Posted on 07/20/2020 10:02:31 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Is the Republican Senate Alive?
Republicans in the Senate have precious little time to show the American people that they’re actually still alive; still a party that pays attention; that they look up occasionally and remember who sent them to Washington, and who pays their salaries.
At a time when conservative and Republican voters across the country are looking to their institutions to lead, Republicans in the Senate could step up and actually decide to run the place.
All of them—every single Republican senator from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on down—has the power to force votes to defend the police, diminish China’s influence, take a stand for people of faith, enforce consequences against Planned Parenthood’s likely criminality, or push back against the corporate takeover of speech, privacy, market access, and independent thought.
Yes, it will be hard. Senate Democrats will probably say mean things. They will, as Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) did when Mike Lee (R-Utah) stood up to condemn mob violence, use the procedures of the Senate to try to cancel Republican speech.
Great. Perfect. What voters desperately want to see—what they need to see—is Republicans unbowed in the face of woke assaults and progressive tantrums. Many times in politics the outcome isn’t the thing—the very act of trying, of digging in your heels and drawing a line in the sand, is enough. As Ben Domenech put it recently, “The thirst among Republican voters isn’t even for policy. It’s for seeing the politicians they elected join the fray.”
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You expect the Republicans to govern as they campaign???
It breaks my heart to confirm what you have stated.
Bingo! This tells everyone all they need to know.
This.
We are where we are because the GOP is what it is.
They are not asleep, they are retired. They quit and stayed instead of quitting and leaving.
Majority of Repubs and Dems Reps/Senators work for robber barons (Corporations).
Well, the GOP senate here in Michigan, when our crazy governor is trampling over the state constitution, they went on vacation.
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