Posted on 10/22/2024 4:50:50 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Even as Republican senators prepare to elect Mitch McConnell’s successor as leader, there’s a debate raging among them over how much power to give the winner.
On one side are conservatives like Utah’s Mike Lee, who wants candidates for GOP leader to endorse diffusing their own authority by requiring high numbers of Republican senators to endorse critical tactical decisions. On the other side of the divide are senators like North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, who says any Republican agreeing to Lee’s demands would lose his vote for leader.
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Still, plenty of Republican senators see the leader’s job as requiring unpopular decisions, and they note that some of the changes Lee’s group is pushing would dramatically shift how the GOP operates as the party is — according to most polls -— favored to take back Senate control next month.
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The problem has been McConnell using that power to thwart anything that may benefit the country, imho.
How abt we get someone who is NOT bought off by China.
Or any foreign country. McConnell is a traitor.
Ted Cruz
Or we could find a Senate leader who cares for the constitution. Trouble is finding one in the Senate.
Rick Scott would work... we need someone friendly with Trump not a POS like Mitch who’s in Romney’s pocket stabbing Trump in the back at every opportunity
Mitch the $bitch wouldn’t let Trump fill his administration with any of Trump’s picks... good on judges but he screwed Trump at every opportunity.
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I’d like: Kennedy (La.). Hawley (Mo.) Cotton (Ak.) Cruz (Tx.) Scott (Fl.) or Lee (Ut.) but I don’t think requiring a majority of R senators to agree on tactics and major decisions would be workable. The Republicans need a leader who supports the Constitution and has the fortitude to stand up to the Schumer’s and Durbin’s of the opposition party.
I’m in favor of replacing most federal programs with block grants to the states, with half the money being allocated on a per capita basis (to help lower personal income states like Mississippi) and half by personal federal income tax paid (to help high employee cost states like New York).
The federal government would continue to run 65+ Medicare and Social Security since older people often move out of state to places like Florida.
If Republicans pick up a few seats, they need to pick one like Tillis and make an example of him or her. “You can call yourself a Republican if your state party lets you, but go caucus with the other Dems or sit in the corner. Bye.” With him running his mouth like that, he obviously doesn’t think that can happen.
I agree. Rick Scott is the pick.
Having the chair left empty would be an improvement over China mitch.
IMHO, Senator Kennedy would make an outstanding Senate Majority Leader!
Coach Tuberville is my pick. He’s got the resume for this particular job.
I don’t think he could get the votes from his colleagues.
You may be right, but he would be tremendous majority leader
Kennedy-comic relief. It will get serious and he’s no shrinking violet.
Cotton-looks dorky.
Scott too old/bald=ugly.
Cruz-my favorite but is the country ready?
Hawley-good looking. Hair gel to counter Newscumb.
Lee-I don’t think so. It’s Utah-don’t like them.
John Thune is a McConnell lackey.
and on yet another side are those of us in the electorate who are determined to hunt down and purge RINOs in the Senate like Thom Tillis.
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