Great article in American Thinker about the recent Epoch Times story about the GOP senate reverting to it's pre-Trump roots and voting to reduce tariffs on Chinese goods. Senate Adopts Amendment That Slashes Tariffs on Hundreds of Chinese Imports to US An exasperated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted his frustration late Thursday after the Senate on a 91-4 vote adopted a measure that cuts U.S. tariffs on hundreds of products imported from China. “The ‘China bill’ now reduces tariffs on hundreds of products made in #China. Why would we cut tariffs on China in a bill to improve American’s ability to compete with China? And only @HawleyMO, @TomCottonAR @BernieSanders, and I voted against it. #Strangebedfellows,” Rubio said in his tweet. Just a few minutes before that tweet, Rubio tweeted a segment of his floor speech from earlier in the day in which he passionately told Senate colleagues the national security safeguards in the bill to protect U.S. technology research are inadequate. Get that? The only senators who stood up for America were Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio... ...and Bernie Sanders. I have to give Bernie props on this one. Why would the Senate make it easier for China to flood American markets? I can understand why the Democrats voted for the amendment. They've long since sold out to China, from Biden on down. One only has to look at their desperate efforts over the past year to protect China from any criticism or the slightest hint that it might have had a hand in creating and spreading the Wuhan virus. What I cannot understand is why the Republicans proposed this amendment and then so enthusiastically voted for it. Well for all of those Democrats and Never Trumpers worried that Trump's influence still had a hold over the GOP, the vote on this amendment proves that it's all washed away, and the GOP is back in the corrupt, liver spotted hands that it was before Trump.
Never discount bribery and blackmail too quickly. And never forget that the GOP had a lot of control over the National Government during the period that China walked off with our Working and Middle Class strong back industries. And always remember that Mitch McConnell personally broke the back of the Tea Party, did nothing while the IRS ran roughshod over it's corpse and the entirety of the Federal Agencies spied, attack and lied about President Trump. But then Mitch McConnell's Father in Law is a ship builder for the Chinese Communist Military. And while he as not yet become Diane Feinstein-rich, he has become one of the richest members of the US Senate. When we regain control, we need to remember and purge these old dogs have been key parts of the problem for a very long time. All but @HawleyMO, @TomCottonAR @BernieSanders, and Rubio. That is so depressing.
I don't know if they can be purged. These senators are pleasing their true constituents, their donors.
Yes, I should have been more clear, purged from leadership. But, with 47 out of 50, obviously they can't all be purged. We need a constitutional amendment that allows the State Legislature to recall their Senator on a majority vote.
Are these the tariffs that Trump imposed during the trade war with China? Does that mean China will reduce the tariffs on US products. I was never a big fan of the tariffs. I do not believe it was the right approach.
I think the real problem is that there is some sort of incentive structure to makes it easier for politicians to commit treason and damage their own country to benefit an opponent than to do the right thing.
Promptly losing their job after a vote like this with their Gov appointing their replacement would be a bit of a disincentive. "A supermajority of American voters surveyed (68%) believe SARS-CoV-2 is at least somewhat likely not to have been natural but was released from a laboratory in China." https://www.rasmussenreports.com/pu...9_came_from_chinese_lab_support_investigation Yet 91% of the US Senate votes to cut tariffs on China? Clearly the US Senate is not representing the American People. 54 Senators come from Red States. With this power, which is a better fit for the Senate's design as the House for the State Legislatures, it would only have to b exercised a time or two before Senators started taking the pulse of the folks back home before taking a vote like this. It would also disincentives their paymasters, as, after a bunch get tossed out, their replacements can easily reverse their votes.
We'll see if it's an issue in these senatorial races. My guess it won't be. Obviously not for the Democrats since they are pro China, but I doubt this will be an issue on the GOP side either.
I posted this thread not because I thought there was a solution, but because I just wanted to bring awareness to the problem. This issue has barely caused a ripple in the conservative movement and everything is business as usual. So like Reagan, GOP lawmakers and ex-lawmakers will evoke Trump's name but vote against his policies. Like the Tea Party movement before it, the MAGA movement has been crushed by the establishment.
I dug around and best I could come with was this: That amendment, authored with Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), would also reopen a process for companies to apply for exemptions from tariffs that former President Donald Trump imposed on China. It passed 91-4. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/27/senate-counters-china-491207 This was an amendment to a bill, that has not passed yet, that deals with several things on China. This particular amendment appears to be just a renewal of an expired provision that allows companies to request an exception from tariffs. My guess is that this would be for supply chain issues. I'm sure you have noticed that we have shortages from one end of the economy to the other.
Once again BOTH PARTIES prove that the only "people" they REALLY "serve" are the ones who turn they and their families wealthy. Amazing how wealthy one can become on Congress and Senate pay.....groom your children for a career in politics (party is immaterial), THAT'S where the real EASY MONEY is at.
