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How Mitch McConnell crushed the tea party
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| 05-21-2014
| Peter Hamby
Posted on 05/21/2014 9:05:39 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
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To: ItsOurTimeNow
I’m reminded of the story in Hitchhikers guide about the planet of humans that always vote for lizards to govern them. They hate the lizards but they always vote for “their lizard” to keep the other sides lizard from winning.
I’m dumping a powerful lizard for a weak one that might actually be defeatable by a human being next time around.
To: Kansas58
McConnell has/had the tools available to him today to stop the Obama
agenda. It is called a filibuster. Because McConnell is too weak to use
these tools(rules) is his decision.
You don’t need a majority to stop Obama.
McConnell has the tools available to do it now.
The same conservatives he will need to beat Grimes are the same ones
he trashed and crushed. If only a small percent of these conservatives
decide to send McConnell and the GOPe’s a message, McConnell will be
sent packing.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:14:26 AM PDT
by
tennmountainman
(Just Say No To Obamacare)
To: ItsOurTimeNow
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:15:10 AM PDT
by
tennmountainman
(Just Say No To Obamacare)
To: PaulCruz2016
I am amazed at the number of freepers who think the republican party is the conservative hope.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:16:12 AM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Benghazi)!!!)
To: NTHockey
Vote Democrat in November; the GOP-e would.
No. They’ll vote GOP. The two parties are simply playing “good cop, bad cop” with us. There is so little difference in them that I’d rather vote for a democrat. At least they will own this mess when it finally collapses.
To: catfish1957
Lets see..... a standing minority Senate leader with absolutely overwhelming financial advantage does not get 40% of the vote. Hardly crushing. I'd say in was more like a warning shot from the Tea Party. The MSM spin to make the tea party look bad is almost laughable. Agree -100%.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:22:17 AM PDT
by
Digger
To: cuban leaf
Letting the democrats have free rein, doesn’t seem like a smart strategy.
Wouldn’t you love it if the liberals adopted your plan for themselves?
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:23:05 AM PDT
by
ansel12
((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
To: Kansas58
*I am not asking you to like Mitch, I don't particularly like the guy. I am asking you to keep your emotions out of this and think. *
I agree. What he said about the TEA Party is despicable, but he is at least 1000 better than the uber liberal, coal-hating, Obamacare pushing Grimes that running on the (D) for Destruction ticket.
I'm gonna have to hold my nose and vote for Mitch. He at least votes Conservative about half of the time.
To: PaulCruz2016
that stuff should not be permitted as a misleading advertisement. Yellow journalism as electioneering.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:33:37 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: longtermmemmory
Hi.
Yellow journalism as electioneering.
Yep, and that's why the Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column.
5.56mm
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:35:49 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: SoConPubbie
We haven’t had a Lee or a Cruz in the past. We do now. And a Sasse soon. I’m for more conservative but it is a fact that not electing pubs hasn’t worked either. Reid is the worst ever. By far.
To: PaulCruz2016
And all of that information is fraudulent, as McConnell and hsi staffers well know.
That’s why the GOP just threw away the seat. Welcome to DC, Senator Grimes.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:49:02 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: ansel12
Wouldnt you love it if the liberals adopted your plan for themselves?
No. Not if it was GOPe candidates. I would rather the DEMS own the catastrophy which is going to happen no matter who is in charge.
There really is no political solution to our problems. They were cast in stone decades ago. The only thing Obama did was, through his utter incompetence, speed up the death spiral. In a way that is a good thing.
To: arkfreepdom
Harry Reid is much much worse.Actually, they're very similar.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:58:29 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: cuban leaf
The democrats are perfectly willing to “own” things, everything, they love your idea of total surrender to them.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:58:33 AM PDT
by
ansel12
((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
To: andyk
Whats the difference? Another conservative SCOTUS judge?Yeah, you know, one like Roberts.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:59:14 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: SoConPubbie
Reagan backed Gerald Ford, even though Ford beat Reagan in the primary.
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posted on
05/21/2014 10:59:36 AM PDT
by
Kansas58
To: Adder
I see the Republibots are back.
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posted on
05/21/2014 11:00:46 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: cuban leaf
Not sure I would vote for the Dem, but I definitely would not vote for McConnell.
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posted on
05/21/2014 11:01:59 AM PDT
by
Defiant
(Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
To: Kansas58
Well you might not like my strategy, but my strategy is infinitely better, on all counts, then YOURS! You advocate surrender to Obama. That is far worse than TEMPORARY acceptance of the GOPe!It is not surrender to withhold one's vote for a party that does not represent me.
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posted on
05/21/2014 11:04:43 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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