This what you have in mind?
Posted on 11/17/2014 7:36:33 AM PST by SoConPubbie
What you said exactly!
I think we will see the GOP Leadership act in concert with the MarxoFascists and do everything it can to neuter Cruz, Lee and the ‘Wacko-Bird’ wing of their party.
Every statement the leadership has made since the election would indicate that this is indeed going to be the policy.
How many Republicans will tow the Establishment line or break ranks to resist - remains to be seen.
I’m not too hopeful, especially since McConnell and Boehner were both ‘re-elected’ (nominated) UNANIMOUSLY via voice vote in their caucuses, including Cruz and Lee lending their voice to McConnell leading the party.
God bless those wacko-birds. I’m a wacko-bird too! We might as well embrace it.
You don't know that.
That's what McConnell's staffers said, and they lie.
If it was by acclamation, you don't know who voted for him or even who was there.
It makes sense to me that Cruz will throw some things to McConnel in the hopes of helping establishment Republicans change the losing game they play.
For Liberals/Leftists, government is god. To be for small government is to be against god. Thus the absolute hatred and obsession against the blasphemers by the believers. Kill the kuffar isn't limited to Muslims.
Why not let’s see if Mitch and company are going to do what’s best for all of us. I can’t believe that we can’t all come together. Cruz or whomever in the end must be a uniter.
Even if we need a simple majority, how are we to deal with McCain, Graham, Collins, Alexander, McConnell, Cochran, Murkowski? They can reliably be counted on to “cross the aisle” so how do we even get to 51?
This what you have in mind?
You better get another dose of that Krell Brain Booster machine if you think the Conservatives are the embarrassment in our party.
That will be a "lie" even the alternative media will end up having to swallow then.
Roll Call, PJ Media, NBC and every other "news" source say the following:
Senate Republicans have unanimously elected Mitch McConnell to be majority leader.
"There was no drama heading into the vote, as no one challenged the Kentucky Republican for leadership after the party’s triumph in last week’s midterm elections.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted for McConnell, and the new majority leader got a standing ovation inside the caucus room.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire nominated McConnell, according to a GOP source inside the room, and Sen.-elect Tom Cotton of Arkansas gave a seconding speech. He won a voice vote without opposition and was treated to a standing ovation.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas was likewise selected, by voice vote without contention, as the party’s whip. He was nominated by Sen. Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania and seconded by Sen. Susan Collins of Maine."
Until and unless Cruz and Lee say they voted for McConnell (on a voice vote) I won't believe it.
The media and politicians lie. Most people know that, unless they are vested in a particular outcome.
/johnny
McConnell has used up all his chances. Everyone knows that he's a liberal with a record of supporting the liberal agenda with his cloture votes.
/johnny
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We will see come January - but a lot of media, including the alternative media are going to eat big time crow if that turned out to be nothing but a "lie".
Of course we know McConnell and the GOP leadership are congenital liars same as the Democrats.
Voice votes and elections by acclimation are BS.
/johnny
I suspect they with expertly play “Good cop, Bad cop” quite well.
Like him or not, Mitch did not continually get re-elected by being stupid at politics.
If in fact it is necessary to impeach the president, it is also necessary to begin home-state Recall action against senators who do not vote for conviction.
Not that I would expect there to be all that many Democrats who are afraid of a Recall - but there easily could be some who got reelected on Romney’s negative coattails.
The senate was never intended to be a popularly elected federal post. In the Constitution, the role of the Senate was to provide a senior deliberative body to counteract the people's House. Senators were to be elected by the legislatures of the sovereign states. Once selected, their paramount concern was to be the welfare of that state and its citizens, not to become mystical pundits on Meet The Press topics.
One benefit would of course be that since 30 states are Republican dominated, the senior deliberative body might be much more conservative than it now is. The welfare populations of the large cities already have their advocates in the House. It is patently unfair to allow these Third World enclaves of fundamentally unproductive and now un-American urbanites to dominate the Senatorial selection of otherwise conservative states.
Another benefit might be the ability of a state legislature to "fire" a Senator who is not performing his primary function of preventing harm to his state and its citizens. A vote in the state house would certainly be faster than a recall campaign!
Where is Cruz, I wonder, on the need for a Constitutional adjustment, sending the 17th the way of the 19th!?
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