Rep. Keith Self 
I’ve received many inquiries about the status of the One Big, Beautiful Bill—accompanied by the question, “How is reconciliation going?” Rather than delving into the details of reconciliation, a complicated tool that allows the House and Senate to write separate instructions to craft a final budget bill—let me break it down the way real Americans would: by looking at the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Guest post by Congressman Keith Self (R-TX) As I sipped my sweet tea, disappointed by the Texas Longhorns’ turnovers to the Georgia Bulldogs, my thoughts quickly shifted when the face of my friend, Congressman Scott Perry, flashed across the large TV screen at the Champions Sports Bar in Highspire, Pennsylvania.
The clock is ticking down. We are less than two weeks away from the most consequential election of our lifetimes (a tired saying, but in this case absolutely true).
President Biden has signaled to the world that America is weak.
“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.” ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil How could a nation as advanced as Germany at the turn of the last century, embrace or even tolerate the tyranny of National Socialism? Why did German citizens, many of them sophisticated, so easily conform to and participate in the rabid antisemitic worldview of Adolf Hitler?
