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Is Mitch McConnell's iron grip on the Senate starting to weaken?
American Thinker ^ | 10 Dec, 2022 | Renee Parsons

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?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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To: MtnClimber

Dear Lord, Let it be so.


21 posted on 12/10/2022 5:52:35 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Leep
I think he will be 200 y/o his next birthday?

Can't be The worlds oldest tortoise just celebrated his 190th birthday. So the oldest McConell could be next year is 189.

22 posted on 12/10/2022 5:53:31 AM PST by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: MtnClimber

No


23 posted on 12/10/2022 5:54:22 AM PST by Armscor38
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To: MtnClimber

Mitch McConnell is not a “rino”. He is the perfect embodiment of what the republican party actually is. Trump and those republican voters that supported him are actually the rinos because they actually stand for pro-American principles.


24 posted on 12/10/2022 5:55:46 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: MtnClimber

No,,,,the libs love him.


25 posted on 12/10/2022 6:00:06 AM PST by chopperk
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To: MtnClimber

He’s a Sloth


26 posted on 12/10/2022 6:23:08 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

Ditch the Mitch now!!


27 posted on 12/10/2022 7:06:24 AM PST by drypowder
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To: MtnClimber

He’s probably like Pelosi. Has a tight grip on $$$ for reelection and threatens to cut them off unless they obey.


28 posted on 12/10/2022 7:09:56 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: MtnClimber
...if military personnel are exempt from mandatory vaccinations, why are other Americans and their children subject to the mandate?

Because private companies can impose conditions for people to work there.

29 posted on 12/10/2022 7:15:54 AM PST by semimojo
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To: MtnClimber

McConnell’s sabotage of the election gave Senate control to the Democrats. So he is responsible for the Biden judges that get approved by the Senate.


30 posted on 12/10/2022 7:27:44 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: MtnClimber
Is Mitch McConnell's iron grip on the Senate starting to weaken?

Let's hope so. The Turdel's time has past. He needs to take his wife and retire to China.

31 posted on 12/10/2022 11:07:09 AM PST by upchuck (When you never took the vaccine or boosters: Still alive and healthy with no chance of side effects)
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