Cajun Conservatism
The video begins with Trump painting America as "a nation in decline" and discussing a myriad of issues ranging from fallout from the withdrawal of Afghanistan to skyrocketing energy prices. It begins in black and white with the sound of an ominous thunderstorm in the background.
Read more: Trump posts campaign ad-style video to Truth Social following FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago
Trump should have placed Hillary’s server and Hunter Biden’s laptop at Mara-a-Largo and the FBI would have never shown up!
— Jeff Landry (@JeffLandry) August 9, 2022
Photo source: ATR
$6.5 Billion Natural Gas Tax Which Will Increase Household Energy Bills
$12 Billion Crude Oil Tax Which Will Increase Household Costs
$1.2 Billion Coal Tax Which Will Increase Household Energy Bills
Corporate Income Tax Hike on U.S. Businesses Which Will Be Passed on to Households
$124 Billion Stock Tax Which Will Hit Your Nest Egg — 401(k)s, IRAs and Pension Plans
95% Federal Excise Tax on American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
$52 Billion Income Tax Hike on Mid-Sized & Family Businesses
Supersizing the IRS to Increase Audits – $124 Billion
Read more: List of Tax Hikes in Democrat Reconciliation Bill
Attorney General Jeff Landry recently appeared on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” to discuss COVID policies in America
Someone please tell @JoeBiden that my car doesn’t run on fairy dust or unicorn urine. Real Talk. pic.twitter.com/s9UyRvzPhY
— John Neely Kennedy (@JohnKennedyLA) August 4, 2022
Out of touch Senate democrats think electric cars, solar panels & hiring 87000 new IRS agents is more important than dealing with high prices, crime and an open border
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 7, 2022
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— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 7, 2022
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— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 7, 2022
It’s a special kind of stupid to raise taxes during both a recession and inflation—that’s called stagflation, which is what we have right now as a result of President Biden’s policies. pic.twitter.com/VND3V58JuD
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) August 7, 2022
Kennedy was one of several Republican senators to suggest that FBI agents are too pro-Democrat to impartially investigate crimes. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray on a leaked document purporting to show that the bureau considers the Betsy Ross and Gadsden flags to potentially be extremist symbols, while Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee suggested that the U.S. has a “two-tiered system of justice” based on political ideology. Wray pushed back on their assessments, saying that the vast majority of FBI agents remain appropriately apolitical.
Read more: Sen. John Kennedy Reads FBI Agent’s Anti-GOP Tweets Into The Congressional Record
I told Director Wray that there is no room in the FBI for blatant displays of political partisanship—especially among special agents.
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) August 4, 2022
It’s no wonder the American people are getting the impression that certain agencies are biased. pic.twitter.com/Pc3JgE1add
DOOCY: "President Biden when he was a candidate said there will not be another foot constructed in my administration. So what changed?" pic.twitter.com/SJ3rVmow3f
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) July 29, 2022
Well, it is official: As of yesterday’s bad second quarter economic report showing that our economy had shrunk by .9%, America is in a recession. This is because the first quarter report also indicated that our economy had shrunk (by 1.6%), and the commonly accepted definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.
At least that was the commonly accepted definition of a national recession until Joe Biden called upon his minions to proclaim in unison that no, we were not really in a recession and the economy was actually in pretty good shape. Joe himself then made a brief comment to reporters to the effect that it didn’t seem like a recession to him, before fleeing the scene and leaving reporters to devour his easily befuddled press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. She promptly declared that “We’re seeing a transition into stable and steady growth…,” but she was clearly way out of her element. We seriously doubt that many folks were paying much attention to her musings on the state of the economy, anyway.
But the fact remains that things are clearly not going well- that much is obvious to even the most heedless of our fellow citizens. The economy is volatile and substantial parts of it are performing poorly. Inflation is soaring, energy prices are double what they were when this president took office, necessities like food and housing are becoming unaffordable for many, and borrowing money to stay afloat has become more expensive for all. Strangely, several million people refuse to return to the workforce despite the fact that there are plenty of jobs to be had. What’s more, the experts don’t really know where we are headed- will this be a relatively mild recession, or as many predict, are things about to get one Hell of a lot worse?
Now this is not a good place to be, and one might well ask how we got here? But first, allow me to digress for a moment: Recall that less than two short years ago, under President Trump the economy was recovering from COVID, inflation was under two percent, interest rates were near their historic lows, and energy was plentiful and cheap (gas was half its current price). Several COVID vaccines were only months away and our national debt was many trillions of dollars lower than it is now.
So how did we arrive at this sad state of affairs in so short a time? The answer is obvious- only a doddering but deceitful Joe Biden, controlled by the progressive, neo-Marxist wing of the Democrat Party, could have caused this much damage so quickly and so completely!
Who else would have begun a new presidency by attempting to shut down the eighty percent of our energy production provided by fossil fuels? Who else would have mis-spent trillions of dollars, much of it for Democrat political ends, thereby creating huge imbalances in the supply and demand for our nations’ goods, even as productivity had not fully recovered to pre-COVID levels? Too much money chasing around too few goods is the classic cause of inflation, and reducing domestic energy production even as the economy required more energy, could not help but cause gas prices to shoot up.
So how bad will the economy, and with it the lives of most American citizens, ultimately worsen? Even as I write this article, a new half-trillion dollar round of spending is wending its way through Congress, along with a tax increase. (Thank you, Joe Manchin!) This will further stoke inflation, of course, but the tax increase will make a serious recession far more likely. To tame the out-of-control inflation, the Federal Reserve last Wednesday raised interest rates another three quarters of a percent on top of the one and a half percent increases of the previous two months. Even worse, the Fed hinted at further raises in the coming months. Don’t forget that these rate increases are intended to slow down our economy, which again, will also make the recession worse.
As we teeter on the precipice of an unpredictable economic future (and I have not even touched on the rapidly deteriorating geopolitical situation, the worsening border crisis, the politicization of our school curricula, etc.), be reminded that the gross and misdirected overspending was all avoidable. The attempt to shut down most of our energy production and replace it with expensive and unreliable sources was also avoidable. Why were such basic economic mistakes ever made in the first place?
The fundamental problem here is that progressive Democrats do not learn and they do not admit the error of their ways, because they are Marxists. If we learn anything from history, it is that Marxists do not learn from history. In fact, they are even now complaining that the problem with our economy is that they have not done enough to transform the United States into a more social democratic or even outright Socialist nation.
So be forewarned and vote to save our country on November 8th, before it’s too late!
Louis Gurvich, Chairman
Republican Party of Louisiana
Breaking: An appeals court has ruled that the state must be granted a suspensive appeal as the legal challenge to Louisiana's abortion ban plays out. This means the ban will go back into effect, a blow to abortion advocates. (The state Supreme Court could rule otherwise) pic.twitter.com/kqjFLZ61zo
— Sam Karlin (@samkarlin) July 29, 2022
The entire interview with Holden Hoggatt on The Jim Engster Show can be found at this site: Thursday, July 28th: Holden Hoggatt, Mark Ballard
GOP Challenger to Clay Higgins, Holden Hoggatt on @JimEngsterShow: “Kamala Harris only got where she is because of her skin color.” “Kamala was Willie Brown’s mistress.” 😳 #lalege #lagov
— Kristine (@_breithaupt) July 29, 2022
Everyone already knows we're in a recession—because they feel the pain of it every day.
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) July 28, 2022
The Biden Administration's attempt to spin it any other way is pathetic and offensive.
Republican state lawmakers (and one independent, Malinda White) file amicus brief in support of @AGJeffLandry's appeal in the case over Louisiana's abortion ban. The appeal centers around the judge's decision not to let the ban take effect as the battle plays out in court. pic.twitter.com/W02ekbiSCb
— Sam Karlin (@samkarlin) July 29, 2022
"They sucked Republican votes up like a Hoover Deluxe and then got their votes and then bam, announced this new tax increase," said Kennedy. "We look like a bunch of – well, I’m not going to say what we look like."
Read more: GOP senator fumes that his party looks like suckers after Manchin announces surprise deal with Dems
We’ve got prosecutors today who think cops are a bigger problem than criminals.
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) July 27, 2022
That’s a problem, and we need to sharpen the law to protect innocent Americans. pic.twitter.com/nBLnLoX8af
In less than two years of total Democrat control we went from cheap gas and energy independence to record-high gas prices and begging foreign dictators for oil.
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) July 27, 2022
There's nothing leftism doesn't destroy. pic.twitter.com/UuMkXzW1Fp
New documents obtained by WDSU Investigates give a glimpse of how much money New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell spent on her recent trip to Switzerland.
According to the documents, on airfare alone, Cantrell spent nearly $10,000.
How much did it cost Mayor Cantrell to travel to Switzerland to sign a "Sister City" agreement and attend a jazz festival? Almost $10,000. And that's only the flight. More to come. Council discussion on capping elected officials' travel expenses at $1K per trip should be heated. pic.twitter.com/7ucSH1T2y2
— Mike Perlstein (@MikePerlstein) July 28, 2022
We trust the First Circuit will apply the law properly and reverse Judge Johnson’s ruling. Our laws are clear and we will prevail in defending them. #lagov #lalege
— AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) July 26, 2022
Legislation just passed the U.S. House of Representatives that will provide recovery assistance to the remaining 2016 Flood victims deemed ineligible by federal bureaucrats. For years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) refused to provide financial assistance to disaster victims that were previously approved for a disaster recovery loan – calling it double recovery. Graves fought back on the concept that a loan and a grant could be considered duplicative. In 2018, he passed the Duplication of Benefits (DoB) fix releasing hundreds of millions of dollars for 2016 Flood victims through the Restore Louisiana program to rebuild their homes and lives. Federal bureaucrats at HUD invented a flawed interpretation of the law that prevented some flood victims with a household income in excess of $60,000/year from receiving recovery aid. Graves’ new provision would block arbitrary restrictions and release remaining funds to flood victims.
Read more: PASSES U.S. HOUSE: 2016 Flood Victim Duplication of Benefits Fix
ICYMI – a six-years long fight is almost over.
— Rep. Garret Graves (@RepGarretGraves) July 26, 2022
We passed legislation that will provide recovery assistance to the remaining 2016 Flood victims deemed ineligible by federal bureaucrats. It now heads to the U.S. Senate.
More information: https://t.co/715DMlua0g pic.twitter.com/PGNeEjC1GS
