Posted on 05/22/2014 6:52:28 PM PDT by Mariner
Fresh off his resounding Republican primary victory Tuesday night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday laid out a broad vision of what the Senate would look like under his control.
Bottom line, McConnell, wouldn’t run the way Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., runs it now, the Kentucky Republican told the center-right American Enterprise Institute.
‘A Senate majority under my leadership would break sharply from the practices of the Reid era in favor of a more free-wheeling approach to problem solving,’ McConnell said in a speech. ‘I would work to restore (the Senate’s) traditional role as a place where good ideas are generated, debated and voted upon. We’d fire up the committee process. We’d work longer days and weeks, using the clock to force consensus.’
And McConnell’s money shot: ‘In marked contrast to the Reid era, we would allow an open amendment process – ensuring senators on both sides a chance to weigh in on legislation and alleviating the frustration that inevitably results when they can’t.’
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Well, I haven’t heard the answer. What do we have to do?
Probably because you didn’t want to. Click my name and read back about 2 years. You will have every answer/reason/strategy and rationale you need. I have typed it about 500 times.
I do understand the rule. And I understand the greater implications of it. Buckley was no advocate of electing a person solely because they have an R attached. He wanted conservatives.
Also, When that rule was coined, a moderate Pubbie of the day was like a Ted Cruz today. The current liberalism was unheard of, much less within the GOP. So one has to consider that as well. We have, if we are intellectually honest, to interpret their words in the context of their era. Just as we have to do with any concept or idea from the past.
As a side example, take gun control/2A issues. The founders were clear in their intent. In their era no one tried parsing the issue. It was understood that all Americans had a right to guns. Only when we as a society try applying modern Dem theories to 1700s belief structures do we run astray. Such as it is with Buckley. We cannot consider a 2014 Republican equal to that of his era. They are two different animals.
I cannot imagine him or any other old school conservative looking at a Bhoner/Mitch/Rubio/Randpaul and agreeing to support them. I just can’t.
Yeah, I’m lazy. Sum it up for me.
But if it involves writing laws that won’t pass, electing candidates that won’t win, or any other thing that’s not going to happen in today’s political climate, never mind. Because that’s not a plan, that’s a goal, and yelling about it on the Internet isn’t going to get us anywhere. I’ll listen when you tell me what poor old unemployed me can do to make a difference.
I don’t like the Republican elites. I doubt I’ll be voting for any of them; I got suckered in 2012 and after seeing what Romney was saying after the election, I’m sorry that I voted for him. But you claim to have a roadmap to the return to Constitutional government. Show it to me, admit that you don’t have a plan, or tell me how much you’re getting paid to shill.
Recommendation for further reading:
The Reagan I Knew by William F. Buckley Jr.
The two men had a close fiendship spanning over 30 years. This is a wonderful book and you can learn a great deal about both men by the reading of it. Enjoy!
Funding the commie Dems? No way, no how.
commie dem, neo statist Replicant ... whats the difference both are destroying the country and both hate you....
You are right. I have hope!
McConnell only won his last election by 6%. Democrat voters outnumber GOP voters in KY.
It will only take a small % of pissed off KY conservatives to send McConnell over to Trent Lott’s Lobbying Firm.
My advice, prepare to celebrate the newest member of Trent Lott’s Lobbying Firm, Mitch McConnell, FORMER US Senator from KY.
I believe you are approaching the matter as a (rather bitter) partisan, rather than as an unbiased analyst.
Stu Rothenberg (in The Rothenberg Political Report) lists this race currently as "Leans Republican."
And Larry Sabato--another serious political analyst--in his Crystal Ball, lists the upcoming senatorial race in Kentucky as "Likely R[epublican]."
Note: Mitch McConnell's American Conservitive Union rating is--wait for it--96 percent! But for the purists (who believe that things must get immeasurably worse before they can get better--much like the Judeans of the Maccabean Era, in the second century BC), that is, well, just not good enough. Better that the Democrats should keep control of the Senate, so as to hasten the downfall of the republic, thereby bringing about The Revolution in our political system...
Then my advice is to not trash and then brag about crushing voters
you will need to win a close election.
How about this Rule.
Don’t piss off the same voters you will need to win a close election
Or you will be applying for a job at Trent Lott’s Lobbying Firm.
I call that the Trent Lott Rule.
Who ever "trash[ed]" and "brag[ged]" about crushing "voters"? Note: We are not referring, here, to speaking ill of opposing primary candidates--that is standard procedure--but of doing so toward voters.
People in KY somehow believe that McC will save them.
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