Do you remember when all politics stopped at the border? After World War II, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who was a Republican from Michigan, famously said, "Politics stop at the water's edge." In other words, when it comes to defending ourselves against foreign adversaries, in order to protect our national security, there should be political consensus, not partisan conflict. Well, needless to say, this, like all other givens and norms in yesterday's America, has been thrown to the wind in today's America, where political partisanship is paramount and takes precedence over everything, even the lives of our citizenry and the preservation of our country.

Democrats' open border policy has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Let me repeat this astonishing statement: Democrats' open border policy has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans! Whether it's Americans murdered by illegal immigrants, killed in automobile accidents caused by illegal immigrants, or poisoned by fentanyl, which flooded across our open border during the Biden Administration, more Americans have died as a result of Democrats' open border policy than were killed in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the war in Afghanistan combined. Yet, unbelievably, Americans continue to vote for Democrats and Democrats continue to fight for the lives of illegal aliens rather than the lives of innocent Americans and to oppose military action to stop the flow of poisonous fentanyl into our country.

In a sane America, there would be unanimous consensus in Congress to attack and destroy Venezuelan drug boats, smuggling enough fentanyl into our country to wipeout most of our population. However, there is nothing sane about America today. Furthermore, our crazy Congress has become completely partisan, even to the point of imperiling our people by carrying political partisanship not just beyond the water's edge, but into the waters off Venezuela. Partisan Democrats, like Tim Kaine and Chuck Schumer, will oppose their political nemesis, Donald Trump, at every turn and over every issue, even if it means propping up Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and protecting narcoterrorist drug runners rather than the American people. As though this was not bad enough, Democrats are also trying, in the face of their failure to legislatively prevent our president from protecting our populace, to undermine our military, by breaking its chain of command and calling upon service members to individually decide for themselves whether or not to obey their orders.

The "Seditious Six," as they've been dubbed, Democrat Senators Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, as well as Democrat Congressmen Chris Deluzio and Jason Crow, along with Democrat Congresswomen Chrissy Houlahan and Maggie Goodlander, have insinuated in a video that military members not only should, but must, start refusing to follow the orders of their Commander-in-Chief. The insinuation or cloaked accusation of this seditious video is clear, Trump is unlawfully ordering military strikes on Venezuelan drug boats, as well as other unlawful military actions, such as deploying the national guard to crime-ridden cities, which the rank and file of our military must start refusing to obey. Never before in the history of our country has there been such a clear call for such sedition and for the subversion of our military and its essential chain of command. This is literally an attempted military coup by congressional Democrats who are subtly trying to seize control of our military and to put our country under Martial Law to their mandated dictates. 

That all of this is happening in plain sight and being met with a mere shrug of the shoulders by the American people, speaks volumes to the dire and desperate straits we now find ourselves in. If we're so far gone in this country as to not even care when our own elected representatives are not only opening our borders to our enemies, who are killing hundreds of thousands of us, but who are also openly calling for sedition and the subversion of our military, in hopes of pulling off a military coup that will put us under Martial Law to their every mandated dictate, then, how can we deny that the America we once knew and loved is long gone! After all, if we were still living in America, where all partisan politics end at the water's edge, Tim Kaine, Chuck Schumer, and the "Seditious Six" would be in the cooler for treason, not in Congress openly calling for a coup.

KAINE TO REFILE RESOLUTION TO REQUIRE CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL FOR MILITARY ACTION IN VENEZUELA