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by Guy Page
A week ago the Democrat-led Vermont Senate reshuffled its leadership, a little. But it still has a left-leaning, guns-a-blazin’ in the Climate War look, led at the top by returning Pro Tem Phil Baruth.
Over in the House, there’s a tussle for leadership between two House Speaker candidates who both have a strong record of voting for increasing school taxes and mandating carbon emissions reductions. Tweedledee is a Democrat. Tweedledum is an independent who votes with the Democrats and pushes Democrat legislation as vice-chair of her committee.
Recent Legislatures have spent too much time and taxpayer money on climate and education, while getting little real benefit in return. Their leaders have bragged incessantly about “doing the work” when really they’re just been leading endless virtue parades.
When the opening gavels convene the 2025 session, stepping back from the Clean Heat Standard precipice of doubling fuel prices might be the easier of these tasks. The Legislature’s own school financing study commission last week delivered the bad news that the root causes of our school funding woes are deep and entangled with the state’s OTHER legislatively-induced crises of housing, health care and public safety.
20 years ago I sent my young family to a hotel and gutted the living room ceiling and walls of our old Cambridge farmhouse. My crowbar and I built a pile of debris six feet higher and 10 feet wide.
When my seven-year-old daughter Imani walked into the room and saw the ginormous pile, she parroted back to me my parental words of instruction:
“Daddy made the mess. Now Daddy has to clean it up.”
Now I say the same to Baruth and his Dem majority team of Kesha Ram Hinsdale and Becca White and whoever becomes House Speaker.
You and your expensive climate laws and your kowtowing to the education establishment and your decades of refusal to allow significant new housing outside of a few urban areas have created a mountain of economic and social debris in our living room. You ignored advice from Gov. Phil Scott and the minority party whenever you could. Now you own the problem. Clean it up. Vermonters are waiting and watching.
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Simply put we are dealing with a religion that has dogmatic beliefs. The overarching belief is that communism and socialism can bring about a paradise here on earth-with a wise “Pope”- taking from those who have, and re-distributing to those who have not.
There is also the dogma of the ”Arc of History” as espoused by people like Obama. There is almost a messianic, Darwinistic certainty that the endgame of evolution is a fully Socialistic, malevolent, tyranny.
With that in mind, it is easy to understand that “The Plan is perfect” and it is the idiotic people who failed The Plan.
This is the dogma that allows people to build Gulags, ‘reeducation camps’ and ‘final solution‘ camps for those who are not fit for the future and are just barnacles on the ship of Progress.
These are the most dangerous of people because they are totally arrogant about their dogma-certain that it is paradise-and thus they will bring their vision forth by any means necessary.
That belief alone ought to terrify anyone who doesn’t adhere to the Party line, because these people thirst for violence and retribution for anyone who dares to object.
More like a theocracy…..while there are many false religion’s, this would be a false religion aka idol. It is not a true religion, there is very little truth or love involved.
One of their goals is to deny true religion, which is the only hankfullyreason why this delineation is so important, they want us to throw baby Jesus out with all the other false religions/idols.
At that point they would have won, but thankfully some of us are aware who in coontrol and who wins. TGBTG.
This is like asking a baby to change their own diaper.
baruth’s statement yesterday is just political posturing, chucky schumer style.
baruth is looking to push legislative inaction on budget, education and climate off onto the scott administration. Nice tactic- libs, D’s and P’s will believe it and be sated for a bit.
In reality, phil scott is governor- #1 in Vermont’s Executive branch of government.
baruth, the king with no clothes is pro-tempore of the senate- along with krowinski, the “leadership” of the Legislative branch. The enormous pile of dung sitting in front of the house chamber is of baruth and krowinski’s making- along with one hundred other rabid liberal “representatives” and senators.
phil scott fired warning shots during his budget address and the state of the state address last year only to be ridiculed for it as the legislature ignored scott, the electorate and every Vermont citizen in their quest for power and dollars. There was no compromise given to the executive branch. None. krowinski and baruth doubled down on smearing scott’s advice and policy positions as they over-rode veto after veto.
A bit of reality for baruth, krowinski, sibilia, white and the other marxist infected “leadership” will be forced upon them as the next biennium begins:
The super-majority you counted on to continue the tax plunder is NO MORE.
There are NO MORE dollars to plunder from Vermont’s taxpayers. NONE.
They are doing what they are told to do, this is all part of the plan, there is no way they are going to go off course. They might slow down for a year, but that is doubtful.
It is more like a massive criminal cabal turning themselves in and giving up all the money they earned dealing drugs.
Thinking they are going to change is even more foolish than they are.
Voters bought themselves a 2 year reprieve, It remains to be seen what the voter will do in ’26- a return to the super-majority is the historic trend. However- the next 2 years are what matters. The legislature has no choice but take up the big issues this biennium-Health Care, Education and Education Funding, Climate Change™, the GWSA and Act 18- and without substantial change from last session- voters may continue the trend toward moderate and centrist representation. The can-kicking will be impossible to pull of by legislative leadership, they have painted themselves into a spending corner that cannot be ignored- Vermont’s voters and taxpayers are starting to see that. Chittenden County’s liberal politicians have so torn the economic and societal fabric that the effects stretch to over 2/3 of Vermont’s population. There just isn’t the dollars to prop up failed socialist agenda and dogma- this isn’t California. It’s probable that for a few years at least the out-migration will ease as hopeful natives wait to see if some change can be found.
For those moderates and conservatives in Vermont politics, NOW is the time to hold legislators accountable for their actions- and if effective change cannot be accomplished- get on a soap box and let the public know exactly why. Our governor needs to work on this as well, not just in his weekly press conference, but in Op-Ed pieces, interviews and in the House chamber when delivering his “State of the State” address in January. ‘Going along to get along’ is not a pragmatic policy for advocating “affordability”, scott’s recurring theme for almost a decade- and ignored.
Alas, it will take Vermonters another two years to dump the refuse remaining in Montpelier. That is, if there are enough of us left by then.