Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

Despite the craziness of the GOP, they still managed to win the Georgia special election.  That is how badly swing voters still don’t want Pelosi’s policies.  So why won’t Republicans use this mandate to move in the opposite direction?   In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we dissect the message from the recent slew of special elections and how it provides an opportunity for Republicans to energize their base by offering the country a new direction.  Yet, from Obamacare and immigration to fiscal policy, the courts, and foreign policy, Republicans are keeping the status quo.    We also delve into the details of the horrendous Obamacare bailout bill that is making Jonathan Gruber proud.   There are also some issues going on in the courts that are killing our sovereignty.     Key quotes:   During his inaugural address, Trump inveighed against do-nothing politicians who are all talk and no action. Trump said: “We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it. The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action. Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done.”   I couldn’t agree more, Mr. President.  So why is there all talk and no action except for the actions that contradict your rhetoric?    Show links   Trump supports comprehensive immigration reform The GOP bill to make Obamacare great again GA-6 win is not a mandate to be liberal idiots   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How is it that so many supposed conservatives are so credulous in the face of policy betrayals by Trump and Republicans that they fall for every distraction?  Sadly, this reveals a more uncomfortable reality that the modern conservative movement and conservative media don’t really stand for anything.  And as Alexander Hamilton warned, "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we discuss the true consequences of Trump’s amnesty and how it violates the foundation of his campaign promise.  We also observe how the silence of conservative media is appalling and how there is no movement to demand that Republicans utilize their control of government for specific policy victories. In that light, we also lay out some opportunities for conservatives in the upcoming markup of the annual defense bill, an opportunity that will likely be lost on this fledgling movement.  Finally, we tackle the concerns with Trump’s foreign policy and his further involvement in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, and Somalia, in complete violation of his campaign promises.  Yet, conservatives don’t seem to stand for anything other than not being the Democrats…even if we ironically adopt their policies!     Show links Trump admin not even cooperating with investigations of Obama era Earth to conservatives: Trump granted executive amnesty A smart GOP would push right to carry legislation now Time to jump ship from phony Obamacare repeal   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The entire conservative media is focused on the endless rage against the liberal media and accusing them of fomenting violence.  But we all forget what we are even fighting for.  As we chronicle throughout the podcast and in our writings, there are a number of liberal policy outcomes emanating from this GOP Congress and administration, yet we are fighting over a bunch of nothing.  The best way to fight back against the media?  Let’s actually enact the agenda for which they supposedly hate us!  Let’s start by pursuing a pro-gun agenda and immediately enacting a right-to-carry bill.  Stay in for the August recess and overwhelm the Left and the media with one policy victory after another.  This will have the effect of electrifying our base so that the Left is not the only side with intensity for the mid-term elections.   We need more winning and less whining. Show links Our troops forced to undergo transgender sensitivity training…under GOP control! My list of dos and donts in the Middle East Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Distraction, distractions, distractions.  By refusing to use the bully pulpit to promote a robust and bold conservative agenda, the Trump administration and much of the “conservative” movement is falling into the media trap.  We are focusing on what the media wants to discuss.  Why, instead, is nobody focusing on the fact that Trump is continuing the illegal amnesty of Obama?  Why is nobody focusing on the dozens of agenda items we’ve laid out at Conservative Review to drive the narrative and force the media to focus on what we think is important rather than us focusing on what they think is important? In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we focus on a number of forgotten issues – from the Saudi Arms deal and Trump’s amnesty to the crazy courts, Hezbollah operatives on our shores, and the GOP making Obamacare great again.     Show links Trump admin taking in Australia’s rejected refugees 9 issues Trump could focus on to deflect from Comey and Russia…if he actually cared Betrayal! Trump grants amnesty to 125,000 illegals in 3 months Feds bust Hezbollah sleeper cell on our soil, yet nobody seems to care   Forget about Sanctuary Cities – the courts have created a sanctuary Nation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While every Clickservative is focused solely on Comey and Russia, we stand at a crossroads on so many issues.  From the debt ceiling, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, foreign policy opportunities, Israel policy, budget betrayals, immigration, judicial reform, etc – there is no time to be wasted on nonsense.  Conservatives can raise their voices and demand change while the president is on the fence and we can seize these amazing opportunities. On the other hand, we can get distracted by nonsense and watch the shallow-state losers in this administration lead the president astray on every critical issue.  The choice is ours.   Specifically, in this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we delve into three issues in depth – Dodd-Frank repeal, the debt ceiling, and how to use the Arab schism with Qatar, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood to our advantage.  As of now, we are getting all the liabilities of cozying up to the Saudis (getting ensnared in Yemen, getting caught in Syria, the disastrous arms deal, throwing Israel under the bus), but not getting the benefits (going after the Muslim Brotherhood, abrogating the Iran deal, and stop fighting for Iran in Iraq). This is the difference between allying with one of your enemies against another (bad) and playing them both against each other for our benefit (good). The lesson from all of this is that true conservatives have so much to talk about and run on in a principled and resonate fashion. We don’t need to focus on the media or what the media is focusing on all day.  And if conservatives would actually give such advice to the president, it would have a self-fulfilling effect of bailing him out of the media’s narratives and changing the discussion to substance over style, which always benefits our side.        Show links Republicans have nothing to run on but the media Secretary Kelly says he wont deport “Dreamers”! The moral case for a cool off of immigration from the Middle East The importance of the debt ceiling and why Trump must reverse course, show leadership The courts are destroying Republican electoral viability and nobody is paying attention The importance of repealing Dodd-Frank Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last Thursday, Trump fulfilled a major campaign promise in exiting the Paris climate disaster.  But he also confirmed a colossal betrayal in failing to move the Israel embassy to Jerusalem and continuing the maniacal negotiations with the PLO.  What gives?  Why did conservatives succeed in getting Trump in our camp on one issue and not the other?  The answer is simple: conservatives got in his face and made demands on the climate issue, but not on foreign policy.   In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we discuss how conservatives must speak out and demand change from this administration, otherwise we won’t get it.  Trump has shown a sensitivity to conservative criticism, which is a good thing.  We should learn from the Paris success and use it for other issues.  The next issue must be immigration an homeland security.    We explore Trump’s opportunity to regain momentum by giving a series of televised addresses and promoting a very specific immigration and homeland security agenda.    Show links   Lesson for conservatives on Trump Paris leadership? Speak Out! 20 immigration and homeland security ideas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Between the courts setting immigration policy, national security policy, election law, social policy, redistricting, and criminal justice policy, we no longer live in a republic.  The lower courts, not just the Supreme Court, stand above the other branches of government and the 50 states.   But how did this happen?  How can the other branches, which have more robust powers, get rolled by courts created by Congress?   In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we explore the recent immigration rulings and some other cases to demonstrate how the judicial crisis stems from a political crisis whereby the other branches of government are needlessly giving in to the courts.  In fact, as it relates to the Fourth Circuit opinion on Trump’s executive order, the administration is giving the courts even more than they ask for.   At some point, could we really blame the courts for grabbing power that is handed to them on a silver platter by the other branches of government?   We explore some simple solutions laid out in Stolen Sovereignty, if only there was the political willing to enact them.   Key quotes:     “It is not probable that the Supreme Court would long be indulged in a career of usurpation opposed to the decided opinions & policy of the Legislature. Nor do I think that Congress, even seconded by the Judicial Power, can, without some change in the character of the nation, succeed in durable violations of the rights & authorities of the States.” James Madison to Spencer Roane, 6 May, 1821   “It may in the last place be observed that the supposed danger of judiciary encroachments on the legislative authority, which has been upon many occasions reiterated, is in reality a phantom. Particular misconstructions and contraventions of the will of the legislature may now and then happen; but they can never be so extensive as to amount to an inconvenience, or in any sensible degree to affect the order of the political system. This may be inferred with certainty, from the general nature of the judicial power, from the objects to which it relates, from the manner in which it is exercised, from its comparative weakness, and from its total incapacity to support its usurpations by force.” Alexander Hamilton, Federalist # 81.   Show Links:   A summary of congressional power over the courts The Fourth Circuit’s opinion is the most radical and dangerous ever Why Trump has a responsibility to ignore the courts What can be done about immigration and the courts   Mnuchin Wants Debt Ceiling Raised Unconditionally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The conservative media is so focused on smoke and rhetoric that they are missing the actual important policy outcomes on critical domestic and foreign policy issues.  If they’d focus on what’s happening rather than just fighting the media over nonsense, they’d understand we are being sold out and so many of Obama’s policies are being continued. Rather than focus on one incident or speech, conservatives must pay attention to the broad direction and paradigm shift of this administration.  It has moved away from the conservatives and the original Trump campaign and has now drifted into the swamp of Tillerson, McMaster, Powell, Cohn, and Jared.  While Trump’s speeches in Saudi Arabia and Israel were nice, the policies being promoted by his administration undermine every aspect of his rhetoric.  It’s time conservatives finally learn that, with Trump, the actions are completely divorced from the rhetoric.  And until and unless we raise our voices, nothing will change.  If we actually focused on policy outcomes, there are a lot of things conservatives could accomplish.  At the end of the show we lay out some important initiatives the president could focus on…if he cared to change the narrative.     Show Links: How can you claim to fight Jihad while promoting the PLO? Rand Paul lays down gauntlet to block Saudi arms deal Trump admin sells out America to Saudi Arabia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The only thing worse than seeing Obama’s policies actualized is having them achieved under our banner. In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we discuss the foreign policy betrayals of the administration, promoted by the likes of H.R. McMaster and Dina Powell.  From policies towards the PLO and the Saudis, to Turkey and Iran, this administration is pursuing the very same agenda conservatives blasted under Obama.  Have we lost our intellectual honesty to such a point that we will now bless policies we hated just a few months ago?  We further delve into the danger of the Saudis and Erdogen in funding a subversion agenda on our own soil and how that is the front line in the war against jihad, not refereeing Islamic civil wars.  Thus, to sell out to the Saudis under the guise of fighting ISIS is completely backwards. The key is for conservatives not to get distracted by the smoke of optics and bluster of rhetoric, but focus on the policy outcomes behind the curtain.  Look at what is actually happening on the policies and issues from which the media will often distract us, and it will become clear we are losing the battle for control of this administration.  Too many people are focusing on Trump’s speeches he’s given overseas and not on the broader policy direction of the administration.  More than with any other administration, the policies are not reflecting the rhetoric of the president himself.  That is a problem.  What’s the point of obsessing over defending this administration from all the scandals if they are not even promoting our policies anyway?  This is why it’s so important Trump hear from conservatives and understand that we are not ok with him selling out on foreign policy.  If we don’t advocate for our priorities, who will?      Show links: Trump’s Saudi sellout Obama style: Tillerson apologizes to Mexico Trump caves for now on Obamacare subsidies Cruz warned about the embassy betrayal Erdogen’s jihad on our soil The people around Trump don’t get the Islamic threat   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week is full of scandals in the media, but it’s also full of Trump policy betrayals that are not being discussed in the media.  Worse, they are not being discussed in the conservative media because they are too busy defending Trump from some indefensible actions while he is screwing conservatives on policy.  They are defending him against the media while he has allowed Jared, Ivanka, Dina Powell, Gary Cohn, and H.R. McMaster to create the very policies outcomes, ironically, supported by that very same media.  What’s the point in incurring such political liability and an electoral wipeout if we are not even getting our policy outcomes?   In this episode of the Conservative Conscience, we break down why this strategy of focusing on the lesser of two evils – “but the Democrats are worse,” “we can’t let the Democrats win” is actually counterproductive to its own stated goals.  By pursuing this strategy, we ensure those very Democrats get elected with an even bigger mandate.  Isn’t it time we break free and stand consistently and morally on our own two feet?  Unless we do so, we will get crushed in the midterm elections, thereby losing so many governorships and state legislatures (forget about Congress!).  This will determine redistricting for a decade.    Show links: America last: Trump embraces Palestinians   Trump whines about himself at Coast Guard Graduation Trump continues Obama’s embrace of CAIR   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices