Posted on 04/24/2015 7:32:36 AM PDT by cotton1706
Yesterdays Senate vote on the confirmation of Loretta Lynch, President Obamas nominee to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder, was a classic example of why talk among conservatives of forming a third party alternative to the establishment Republican Party will not die.
Not only did the usual jelly-backed Senate Republicans vote to confirm Lynch, they were led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose job is, ostensibly, to be the leader of the conservative opposition to Obama and his lawless progressive agenda.
In moving the Lynch nomination McConnell broke a pre-election promise that no attorney general nominee would be considered in his Senate if that nominee supported Obamas executive amnesty, something that Lynch testified she supports.
So McConnells vote for Lynch was a sort of go to hell moment that conservatives should recognize for what it is: Mitch McConnell saying directly to the conservative Republican grassroots and the conservative movement that opposed Lynch that, despite the fact that conservative voters handed back the Senate majority to the Republican Party in 2014 to make him Senate Majority Leader, he not only doesnt care what they think, he will go out of his way to disrespect them and confound their policy goals.
Lynch, who testified under oath that she would readily carry out policies contrary to the Constitution could have indeed should have been stopped by Republicans in the Senate, but she wasnt.
In fact ten Republicans voted for Lynch, despite a substantial outpouring of conservative opposition from the grassroots of the Republican Party, the conservative blogospere and conservative commentators and opinion writers all of whom argued that Loretta Lynch would be as bad or worse than Eric Holder
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Impeached by whom? The Senate that just confirmed her? Am I living in La-La Land all of a sudden?
Lynch, like (with)Holder and obama, is immune to impeachment due to skin color. It’s really that simple.
By ignorant, low info GOP voters who vote GOP because they are "better" than the Democrats, or something... Unfortunately, many of those have infiltrated every day life, even right here on FR.
TO assume coercion gives them credit for doing things involuntarily.
These asshats support the policies or the bills would never reach the floor for a vote.
There is no coercion. It is a knowing, voluntary waiver of Constitutional rights so that their corruption continues to be hidden from scrutiny.
Washington DC is a cesspool, and the Republicans are covered as much as the Democrats in the stink.
The press will not shine a light on it.
The new Attorney General will not investigate it.
The few “Conservatives” will make speeches, which will result in nothing.
The people want this, and the people are reaping what they have sown.
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Nah, it won’t fix stupid but it will make me feel better. lol
“Not only did the usual jelly-backed Senate Republicans vote to confirm Lynch”
I don’t know about that “jelly-backed” description. McConnell seems to be a rigid, stand-up, in-your-face liberal democrat who never backs down. If he were conservative Republican, he would cave all the time.
McConnell is helping the Dems and the first time he needs help from them he’ll get the Arlen Specter treatment
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Maybe if OUR side investigates and publishes whatever it is they have on McConnell and the rest it will either get them thrown out of office or at least take the blackmail factor out of the equation.
I can't count how many times I have read that conservatives should work from within and take over the Republican Party and no matter how many Tea Party Types and/or Conservatives we elect on the promise of change and drawing a line in the sand it never happens.
I now just hang up when the party calls for money. I now wonder if we should not move to a Parliamentary System of government.
Nothing.
This is who they are.
This is how
This seems to happen a lot. Like McCain in AZ.
I still “reside” in CA. Though my heart’s in Dixie, and my wife’s beginning to see its inevitability. She was born and bred out here...but so was our daughter, who’s out there now.
Both retired. I want to get a little place in the woods out there, and just daydream the rest of my life away.
My teachers always said that was how I’d end up. ‘Hope they were right.
Yeah, I know, but someone needs to speak words of reason every once in a while.
I disagree. The turn-coat Republicans should go first. The Marxists can watch, knowing they're next.
“As attorney general, Eric Holder too often put political and ideological commitments ahead of the rule of law. Thats not something the American people expect in the nations highest law-enforcement official, and its something Mr. Holders replacement should commit to avoiding at all costs as a condition of his or her confirmation whether it relates to the Presidents acting unilaterally on immigration or anything else.”
Mitch McConnell
The GOP has lost it. The conservative base helped give them the majority because of statements like this and once in office they have told us to “F” off.
Unimpeachable like Obama because she’s black, and a woman to boot.
Yeah : )
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