Posted on 11/22/2013 7:48:56 AM PST by cotton1706
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had an eye on November 2014 on Thursday.
Senate Democrats pushed through the nuclear option that morning, curtailing the use of the filibuster and drastically curbing the power of the minority. McConnell pointed to the next Congress as a time when he hoped that he, as the new Senate majority leader, could make a Democratic minority shoulder the consequences of that action.
But on Friday, a conservative group blamed McConnell and what they said was his “weakness” as a minority leader for allowing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to go nuclear.
Senate Conservatives Fund, an outside group who is backing McConnell’s primary opponent in Kentucky, political newcomer Matt Bevin, blasted McConnell Friday saying the rule change was his fault.
“Harry Reid did this because he knows Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will let him get away with it,” SCF Executive Director Matt Hoskins wrote in an email to the group’s supporters.
“The only way to deter a nuclear attack is to make it clear that the response will be equally devastating. Unfortunately, weakness is the only message Mitch McConnell has sent the Democrats on this issue,” Hoskins wrote.
McConnell’s campaign dismissed that argument as sheer idiocy.
“That argument is so profoundly stupid that it is hard to fully ascertain whether their deficiency is in math or logic,” said McConnell campaign communications director Allison Moore. “It does however help further illuminate why SCF is so bad at what they do.”
Twice already this year, in the face of Democratic threats to invoke the nuclear option after Republicans blocked nominees, the two parties have struck deals to avert the rule change, something Senate Conservatives Fund — which has repeatedly hit McConnell for his role in deals with Democrats, like the fiscal cliff deal on New Year’s Eve —
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I’m with you on that. I can’t believe people actually fall for this anymore. If they’re not named, it probably didn’t happen. This is the only way they can throw it out there for the sheep.
People are so damn GULLIBLE!!!! FOOLS.
There is a solution...... just ignore the rule
Speak, disrupt, show contempt and disdain. Completely upset the proveedsing, bring dirty Harry to its knees
Right at the start, Laura cross-stitched a sampler saying "God Bless This Kitchen, And No Pushback, George".
The sampler is now in the Smithsonian....and Obama the Impaler is in the Oval Office.
Leni
No, no answers. Pure bashing only. No practicality whatsoever.
You don’t like the answers because they involve engaging the Dems. Is that too much work? Afraid?
McConnnell should have told Reid that if he went nuclear the GOP response would be immediate. No waiting for 2014. He could choose to make the Vitter amend a central plank of the GOP agenda. Tell Reid that the GOP caucus is unified on this issue and he should plan on hearing about “fairness” on a daily basis. The Dems might have pulled back had they realized the immediate political pain they would face.
We will never know because surrender monkey McConnell refuses to unify his caucus and engage the Dems. All he has is same old proven loser wait for the next election strategy.
It is way past time for the GOP leadership throw down the gauntlet with some populist rhetoric and force the Dems to defend what they consider their turf. Reid HATES the Vitter amend. Start with that issue and make the Dems sweet.
Need more?
OK then I will just write you off as status quo.
Oh come on......your PURISTS have LOST WAY more times than you have won!!! WHY NOT GO FOR THE DEMOCRT FIRST??????? IDIOCY....you will LOSE to a DEMOCRAT...maybe that’s what you want.
I am ALL FOR getting rid of RINOS......AFTER....AFTER we have defeated the DEMOCRAT FIRST!!!!!!! IDIOCY.
Nice to see you are such a party stalwart. I am curious, how did you support Akin? Murdock? Angle? Donate money? Time?
The real purists are the liberal GOPers who insist on liberal republicans candidates. Dems don’t do that. They pull ALL their candidates across the finish line. As we just saw in VA, liberal GOPers take their ball home when they lose. They prefer the Dem to the conservative.
So don’t label conservatives purists. We aren’t. You liberal Republicans are the real purists.
These days, I’ll believe it when I see it (aside from them still getting paid...we’ve see that all too well even recently)
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