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Tillis just gave us a boost; dunkin' on Geoff in GA & Warnock strikes the perfect tone for Dems [1]
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Date: 2025-07-02
From Monday’s Ron Show:
Sorry I'm late to posting this week; I'd actually planned to take the four-day week into the three-day holiday weekend off, but "one big beautiful" legislative disaster has spawned this internal need to stay at it, this week.
As did Thom Tillis' floor speech over the weekend, followed by his announcement he'd not seek re-election in 2026. Suddenly, Democrats have an opportunity in North Carolina to pick up a Senate seat in an otherwise bleak Senate cycle for them.
As Trump's coveted "one big beautiful bill" makes its way through Congress, we're already seeing even GOP-led states like Georgia brace for and re-allocate funds to stunt its effects. Here, they're racing to "amp up Medicaid hospital funding by $2 billion" in anticipation of this bill's passage.
From Tuesday’s Ron Show:
Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor, former Republican, Geoff Duncan, appeared on the Atlanta Journal Constitution's "Politically Georgia" podcast earlier this week to hawk his centrist overtures (again) to Democrats, only this time, he's hinted at receiving calls from 'folks across the state' (sure, dude) to run for governor - as a Democrat. "I've heard the rumor," he said.
Sorry, if he has, he's the first.
When asked, he said “I’m certainly not going to run as a Republican," then groused about how difficult it is to run as a third party candidate in this country.
Duncan would like the Democratic Party to abandon a lot of its core principles for the sake of winning, and I'm here to reject his thought process. Instead, Republicans like Duncan should show some spine and go win back their party from the nuts they once benefitted from being shovel-fed so much disinformation.
Instead, what Democrats should do is listen to Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock's floor speech Sunday and follow his lead. His impassioned plea for his Senate colleagues to reject the budget measure they eventually passed with a tie-breaking Vice Presidential vote.
"n a real sense, the question tonight is, who are we? Not who we tell ourselves we are, but who are we really? What and who do we care about? What kind of nation are we? What kind of people do we want to be? Who matters and who doesn’t? What do we think is dispensable?
In no place is the answer to that question clearer than in a nation’s budget. I submit that a budget is not just a fiscal document, a budget is a moral document. Show me your budget, and I’ll show you who you think matters and who doesn’t.
If this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral certainty."
His 20-minute oratory was a work of art, and the exact type of tone Democrats need to take, going forward.
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