C. Douglas Golden at Western Journal
It’s an organization that openly uses your tax money to elect Democrats and suppress MAGA-centric Republicans. And 81 Republicans just voted against defunding it.
You read that right: Not 81 Democrats, 81 Republicans. That’s the number of GOPers who joined 210 Democrats to keep the National Endowment for Democracy sucking on the government teat.
The vote, which happened Wednesday, regarded an amendment offered by Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona to pull funding for the non-governmental organization.
“Tonight, the Uniparty rejected my amendment to defund NED. 81 ‘republicans’ voted with democrats to fund this rogue organization that fuels global censorship and domestic propaganda,” Crane wrote on X.
To say that NED is a partisan organization is a bit like saying Napoleon was a leader who had issues with border incursions: true, and a massive understatement. For instance, they’re one of the leading groups trying to pull ad money from organizations they consider “disinformation.”
And what do they consider “disinformation?”
X pundit DataRepublican — a programmer who helped expose just how much rot there was in USAID — did a deep dive on it, starting with “perhaps the most credentialed expert with NED,” Rachel Kleinfeld.
In 2022, Kleinfeld authored a paper entitled “Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy.” One of them wasn’t to get Democrats elected. Not that she thought that was a bad goal for NED or other NGOs, mind you: She thought it wasn’t enough.
“A democracy cannot exist with illiberal, antidemocratic politicians in charge,” she wrote, saying that Republicans who voted against certifying the Electoral College vote in 2020 without further investigation were “an angry minority of voters” that, because of the two-party system, represent “an existential challenge to democracy itself.”
……..She also says that the left needs to “reduce social demand for the right for illiberal policies” on stuff like DEI and establishmentarianism through some vague sort of way that goes about “addressing these social forces.” (This, in the intervening years, seems to have taken the form of the left telling non-favored identity groups “you’ve never had it to so good, so shush and let us diminish you.”)
Also, she cited the need to “engage the left in defending democracy by making it deliver.” Translation: socialism with a smiley face.
…….“Kleinfeld is NED. This is what NED believes,” DataRepublican concluded. “I cannot emphasize enough what a stupid, foolish, idiotic thing it is for Republicans to support NED. They are either mentally retarded or secretly Democrats.”
…….And this wasn’t just the usual suspects voting to retain funding for NED, although they were there. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York voted no on the amendment. So did Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr, who’s running to replace Mitch McConnell once he retires in 2026. These are people who are supposed to be the leaders of the party — and instead, they’re voting to spend money on an organization that wants to defeat them and defund those who express their opinions.
Crane, for his part, promises not to give up the fight.
Read the rest at the link.
It’s another example of the deplorable collusion between RINOs and venal Dems who rig the system in favor of groups that aid and abet Dem corruption.
Click here https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202627 to see way your representative voted.
Every one of those “republicans” should be thrown out of office….literally.