House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are not being shy about the big plans they have for America next year.
If they have their way, liberal priorities will be signed into law, destroying jobs and damaging the economy for the foreseeable future. The Green New Deal will become law, and, as a direct result, millions of Americans will lose their jobs and energy costs will skyrocket for families across the country. Liberals in Congress have also signaled overwhelming support for socialist healthcare proposals such as Medicare for All, which will drive up the costs of healthcare while simultaneously eroding the quality of medical services.
Of course, there are other pet projects on their agenda, too, including packing the Supreme Court with liberal justices who will rubber-stamp their extreme policies and granting statehood to Washington, D.C. — two cynical ploys that enjoy very little popularity among the population.
None of these radical ideas can go into effect, however, if Republicans maintain control of the Senate. Given what we know about the extremist policies that liberals will pursue in the next Congress, there is an imperative for conservatives to do everything we can to hold the two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia that are headed for a runoff on Jan. 5.
The stakes couldn’t be higher in Georgia. If the Republicans hold at least one of the two Senate seats, the GOP will control the Senate, providing an effective check on the liberals’ plans to remake America. If, however, the GOP loses both of those Senate races, Schumer will become Senate majority leader, and he will be Pelosi’s partner in trampling on our personal and economic freedoms. Chuck Schumer’s distinctly New York liberalism will be fused with Nancy Pelosi’s own brand of San Francisco liberalism.
The contrast between the two Republican senators and the two liberal challengers is stark. Republican Sen. David Perdue is facing off against Jon Ossoff, whose policies are out of touch with Georgia. He supports major restrictions on gun ownership and sweeping new environmental regulations on businesses. Those regulations would choke the economic recovery just as it is getting started.
In the other race, Sen. Kelly Loeffler faces Raphael Warnock, who has for years railed against police officers. Warnock has called our nation’s men and women in law enforcement “thugs” and “bullies,” and he once said police officers have a “gangster mentality.” He has even gone as far as saying the police are a danger to children. This anti-police rhetoric is all too common among liberals, and if Warnock is elected to the Senate, he will be able to join many Democrats in Congress in the dangerous practice of undermining our law enforcement.
As a member of the House of Representatives, I have seen firsthand the extremism of the modern liberal movement. Since the Democrats reclaimed their majority in the House in January 2019, we have seen one extreme measure after another introduced. The reason those far-left policies did not receive much attention in the news, however, is that they were stopped in their tracks once they were sent over to the Senate for consideration. The Republicans’ majority in the Senate prevented the liberals’ reckless agenda from being passed.
In January 2019, Democrats introduced HR 8, an anti-gun bill that would have significantly eroded Second Amendment protections. The Democrat-led House passed the bill over the loud objections of my fellow conservative colleagues, but it ultimately failed in the Senate thanks to the Republican senators’ strong position on the Bill of Rights.
At the same time, Democrats also introduced other extreme measures, including an attempt to undermine local control of elections and an unpopular proposal to allow biologically male high school students to compete in girls’ sports.
These same radical proposals, as well as renewed calls to defund the police, will likely be raised again in the new Congress. A Republican majority in the Senate would serve as a firewall for these bad ideas that continue emerging in the House.
Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer have spent a combined 121 years in Washington, DC, advancing the interests of the Swamp and their far-left donor base. If those three politicians have unchecked power in the new year, Americans will be left to wonder who, exactly, is advancing our interests.
On the campaign trail for Warnock and Ossoff recently, Schumer remarked, “Now, we take Georgia, then we change America.” An ominous thought.
For conservatives, our call to action is simple: Keep Georgia and prevent radical liberals from changing America.
Ken Buck is a Republican member of Congress from Colorado who serves on the House Judiciary Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee.
