Posted on 01/04/2022 12:04:30 PM PST by Red Badger
This just ANNOYS the heck out of me. Every time I see that the Democrats take power, we see the “Dense Pack” attack happen 2 minutes after all the oaths (not that they seem to mean much lately) are “promised” and the chamber is called into session.
Dense Pack can be translated as “we’ve lined up ALL our Agenda items, have written the Bills, and are going to launch them via MALS (the new technology magnetic propelled aircraft launcher on the USS Ford instead of the old steam catapults) in a hurry.
It’s happened time after time and REALLY accelerated when Obama first took office – I said it then and I say it again: it’s purpose was to keep the rest of us dizzy and discombobulated so we couldn’t figure how to respond. Too fast, too many, and too quick. And here we see that instead of having their own taxiways chock-a-block with their own Bills, the Republicans will have bupkis, at least in the US Senate:
Leader McConnell Reveals GOP Won’t Have Legislative Agenda for Midterms
It’s now officially a midterm election year, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors that the GOP doesn’t have a legislative agenda. With the election ten months away but campaigning starting much sooner than that, it will remain to be seen if this tactic pays off. Rather, as Jonathan Swan reported for Axios last month, McConnell prefers to remind the American people of the legislative failures of Democrats.
The rest of it is behind a paywall but really, this is a mind-number trio of ickiness and badness. What, you don’t already know what you want to accomplish?? What, you haven’t seen how this tactic has failed in the past? What, you haven’t learned that people want to vote FOR something instead of just against something?
I’ve been told for years that he’s a genius when it comes to mastery of the US Senate rules and politics. I admit, I’m just an ordinary schlub from central NH but even I can see that you can’t spin up GOOD Legislation in a concerted and organized fashion in just a couple of months in a whole variety of areas. Especially if you are planning to take your grassroots into account when doing it.
Sidenote: Yeah I know, fat chance of that happening in for legislation and politicians in “far from here” DC. Heck, how often do we lament the same just in Concord, right? How often have both centers of Power gone DC Swampy instead of doing (FULLY!) what we send them down there to do?
We’ve seen this theater of the clueless before as they bellow word salads into the air saying “it’ll be different this time!”. Give us the House. Then give us the Senate! Then give us the Presidency – THEN we’ll get something done.
Hey – we just watched that picture – you’re stupider than we believe you to think that we’re that stupid enough to believe you. In this case, past history DOES forecast our future history to be. And until you can not only tell us the WHAT, WHAT, and the WHAT, and then DO, DO, and DO, we’re screwed.
It took them over a decade to understand what “The Constant Campaign” really meant – and still are missing the boat (re: examples being older brother John E and now Chris T Sununu in being out “air storied” with constant TV ads by Jeanne Shaheen and nothingness from little brudder in wanting to keep his
And THAT, Ladies and Gentlemen (screw you PC SJWs – you’re not taking my words away!), is my HAPPY thought for the day.
LOL!!!!! Perfect description of a soulless party.
Critical election for the country just 10 short months away and the GOP has no agenda or plan of action to reverse the damage the Democrats have done. Truly pathetic.
The GOP will do what the lobbyists pay them to do.
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True that. The GOP works for THEM, not us.
Honestly, would anyone vote for the GOP if not for the Democrats being so horrible?
I think he’s talking about not running on the agenda to be implemented after the pubbies somehow avoid a ‘22 robbery. It really doesn’t matter, whatever the corporate DC GOP would be peddling to the conservative rubes would nothing but lies anyway.
Yes he will
It’s why, after almost 50 years’ of GOP membership, I registered Independent shortly after Jan 6 2021.
ya...I remember dat....Speaker Gingrich....impeached ole’ Billy Jeff Clinton......and didn’t he then ....Oh remind me again just exactly which one of those 2 had to RESIGN?!!Why ?I do believe it was Speaker Gingrich wasn’t it?
The Swamp tolrates nuttin’ “America First” ....
“An agenda gets set when you control committees and set the floor calendar.”
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Nothing is preventing the GOP house from stating a proposed legislative proposal agenda, that they plan on executing when they get the majority, ahead of the mid terms.
They don’t operate in a vacuum or at least they shouldn’t. The GOP house should be ready to hit the ground running with a policy agenda they hope to set and proposals they desire for floor consideration.
I’m not sure why McConnell is pissing this person off. McConnell wouldn’t be leader of the house, McCarthy would. McCarthy would have the power/final say to control which legislative actions and proposals would be floored and of course the senate would need to be involved but if McCarthy were to not allow something to be floored, that could be all there is to it and the senate would never see it.
By the way, you can blame Wood and people who listened to him all you want, but you’re kidding yourself and nobody with any real sense believes that, including you I believe. The GOP/RNC RINOs underfunded Perdue and Loeffler (because of their Trump support, and they’ll do it again with Perdue) and Georgia had massive election fraud.
Raphael Warnock D $57,117,111
Jon Ossoff D 54,886,783
David Perdue R 28,589,916
Kelly Loeffler R 26,995,653
This is why “Team Mitch” and Kevin both need to be sent to the showers. They are both inept, uniparty cronies and assistant Demoncrats.
Paul RINO needs a good talking to after refusing to send the same Obamacare repeal bill to Trump, after sending it 50 times to Obama.
Final and absolute proof it was all for show.
This is why Trump should have formed his own party. At least half his supporters would have gone with him, and that’s 40 million people. The Dem and GOP parties only have about 30Mill each.
Trumps party would have instantly been the number 1 party.
Read the story again, not just the headline. No where does the quote that they are basing the story off of say that there won’t be an agenda in 2023 if the Republicans take the Senate. That was just the Grifter’s take on it.
Red Badger already figured out what the story actually says, and why it doesn’t match with the headline. Can you?
Definitely some similarities, like 76 million viewers laughing at them.
Mitch, the beotch, along with his merry band of fine GOPe UniParty members, have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory to assist their comrades on the DNC side of the UniParty waaaayyyy too many times. He and his Bush league “assistant democrats” need to be GONE.
“ Read the story again, not just the headline. ”
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I read the story and my reply was to you, not the OP. You were wrong on a few statements you made. I was simply pointing our what the reality is regarding a legislative agenda and who is responsible for it when it should be publicized and also where I disagreed regarding GA senate candidates.
Lol. In what world does a minority party set a legislative agenda?
Your statement betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of our legislative process.
Oh, and FYI conservative PACs outspent liberal PACs $221 million to $105 million between Nov. 3, 2020 and January 5th, 2021.
So nice try blaming the RNC there. (Once again, you betray that you don’t understand how each of the two political parties actually fund and run campaigns).
Just a little more strident obnoxiousness, and you'll have me convinced to vote for the Loser Party. Actually not, but it's amusing to imagine the Habitrail wheel in your skull working so hard!
Yeah, your name checks out. LOL!
I am DONE being a battered wife by the RNC, GOPe and the rest, DONE!!
“Lol. In what world does a minority party set a legislative agenda?”
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I never said they did, read my post again. Reading comprehension is not your strong suit judging from this response and your initial response to the OP. Either that or you have your own disingenuous agenda, one or the other as I see it.
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“Your statement betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of our legislative process.”
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I notice you didn’t quote what that statement is and how it’s a misunderstanding, and that’s because, again, you’re being disingenuous.
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“Oh, and FYI conservative PACs outspent liberal PACs $221 million to $105 million between Nov. 3, 2020 and January 5th, 2021.“
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I see you included January. A bit late, eh. They were late, too many of them. And although you’re right in total funding balance, the Democrats had over 100 million each back mid-December. It doesn’t discount that the RINO RNC underfunded and sent that message loud and clear.
Thank you for again displaying the truism that the GOP hates its own voters more than any Democrat.
BUt you are in a pickle: can't really run on repealing Obamacare, building a wall and stopping illegal immigration, or appointing conservative SCOTUS picks. Even I won't fall for that crap again.
Good luck with your GOPE staff job, or the K Street gig.
I read your post. You talked about the GOP House. The thread is about the Senate. You seemed to think that the GOP has some sort of need to broadcast all of their legislative agenda for 2023 and beyond. Frankly, that's irrelevant. The claim in the article was that there would be no agenda AFTER the GOP takes the House/Senate. That's just a lie, and that was my point.
I see you included January. A bit late, eh. They were late, too many of them. And although you’re right in total funding balance, the Democrats had over 100 million each back mid-December. It doesn’t discount that the RINO RNC underfunded and sent that message loud and clear.
LOL! Given that was the period of time for the run off, that would be the time to include, wouldn't it? The facts are simple, you claimed that Perdue and Loeffler were underfunded. They weren't. The GOP consistently funds candidates with soft money through PACs as opposed to hard money through the party. That's why the left went so crazy over the Citizen's United decision. Whether you like it or not, the Democrats were outspent nearly 2 to 1 in Georgia.
I understand that it is difficult to watch a State that you loved and live in crumble with an influx of out-of-staters who have nothing in common with you. The same thing has happened in Virginia, Colorado and Arizona. However, ignoring it and pretending that it was a flash in the pan won't help you from staring at a Governor Abrams in November if you don't figure out a way to get places like Cobb County and Henry County back.
Georgia has shifted left in the same time that Florida has shifted right. That's just reality. Playing pretend with the "ITZ WAS DOMININZ" won't fix things. You need a better plan than that. Other States figured it out, Georgia folks are going to have to do the same thing.
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