Posted on 03/11/2015 11:30:42 AM PDT by cotton1706
Via National Journal and McConnell Puts Democrats in a Box (the title here alone is a clue that McConnell’s people have planted this story):
Sen. Mitch McConnell has caught Democrats between a rock and an abortion rider.
After weeks of Democrats questioning his unwillingness to schedule the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be attorney general, the Senate majority leader announced at a press conference Tuesday that the Senate will vote to confirm her next week. There’s just one catch: Members will have to get past legislation that includes a controversial abortion rider first.
First and foremost, given the answers provided by Loretta Lynch during her confirmation hearing, it is a travesty that she was voted out of committee. She is clearly not a big fan of the rule of law or the rights of Americans in general rather that enhanced rights for every racial/ethnic/sexual minority with an axe to grind. Every day she is not confirmed is a day that America is safer. That her vote should even be offered as a concession is just offensive.
There is precious little evidence that this drama, the children’s matinee at Failure Theater, is anything more than McConnell trying to show conservatives how super tough he is. If McConnell was really going to use the Lynch nomination as a bargaining chip he should have used it when it mattered: on the DHS bill. But he didn’t. He forfeited a chance to refuse to fund Obama’s amnesty, a position that had wide national support and he could have done so by inflicting a little temporary pain on a very unpopular and superfluous agency headquarters.
In fact, the whole story smells like something cooked up by Reid and McConnell to give McConnell a little breathing room to further betray conservatives:
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Tell someone who believes you, Mitch.
We are not stupid, and it is insulting that you believe this Kabuke dance will fool us.With Pure Contempt,
Laz
Pee-Wee Herman acting tough.
McConnell looks like he would never fight his way out of a wet paper bag
Well, as ole George W. Bush once said; fool me once and shame on you, fool me ah, ah, ah, you can’t get fooled again!
Pee Wee McConnell.
I believe McConnell..then again..I’ll believe anything once..
Someone from the White House will deliver a bribe to Mitch and he’ll give in.
Who woke him up? Does Obama want him to pass something?
Oh, well, that’s different then. I mean, politicians are basically honest people, right?
Dear Mitch,
I agree with Laz.
I’ll bet you already have lined up 16 Pubbies to vote for Lynch to add to all the Dems so you can push her across the finish line.
FUMMc.
exit82
FUMM
GOP voters - especially those dumb enough to continue voting GOP - should stock up on vaseline. It’s gonna get a whole lot worse.
This means McConnell won’t cave five days in advance; he’ll wait until three days in advance to cave.
Anyone ever ask him what he thinks the landslide in 2014 meant?
My “trying to give a flip what Mitch says” to load. It failed
Sorry you were re-elected dude as the rest of us watch America circle the drain.
Freegards
LEX
What does Senate Leader Reid say?
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