2026 Election: Are the Polls Out of Whack?

By Rich Kozlovich

 Okay, let's start out with fact many pollsters have already concluded the House will go Democrat, with a 93% chance of taking control, and the Senate is a bit of a toss up, including Texas, with the Democrats running Talarico for the Senate.  I doubt that will happen in spite of previous claims he's ahead in the polls.  The man is strange and weird... and that's being kind... as I outline in my Talarico commentaries.  But what if the Democrats had run a candidate that didn't look so strange and weird?  

Texas' demographics has changing dramatically, and is continuing to change.  It has the largest Muslim population in the nation, which will most likely be a 100% Democrat vote. A huge Hispanic population, most of whom seem to vote Democrat, as they've turned most of the major cities over the Democrat party.  Then there's the masses of people from California who are moving there, and based on what these leftists did to Colorado when they moved there, Texas will turn blue soon. 

 The GOP is in a panic and pouring millions into contests that were once considered easy wins.  Even in Ohio where Republicans are running John Husted for the Senate against former senator Sherrod Brown running against him.  As bad as Brown lost his seat to solid conservative Bernie Moreno, he actually has a chance against Husted as there are legitimate corruption issues being thrown up about him and First Energy, along with Governor De Wine who appointed Husted to fill the seat vacated by now Vice President Vance.  

But Moreno wasn't the Republican party's pick.  They supported RINO's just like De Wine, and I would put Husted in that category.  Brown just might win, and if so, there just might be a shakeup in Ohio's Republican leadership.  

Pollster are so often wrong, and they're wrong because they're functionally dishonest, and I've not believed in polls for decades.  However, Frank Luntz doesn't think the Democrats will win, but I've always thought he was as reliable as Karl Rove with his idiotic chalk board predictions, not to mention the patently obvious fact the Republican is functionally dysfunctional, and their ability to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory is legendary.  

One has to wonder what's wrong with their minds?  So many of them sound like Democrats on the economy.... and of course blaming Trump for inflation.  Yet the economy is something they should be embracing, and running on.  

1. Bond Market Under Trump ‘Best Performing in the World’
2. Bessent Explains America’s Unsung Start-Up Boom
3. Trumponomics triumphs in US jobs report — just in time for the midterms 
4. Trump Economic Advisor Christopher Phelan: Jobs Gains Under Trump Higher than 77 Bloomberg Economists’ Projections 
5.  Data Shows The Economy Is Clearly Running Hot 
6. Capital Spending Boom Lifts US Manufacturing Beyond AI 
7. Trump announces plans for largest steel plant in U.S. history to be built in Iowa 
8.  Federal workforce has shrunk by more than 336,000 bureaucrats since Trump took office 
9. Is The GOP Failing To Sell Trump’s Economic Gains? I&I/TIPP Po
10. Hamburger was more expensive under Obama. So was gasoline 
11. Bessent: Trump Outperforming Expectations from Skeptics Creating Hundreds of Thousands of Manufacturing Jobs
12. WH Economic Advisor Phelan: Trump Transforming U.S. into ‘Oil-Producing Superpower’
13.  Unemployment Rate Among Non-College Grads Reaches One of Lowest Points this Century
14. A Booming Economy: Who Cares? 

Why aren't the Republicans making the comparisons between Democrat and Republican economic outcomes?  Let's take a look at that great Democrat spending hero, LBJ and his Great Society programs:

We observe that trillions of dollars have been spent on myriad social causes, and yet…

• Poverty and malnutrition still exist
• Reading and writing skills have deteriorated, not improved
• Politicians earning $200K per year can have a net worth of $80 million or more
• Despite a virtually unlimited military budget, we have not won a war since 1945
• Untold thousands of NGOs and consultants have flourished on your tax dollars
• In the face of uncontrolled expenditure, America’s health is not great

SO…use your best inductive reasoning, and ask yourselves what we got for all these federal expenditures—based on your overtaxed dollars. That’s why DOGE’s forced day of reckoning scares so many corrupt insiders.

Why aren't the Republicans constantly highlighting all of this?  Why aren't the Republicans highlighting the corruption and rampant fraud .... massively rampant fraud.... being perpetrated in Democrat controlled states and cities?  

I think the answer to much of what I've presented here can be answered in this commentary, Americans Are Too Brain-Dead To Vote Smart — The GOP Is Too Spineless to Educate Them. 

Update:  

• American Voters Are So Ignorant, It’s Almost Funny - The latest national poll I collaborated on with Patrick Basham of the Democracy Institute (DI) should leave any serious person angry. Among 1,500 likely voters surveyed Sept. 21–23, 46 percent trust Democrats to better control inflation. Only 42 percent trust Republicans. Blame for high prices split 47 percent toward President Donald J. Trump, and 47 percent toward President Joe Biden. Asked whether Trump and Republicans have done their best on the economy, 51 percent said no and 44 percent said yes. If prices on everyday items plummeted, 53 percent said they would be more likely to vote Republican and 43 percent said no.  Those numbers are accurate, but absurd........ 
• The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Just Endorsed Democrats in the Midterms - The Republicans should make this an ad and run it 24/7 from now until Election Day. The IRGC published a letter to American voters, urging them to vote against President Trump and Republicans in November............That letter really sounds like it could be a DNC memo, doesn't it? The IRGC also took a leaf from the Left's playbook and tried to spin the meaning of "Death to America.".......

Republicans Actually Can Get Something Right

By Rich Kozlovich

In the last few weeks I beat up on the Republicans in four articles, Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV, and I think perhaps it's time to acknowledge their positive side.  One of the problems with the Republican party is, as a party, they have no idea who and what they are.  The party has no shared identifiable vision unlike the Democrats.  The Democrats have a vision they share in lockstep, which is why they're rightly called the party of treason!  

Pathetic’ Vandals deface WWII Memorial in ‘deranged’ attack on DC landmark - Vandals struck the World War II Memorial on Thursday — dumping bubble soap into a fountain and scrawling a bizarre protest message.  “Clean Hands Dirty $” red graffiti declared — without making it clear why the site commemorating a conflict that ended 81 years ago was targeted.  Frothy bubbles stood several feet tall from a fountain honoring the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany in the Atlantic Theater.......

Almost all Democrats are opposed to all the traditional American values, and the Republican party is filled with Democrats running as Republicans.  As one writer noted:

 ".....let’s be honest: a great many conservatives are cowards, plain and simple, though they sound very ferocious. As Schiller put it, “Bold were my words because my deeds were not.”

However, there are individual Republicans who do have a vision who are not only bold in their words, but bold in their deeds.  Conservatives who really believe America, with all our faults:

"has still done more than any international organization or institution, and more than any other country, to improve this world", and (b) that American values (specifically, the unique American blending of Enlightenment and Judeo-Christian values) form the finest value system any society has ever devised and lived by."

Let's take a quick run at seeing this taking place.  

1. House Republicans Celebrate the America That Democrats Are Trying to Destroy - As America comes together to celebrate her 250th anniversary of independence, Republican lawmakers have come together for a patriotic video celebrating the achievements that have defined our nation throughout our history..... 
2. DeSantis to Designate More Than 90 Groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he plans to formally designate more than 90 organizations as foreign terrorist organizations in a sweeping antiterrorism measure. After signing HB 1471 into law, DeSantis says he has greater statutory authority to identify, designate, and combat terrorist organizations operating in Florida.....
3.  Rubio Targets Cuban Influence Network, Sanctions Group Linked to Left-Wing Activist - Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new sanctions against a prominent Cuban organization with longstanding ties to American activist groups, continuing the Trump administration’s effort to confront a decades-old communist influence network operating inside the United States. The sanctions target the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, known as ICAP, an organization founded by Fidel Castro in 1960 to promote support for Cuba’s communist revolution and cultivate relationships with political activists around the world. “For decades, Cuba has been the world capital for radical left-wing terrorism,” Rubio said.  “The regime in Havana has recruited, trained and backed violent Marxist and third-worldist movements across our hemisphere and beyond,”.......
4. 'Executive prerogative': Trump wins in court ruling over ousting alleged gang members from U.S. -President Donald Trump has been given a victory in a fight over his use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport people with a decision from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that one case is over because the plaintiffs already have been deported. The panel concluded, "The Supreme Court remanded this case to us when the three named petitioners were still in the country. But we have since learned that the government has removed them. Given this change, we conclude that the appeal is moot. … Given the lack of any named petitioners to whom we could grant relief in this appeal, and given that this case has never and does not now feature any class, we conclude that the appeal is moot. We therefore DISMISS the appeal for lack of jurisdiction." .....
5. Trump Smashes Socialist Turn of ‘Dumocrat' Party Concept of Give Away Everything Ends up In Squalor, Crime, and Death’ - President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that the hard-left radical socialist turn of the modern Democratic Party is dangerous for American citizens, and that throughout history, it always ends up the same way, which is disaster whenever socialism and communism are implemented......
6. Trump reins in the World Bank’s climate programs - The World Bank just delivered another blow to the immensely powerful and well-connected green movement. This week, the World Bank announced it is abandoning its plans to devote nearly half its lending capacity to climate-related projects. In a statement innocuously titled, “Update on the World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan,” the World Bank announced it still plans to continue and extend the so-called “Climate Change Action Plan,” but it will be retiring the specific funding targets......
7. Trump Praises Exodus of Government Attorneys - President Donald Trump on Sunday blasted The New York Times for portraying the departure of thousands of federal government attorneys as a negative development, arguing instead that the exodus is helping rid Washington of entrenched bureaucrats who opposed his agenda......
8. Did Trump cut off the Democrats' slush funds, leaving them bereft of money? - Democrats are notoriously bad managers of money. All you have to do is look at virtually any one-party blue state's finances. And if that's not instructive enough, recall Kamala Harris's post-2024 election finances -- one billion dollars raised and wasted, and she still ended up $20 million in the hole. Money, see, is other people's money, and that always runs out, to mangle the Margaret Thatcher quote a little.   But there's also another factor: Donald Trump.   Trump may have done to their finances what Ronald Reagan did to the Soviets' finances: He cut them off.......
9. Trump’s Fraud Division takes the gloves off in fight against foreign nationals, others - The Department of Justice's fight against fraud is going to the next level. The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division has now released its first comprehensive enforcement strategy. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald circulated the memo on Thursday to all Fraud Division personnel, highlighting five focus areas: public trust, health care fraud, internal revenue scams, global trade subversion, and corporate misconduct........
10. Exclusive: HUD Secretary Announces Crackdown on NGOs, Non-Profits Receiving Tax Dollars with Automatic Renewal - Turner said, “We just, made an announcement on our 2026 Continuum of Care (NOFO), And really, for you and your listeners, The Housing First model, which was the model, that was, has been in place over the last decade or so, what this really created was a homeless, industrial complex. And so it was just housing our homeless neighbors. But we had no way to treat them, to get them transform and get them back to a life of self-sufficiency.”.......
11.  House Republicans Threaten Democrat Fundraising Machine ActBlue with Contempt - House Republicans are pressuring the CEO of Democrat fundraising machine ActBlue to comply with subpoenas regarding documents important to the investigation into possible foreign donations......
12. This Republican Has a Wild Idea for Fixing Housing Prices: Let the Market Actually Work - As America approaches its 250th birthday, it's worth remembering why the colonies declared their independence from Britain. The Revolutionary War wasn't just about taxes; it was about resisting a government that increasingly believed it knew better than the people how to run their own affairs, where they could live, what they could build, and at what price. Early Americans understood a hard truth: government intervention was rarely the neutral hand it claimed to be. It picked winners, distorted markets, and made life more expensive for everyone in the name of helping society. Two hundred fifty years later, that same instinct remains......

There are other factors to take into consideration.  Senator John Kennedy says of Trump "he lives loud, and has anxiety when he has an unexpressed thought", and that's clearly obvious, at least to me, but there's another side to him I find appealing.  He's done this kind of thing before as he walked off the stage to personally comfort the grieving parents of 12-year-old Bronx shooting victim.  I think it's genuine on his part, and that's priceless.    

There is one point being made in this City Journal article, Beware, Republicans, of Angry Voters, I think is valid saying: 

 

Last week’s elections brought another round of victories by far-left candidates in Democratic primaries, continuing a trend that emerged earlier this year in states like New York and Colorado. In response to the results, the National Republican Senatorial Campaign dropped a quick ad attacking Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary winner, Abdul El-Sayed, as “the most radical Senate candidate in America.” The ad embodied an increasingly prevalent GOP strategy for the midterms: focusing on a radicalized Democratic Party rather than promoting Republican candidates and the party’s agenda.............. That’s a bigger problem for Republicans as the incumbent party. “Anger is stronger than fear” in elections.....

 

I have no doubt that's a valid observation.  For one, I would really like to see someone.... anyone.... explain to the nation how they intend to stop spending around two trillion dollars more a year than they're taking in, and what they intend to do about the 40 trillion debt maelstrom they're sending the nation into that's costing the nation a trillion and a half a year in interest payments!   It gets worse.  The Bank of America is predicting our national debt will rise.... in three years.... to 50 trillion dollars. 

 

John Mauldin says the nation is caught in a debt trap, where service for our national debt is either equal to or more than what we spend on national defense.  Does anyone besides me think explaining what they want to do about that might be a good idea before they take their next vacation?

And You Wonder Why Conservatives Hate Republicans, Part IV

By Rich Kozlovich,  Here are Part I, Part II and Part III

The nation is spiraling into a debt vortex that will soon reach 40 trillion dollars, and as far as I can tell, there's no effort being made to curtail that spending, and absolutely no effort being made to repay all that debt.  A debt that incurs around a trillion dollars a year in interest payments, and the Senate went on vacation.

Please make sure to read both of these next articles in full as what I'm showing here is totally inadequate in demonstrating just how vile this bill really is.  It's not about what's good for America.  It's about what's good for these politician's clientele and the unions.  

The Transportation Bill That Proves Washington Can't Quit Clientelism - Congress loves to wrap legislation in the language of the public interest. This year's surface transportation reauthorization bill is no exception. Supporters describe the House Transportation Committee-passed package as a major safety bill designed to make America's transportation system more secure and efficient.......Fiscal conservatives, assuming there are still enough of them to be heard in Congress, should be particularly concerned about a package that authorizes roughly $580 billion in spending while doing little to address the long-term insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund. Legislators are instead choosing to promise more spending while avoiding the structural reforms necessary to put transportation funding on sustainable footing......   

The Highway to Hell Bill That’ll Raise Costs for Families - After years of soaring costs and an affordability crisis, the last thing Americans need is a bloated highway bill that wastes taxpayers’ dollars while imposing higher costs on consumers. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s getting kicked around the halls of Congress right now: a pork-filled monstrosity masquerading as a highway bill.....Finally, the bill continues the practice of awarding contracts based on race and "disadvantage" rather than merit, complete with the goals and reporting requirements that enforce it. Once again, this’ll be more red tape and additional compliance costs..

When you see the things Republicans agree to or promote you have to wonder which party actually controls the Congress.  In this case  Republican Senators Cave to Dems, Shield More Than $700 Billion in Untraceable Grant Spending

This week, the majority Republican Senate Appropriations Committee handed Democrats, and the Establishment Uni-Party, a massive win by suspending a key rule in the upcoming budget continuing resolution bill.  The Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance rule proposed by the Office of Management and Budget in May was blocked by the Senate Appropriations Committee in a reported capitulation by Republicans to Democrats on the committee.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) called the rule “deeply flawed” and noted that “a huge group of organizations…have come out against it,”  according to The Hill.  The Hill reported that this would “rein in a proposed rule from the White House budget office that would give Trump appointees more power to withhold congressional appropriations” by requiring the senior political appointees in charge of agencies to sign off on grants before administering them.

There may have been flaws, but why didn't they address them with the President? Perhaps they did, but what they did offer by way of preventing the expenditure of a lot of grant money the Democrats wanted to squander on their NGO supporters who end up funding the Democrats efforts to get elected?  Nothing!    By voting against this measure they decided the $712.6 billion dollars that couldn't be traced wasn't that big a deal.  However, since they could tract 20.7% of that spent grant money, that was good enough.  After all, when you're spending so much money the national debt is rushing to 40 trillion dollars, what's a few measly 700 billion plus untraceable dollars?  

Pakistan, a country that is in point of fact an enemy of Western civilization, wants the U.S. to give them $10 billion dollars as a ‘stabilization fund’, and if I understand this correctly they will repay it in five years.  Yeah, I won't hold my breath on that.   What exactly is a "stabilization fund"?  Well, it appears they're almost as economically incompetent as Democrats.   They've already "received a $3 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2023 that narrowly averted a credit default, and another $7 billion in 2024 that went a long way toward stabilizing its currency."  

So now they want another 10 billion from the US "banking on goodwill from the Trump administration after Pakistan mediated talks between the United States and Iran." We've wasted billions of grant dollars on Pakistan over many years, and they're like a black hole that can never be filled.  Will the Republicans give in to this extortion, and that's what it is, extortion?  Did they ask Saudi Arabia for billions of dollars?  Did they ask Turkey for billions of dollars?  They just signed a security pact with those countries, so why is it America's responsibility to fund them and not Saudi Arabia and Turkey?   

I read the article twice, and nowhere in that article did I see how giving Pakistan another ten billion dollars benefits America.  If they need their currency stabilized, then let them do it.  Here's a thought.  Maybe it would be economically beneficial for Pakistan to stop trying to get into a war with India?  Furthermore we need to stop all this insane foreign aid waste.  Yet, what do we see?   We find “diplomatic sources in Washington” told there were “strong chances” that Aurangzeb’s request would be approved, based on President Donald Trump’s expressed desire to develop closer relations with Pakistan and strengthen its economy."  That's a sucker play.  

One thing is clear, nothing they say can be taken at face value.  Just like leftists they're rhetorical pronouncements are nothing but projection, logical fallacies, lies of commission and lies of omission, so what would they really do with all those billions? 

Pakistan "has now called on "all" Islamic nations to join forces to counter Israel. His statement was made in response to a question about former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's comment that Turkey was becoming the new Iran. Asif made the remark after Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defense agreement on Friday. Meanwhile, Turkey's foreign minister clarified the deal is not aimed at any particular country. He also said he believes Egypt could join the alliance in the future."

If you delusionally believe the GOP is lock step in ending illegal immigration and forcing those already here illegally out of the country, then you need a reality check.    

Conservative Leaders Call GOP-Led Amnesty Bill ‘Betrayal’ To Voters - Conservatives argue that Republicans in Congress are betraying American farm workers with this new amnesty bill.  Republican Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania introduced the Securing Agricultural Workforce Act (SAWA) on June 30, which aims to allow illegal aliens working in the agricultural sector to stay in the United States. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, and multiple others criticized the bill, Politico reported Wednesday........ “No amnesty!” DeSantis stated in an X post Monday. “Amnesty is NOT what people voted for in 2024!”....

Mike Lindell, a seemingly solid MAGA guy who is leading the GOP race for Minnesota governor, thinks amnesty isn't really so bad, and illegal aliens just need a second chance.  

And of course ya just can't ignore that horrendous sage of obnoxious bleating, Chris Christie who accuses Trump of engaging in ‘Putin-Esque type of corruption’.  And his proof?  The plane given to the US by Saudi Arabia and the ball room that's being built with private funds, and unfounded accusations, with no evidence Trump and his family have corruptly enriched themselves, unlike Biden, Obama, and the Clintons who are worth untold millions they never truly earned, unlike Trump.    

Is it any wonder going into the midterms the Republicans are seeing a lack of enthusiasm in their core voters.  If that's true would anyone really be shocked?  But that's from the , and we know how credible they are.   

Update, 8/14/26:   

1. Beware, Republicans, of Angry Voters - Last week’s elections brought another round of victories by far-left candidates in Democratic primaries, continuing a trend that emerged earlier this year in states like New York and Colorado. In response to the results, the National Republican Senatorial Campaign dropped a quick ad attacking Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary winner, Abdul El-Sayed, as “the most radical Senate candidate in America.” The ad embodied an increasingly prevalent GOP strategy for the midterms: focusing on a radicalized Democratic Party rather than promoting Republican candidates and the party’s agenda.............. That’s a bigger problem for Republicans as the incumbent party. “Anger is stronger than fear” in elections, one expert found......

And You Wonder Why Conservatives Hate Republicans, Part III

 By Rich Kozlovich, Here are Part I, and Part II

There was all this talk from Trump about his Big Beautiful Bill, and there was good stuff there but there was no provisions to cut spending overall.  We're heading into a vortex of debt closing in on $40 trillion dollars.   What greater threat can the nation existentially face?   The "Republican Senate is a farce, getting little done of consequence.  And to make sure the Republican controlled Senate continues down this glorious path John Thune sent the Senate home for 37 days.   But he also wanted to make sure Trump couldn't do anything either by scheduling '11 Pro Forma Sessions to BLOCK Trump from making recess  appointments".  Appointments that have been stalled for months by Thune catering to the Democrats.   

• John Thune Gave the Double Bird to the GOP Base Saturday Morning - Sen. John Thune and the rest of the panican GOP caucus wanted to go home. They held a really early-morning vote around 5 AM to confirm Todd Blanche as the 88^th attorney general of the United States, but then moved to adjourn. There weren’t enough senators to kill the August recess. Democrats certainly won’t do it, and Thune noted 15 to 20 Republicans who’d rather let Democrats run them over when they retake the chamber at some point, kill the filibuster, and pass their extreme policies as we watch helplessly like infants. Why? Well, that’s what these Republicans do: face an open nuclear reactor and think they’ll be rewarded for their bravery when all they do is end up dead. 

The Senate almost actually did do something but... never fear.... they managed to narrowly avoid doing anything before abandoning the America people.  Good work boys, you can go home "proud"!

And I'm shocked, shocked that John Thune is upset Karoline Leavitt roasted him over his incompetence, as "Fox Business' Larry Kudlow said it perfectly": 

The Senate GOP is bungling everything. At every turn, they crash into a wall. He tore into Sen. Steve Lankford (R-OK), by pretty much saying this caucus has no idea what they're doing. And the fish rots from the head......And now John Thune is getting uppity over being called out by the Trump White House? 

Here’s the thing, John—if you don’t want to get roasted, do your job. It’s not like he’s pushing for a national reciprocity law, which would be full of hurdles. The SAVE America Act has support from 70 percent of Americans, and a slim majority is no excuse: Speaker Mike Johnson has a more unruly group, but he also has a slim majority. He was able to get three bills passed. He also managed to pass 12 appropriations bills this winter, most of which funded the government through this year. The Department of Homeland Security bill, however, caused a headache, with the agency shut down for almost 100 days. Thune opted to work with Democrats on a deal; he believed them—the worst part—and they schooled him.

And it gets worse all the time.  Both he and Tom Cotton are blocking the DOJ from obtaining Brennan transcripts needed by Senate committees who are investigating Brennan's involvement in a deep state "coup to take down President Trump in 2016." Why? Who are they protecting? Nothing Thune does that seems underhanded surprises me, but Cotton has been a traditional conservative in most cases.  As the bard said: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

His unwillingness to get the SAVE act passed, including nuking the Senates filibuster tradition (which is a Senate rule, it's not a Constitutional requirement) there's a view on Thune that's growing daily:  'Do the right thing or resign': Republican congressman torches John Thune for failing to pass SAVE America Act.

There are ZERO good reasons for Thune's failure to put the SAVE America Act on the floor. This is how we get the votes: by debating it!" exclaimed U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., on X Monday.  "Thune can either do the right thing or resign."

He says he doesn't have enough votes to pass the SAVE act, but those are backroom votes, if brought to the floor where Senators will have to openly take a position; a position they  have to take back and explain to their constituents, he may find the votes may actually be there.  He's protecting his RINO supporters who are afraid their constituents may do to them what the constituents of Senators Cronym and Tellis did to them: Send them back home where they belong.  

Both Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowsky are a disgrace, as they made it clear they would not vote for Blanch as Attorney General, and Murkowsky tried to sink his confirmation.  Why?  You just can't make this stuff up:

I have had numerous constructive meetings with Mr. Blanche and he comes across as decent and capable. I appreciate the trip he made to learn more about Alaska, including our rural areas, and as Acting Attorney General he has made several noteworthy decisions that will benefit our state and the nation.  Ultimately, however, I will oppose his nomination. The politicization—even weaponization—of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it. I take issue with the handling of the release of the Epstein files; the sweeping immunity protections granted to the President, his family, and their businesses; the statements that have been made to anti-abortion groups; and the repeated targeting of individuals ranging from former administration staff to sitting U.S. Senators.  

If fear of politicization of the DOJ really is a moral concern for her, then why did she vote to confirm Obama and Biden's choices? Trump's DOJ has gone after people who've actually committed crimes.  She lists "abuses" that Biden's DOJ created, not to mention the fact Biden's DOJ went after Christians who wanted the Latin mass in the Catholic Church and Christians who opposed abortion, who they called domestic terrorists.  And she had no moral qualms then, right along with Susan Collins.  In Collins case as we watch what's going on in Maine over the mid term election it's scary to think she may be the most sane person living in Maine.  

More to come.....

And You Wonder Why Conservatives Hate Republicans, Part II

 By Rich Kozlovich

Here was Part I, which brings me to Part II:  This election cycle is a RINO hunt that will continue in 2028.  With some legitimate trepidation, I have to say the more I see of Rubio the more impressed I become.  He's run for President in the past, and it's clear he wants to be President, and truthfully, he's more than qualified, but he's not willing to foul the water to get there.  

He's going to support Vance, and he's a class act, but Vance is treading water with a lot of people over these failed negotiations with Iran and his friendship with Tucker Carlson, who claims he wants to start a third party, and it appears so to does Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, which I find laughable as she's demonstrated she's capable of a massive level of instability, but perhaps she's in cahoots with Tucker Carlson.  In Carlson's case, I've concluded he will have no trouble getting funding for such a party from leftist billionaires, the Middle East nations, and China.  It won't go anywhere but they'll fund him. 

•  Good Riddance We are a day or two late bidding farewell to Tucker Carlson, but, given the attention we have paid to his descent, a few comments are in order. Carlson says he is leaving the Republican Party. This is from Axios: “I’m out,” Carlson said on an episode of the “Can’t Be Censored” podcast that aired Thursday but gained traction online Monday. * “And if I’m out, then I think a lot of people are out".......

Having said that, I do predict the Republicans will increase their numbers in the House and they will retain the Senate. The insanity from the left is turning the normals completely off, in spite of the misfit Republicans.   

• Somebody up there likes Trump, because he’s blessed with some crazy opponents on the other side.  In fact, it’s like the Democrats have a “draft a crazy of the week” contest going on coast to coast.  They don’t get crazier than the guy running in Maine.  Let’s check this, from Miranda Devine:......

As I watch the world spinning I marvel at how the left has managed to make insanity the cultural norm for so many uninformed, misinformed, and ignorant people.  Yet this was exactly what George Orwell, the Socialist, predicted, today’s ruthless American socialism, as the author notes their only real adversity is reality.  

Our Socialist Fellow-Citizens - The gulf between Republicans/conservatives and Democrats/socialists has grown to the point where it may be unbridgeable. Check out these recent poll data from CNN. Democrats are now firmly in the socialist camp: 

This is a problem many on the Right don't want to accept The Left is no longer "just like us they just want to have more welfare" The left is abandoning Capitalism, Christianity and all of the values we used to hold as a Country,(and the right still does) This isn't a "difference of opinion on tax policy", the left wants a full scale reimagining of our country into a Socialist/Communist Utopia they think could exist if we "just did it right this time"........ 

Is this the last hurrah of the RINO establishment?  As the author notes:

As usual, congressional Republicans are not united because too many are not real conservatives and have more in common with Democrats than with President Trump. Also, congressional Republicans like to talk, promise, and campaign, but they almost never deliver legislative victories.

 Sadly, too many GOP members of Congress prefer to be in the minority, where they can make noise but are not responsible for anything.

As usual, Republicans want to be liked and play nice with the Democrats and their opponents in the media. The result is that important legislation never gets passed, and the MAGA faithful get annoyed.

The "Old Guard" is leaving, some primaried out like Tellis, Cornym, and Cassidy, and in the case of Mitch McConnell, he's apparently had a heart attack and needed to be revived.  He's in the hospital and might not be back, which his coterie kept quiet about as long as they could.  The "old Guard" has done everything they can to block just about all the President has attempted to do, and those who are leaving are not going quietly into the night.  In fact they've doubled down in their resistance, and most importantly, since their political power days are over, they're exposing themselves for who and what they are, and it's not been pretty.  

They promised to fix the Affordable Care Act.  They didn't.  They refused to end the filibuster, which if the Democrats win the Senate they will do the first day they're in control, as a result, nothing gets passed that they promised to do.  It seems clear the Republican leadership would rather lose the Senate than support the President, and that's especially true in the various states, including Ohio, as both Governor DeWine and former Governor Kasich has demonstrated.  Both of whom are disgraces on their best days.  

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And Ohio's Republican leadership isn't the lone ranger here.  They reside among a cabal of nitwits. In Tennessee Republican buffoons are helping the left push it's twisted agenda.  In Georgia Republicans refused to take up the, "Redistricting and Election Protection for American Integrity and Representation (REPAIR) Initiative, said the legislature ought to be ashamed."

The Republican-controlled Georgia General Assembly didn’t merely abandon its plans for redrawing racially-gerrymandered congressional districts, it did so to the applause of radical leftists. And the Peach State RINOs basked in the far-left approbation. 

Georgia's Republican leadership has in effect openly betrayed their base, which can potentially have a serious impact on the 2028 election, even refusing to take calls from the President.

Matt Vespa calls Senate GOP a train wreck, because it's still loaded with spineless trash. Harsh?  Yeah, but is it true? Let's take a look at the Republican majority leader, John Thune:

....sent his colleagues home for a long Memorial Day holiday because of his anger at the $1.776 billion fund that was created to compensate individuals who claim they were victims of government “weaponization.

 

Thune is also upset that the President endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his GOP primary against incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), another longtime RINO who deserves to be sent packing.

 

The RINO Senators and their GOP establishment colleagues see MAGA as their political enemy, not Democrats. This old guard is using the political battles of 2026 to lay the groundwork to reassert control of the Republican Party in 2028.

Fortunately, this effort will fail; this is their last hurrah. The Republican Party will never return to the days of losing and capitulation. President Trump and MAGA supporters will not allow it. 

 

Senator John Thune Is a Complete Failure - Senator Thune is underwater in his home state in the latest poll because of his poor leadership in the Senate. He’s a complete failure. His goal appears to be to kill the president’s agenda. Thune refuses to pass the SAVE Act, won’t fund ICE, and has blocked access to recess appointments. Now, Thune is sending everyone home on a 10-day vacation. If he is not a Democrat, he might as well be.

Pack Your Bags, Thune  - Now, with Trump furious that the SAVE Act still isn’t passed, Thune has reportedly sent senators home again while major pieces of Trump’s agenda sit there collecting dust. No recess appointments. No SAVE Act. No clean win on election integrity. No major border funding victory locked down. Just more of the typical GOP games, excuses, and yet another taxpayer vacation while the country waits for something to be done.

People are furious...............The SAVE Act isn’t some obscure bill. It’s one of the only bills lately that has sweeping bipartisan support. Voter ID is popular, even with plenty of Dem voters. ..........Trump wants action… everybody wants action, yet the Republican Senate always seems to find a way to turn obvious momentum into a chaotic traffic jam.  Meanwhile, Thune is giving conservatives every reason to believe he either can’t control his people or doesn’t really want to............And if Republican senators keep choosing vacations, excuses, and internal drama over the agenda voters demanded, Bannon’s call to oust Thune seems like the next logical step.

The SAVE Act isn’t some obscure bill. It’s one of the only bills lately that has sweeping bipartisan support. Voter ID is popular, even with plenty of Dem voters. The only people fighting it are left-wing politicians, their activist cronies, and the Republican co-conspirators like Thune and Cronyn.........

If you thought Matt Vespa's article was harsh, take a look at these comments by Rep. Tim Burchett who "erupted" in fury, after a spineless GOP cut":

".........a backroom deal [that] let Democrats control what they do! "We're going to BLOW IT because we're not acting like we're in the majority! [We] allow the Democrats to tell us what to do. It's just UNBELIEVABLE!" "At some point we're going to have to give some guts. This town is crooked as a dog's leg and I'm disgusted." "Had some amendments that were cutting regulation things that we should, as Republicans, do. Because of backroom deals they cut, they won't allow any amendments on the bill because the Democrats didn't agree to it! So here we are in the majority and we're not allowed to do that!" "And I guarantee you when the Democrats are in the majority, which they very much could be because of this kind of garbage — [they won't do this]."

So, c'mon man, what's the big deal?   Well, maybe it's a case of  the Evil party versus the Stupid party? Mark Lewis asks, If Half of the Body Is Saturated With Cancer, What’s the Prognosis?

 I don’t want to be a droll pessimist here, but I don’t want to be an unrealistic optimist, either. America is a country today where half the people hate the very civilization (Western Civilization) that gave them every single right they’ve got, including the right to hate their civilization. What hope is there for the survival of that civilization when half the people want to destroy it?..........

 When half your country sees unlimited immigration of anybody and everybody as their means to the political power they crave, with no clue of the eventual consequences of a Muslim—or communist—theocracy…well, pardon me if I have trouble being optimistic. If it were only five or 10 percent of the body covered in cancer, I might think it could be cured. Or at least isolated.

But we’re talking half the country here. That doesn’t bode well for the future.......

Now again, which party controls the Congress?   

 

And You Wonder Why Conservatives Hate Republicans, Part I

 By Rich Kozlovich

Conservatives have strong feelings about how things should work, and typically they despise the Democrats because they really are the party of treason, and even the most casual observer has finally come to that conclusion.  It's clear now they're openly communists and they support all things that are antithetical to anything that actually works.  

They want more taxes, more regulations, ending police protection, closing all prisons, and overall promoting all the things the world would have clearly thought was not only stupid and insane, but disgusting 25 years ago.  Not to mention the fact they openly state they wish to destroy America.  One thing should finally be clear to everyone, this really is a conspiracy by a cabal of wealthy leftist and Anti-American governments around the world who are organizing and funding these people. 

Then we come to the Republicans who publicly decry all the things Democrats stand for and promote.  At least publicly.  The difference between Democrats and Republicans is Democrats know what they believe and work for those things, no matter how insane or despicable they may be.  

The Republicans are clueless and are totally incapable of walking their talk because.... as a party ..... they really have no idea what they believe, and the public is sure they don't really believe in anything except to get elected so they can get rich, as so many other politicians have done while earning 175 thousand a year became multimillionaires in just a few years.  Now... why would anyone think there was anything corrupt with that?  Right?   

What prompted this piece isn't the Republican leadership's invertebracy over their unwillingness to pass the SAVE act knowing full well the Democrats will cheat.  Especially after this latest ruling by SCOTUS that says the Democrats can count ballots (many of which will be "lost" ballots that Scotty will beam down from the Starship Enterprise) for just as long as they please, and will be just as fictional as Star Trek.

• Your Freedom Vs. Democrat Control: The 2026 Midterms Will Decide America’s Future  Joseph Ford Cotto | We can either renew the spirit of liberty that made America exceptional, or watch her collapse under policies that pull toward perdition......
•  The Senate’s Gutless Republican Wonders - In today’s America, you can’t even get a speeding ticket without a photo ID. Granted, you might be thrown in jail if you get caught speeding and forgot your ID; but you will eventually have to prove that you are who you say you are to get out of the hoosgow. Nor will you be able to board an airliner. However, you can vote in most states. To many Americans who voted Republican in the last election, voter ID should be a no-brainer. With a majority — however thin — the gutless Senate Republicans cannot pass one of the president’s most important legislative priorities: the Safeguard America voter ID bill.......
•  Senate RINOS Too Busy Scolding Trump To Pass Voter ID Bill - Four Republicans — guess who? — joined Democrats Tuesday in passing a resolution telling Trump to pull U.S. troops out of Iran War............
•  Report: GOP Senators ‘Pile-On’ Mike Lee for Pushing for Passage of SAVE America Act - Republican senators reportedly criticized Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for pushing for the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, with Republican senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and John Kennedy (R-LA) challenging “his strategy.”  (Editor's Note:  Kennedy is a surprise. RK)

Ah, c'mon man, let's be reasonable, there's no need to worry about election fraud .... right!  This was one of the issues Republicans ran on, but as usual, they were talking big and ended up walking small.  No, that isn't what motivated this piece.  This piece was prompted by two articles I just read. 

 The Highway to Hell Bill That’ll Raise Costs for Families by EJ Antoni, Ph.D. | Jul 02, 2026 saying:

After years of soaring costs and an affordability crisis, the last thing Americans need is a bloated highway bill that wastes taxpayers’ dollars while imposing higher costs on consumers. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s getting kicked around the halls of Congress right now: a pork-filled monstrosity masquerading as a highway bill.

 The legislation in question is the deceptively named “BUILD America 250 Act,”,...............Despite its name, the act doesn’t improve railway safety but does impose a slew of new mandates and costs. It would impose draconian standards on America’s railroads and lock in older technologies, thereby discouraging the very innovation that has made these railroads the most efficient in the world.......

 And what does the country receive in exchange for all these downsides? No proven safety benefit.............The bill also directly reaches into drivers' wallets. It creates a new federal vehicle registration fee and conscripts notoriously inefficient state motor vehicle departments to collect and remit the fee to Washington, turning the states into federal tax collectors. Not only does the law deputize state-level bureaucracy, but it’ll also subsidize the inefficiency, too............

The Transportation Bill That Proves Washington Can't Quit Clientelism  By Veronique de Rugy |  Jul 02, 2026 saying:

Congress loves to wrap legislation in the language of the public interest. This year's surface transportation reauthorization bill is no exception. Supporters describe the House Transportation Committee-passed package as a major safety bill designed to make America's transportation system more secure and efficient...........

Fiscal conservatives, assuming there are still enough of them to be heard in Congress, should be particularly concerned about a package that authorizes roughly $580 billion in spending while doing little to address the long-term insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund. Legislators are instead choosing to promise more spending while avoiding the structural reforms necessary to put transportation funding on sustainable footing.................... t

hey inserted a controversial new federal registration fee structure for electric and hybrid vehicles. Progressives oppose it because they believe it discourages EV adoption. Many conservatives oppose it because it expands federal fee collection and further entangles state governments in administering federal policy............The result is predictable: Every organized interest receives something of value. Taxpayers inherit the costs..........

Pigs feeding at the government trough, and please remember, less regulations, less government, ending corruption and less taxes were the themes touted by all the Republicans.... you know..... that party that controls Congress.  Hey, c'mon man, stop being so picky, what's to dislike?  Right?  

Part II will follow.