The Catch 22 with House RINOs

Dear House Republicans,

What are we gonna do with you? I don’t even know where to start.

I knew not to expect much from Trump, but you guys were supposed to be the ones with backbone and principle. You were our chance to finally get some conservative policy back into government—the kind of stuff we haven’t seen since Reagan, which in my case means I’ve never seen it in my lifetime.

And you know what? You stink. You’re worthless.

First, it was Obamacare. How difficult was that to repeal? Let’s hear a big “Roll Tide!” for Rep. Mo Brooks (R) of Alabama for his one-sentence repeal bill. Now let’s hear a big ol’ razzberry for all you phonies who wouldn’t push it through.

But now it’s the budget. Seriously, what was that? One job, guys. And what more do you want? You got the House, the Senate, and the presidency. Is now the moment when you finally admit that it was never your intention to shrink the government?

Why are you so afraid of a government shutdown? This should have been the easiest decision of your tenure:

Democrats: We’ll shut down the government!

Republicans: Wonderful! Just like with the Day Without an Immigrant and the Day Without a Woman, you’ll wake up tomorrow and find the world is still turning, because you’re not nearly as important as you think you are.

When did you get so afraid of Democrats? And when did you put so much faith in the god of government? You shut it down in 2013 because of Obamacare, which you now just voted to fund. You threatened to shut it down in 2015 over Planned Parenthood, which you’ve now also voted through. (You are now the party of abortion, by the way, the ones with blood on their hands).

Temporary government shutdown is the ultimate play of the conservative Congress, demonstrating just how bloated and unnecessary our government has become. So why, in the very moment Democrats play right into your hands and make the suggestion themselves, do you cower into a box and give them everything they asked for? Why go against everything conservatives stand for?

Maybe it’s because you’re not really conservatives, are you?

Parties don’t seem to matter all that much these days. You’re all the same. As Rush Limbaugh just pointed out to a flabbergasted Mike Pence, what’s the point of voting Republican anymore?

Rather than list each of the 131 Republicans who passed this budget which continues to fund Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, the Iran Deal, sanctuary cities, and more while specifically blocking funding for the border wall, I’ll just leave the vote tracker here (I have some Utah pride, though, as it was the only multi-representative state without a Yea vote). But as much as I’d love to tell voters to boot these Leftist RINOs out of office in 2018, it’s not that simple.

You’ve backed us into a corner, haven’t you, RINOs? There’s not much difference between Republicans and Democrats anymore, but at least you have to be sneaky about your tyranny. Democrats can call themselves socialists outright and nobody bats an eye, but Republicans keep a new “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy when it comes to ideologies. You very well might be socialists, but we’d never elect you if you told us.

We’re sick of the lies, and I wish we could kick you out just over that. But since you have to be subtle, you’ll still vote correctly on occasion—we’d rather have you than Democrats, albeit not by much.

If we vote you out in the general 2018 election, then your Democratic opponents take the seat, and we don’t want that. We’ve seen what Democrats do to their districts, and we don’t want to be another Detroit.

And we can’t write in a conservative Republican candidate in every state—I ran into that problem in 2016—so it’s either you, the other guy, or neither.

The best option would be to oust you in the primaries, but who votes in those? Very few voters know enough about the challengers to cast a measured vote, so incumbents have as close to a guarantee as it gets.

For reference, only five incumbents lost their seat in the 2016 primaries, just over 1% of those who ran.

We’d love to establish term limits, but you’re the ones who would vote on that. How many politicians ever vote against their personal best interest?

And nothing we say seems to get through to you. It’s almost as if you’re stuck in power, doing whatever you want without any accountability.

Are you beginning to see the Catch 22? We don’t want you anymore, but we can’t get rid of you. But that might be a silly question, ‘cause I fear that might have been your plan all along, and we fell for it. Even if we saw it coming down the road, we grossly underestimated how long it would take for you to hit full-blown tyranny. And while maybe part of that’s our fault, we’re not letting you off the hook this time.

To conservative Americans everywhere, we have a job to do, and it’s gonna take some personal sacrifice. Read up, get involved, and get to know conservative Republican candidates. Run for office yourself if you can. The general election will be too late—we have to do this at the primaries. It won’t easy, but our laziness and apathy are exactly what got us into this pit. It’s gonna take some digging to get us out.

So grab a shovel and educate yourselves. We need to vote these RINOs out in the primaries, and we can’t drain the swamp without digging a trench for the muck to spill out of.