re: Massie loyalists will try to argue against this but, it's the truth.

You realize there is a search function right?

In the last 30 days the word entertained was used 12 times, 4 times in this thread which is 33% just by roadgator and Jax. The odds of that after one user mentions another, logs off, then said friend shows up an hour later. Hmm

Perhaps you and your friends just aren’t as smart as you think you are and others can look through posts and search things.

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Member since Jan 2024

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you're accusing accounts make 15+ years before yours of being alters

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That users last post according to his account was 6/17/2025

I was here for 18 months of him posting and you act like people don’t know who he is. Posters mention that user all the time. Again, it’s not hard to search things on this site. I just did all that since your last reply.

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Like I said you guys have put the information out there yourselves in complete ignorance.

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Only gossips and women care about that shite.

I cant believe a grown man would get so butthurt on the internet that he tries to dox people....

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granddaughter being a debate champ,

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I cant remember the last time I mentioned that, looks like we got us an alter.

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Weird how the last 4 times the word “entertained” was posted, was today, twice by you and twice by roadgator. All in this same thread….

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Well, damn. You got us Columbo. Go get yourself a cookie. And give yourself a pat on the back while you’re at it.

Wait! Is it us you got? Or is it

















ME???

It's impossible for somebody like Massie to push small government policies when the establishment Republicans don't actually want it and won't support it.

Kind of odd to blame him for that, when it's clearly the fault of his peers.

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It's impossible for somebody like Massie to push small government policies when the establishment Republicans don't actually want it and won't support it.

Kind of odd to blame him for that, when it's clearly the fault of his peers.

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This board would like 99% of the policies Massie writes. However, they get stuck on 0 accomplishments. Now who's fault is it that his 50 State Constitutional carry bill never got passed? Massie? Or the feckless Republicans?

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Did you get this idea and horrid or deceptive, lying math skills from DU or the chans?

That is an extremely honorable resume, you stupid dweeb. Go wipe your driveling snot nose on reddit.

From 1984 to 2014 is exactly 30 years.

Let's say he did terminal leave in his twilight years which is common. It is still highly commendable.

How sick in the head do you, Roge, Displaced Buckeye retread gator, have to be: To act like children protecting Massie to the depths of such trifling nonsense?

You dont GAF about Massie one way or another... you are sick with TDS,.

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Hey explain this crazy cat lady and how this is 30 years.

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This board would like 99% of the policies Massie writes.

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First, I am not aware of a single policy Massie has written.
Has he ever written policy?

But taking your post as I believe it was probably intended, and addressing Massie's viewpoints rather than written policy, it would not surprise me if I did not agree with his views 100%. The problem is when one element of his views conflicts with major legislation, he does everything in his power to attempt to obstruct that legislation.

For example, Northern and West Coast Republicans demanded that the OBBB be passed as an omnibus so they could add legislative perks to offset SALT issues for their constituents. The problem Johnson had was, if the Trump tax policies were not extended, we would revert back to Obama tax policy. That would be a huge win for Democrats and undercut the administration. But for republicans from high tax states, elimination of SALT deductions in the 2017 legislation was wildly unpopular, and in many cases, a reversion to Obama tax policy would be viewed as the lesser of two evils. So to attain OBBB passage, Mike Johnson went with his only option, the Omnibus option.

Now, frankly, I don't like Omnibus legislation anymore than Thomas Massie likes it. But under circumstances in which omnibus was the only mechanism to get this legislation passed, you have to take one for the team. Period!

Massie refused, and given the tight majority at play, his stubbornness threatened a catastrophic result. In the past, when there was a wider majority, or the GOP was in the minority, those Massie antics were nothing but inconsequential background noise. Given current house margins though, his vote now mattered.

As opposed to his moderate District GOP colleagues, whose reelection was dependent on items in the Omnibus, Massie faced no such elective consequence, regardless of his vote. Massie's position was/is that if his personal obstinance resulted in legislative failure, and the loss of 20 or 30 house seats, with the rise to power of Hakeem Jeffries and Democrat Socialists, that was just fine by Thomas Massie.

Well, it may be fine by Thomas Massie, but it ain't fine by me!

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Now, frankly, I don't like Omnibus legislation anymore than Thomas Massie likes it. But under circumstances in which omnibus was the only mechanism to get this legislation passed, you have to take one for the team. Period!

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Wasn't Massie standing on codifying the DOGE cuts as his reasoning? I remember this board discussing it and the sentiment from those that were complaining about Massie was that we didn't have time to codify those cuts and we needed to get it passed now. Massie argued that we now had the majority and now is the time while DOGE was fresh and in the mainstream talking points, now is the time to act. Once again, the majority was that we can codify them later, basically, it will never get done.

Mind you, IIRC, the timeline was hastened by Biden admin/ previous Congressional session setting up a short weindow for Trump.