Mitch McConnell Must Never Be Elected Again

http://www.redstate.com ^ | 8/3/2015 | Bill S (Diary)

[conservativejoy]

The ringleader of GOP Failure Theater is accessory to mass infanticide and must be purged from office

Let me prefix my next few sentences by pointing out: I am not the executive editor of Redstate and I cannot unilaterally set or change policy for this site. So what I write here is simply my own personal opinion and not necessarily that of this station or its leadership.

After today’s latest episode of McConnell-sponsored GOP Failure Theater, there is only one conclusion to draw: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 58% must never be re-elected to office. I do not care if it’s a primary, where we most certainly must not support him, or the general election. I will donate to his opponent, no matter whether the primary or the general. I would rather see a pro-death, anti-gun, zombie-infected, flamboyant cross-dressing, virgin-eating cannibal elected before I see that man ever win another election…for U.S. Senate or any other office. I will do anything and everything in my power to see him out of Senate leadership and in 5.5 years, out of office completely. This is my life’s mission – to see him defeated.

I know that Erick stuck with our site’s stated policy after McConnell won the primary and supported McConnell in the general. That’s his prerogative. I understand the theory – a GOP officeholder is virtually always better than the alternative. In this case, it is not true (and wasn’t true before, but that’s water under the bridge). Even if McConnell is the deciding vote in a GOP Senate, I don’t care. The GOP Senate has done us zero favors since January, and there is no obvious sign that will change.

Now McConnell may swoop in and try to un-do the damage he’s done and attach a defunding rider to a forthcoming bill and perhaps even participate in a Senate shutdown if need be. If he is successful and reverses his current course towards being an accomplice in the murder of millions of the unborn, perhaps I will change my mind. But this “man” has done more damage to the conservative cause in his leadership position in the Senate than dozens of Democrats could have done from the other side.

By the way, let me point out that I am not the only contributing editor who has supported this particular tactic. Both streiff and Joe have long been on the Ditch Mitch train as well. But the recent events with Planned Parenthood funding should place McConnell squarely at the top of the Conservative Public Enemy list…even above most/all Democrats.

Kentuckians, you should be ashamed of what you have wrought on this nation. And to you Republican Senators who voted to retain McConnell as Majority Leader – you are shameful for supporting this execrable individual. Start worrying about pulling this nation out of the grasp of the Left and stop worrying about your precious committee assignments and your funding. Do what you were elected to do: LEAD this nation out of the disaster wrought by Barack Obama and his cohorts. You haven’t been doing this, and blood of the aborted unborn is partially on your hands as well. You enabled McConnell to pull these stunts. And spare me the whining about Obama’s veto – it is YOUR job to take advantage of procedures such as riders on existing bills. If you weren’t going to do anything, why did we bother to put you in the majority?

McConnell must go. And I will do everything I can with my access to this bloggy pulpit and with my wallet that I can to help him out the door. No matter what phase of the election season, I will be at the front of the line to get rid of this sorry excuse of a Senator

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[Mr. K]

HE SHOULD BE RECALLED NOW

That bastard lied his way into winning the primary against a much better choice

[dandiegirl]

You people in Kentucky need to burn his phone lines with disgust. Can he be recalled?

[Rummyfan]

That’s all well and good, but he’s in for another five years!!!!!

[Rummyfan]

And I doubt he’ll run again if he gets all that time as Majority Leader..

[circlecity]

So, what is it this guy’s trying to say? ;-)

[elcid1970]

McConnell brings the Federal big bucks into Kentucky for roads & bridges and that’s a lot of jobs. He has his base.

[old curmudgeon]

I know absolutely nothing about parliamentary rules, but I think I remember Reid once voting against something he actually was for and the explanation was that his position as leader gave him the right to bring the bill up again if he had voted against it on the first go.

Is that correct?

If so, could it be that McConnell night bring it up again when the circumstances are more favorable?

Don't get me wrong. I am no McConnell fan. I think he is a snake in the grass.

But remember snakes are totally impartial to who they bite.

[jsanders2001]

I tried to tell them but they wouldn’t listen; that McConnell was a traitor.

[silverleaf]

This this this

Now that citizens know who stood with planned parenthood at this defining moment, any vote for that man or woman makes the voter just as guilty

Time to choose

[dware]

Is that correct?

It is 100% correct. Now, whether he'll actually bring it back up again, well, that remains to be seen. At the moment, however, the outrage seems misplaced. Don't get me wrong, McTurtle is a GOPE shill and is NO BETTER than a dummycrat, but the outrage is kinda funny to watch on this one. If he don't bring it back up, then yes, the outrage should increase tenfold. But at the moment, it SEEMS much ado about nothing.

[TomGuy]

The way he is showing that ‘Republicans can govern’ is making it likely that his majority leadership position will return to minority leadership with the next election.

The Republican controlled Congress has been anything but lustrous. Both Boehner and McConnell are dismal failures. Boehner couldn't even garner enough votes to retain his speakership due to a party revolt against him. So far, the main benefactor of this Republican Congress has been Obama.

Pubbies are defending about 24 Senate seats and the Dems 9 seats in 2016. A half-dozen seat changes could end the Republican-controlled Senate.

[conservativejoy]

I understand that that is his defense on twitter.

[DiogenesLamp]

Mitch McConnell Must Never Be Elected Again

I said that back during the lead up to November. I kept telling everyone that in the bigger picture, Allison Grimes would not be as objectionable as Mitch McConnell.

A Traitor is always worse than an enemy.

[SharpRightTurn]

“this sorry excuse of a Senator”

Yep, they don’t come much sorrier than McConnell. And to realize that he’s not a back bencher but the Republican’s majority leader shows the sorry state of the Republican party.

[Cboldt]

-- his position as leader gave him the right to bring the bill up again if he had voted against it on the first go. --

That's "half correct."

It doesn't matter if the person moving for reconsideration is leader or not, although it is customary for the leader to move for reconsideration.

The person moving for reconsideration must be on the "winning" side of the vote. In this case, cloture failed, so the winning side is the "no" vote.

Now, here is some parliamentary procedure that about 80% of the people posting on this board "don't get." ...

• When a cloture vote fails, the subject is not killed. The subject is STILL under unlimited debate. When a cloture motion passes, the subject is still alive, and debate is limited. People think failed cloture kills the bill, because the leaders drop the subject. But procedurally, the subject is still alive.
• When a cloture vote fails, the proponent can file another cloture motion. There is no limit to the number of cloture motions that can be applied to a single matter. McConnell could have voted on the losing side of this cloture vote, and get another cloture vote just by filing another cloture motion.

McConnell did not "have to" move to reconsider. he could have filed another cloture motion, and had another cloture vote.

[HarleyLady27]

Pubbies are defending about 24 Senate seats and the Dems 9 seats in 2016.
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Oh great....here we go again:

“I’ll make sure I vote the way you want me to; I will ask you your opinion before I vote; I will be glad to vote against obuma;

Do we really need to return these same people back to Washington D.C. can’t we find better?????

[gwgn02]

Too late...MM has already done the damage. People like me where saying this months ago.

[Political Junkie Too]

Sometimes the optics outweighs procedure. McConnell outsmarted himself on the optics this time. He's on record as opposing defunding Planned Parenthood, and no amount of explaining procedure will overcome that.

The fact remains that McConnell boxed himself into this corner all by himself. He chose to block Rand Paul's defunding amendment to the highway bill that would only have needed 51 votes to pass, in exchange for this standalone bill that needed 60 votes to pass.

Ted Cruz says that McConnell did that to protect his back-room deal for the Ex-Im bank, because Obama would have vetoed the bill with defunding in it. It was all for nothing because the House refused to take up McConnell's highway bill and recessed for August.

So now McConnell is left with the stain of this Nay vote, and an explanation that is falling on deaf ears.

-PJ

[LouAvul]

Do we really need to return these same people back to Washington D.C............?

No.

can’t we find better?????

Apparently not. Every time we move closer to a solution for the nation's ills, they change the rules. Americans were disgusted with the failures of liberalism and anti Americanism and just as the pendulum seemed to be swinging back, the pimps and whores in DC replaced our votes with crimigrants and illiterate third worlders.

They're making us obsolete. In ten years America will be a filthy sewer like messyco. That's a best case scenario. Worst case is we'll be raghead and under sharia law.