Welcome to what is the 1173rd original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’re profiling the former U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 8th Congressional District, Kevin Brady, who prior to being elected to that office in 1996, served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives. The highlight he’s likely most proud of was sponsoring and shepherding the passage of the Trump Tax breaks for the rich in 2017, because of course he placed further tax burden upon the poor and working class to get more tax break’s for the top 0.5% of the country.He also once introduced legislation that he authored that would require any government program not listed in the Constitution to justify its existence or to face elimination within twelve years, which is what we would describe as “WTF levels” of smaller government insanity that is closer to anarchy, it’s so small. His political legacy after a quarter century of being a conservative miser is punctuated by his last three terms in office where he rolled in the worst political filth that Donald Trump’s lackeys were expected to. Throughout the Trump administration, Brady repeatedly fell all over himself to provide cover for the tax crimes of Donald Trump, and when the New York Times published even a partial report of Trump’s taxes in 2020, Brady was ready to burn up the First Amendment and the Freedom of the Press to investigate the NYT for wrongdoing.He also signed onto the amicus brief to the Supreme Court to call for it to turn over the results of the 2020 election, and didn’t just vote against impeaching Trump, he made the veiled threat that doing that or invoking the 25th Amendment in his final days in office would just result in more violence. This useless sack of skin was still trying to cover up Donald Trump’s crimes in his final days in office, whining about how if Donald Trump’s taxes were released by the Ways and Means committee, than, “OH NO, WE MIGHT SEE THE SUPREME COURT’S TAX RETURNS, TOO!”Don’t threaten us with a good time, Kev. We’d love to learn who’s paying Clarence Thomas by way of Ginni, or how Brett Kavanagh got out of debt so fast. If Brady wasn’t representing one of the safest Republican seats in Texas during the Bush administration, he probably never would have been re-elected after his DUI in 2005. Just… here’s the full list of Brady’s legislative idiocy, for anyone who wants it all laid out:
- October 10th, 2002: Kevin Brady votes for the Authorization for Military Force in Iraq Resolution of 2002.
- July 18th, 2006: Brady votes for a resolution towards creating a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
- December 6th, 2006: Rep. Brady co-sponsors and votes for the "Abortion Pain Bill", which would create a ban on abortion at 20 weeks.
- July 31st, 2007: Kevin Brady votes against the Equal Pay Bill.
- November 7th, 2007: Kevin Brady votes against ENDA, allowing the continued discrimination of LGBTQ citizens based on their sexual identity in the workplace.
- July 24th, 2008: Rep. Brady votes against funding for the prevention of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.
- January 9th, 2009: Brady votes against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
- April 29th, 2009: Kevin Brady votes against the Hate Crimes Expansion that would provide protections to LGBTQ citizens.
- July 31st, 2009: Brady votes against the widely successful "Cash for Clunkers" program that helped save the American auto industry.
- June 30th, 2010: After Wall Street bankers taking unnecessary risks nearly imploded the global economy in 2007, legislation finally comes forward to prevent the same behaviors from being permitted in the future. The signature piece of legislation to prevent another financial meltdown was Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, which Kevin Brady voted against.
- July 30th, 2010: Months after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a bill comes to the floor to better regulate off-shore drilling. Brady is apparently alright with ecological disasters continuing in the future, as he votes against it.
- December 8th, 2010: Rep. Brady votes against the DREAM Act.
- December 15th, 2010: Brady votes against the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".
- On January 5th, 2011, Rep. Brady votes the first attempt by Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He voted for virtually every attempt to do so since.
- On February 18th, 2011, Kevin Brady votes to defund Planned Parenthood.
- March 17th, 2011: Rep. Brady votes to cut funding to National Public Radio.
- September 15th, 2012: Rep. Brady votes for the "No More Solyndras Act".
- September 21st, 2012: Brady votes for the "Stop the War on Coal Act".
- January 15th, 2013: Kevin Brady votes against Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
- February 28th, 2013: Brady votes against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
- June 19th, 2013: Kevin Brady votes against restoring $20.5 billion towards the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
- September 30th, 2013: Rep. Brady votes for the 2013 Government Shutdown. When the vote came up seventeen days later to re-open the government, Brady voted to keep it closed.
- Feb 26th, 2014: Kevin Brady goes "all in" on the faux-scandal surrounding the IRS researching SuperPACs by voting for the "Stop the Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act".
- July 10th, 2014: Brady votes for House Amendment 1040, to prevent the implementation of the dreaded United Nations Agenda 21 Treaty, that in spite of just being recommended climate change guidelines, have many conspiracy theorists within the extreme right convinced it’s a plot for global domination.
- January 22nd, 2015: Kevin Brady votes for HR 7, an anti-abortion bill that makes even some Republicans pause before voting for it because of its language that tries to define the conditions for what “rape” is, in it.
- February 3rd, 2015: Rep. Brady votes for the 60th Republican attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act.This in spite of the fact that by this point the law is not already working, but better than experts predicted.
- March 3rd, 2015: Brady votes against funding the Department of Homeland Security as part of a Republican protest of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration.
- September 11th, 2015: Brady votes against the United States' nuclear treaty with Iran.
- November 19th, 2015: Brady votes for the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act, reacting to the terror attacks in Paris by jihadists from France and Belgium by trying to create greater restrictions to keep out Syrian refugees, of whom exactly zero were involved in those attacks.
- February 2nd, 2016: Kevin Brady votes for HR 3762, the 61st attempt by Congressional Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (which is still working better than was predicted).
- February 16th, 2017: Brady votes for HJR 69, to make it legal for hunters on wildlife reserves to kill several species of hibernating bears or wolves while they’re sleeping. Because… well, the logic really isn’t there as to why, it’s just awful.
- March 16th, 2017: Kevin Brady votes for HR 1181, which would allow veterans deemed mentally incompetent to continue to own firearms, and not have them taken away without a judge's written order.
- May 4th, 2017: Brady votes for the GOP's healthcare plan, that would allow 24,000 more people to die a year, give $50,000 in tax breaks to millionaires, would eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions, and would treat pregnancy, post-partum depression, and sexual assault as "pre-existing conditions". Oh, and a provision in the bill would make sure that Brady would be allowed to keep his healthcare plan as it exists under the ACA, which would be repealed for the rest of the country. He and his Republican compatriots threw themselves a beer bash to celebrate taking away healthcare from millions and then gloated about it with Donald Trump at a White House press conference, as well.
- June 8th, 2017: Kevin Brady votes for HR 10, the GOP’s attempt to repeal Dodd-Frank financial reform, because what the country really needs is to allow the big banks to make the same mistakes that imploded the economy only a decade earlier.
- October 3rd, 2017: Brady votes for HR 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, that would try to create an unconstitutional ban abortion at 20 weeks (even though medical science tells us fetuses do not have the capability to feel pain until 29 weeks).
- December 19th, 2017: Kevin Brady votes for HR 1, the GOP’s $1.7 trillion tax cut to benefit the wealthiest Americans and corporations permanently that coincidentally also removes the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and kicks 13 million people off their health insurance.
- January 23rd, 2019: Rep. Brady voted against HR 648, because he was gleefully enjoying the longest government shutdown in history.
- January 27th, 2019: Kevin Brady votes against HJR 30, which was meant to express disapproval of Donald Trump not acting against Russian Federation for attack Brady our democracy. You see, he’s fine with our nation being sublet to Vladimir Putin.
- February 28th, 2019: Brady votes against HR 1112, a bill which would have required universal background checks on all firearm purchases, and close the gun show loophole.
- March 14th, 2019: Rep. Brady votes against HJR 46, which sane members of Congress voted for to reject Donald Trump’s “national emergency” regarding the U.S. border and his attempts to reallocate funds for a border wall without Congressional approval.
- April 4th, 2019: Kevin Brady is one of 158 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 17th, 2019: Brady votes against The Equality Act, which would have prevented discrimination towards Americans based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
- June 4th, 2019: Rep. Brady votes against the Dreamers Act, preventing any and all immigration reform.
- July 16th, 2019: Kevin Brady votes against a resolution to condemn Donald Trump for his racist statements that four people of color in Congress should “go back where they came from”.
- December 18th, 2019: Rep. Brady ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- May 15th, 2020: Brady votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic
- .December 10th, 2020: Brady signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that she won re-election in.
- January 6th, 2021: Kevin Brady votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Brady votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Kevin Brady votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- February 25th, 2021: Brady votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Brady votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Kevin Brady votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Brady votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because she feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Brady is one of 172 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 19th, 2021: Rep. Brady votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- November 5th, 2021: Kevin Brady votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- March 31st, 2022: Brady doesn't even bother to show up to vote on HR 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would limit the cost that drug companies could list insulin at to $35 and make sure no diabetic was priced out of surviving their condition. Kevin Brady would rather they be gouged by pharmaceutical giants and/or die.
- May 18th, 2022: Kevin Brady is one of 192 Republicans who votes against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro- life).
- May 18th, 2022: Rep. Brady votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, because these days, a plank of the Republican Party is ostensibly domestic terror.’
- May 19th, 2022: Brady votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
- July 15th, 2022: Kevin Brady votes against House Amendment 262, which would require the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Defense to publish a report on the infiltration of American law enforcement by Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, offer measures to be taken to remove them from their ranks, and prevent further infiltration by others.
- July 19th, 2022: Rep. Brady is one of 157 Republicans who vote against the “Respect for Marriage Act”, which would codify same sex marriage into law nationally.
- July 21st, 2022: Brady is one of 195 Republicans who vote against the Right to Contraception Act, which codified the right of Americans to have access to birth control.
- December 6th, 2022: Brady, embracing the GOP’s white nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiment votes against HR 7946, which was meant to honor the promise to grant citizenship to immigrants who served in the United States Armed Forces.
Kevin Brady opted to retire in 2022 rather than run for re-election. We would like to wish him our fondest “GOOD RIDDANCE” salutes at this time, and advise no one to forget that he did everything in his power to shield Donald Trump from facing punishment for his blatant tax crimes for six full years, as the news will almost certainly show how he defrauded the American people and our government in the coming weeks.
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