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05115 Re: Somebody Call 911! Larry the Cable Guy Obliterates Elissa Slotkin's Anti-DOGE Desperation
   >>> Trump : "The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept say... 		Zimbler0   GRITZ   06 Mar 2025
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05109 Re: Somebody Call 911! Larry the Cable Guy Obliterates Elissa Slotkin's Anti-DOGE Desperation
   ...she seemed to be saying that Trump was doing stuff too fast and tha... 		ribit   GRITZ   06 Mar 2025
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Re: Somebody Call 911! Larry the Cable Guy Obliterates Elissa Slotkin's Anti-DOGE Desperation

By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Thu, 06 Mar 25 4:26 AM
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clo's response:

Re: “Senator Slotkin's response was terrific! She was pitch perfect.”
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Wow. Who'd have guessed that clo would rave (and maybe rant a little, too) about Michigan's new female senator? But here's another take on it, by someone who actually lives there and is represented by Slotkin (D). His opinion might matter more.

March 5, 2025

OPINION: Michigan Proved Tuesday With Sen. Slotkin's Response to Pres. Trump We Goofed in Electing Her

by Duke
PJmedia.com


Some days, you sit back and scratch your head. Things can get so confusing, and it may seem as though the world around you doesn't make sense, and maybe it never did.

That is what I think of when I see my brand-new Senator Elissa Slotkin, who replaced the old senator, Debbie Stabenow; she was a decrepit, do-nothing senator for almost 30 years.

Why does Michigan suck at electing senators?

That is probably a topic for another time.

So while I could not stay up for the entire joint session of the Congress speech by the 47th president of the United States (because I'm old), I did catch my junior senator from Michigan's response this morning, which bordered on awful to nonsensical.

Or something in between, you decide.

Of course, I decided to see how the local folks thought Slotkin did, which is right HERE:

Freshman Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin delivered the official Democratic response to President Donald Trump's address to Congress late Tuesday, echoing themes of patriotism, economic security and democracy from her winning U.S. Senate campaign last year.She spoke from the Downriver community of Wyandotte in Wayne County - a city that Slotkin and Trump both won in the November election (Trump by nearly 4 percentage points and Slotkin by nearly 2).

Slotkin said Americans in November voted for change - tired of high prices and an unresponsive government. But the Holly Democrat warned there's a "responsible way to make change and a reckless way."

Trump’s tariff policy could spark a trade war that would raise prices on energy, lumber and cars and hurt manufacturing and farmers, she said. Slotkin cautioned that securing the border without fixing the immigration system is "dealing with the symptom, not the disease."
Slotkin deserves a lot of credit because she was the sacrificial lamb and was given Democrat talking points without knowing exactly what Trump was going to say. She looked into the camera, blinked dutifully, read the lines that she was given to speak, and clunked herself over the head like the pro she is.

She said this:

Slotkin cautioned that securing the border without fixing the immigration system is "dealing with the symptom, not the disease."
After Trump said this in the speech, which she followed and, I assume, watched...

The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. Joe Biden didn’t just open our borders. He flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals and communities throughout the country.
Gutsy move. I bet the CIA does not miss her analytic skills.

What the senator did not realize is that people flowing into the United States of America in massive numbers and being undocumented not only could bring physical disease but cultural pressure. I think anybody who appreciates this country fully understands why people from third-world countries would want to be here. Yet, there is a process to be followed and laws already on the books that just needed to be enforced, backing up President Trump's point.

Also, my colleague Jennifer Oliver O'Connell had an amazing piece on the Junior Senator right here that I suggest you take a look at.

Elissa Slotkin Gives Rebuttal to Trump's Joint Address Cementing Her Role As a Political Placeholder

Here is just a sample...

Slotkin was so busy preparing for her rebuttal and arranging to have it broadcast from the "heartland" of Wyandotte, Michigan, that she couldn't get to D.C. to do her job and vote on this piece of legislation to protect women and girls. This is on brand for Slotkin and the Democrat Party she serves.

The entire rebuttal was a disjointed mishmash of Democrat talking points and inventions. In other words, the usual crazy-supposedly-wrapped-in-reasonable package.
I love that Wyandotte got a shout-out from O'Connell.

That Slotkin felt it more important to give the speech from Wyandotte than be in D.C., and act childish like her colleagues did, and missed a vote on making sure that biological men do not compete in women's sports shows exactly what her priorities are. The fact that Trump carried the district by a larger margin than she did kind of leads me to believe that her constituents would have rather had her in D.C. voting to support that measure.

Now, here is the warning.

Lots of people in the state of Michigan think that because Donald Trump barely won the state last November, we are now a red state. This is my monthly reminder that Michigan is still a blue state.

Why?

Because Elissa Slotkin is your senator, and she also won last November.

The state has a chance to redeem itself in the midterms, being that Gary Peters has decided to step down; so hopefully, some solid candidates will announce soon and start running to win the GOP nomination for the 2026 contest.

One can hope because, in Michigan, sometimes, that is all we have.

http://redstate.com/tladuke/2025/03/05/michigan-proved-last-night-with-senator-slotkins-response-to-president-trump-we-goofed-in-electing-her-n2186329