SHOWDOWN DAY 5
05.05.2023
For the 5th straight day most Oregon Senate Republicans refused to participate in Senate President Rob Wagner’s grotesque parody of representative government and denied quorum by staying off the floor.
The reason for the unprecedented Sunday sessions is Wagner’s efforts to have as many floor sessions as quickly as possible. As soon as legislators have 10 “unexcused” absences they will be subject to the voter-passed Measure 113 and will not be eligible to hold their offices after the next election cycle.
Wagner, who is without question, Oregon’s most arrogant and self important jackass, has canceled virtually all excused absences including some he had already “granted.”
In this lip biting litany Wagner runs his fatuous mouth about the “will of the people” and his demands that the Republicans return so they and their constituents can be abused by the Democrat majority. And for all his bogus commentary of “working together when they disagree” let’s not forget the Democrat’s hateful behavior when Republican Senator Dennis Linthicum politely and professionally requested that an expert witness he invited to a hearing on gun control be given a few minutes to speak. Floyd Prozanski, rudely dismissed the request and demonstrated the kind of bottomless disrespect that has become the hallmark of Oregon Democrats.
Wagner is quite obviously struggling with a concept alien to him and his comrades. Some people are putting their integrity above their political ambitions, and Wagner, as a result, is having a bed wetting moment.
Like his deceitful handmaiden, Kate Lieber, Wagner is ignoring the times the Democrats walked out to get their way. Because you see, when Democrats do it, it is a cherished tool of the democratic process. But when Republicans and Independents do it, they must be punished.
Lieber’s press releases read like drunken ravings. In one she comically says: “It should bother all Oregonians that Republicans are threatening to violate a constitutional amendment their constituents just approved – all to deny Oregonians access to abortion.”
Oregon has the most liberal abortion laws in the country, and possibly the world, and nothing has been done to threaten that. It’s all Democrat hysteria and agit-prop, which the cartel media happily regurgitates without question.
So Wagner is speeding up the process in an effort to crush those who refuse to go along with his plans to end the Second Amendment and eviscerate parental rights.
The Republicans have rightfully challenged the Democrat’s continued violation of Oregon’s statutes which require that legislation meet certain standards. The Democrat’s response has been the laws do not apply to them, a concept wholly embraced by their disgraced, and soon to depart, Secretary of State.
The Republicans who have stood up to Wagner’s despicable bullying are doing so at enormous risk to their futures. But at this time, enough of them care more about principle and your rights than they do about their own jobs and they refuse to kneel before Wagner and his fellow travelers. For that we express our gratitude.
But while most Republican Senators have put principle above self interest, one Senator has joined the Democrats every single day to protect himself and serve the Democrat’s agenda to push Oregon further into the cesspool their policies have created.
Senator Dick Anderson has dutifully shown up for every session, even while his far more courageous colleagues have stood up against this madness. Anderson’s cowardice and collaboration is an insult to the people who are doing the right thing.
But at least we have the satisfaction of knowing that by showing up today, Anderson had to sit through this bizarre performance by Senator Sara Blouin. He deserved it.