Posted on 02/13/2021 2:50:57 PM PST by conservative98
Members of Free Republic hereby censure Mitch McConnell over his unhinged comments and reckless hyperbole on the Senate floor after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump.
Here, here!!!!!!
Why is it only REPUBLICANS go against their Party? I never see DEMOCRATS doing anything like this.
Of course they are. It’s “brother” against “brother,” a struggle among kin. The fiercest kind, any shrink will tell you.
I respectfully add my “Aye” to the vote: Knock it off, doofus.
Give me Dominion machine and I’ll vote for that fifty times!!!!!!
Aye!
Well mine; Cassidy just voted to convict....but rest assured he is hearing from us! He’s getting destroyed on what’s left of his media accounts here in Louisiana. One way or another, no matter how long it takes we will remove him from office. The anger here is palpable.
Maybe it is just a business arrangement...with his wife and her family.
Republicans in Congress are very happy being in the minority. They keep all their perks. Their families get rich off of what would be corrupt for other people. They get invited to all the best parties and they’re not responsible for getting anything done.
Count Me In!
Seconded by my rights
I Vote YES
Yes to a traitor of America. Shame Shame on you.
Mitch McCoward
Bought and paid for.
Where do I sign?
Appeasing social justice jihadis won’t protect you, Mitch, they’ll just come for you later.
Ping
I had (past tense) supported Mitch because of his pro life stance
NO MORE.
Mitch you may go take a long walk off a short pier.
Go back to Kentucky if they will have you. In fact only reason Kentucky voted for you is because you said you were pro life and pro gun. I sure hope next election Kentucky gets a clue and says “NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA HEY HEY GOOD BYE”
Time to step down Mitch and go back to your turtle hole.
Mitch McConnell is so out of touch in his little bubble that he has no idea of the news outside of his little cocoon and what is being fed to him.
Mitch McConnell failed to cultivate a stronger GOP over the last decade because of his own feeble character. It was not so much a matter of Senators reacting to individual constituencies, it was that a feckless GOP leadership bred a weak-minded party that had no experience with nor tolerance for hard-ball politics.
Just compare the behaviors of Pelosi and Schumer in the two weeks prior to Democrats retaking the House in 2018 with McConnell, Ryan, and McCarthy in the same period to see what I mean. Democrats spent a decade honing their party discipline while McConnell, Corker, and the rest created one internal conflict after another, losing crucial seats along the way. They let Adam Schiff run roughshod over Devin Nunes in 2017 despite Nunes running the committee. They let Dianne Feinstein run all over Chuck Grassley during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings despite running that committee, too.
I believe that Senators believe they were elected to do their party's bidding, since it's the parties that funded their elections. I think they vote for McConnell for leader out of fear of losing their campaign funding if they oppose him and he still wins. Nobody wants to be the one who was left behind if he wins. Since within the GOP everybody has been raised to suspect the votes of the others, nobody wants to take the chance that their colleagues will cave at the last minute, since somebody always does.
If you look at recent history, Democrats always back the candidates their states put up, but not McConnell. Because he feared a growing Tea Party presence in the Senate, look how McConnell treated:
If Mitch McConnell had put his ego and his powerlust aside and supported the primary candidates of his party, he'd have had a much stronger Senate these past six years. Instead, he led his caucus to defeat.
To fix this, we have to focus on changing the leadership first, and not with next-in-line seat warmers. We need the next generation of leaders to step up now and push the old guard aside. We need our own AOC to scare McConnell and McCarthy into stepping aside to prevent worse from happening.
In the Senate, that might be Tom Cotton (43), Todd Young (48), Joni Ernst (50), Ted Cruz (50), or even Mike Lee (49).
In the House, it would be less important until Republicans win back control. Current informal leaders like Jim Jordan (56) and Elise Stefanik (36) are effective now.
But in any case, It's long past time for him to go.
-PJ
I assume Hillary got to him with photos of J Epstein dead in prison cell. Potassium and Cyanide can kill and leave no trace. Just ask Arkanciders
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