump: Keep your promises or you'll be a one term president.

As I wrote last November:
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The memo to Trump is simple:  Keep your word.

God knows that our local political figures lie like they breathe, regardless of party.  While far too many locally are unaware or unconcerned about the depth of their betrayal, millions of Americans are watching Trump like a hawk, because of the history of politicians screwing us.

Trump has set the bar very high.  He has promised a great many things; those paying attention to this campaign are well aware of what those things are…  Sniveling leftists are whining mightily that their choice lost.  They’re been in the streets, ironically harming those in the areas that supported them the most.

Obama has caused severe damage to about every area of American life imaginable.  Military, domestic, foreign…. You name it, that clueless idiot has damaged or destroyed it.  It will take years or even, perhaps, decades to repair the results of his efforts. 

If Trump manages to pull us out of this nose dive, if the GOP can embrace his policies and successfully learn the difference between policy incompetence; infrastructure incompetence and strategic incompetence; if they can put aside their differences and learn that moving towards the sound of the gunfire is what we do… instead of running away, dividing our forces and allowing others to conquer us, the end of the democrat party as a viable force is looming on the horizon.

If the gutless RINOs in Congress will support our president; implement the right policies and stop acting like cowards in the face of a little leftist name calling, there is no end to what can be accomplished.

I warned from almost the beginning that the only way to defeat Trump was to take his issues away from him by making them the basis for ALL GOP candidacies at the national level.  That would have taken his populist leverage away from him, diluted his message and sunk his voice back into the crowd instead of running away from it like whiny little punks.

Instead, the RINO establishment screamed in horror, lift up their skirts and ran away.  And we know the outcome.

But Trump is the baseline.  Trump must keep his word.

He must drain the swamp.  He must build the wall.  He must put America back to work, including the millions not showing up in the totally bogus unemployment rate.

He must reduce/eliminate the laws, rules and regulations that have become part and parcel of Obama’s successful effort to set this country back decades.

He must end the insanity of the bizarre constructs of situational equality, such as that practiced in the military. He must continue to be fearless in the face of the hatred that is going to be aimed at him from the oh, so, “inclusive” Nazi’s of the left.

The cowards running Congress… RINO Ryan, Meetch McConnell and the like, must turn their backs on their compliance with the left, whose idea of compromise is limited to “do it our way.”  They must get past the idea that they have to go along to get along.

That is for THEM to do... not the GOP Congress.  Obama reveled in the idea that elections have consequences.  Well, THIS election certainly has.

But only if those who are SUPPOSED to do the business of the people actually remember who they are and what they’re there for.

If they fail… if Trump fails… the lights will go out on this bright, shining city on the hill… forever.

Don't forget, Mr. President.  We are SOOOO watching you.

And good or bad?

We'll remember.

Think Lefty Lou Brancaccio isn't butthurt over Benton's White House appointment?

As expected, the monumental level of butthurt felt by the democratian over former State Senator Don Benton's success within the Trump Administration.

Lying Lefty Lou Brancaccio probably had a seizure when he heard that the Trump Campaign had hired Benton for anything.

Then to find out that Benton was overseeing the transition of the dreaded EPA?

That probably caused Lefty a heart attack.

And THEN to find out that Benton was getting the job of Director of the United States Selective Service with no one between him and the President?

Sheer, unadulterated stroke.

It's tough when your enitre life is driven by leftist hatred... like our lying little worm of an "editor emeritus" and the scum he's hired to work for him.

So, what does this slimeball do?

He puts this crap up so his fellow leftist haters can take yet another opportunity to beat the hell out of Sen. Benton... and, of course, President Trump.

I get the feeling the last thing that dillwad editor will be thinking about as he dies will be how he worked so hard... and failed so miserably... to destroy Don Benton.

Clearly, Benton has wormed his way into Brancaccio's skull.  And that is right where he belongs.

Thanks for the hoot, Lefty!

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