The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, welcome, welcome. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Great program today. In a few moments, we’ll talk with John Schlafly, and then we’ll speak with Gregory Wrightstone of the CO2 Coalition. An old friend of mine. Inconvenient Facts is the name of his book. So welcome to The ProAmerica Report, just days away from the red tsunami that I’ve been predicting for months and months and months.
It’ll be bigger even than people are telling you today. It’s starting to take shape. The way you know that this is a bigger thing than people realize is you watch money that, show me the money, follow the money filter.
And the follow the money filter in this case shows that Democrats are spending in safe Democrat seats in the House and Republicans are spending in reaches because it’s all flowing in that direction. I would say at this point it’s 54, maybe 55 US. Senators are Republican and plus 75, maybe more in the House for the Republicans. It’s a sweep.
And it’s a sweep because in my opinion, people realize, recognize the direction of the country is the wrong direction, they’re gonna punish the party that appears to be in power the most. I mean, there’s plenty of other factors at play here that are bigger than just the Biden administration. But it’s Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, and the American people are sick of it.
And especially they’re sick of Biden’s lack of leadership. His stumbling, bumbling routine is old for a country that believes in our own greatness and success and ability. But that’s not what you need to know today.
What you need to know today is I want to warn you and alert you, and I’ve got two guests on this topic today that will help us think this through. I want to warn you and alert you as we race to the finish line and hopefully where you live, you’re voting for the good guys.
California’s getting closer and closer to some real competitiveness. The state comptroller, Lanhee Chen is running, the Republican. He’s got more of a chance today than yesterday and growing every day. We’ll see what happens. It’s still tough, still tough structurally, very tough. The numbers are tough, but lots happening.
But what you need to know is, as we rush towards this wave election, and it will be a vindication of the Trumpian policies, it will be an indictment, an ending of the Biden regime. What happens when you get power is what is going to matter in the eyes and in the memories of the American people.
So the Speaker of the House will likely be Kevin McCarthy, the head of the Senate will be again Senator McConnell. They’ll have a chance to set a vision going forward, but it will come down to specifics over the next year or so where people get a sense of what you’re doing. And here’s my encouragement. We have had a number of guests on the program. I can think. Adam Andrzejewski is the most famous. He runs OpentheBooks.com that have taught us we need to let the sun shine in, let the sun shine in the swamp and we’ll find out. We’ll uncover a lot of swampiness, a lot of the beasts and swamp weevils and other things will uncover them. That’s good. Transparency is very good. A lot of the oversight and investigatory committees coming out of the House and Senate will seek to do that.
However, there needs to be a vision of changing how things are done in the swamp. And the two aspects of that that I want to put out there and I want you to understand.
And they are what you need to know, is, One: Giving up power, and Two: Making sure the power that does exist in the swamp is distributed appropriately between the executive, the legislative and the judiciary.
Because right now the balance is way in favor of the President. The executive branch. So those two things, what you need to know are those two aspects of this.
Can we have a vision where the actual people in power give up power?
And the best ways to do that will be to return to people the decision-making authority either to themselves or to their more local communities. So for example, there could be a patient’s, excuse me, a parent’s bill of rights that could come from the federal level that says we are not going to allow the federal government to say what the mandates are for your children, let’s say on vaccines. We’re going to leave it to the states. We’re going to return that to the states. Education, they could say some of the laws that would say we are not going to allow the federal government to dominate these things.
Now, the problem is a lot of times states choose to opt in out of pressure, right? It’s the carrot and the stick. And the carrot is the money that the federal government employs.
But my point is that we need a vision amongst conservatives, Republicans, to reduce the power of the government. It could be under the many prosecutions that are going on. It could be other ways.
But in the old days, you would have the sun shine in oversight, transparency, and then nothing changed. So for example, Lois Lerner was uncovered at the IRS as targeting conservative groups, but nothing was changed. In fact, in the last six months, they passed another bill that says 870 new agents will work at the IRS. What do you think they’re going to do? They’re going to target people. Somebody .They’re going to target somebody and who their boss tells them to target is who they’re going to target.
We need to decrease the number of ways that the federal government is controlling influence in our lives that go beyond the scope. Here’s another one though. Here’s one that’s important.
The second point, what you need to know. Balancing the power. If the executive branch has gotten too powerful, and it has, then the legislative branch, Article one, the Congress needs to pull it back. And there’s ways they can do that.
For example, you could say, hey, Article One, we have the war powers. We’re the ones that could declare war. Before you go rattling sabers and send the military equipment, we want to vote.
Now the problem is most of the Congress are chicken. They don’t want to take hard votes. They want to let the let the Bush administration, w bush go fight the war, and if it goes bad, they’ll blame him. They want to let the Trump administration go do whatever. They’ll blame them, whatever.
We got to have some courageous people that step up and do that and say, hey, we’ll take this responsibility.
Here’s another one. The Congress could say to the executive branch, we know that you are constitutionally allowed to do certain things as to law enforcement. We recognize that. That is in the Constitution, the balance of power. We pass the law as the executive enforces them. However, because we want to create a nation of trust and the rule of law, when you surveil an American citizen, you must disclose that within 48 hours to a member of Congress. Pick one, whoever it is. And so same thing with auditing. If you audit an American citizen IRS, you must notify the Congress. It doesn’t mean you can’t do it. It doesn’t mean we’re telling you not to do it. We’re just telling you we want to know. That would change everything. Now, that’s actually transparency, but that’s a check on the balance, right?
We have had a situation where the Supreme Court has gotten all powerful. The executive branch of the President has gotten more powerful, and Congress sits around and does sound bites. Well, sound bites fail in the modern era. Maybe they worked back when you could have a sound bite that held the people’s attention for months and years. Have you no shame, Senator McCarthy? Is that the phrase that was asked? Whatever the phrasing, that doesn’t work anymore. That doesn’t work anymore. All because everything moves too fast. The whole dynamic of governing moves too fast. So back to my point.
What you need to know is it’s going to be a victory for conservatives. It’s going to be a rejection of the Biden regime. That’s great. Now what? And the answer is not just transparency, not just letting the sunshine in, not just putting our eyes on it, but then doing things to reduce the power of the federal government and to strengthen the coequal of the branches. They’re not even coequal, by the way. The judiciary is supposed to be the weakest. Nobody expected the executive branch to get this powerful. Nobody. It wasn’t designed that way. In fact, largely because we changed the tax code and would change the Constitution to allow federal income tax. You suddenly had a government that was so big and powerful. Back in the old days, it wasn’t that good to be in the, say, Congress. It wasn’t that much fun. It better to be a governor than it would be to be secretary of a department in the federal government because governor had more power and interesting jobs and all the rest. So that’s what you need to know.
And if you see leaders talking about a vision for this kind of change, then the Republicans will be making an argument about why people would say I like their side. And of course, because Biden by definition will have to resist it. He’ll have to veto everything and resist it. You’ll have a contrast and say this is what we want to do going forward.
I think that’s not only the best hope, but it’s also the best way forward. I think it’s the best hope because I think it would be good for the country. I also just think this, otherwise we’re just yelling at each other. And if the Republicans get in office and fall back on the same old playbook, and they do governing by sound bite, Fox News sound bite, I don’t know. I don’t think it’s going to work very well. In fact, I know it’s not going to work very well. So that’s what you need to know today.
Alright, we’ll come back, we’ll talk with John Schlafly about his column, which is about Let the Sunshine In on the Pelosi debacle, Paul Pelosi, what’s gone on there? Well, what’s going on? And to my mind, it could be a model. Let’s let the sun shine in. Show the video tapes, everything. Let’s get it out. Personally, I don’t think it’s anything untoward. I think he’s a rich old dude, he might have been drinking, whatever. I don’t think it’s anything but let’s let the sun in. Let’s let the sunshine in and see what we got. And then do that for January 6 and all sorts of others. And we’ll talk with John in a minute. And we will also talk with Gregory Wrightstone. Be right back, Ed Martin here in the Pro America Report. Talk to you in a minute.
