If the GOP takes the Senate and McConnell wins, then McConnell will be majority leader. If the Dems win, then Reid will run the Senate.
Now, in which one of those senarios will Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions get to be committee chairmen?
Now, in which one of those senarios will Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions get to be committee chairmen?
I see the bigger picture and the longer game. Nothing of consequence is going to get accomplished in this next Senate because Obama still has veto power and will have a veto proof minority.
What matters at this point is knocking in the head everyone on "our" side who is opposed to reform, and since McConnell represents that group, we need to take out the leader, same as a prison fight.
We take out McConnell, perhaps in two years we can actually get some reforms enacted. We leave McConnell in place, he continues to undermine the Tea Party, and the effort to reform continues to weaken.
“If the GOP takes the Senate and McConnell wins, then McConnell will be majority leader. If the Dems win, then Reid will run the Senate.
Now, in which one of those senarios will Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions get to be committee chairmen?”
Neither if they refuse to show fealty to the party bosses instead of the ones who elected him. That’s what I’ve been saying. Is their loyalty to the people, or to the position and its accompanying perks (salary, fat pension, legalized insider stock trading, “inducements” from lobbyists)? For too long it’s been the latter, and that has to change. You can bet that change won’t come from those members of the pack greedily feeding at the trough. It’s going to have to come from the electorate, and it better be soon....