Posted on 11/13/2014 7:54:31 AM PST by Eccl 10:2
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
exactly
The GOPe can hardly wait to pass amnesty, they are giddy with excitement
You cannot make deals with your enemy, who would trust McConnell?
You can’t run for president and head up the party in the senate. Ask Bob Dole. Thus, Cruz is better where he is.
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Yep. This mitigates the media’s perception that presidential candidates from the Senate have “Senator’s disease”.
I see this as evidence that he has higher ambitions in mind.
That is, as it became clear to Cruz, et al. that McConnell was going to be re-elected as GOP senate leader, their choice was to either vote for him and at least remain in consideration for important committee assignments or to stand on conservative prinicples and vote for someone else in which case McConnell who, based on his long history uses his power far more vigorously against conservative members of the GOP than even the most socialistic of the Democrats, would push the conservatives so far to the back of the room as to reduce their influence to near irrelevancy.
I understand the point that under the RINO regime this is likely to happen anyway, but if they did not vote for McConnell it would have been a certainty. Others may argue that the unanimous vote was done as a show of united strength against the senate members of the Democrat Socialist Party, which may be an important reason to do so, but I don't think it's the primary reason.
It’s long past time for this crap to stop.
McConnell is the Senate MINORITY leader until the next session of the senate is convened in January. Allowing the residual party members who may or may not be returning to elect the following session’s leader before the newly elected members, whose numbers created the new majority, is pure third world cronyism.
It subverts the will of the people to further entrench the corrupt and amoral power structure.
Imagine a board of directors having been tossed out by shareholders elected the new director from their ranks before new directors being seated. “Sure, we were miserable incompetents but let this last act stick you with the exact same sh**s as before.”
Shareholders would be filing lawsuits left and right. People would vbe shuffling off to jail.
But no, we allow the same old leadership to bind us and our newly elected senators to the old corrupt seniority system.
Long past time for hemp line dancing.
See my tagline.
maybe Cruz didn’t cast a vote at all
Now he will be able to make good on his threat to crush the Tea Party, which in realty is Conservatives. Perhaps the Conservatives who voted for him did not believe what he said. Perhaps they thought ,it is just politics. Across the pond in Europe, during the 1920s and 1930s In a Country named Germany there was a man trying to rise to power. One of his promises was ,that when he came to power, he would exterminate a certain Race or group of people. The mentioned people did not believe him. They shrugged the threats off as merely political talk. When he was put in power, history tells us that he tried with all his might to fulfill that promise.
Cruz AND Lee voter for Mitch?
That’s it, Cruz and Lee are RINO’s. /sarc
Five others were elected to the leadership roles they held when their party was in the minority: Texas’ Sen. John Cornyn as the majority party’s Whip, South Dakota’s Sen. John Thune the Conference Chairman, Wyoming’s John Barrasso the Policy Chairman, and Missouri’s Roy Blunt the Vice Conference Chairman.
None of those offices were contested, though two did vie to be the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman; Mississippi’s Sen. Roger Wicker beat out Nevada’s Sen. Dean Heller.
Freshmen representatives and senators are currently in D.C. for orientation, so both parties are voting in their leaders ahead of the upcoming term.
If you say so. You are the expert. I just watch what they do and listen to what they say.
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I do believe you are correct about the all our warfare that will be practiced by Obama but, people with power are very jealous of their power. McConnell knows what he is doing, he will not be easily persuaded to give up power, he is a organizational nightmare if you are working against him.
Congratulations on the Hitler reference. Here is your reward. Even Jon Stewart is smarter and has more decorum than you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ReFrDc8Plk
You’re right on all counts.
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