Next time, I will vote against him, rather have a dem than a turn coat.
Careful now, to the Bush-League Freepers, not blindly voting for a Republican is blasphemy!
Posted on 03/15/2019 4:37:50 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
The Kabuki Theater in our nation’s capital never ceases. – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell – who will be the Senate Minority Leader after the 2020 elections if he keeps pulling nonsense like this – staged a show vote in the U.S. Senate yesterday that will lead to President Donald Trump’s first exercise of his veto power.
The show vote on a resolution to reverse the President’s national emergency declaration on the border situation – which congress is completely responsible for causing and allowing to mushroom – that was earlier passed by the House of Representatives. That declaration is clearly within both the President’s constitutional authority and consistent with the powers that congress had explicitly granted to every U.S. president in a law it passed in 1976.
Given that reality, the proper thing for a congress truly concerned with protecting its own powers would have acted to reverse that 1976 law. But no, this is Kabuki theater we are playing at here, and members of congress really don’t want to have to be responsible for anything other than raising money for their next re-election campaign. Thus, House Democrats and a handful of Republicans came up with this resolution targeting a single declaration by a President they hate, a power that was exercised 17 times by America’s Worst Mistake, Barack Hussein Obama.
Given that this resolution contained a poison pill provision that gave the Senate just 18 days in which to hold a vote following the Feb. 26 house passage of it, McConnell could simply have allowed it to die on the vine without bringing it to the Senate floor as he has done with literally hundreds of previous bad bills that have come over from the House during his time in the leader’s post. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal, and other major advocates of open borders demanded a show vote, and McConnell gave in to pressure from senate Republicans who are beholden to those elements of the D.C. establishment universe.
In the end, a dozen Republicans joined all 47 Senate Republicans in voting to pass the resolution. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Utah Senator Mike Lee voted with the majority due to their libertarian “principles”, principles that always seem to give one or both of them reason to defect to the Democrats on matters of real national import. Funny how that works.
But the other 10 Rs who voted that way did so simply to please their open borders benefactors, and thus deserve to be mentioned by name and remembered by every thinking American who wishes to avoid turning our own country into just another 3rd-world hovel. Those senators are:
Susan Collins of Maine
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who has more conflicts than an episode of “Empire”
Mitt Romney of Utah because of course Mitt Romney is on this list
Marco Rubio of Florida because he still thinks he might be president some day
Rob Portman of Ohio
Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania
Jerry Moran of Kansas
Roy Blount of Missouri
Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
Roger Wicker of Mississippi
There they are in all their D.C. establishment glory, folks. Remember their names, and vote against them if you ever get the chance.
For his part, President Trump responded to the congressional taunt in typically hilarious and blunt fashion:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump VETO!
140K 2:16 PM - Mar 14, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 82.7K people are talking about this It’s a power he needs to use far more often. No better time to start than with this bit of Kabuki theater brought to his desk intentionally by Mitch McConnell and the open borders crowd in the GOP caucus.
Where GOP voters are concerned, a great line from the old “Pogo” comic strip comes to mind here: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
That is all.
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Is there an editor in the house??
Lamar Alexander: I will never have to hold my nose and vote for him again; I will not have the opportunity to vote against him in a primary. Thank God he’s FINALLY retiring. Tennessee can do much better.
Those twelve Republicans are the enemy and need to be replaced ASAP.
KANSAS RINO Jerry Moran, Front and center!
Rubio, voted for him last time even though I knew he would turn.
Next time, I will vote against him, rather have a dem than a turn coat.
Yes, David Blackmon checked it over after David Blackmon wrote it.
Time for a third party...the workers party...
we are slaves..living in a country with a justice system for the elite and one for the working people...
Trump will be like Reagan unless he finds someone to carry on the revolution
George Bush ...Reagan’s biggest mistake
Ditto
Very simple solution! The voters need to let each one of them know their dissatisfaction and they will have a primary fight like no other when they come up! AND THEY NEED TO BE SCRUTINIZE ON EACH VOTE FOR THEM TO REMEMBER!
I’m saddled with both McConnell and Paul here in Kentucky. My congressman, Thomas Massie, has a 98% conservative rating and had done a great job. I figured Massie would be a potential replacement for one of these guys. Shockingly Massie voted with Pelosi and AOC to stab all Americans in the back on this resolution. He did so “on principle “!
What the F can we do, where do we turn with so many enemies amongst us?
Yeah, sorry about that. I’m operating on about 3 hours sleep a night this week due to a family illness.
It’s not about the vote it’s about the heat. I live in Pennsytucky my Senator Patrick Toomey is a disgrace . Trump is new to this border issue these guys have been around for ever. They created the problem. None of these senators has a solution to this issue. Pennsytuckians Toomey’s number
202-224-4254 also Radio station 1210 Dom Giordano email is domshow@aol.com and Rich Zeoli email is rich.zeoli@cbsradio.com we have to start telling them how we feel.
Next time, I will vote against him, rather have a dem than a turn coat.
Yes, it’s time to primary the Open Borders 12.
Oh yes the real enemy is exposed - Mich the little b*tch, the 12 who voted against him, and those like Tom Tillis who at the last min voted “with him” but lead the cries to vote against him, were against him, are against and are only playing games to be reelected and fooling the voters the way mcconnell always plays the senate especially against TRUMP after all TRUMP did for them in 2016 just because TRUMP is not ONE of them - a lousy *sshole!
Well I for one see through the crap and as a result will never vote for a republic senator again and will be changing from repub to Indep just because of this low life stun mr mcconnell you turncoat Chinese pimp!!!
the two party system is dead, actually the constitutional republic is dead, this country is dead as it now stands and a radical happening needs to take place to CHANGE things QUICKLY!!!!
Sign me up..!
He’s already broke his oath 2 terms and out, don’t count on him not doing it again and going for #4. He was the lesser of 2 evils to begin with. HALSAM want’s his seat. NO, H. NO! BIG RINO. Only good thing he did was execute those 3, 30+ year Killers in the 8 yrs he was governor.
This vote was not about the constitution or a national emergency. This vote was purely a vote to stop Trump from doing the right thing as the RATS and RINO scumbag forces of the establishment joined forces in a failed attempt to deter him in the eyes of the American people. Again the bastards failed miserably.
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