In Pennsylvania, another populist challenge brewing; in Kansas, incumbent punished
By The Truth Hound
The nation’s Congressional elections—clearly “back-benched” by the big-media’s obscene obsession with the presidency—need a closer look. And as Yours Truly ramps up coverage of House and Senate races starting while Congress is on break, there are interesting trends to report in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Kansas, for starters.
Unfortunately, the most major race—Wisconsin’s Aug. 9 primary—saw insurgent Paul F. Nehlen III, a water-systems technician who sported populist views and steely determination, lose to House Speaker Paul Ryan for the Republican nomination for the state’s 1st District seat. The result was reportedly an 85% to 15% split in Ryan’s favor.
In apparent accordance with Ryan’s fascination with the pro-capitalist views of the late novelist Ayn Rand, his spotty record shows unwavering support for free-trade treaties and other corporatist capitalism disguised as grassroots conservatism—even while he supported education legislation that deceptively rebranded the “Common Core” program widely despised by grassroots conservatives and some progressives. Yet, Ryan blathered to Business Insider that it’s Nehlen who supposedly is the fake conservative.
But in a pre-election interview with Breitbart News Daily, Nehlen noted that Ryan claims to be “a conservative from the conservative wing of the Republican Party. He is a soulless globalist from the Democrat wing of the uni-party. That’s what he is.”
ABOUT THE ‘UNI-PARTY’
That’s reasonably accurate, except that Nehlen may not realize that the uni-party has no genuine “Democratic wing.” In reality, it is the party of trans-nationalism, meaning that party labels and the very idea of the U.S. as an independent nation-state are seen as outmoded by Ryan and those of his ilk, although they’ll use “Americanist” language and concepts to disguise their policies as pro-American, pro-Constitution.
In addition, the trans-nationalists, a.k.a. internationalists, have as a central goal the astronomically lucrative enterprise of perpetual war. A sizable part of their faction consists of quasi-revolutionaries commonly called “neo-conservatives,” or “neo-cons” in shorthand.
They’re actually rooted in Marxism, among other unsavory things, and took over the Republican Party right around the time that JFK got elected, give or take a bit. The paleo-conservative (i.e. paleo-con) Republicans who opposed perpetual undeclared war, such as Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, were purged from the party ranks. The same thing happened to “paleo-con” columnists such as anti-war conservative Joe Sobran when he was purged from The National Review magazine run by CIA asset William F. Buckley Jr.. That’s why today’s “Republicans in name only” are so pro-war.
Yet, they’ve come a long way toward a broader consolidation. And that’s why, no matter which “party” is in power, AMERICA IS ALWAYS AT WAR, 24-7, 365. Ergo, their consolidated singular uni-party (which poses at the federal level as “two” parties with distinctly different ideas) can be most handily called the “war party.” Dr. Chuck Baldwin, a Christian pastor and columnist, describes the situation as follows:
It is imperative that people understand that Neocons are politically neutral; they are neither Democrat nor Republican. The only party to which they belong is the War Party. They use [rank-and-file] Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and Christians and Muslims to promote their radical pro-war agenda. Political labels mean absolutely nothing to these people.
Neocons care nothing about social and domestic issues either, except as they assist the war agenda. For example, if liberals want to promote the LGBT agenda, Neocons don’t interfere. If conservatives want to promote pro-family legislation, Neocons don’t interfere. Neocons are one-issue driven; and that issue is perpetual war
NEHLEN: RYAN PRO-WALL STREET
Still, Nehlen continued, “He is all in for the cheapest possible labor for Wall Street. . . .Can you name the last time Paul Ryan worked as hard for Wisconsin workers as he has for corporate America? I can’t think of one time. Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish in D.C. He is absolutely an open-borders guy . . .”
Nehlen got outside support from notables such as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and neo-conservative pundit-author Ann Coulter, who stopped by Janesville, Wisc. Aug. 6 to speak in support of Nehlen.
Coulter did make the usual neo-conservative war-mongering remarks about the allegedly “all-encompassing” Islamic threat, which has some truth in terms of certain radical sects of Islam representing a degree of danger here and abroad. But, true to form, she paints a picture that’s far more grim than reality.
That being said, her visit to Janesville was helpful to Nehlen, since, to her credit, Coulter attacked Ryan for supporting the 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade scam and for being too cozy with Wall Street.
Coulter, speaking of Ryan and his pro-Wall Street allies such the infamous billionaire Koch brothers, rightly complained: “They want mass immigration; they want their cheap labor.”
IN PENNSYLVANIA: A BOLD CHALLENGER
Here, there’s more time to work with, since a key race there culminates in the Nov. 8 general election featuring “tea party” insurgent Art Halvorson—a registered Republican—running as a Democrat, in an effort to unseat House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.).
A retired Coast Guard captain and real estate investor, Halvorson was edged by Shuster in April’s GOP primary, losing by just 1 percentage point—49.5 to 50.5 percent—a difference of 1,009 votes.
Halvorson conceded the race. But he’ll face Schuster anyway in November, an unusual twist made possible by Halvorson’s bold move to secure enough write-in votes from Democrats during the primary.
With a populist tone, Halvorson remarked: “I’m deeply humbled by the coming together of voters in both parties for the critical, common goal of rescuing America from the corrupt career politicians who’ve . . . sold us up the river to corporate lobbyists.”
As quoted Aug. 2 by The Hill, a Washington paper focused on Congress, Shuster campaign spokesman Casey Contres remarked, “Not only is [Halvorson] betraying Democrats by calling their party Godless while forcing them to accept him as their nominee . . . he is also betraying the will of Republican primary voters that have twice rejected his attempt to get a job in Congress.”
Halvorson retorted: “Our current struggle isn’t Democrat vs. Republican; it’s insiders vs. We, the People.”
So, like Nehlen, Halvorson sees the two dominant parties as a singular uni-party—masquerading as distinct entities.
Schuster is fueled by “deep-pocketed special interests” instead of small donors, Halvorson also said, while recalling Shuster’s admitted relationship with a top airline lobbyist who was connected to legislation handled by Shuster.
IN KANSAS: HUELSKAMP SENT ‘PAC-ING’
Also, in the Aug. 2 Republican primary in Kansas, Roger Marshall, a physician with no political experience—funded by the corporatist Kansas Farm Bureau and outside Super PACS awash with funds from anonymous donors—unseated Rep. Tim Huelskamp.
Huelskamp, who represented Kansas’s large, highly rural 1st District since 2011 after serving in the state legislature, wasn’t afraid to buck the GOP establishment. He dared to oppose Speaker Ryan’s budget plan in the House Budget Committee and lost a valuable committee post.
Huelskamp and nationally popular rebel Republican Justin Amash (Mich.) both felt the plan didn’t cut the budget fast enough.
“In December 2012, it was reported that both representatives would not serve on the House Budget Committee in the 113th Congress. Huelskamp also lost his seat on the Agriculture Committee,” reported the Ballotpedia website.
Another rebel Republican, Rep. Walter Jones (N.C.), along with David Schweikert (Ariz.), “completed the quartet of lawmakers to lose prominent committee seats during the Republican Steering Commission’s [late-2012] purge of so-called ‘obstinate’ team members,” Ballotpedia also noted.
Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) spearheaded the termination of the four members’ committee posts. So it’s likely that Huelskamp, who called the purge a “typical backroom deal,” also was purged from Congress altogether.
The remaining rebel House Republicans—Jones, Amash, Mark Meadows (R-N.C.)—appear to be safe in their November re-election bids. These guys, though far from perfect, have been consistent in wanting to audit the Federal Reserve private central bank while opposing the U.S. policy of perpetual warfare.
So, it’s a fair bet they’re all being targeted by the war-courting neo-cons who, as exemplified by Randians like Mr. Ryan, often use a time-tested tactic best described as “fake right and go global,” in order to play a conservative mind-game and fool the people.
But what they’re really doing is serving a liberal order in the internationalist, centralized-power sense. As a practical matter, that means serving the money masters among the lobbying outfits and major banks who own the “two” dominant parties and defraud the public with the Democrat-Republican dialectic that squeezes out other parties and candidates who have a right to be heard and to serve in public office.