Maybe they can oust him as Leader if they have the numbers and are upset enough at his surrender tactics.
**********
Naw, its just political theater.
Don’t be distracted by the noise. Republicans have no principles to fight over and Mitch will be right back in his senate leadership position. Noting will change.
I’m interested to see where this goes. McConnell only needs 11 right? Not difficult for him but he’s going to p*ss off half his members who want to defund the mandate.
Either way it needs to go to a vote so we can see where they all stand.
THAT should be interesting.......
Yes, it’s just Kabuki theater among the RINOcrats.
“Republicans have no principles to fight over and Mitch will be right back in his senate leadership position. “
100% true. What does the party stand for? In my lifetime I’ve only seen the party once conduct a Congressional campaign with a detailed platform and win (GOP gained 54 seats and the majority in Congress). That was 1994 and Newt Gingrich’s Contract for America. To their credit once they obtained the majority, in the first term they actually tried, and were successful, implementing much of that very specific agenda. Sadly though by 1996 they had been coopted by the inside the beltway establishment.
The 1994 class included Richard Burr of NC, Lindsay Graham of SC, Joe Scarborough of Florida. John Boehner, elected for the first time in 1991 was a principal architect of the Contract for America. They and most of the other 54 freshman class of 1994 ultimately repudiated limited government conservatism and became supporters of ever expanding the federal government.
In 2010 the GOP regained control of the House due to the excesses of the Obama administration, thanks to the populist Tea Party movement. Once GOP Speaker Boehner took control of the House in 2011, he distanced GOP from the Tea Party and worked with Mitch McConnell, minority leader in the Senate, and Democrats to destroy the Tea Party movement.
In the 2016 election the GOP had a sweep of the White House and both houses of Congress. President Trump would have signed any conservative and in fact implored the Republicans in Congress to fund a wall on the southern border, end Obamacare, and work to reduce the power of the entrenched bureaucracy. Instead of uniting as a party to reform the federal government with limited government conservative principles, the GOP Congress fought the GOP president and perpetuated the huge expansion of the federal government during the Obama years. The party that claimed to be “conservative” was actually the party on a mission to preserve the big government status quo.
Unless the GOP conducts the 2022 campaign with very specific legislative promises in a new “Contract with America” it will be business as usual if the party captures both houses of Congress. McConnell and McCarthy as leaders have no interest in reducing the size of government or reducing the interference of government in the lives of everyday citizens. They are fully invested in the alliance between big government and big business as well as the globalist view of the world. To them “Make America Great Again” is an anathema. Watching the Republican party for decades it is clear their behavior as legislators is frequently 180 degrees away from the positions they support while campaigning. It is easy to lie when you have no principles.
From what I can see, the party is gearing up to run another squishy campaign in 2022 based on the usual attacks against the Democrats rather than a very specific agenda of good governance.