{"id":1598968,"date":"2022-08-10T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1598968"},"modified":"2022-08-10T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T15:40:34","slug":"republicans-have-no-idea-what-time-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-have-no-idea-what-time-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Have No Idea What Time It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-have-no-idea-what-time-it-is%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1598968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Following the egregious raid by the FBI on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Florida estate earlier this week, congressional Republicans are responding to such Third World, political persecution in the same way they always do: by issuing meaningless statements.<\/p>\n<p>Since the news of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/conflict-of-interest-much-garland-oversees-raid-on-president-who-denied-him-scotus-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s targeting of Trump<\/a> broke Monday evening, GOP officials in Congress have released a range of public statements condemning the raid, while offering no real legislative solutions on how to address the blatant, left-wing abuse of power that has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/we-have-no-reason-to-trust-the-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plagued America\u2019s Justice Department (DOJ) for years<\/a>. Take, for example, Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso, who after waiting half a day to respond to the story, took to Twitter to issue the weakest remark imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaiding a former president\u2019s home is unprecedented,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJohnBarrasso\/status\/1557005904960229377?s=20&amp;t=11cSGSpJT2tfkKSMdkBu0w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThe Justice Department needs to quickly and transparently tell the American people who approved this raid and why it occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his best attempts, Barrasso\u2019s utterly useless tweet couldn\u2019t match the cowardice displayed by fellow GOP Sen. Tim Scott, who during an interview on \u201cCBS Mornings\u201d gave credence to the FBI\u2019s overtly political actions by encouraging Americans to let the situation \u201cplay out\u201d before drawing any conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been lots of questions before this raid about whether or not the FBI is doing their job apolitical and we don\u2019t know the answer to that question yet,\u201d the South Carolina Republican said. \u201c[The raid] is going to raise more questions, in my opinion. We need to let this play out and see exactly what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorTimScott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorTimScott<\/a> says the American public needs to let the FBI\u2019s search and DOJ investigation of former Pres. Trump \u201cplay out\u201d before jumping to conclusions \u2014 adding that this could raise more questions about whether the agency is \u201cdoing their job apolitical.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pugU4PcKYe\">pic.twitter.com\/pugU4PcKYe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSMornings\/status\/1556988918670626817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While Scott and Barrasso\u2019s remarks are awful in their own right, the amount of time it took for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/these-top-gop-senators-still-havent-condemned-democrats-banana-republic-fbi-raid-on-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senate Republican \u201cleadership\u201d<\/a> to speak out on the raid takes the cake. When first given a chance to comment on the matter during a Tuesday press conference in his home state of Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to condemn the Garland Justice Department for its actions, instead stating that he was only there to \u201ctalk about the flood[s]\u201d ravaging the Bluegrass State.<\/p>\n<p>After facing immense backlash from Republican voters and conservative pundits for his silence, McConnell later issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/statement-from-leader-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pathetic statement<\/a> on Tuesday evening \u2014 nearly a full day after the story broke \u2014 saying, \u201cThe country deserves a thorough and immediate explanation of what led to the events of Monday,\u201d and that \u201cAttorney General Garland and the Department of Justice should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<h2>The GOP Still Doesn\u2019t Get It<\/h2>\n<p>As expected, the response from congressional Republicans to the Biden DOJ\u2019s targeting of a former president and a potential 2024 presidential candidate has been nothing short of abysmal. Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/republicans-will-have-to-do-a-lot-more-than-hold-hearings-to-stop-the-rogue-fbi-and-doj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pledge<\/a> by GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to hold oversight hearings on the \u201cweaponized politicization\u201d of the DOJ was weak and will prove futile in the long run, as demonstrated during a recent Senate hearing in which FBI Director Christopher Wray <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/04\/fbi-director-wray-sets-possible-new-record-for-how-many-times-a-person-can-fail-in-a-3-5-hour-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avoided<\/a> addressing Republican questions about his agency\u2019s left-wing bias. Wray also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/08\/did-fbi-director-christopher-wray-bail-on-a-senate-hearing-so-the-dojs-gulfstream-could-take-him-on-vacation-in-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> left the hearing early \u201cto go on vacation in a taxpayer-funded private jet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taken collectively, the lackluster reaction from Republicans demonstrates once again that the party still doesn\u2019t grasp the moment we\u2019re living in. This isn\u2019t 1990s politics anymore. The days of \u201cbipartisanship\u201d and \u201creaching across the aisle\u201d are long behind us.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have repeatedly shown they have no interest in letting bygones be bygones. One needs to look no further than the left\u2019s infiltration of major American institutions and amassing of power within government agencies, which they\u2019ve actively used to punish their political opponents at every available opportunity. Whether it\u2019s the FBI\u2019s orchestration of the phony Trump-Russia collusion investigation or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/oct\/26\/tea-party-groups-targeted-irs-get-35-million-settl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IRS\u2019s harassing<\/a> of conservative Tea Party groups during the Obama administration, the message from leftists is clear: Take your Constitution and shove it.<\/p>\n<p>For Republicans like Scott to suggest that agencies such as the FBI still possess any semblance of objectivity after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/we-have-no-reason-to-trust-the-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">everything<\/a> they\u2019ve put the country through the past several years is not only laughable; it\u2019s indicative of just how out of touch Republicans are with the reality the country finds itself in today. Whether the GOP likes to admit it, America is engaged in a cold civil war, and all available evidence shows the left has no intention of backing down.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, Republican statements of condemnation and outrage over Democrats\u2019 abuse of government powers are just empty words. Until Republicans learn to punch back forcibly against Democrats and punish corrupt DOJ officials for their criminal actions, leftists throughout America\u2019s government will not hesitate to use every tool in their arsenal to go after anyone who stands in the way of their neo-Marxist utopia.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for those who love America, the GOP has largely shown it is both incapable and unwilling to do so, thus leaving an already-fragile country on the brink.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. 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