Posted on 12/10/2022 4:29:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
Seems some Republican senators are getting their spines back.
Despite the midterm elections loss of four compelling Republican Senate candidates, a handful of persistent, emboldened senators have stepped forward to re-establish their authority, thereby creating the beginning of a paradigm shift in the Senate's balance of power. In addition, on January 3, four new senators, all oriented to America First, will take their seats.
Beginning with the November 16 challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)'s thirty-year reign, ten senators voted to oppose his 2022 reappointment. Known for unyielding control of the legislative process and repeated dictates to a subservient Republican caucus with nary a peep of resistance, those ten senators stood their ground and did not cave as their opposition failed (37-10). Their resistance has, however, set the stage for a new energetic between duly elected senators and an overbearing authoritarian "leadership."
On the heels of that challenge, thirteen Republican members of the Senate, in an act of legislative defiance, informed McConnell in a November 30 letter that they will oppose the 4,000-page $858-billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) FY 2023 barring adoption of an amendment that prohibits "involuntary separation" from the U.S. military based solely on COVID vaccination status. In addition, those service personnel who were separated out could be reinstated with back pay. More recently, in tacit acknowledgement of COVID as a bio-weapon with significant health impacts, twenty senators coalesced to demand a floor vote on the amendment to eliminate the forced vaccination mandate.
All of this raises the question: if military personnel are exempt from mandatory vaccinations, why are other Americans and their children subject to the mandate?
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I won’t hold my breath.
no.
The only thing that will soften his grip is extreme old age (dementia).
I think he will be 200 y/o his next birthday?
he listens...no one knows the system better...and we are forever grateful for him keeping ............forgot....off the supreme court.
Seems some Republican senators are getting their spines back.
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PR stunt.
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McConnell, along with all the people who voted for him and supported him (but judges!), have helped to weaken America.
McConnell is no more in charge of the Senate than the POTATUS is of the nation.
Iron grip and McConnell doesn’t go together.
Agreed, but I think he is in the top ten for influencing what goes on in the Senate, and would like to be in charge.
Biden, on the other hand, probably doesn’t get to influence anything of substance beyond what dessert he can have, and seems content enough with that.
GOP is useless at the federal levelā¦
When there is a Dem president sometimes they remember that they are supposed to block really liberal things. On a scale of 1-10, they deserve about a 4 as an opposition party and a 2 as a governing party.
The Dems have all sorts of problems, but they do know how to get their way.
McConnell doesn’t influence, either.
He has no power.
His master, Deep State has power.
It wields it’s power through McConnell.
And occasionally through McConnell’s black and blue marks.
...its...
Next like clockwork, they will make overtures to conservatives, say everything we want to hear, and wait for us to fall for it.
Why not? Its worked for the last twenty years.
While I don’t believe in Illuminati per se, and recognize that there are people behind the scenes, as it were, these are people working with people.
The British Monarch has been effectively emmasculated, beginning I would argue, oddly enough, with Henry VIII. THis isn’t the case in this instance.
If one expects the Senate Minority leader to have the power of the head of government in a parliamentary system, yes McConnell is toothless. However, the Minority leader per se wasn’t meant to have much power (neither was the Majority leader), but over two centuries, much was accummulated, and even if much has been lost, a good deal is still retained.
the current leader of the DOJ ! Merrick Garland.
We tend to only look at the negatives.
That was one VERY HUGE positive that they did do.
This vacancy arose during Obama’s final year as president. Hours after Scalia’s death was announced, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would consider any appointment by the sitting president to be null and void. He said the next Supreme Court justice should be chosen by the next presidentāto be elected later that year.[1][2][3] Senate Democrats criticized the move as being unprecedented, and responded saying that there was sufficient time to vote on a nominee before the election.[4]”
Current attorney general.
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