It would be nice if McConnell would fight the Democrats as hard as he fights Tea Party Conservatives.
(To get past the WSJ paywall and read the article, simply Google the title.)
Wonder what world this knot head lives in. Everything that’s wrong with politics can be seen in the Senate.
Quisling collaborationist.
So the left wants to stamp out the differences. At least they try.
That’s better than the Republicans who roll over and surrender to them.
Republican Senatorial Doctrine of Negotiating:
“You can have anything you want,
but that’s my final offer!”
If the result of a bipartisan bill is something everyone in the public hates, then it’s better to nothing.
However, that means a bill doesn’t get out the door, which always has money attached to it.
One of the many symptoms of legislative abuse.
Dead wrong, and a prime example of what's wrong with the Republican Party: No principles and no understanding of the Constitution.
False Assertion: “The answer to Barack Obama and the left is not to rail against one’s fellow conservatives.” That statement alone assumes and asserts that other Republican members of the Senate are “fellow conservatives”. In almost every single case, those Republicans in the Senate - especially those who have been in the Senate for two terms or more - are by no means conservative in any sense of the word.
There...fixed.
Exactly. The democrats won't give an inch. The republicans compromise.
Repeated over and over again you end up with a half-life scenario where our fundamental principles are eroded and democrat lunacy becomes mainstream.
him, corker, alexander, mccain, flake, graham, etc. etc., all fifth-column leftists ensconced by republican voter ignorance, d.c. money, and uniparty power behind conservative lines.
Figures old Mitch would be a featured writer at GOPe WSJ.
“How the Senate Is Supposed to Work”
State governments sends 2 people to vote those state legislator’s interest. They are recalled and replaced at the leisure of those state governments as their interest or composition changes
I know! Weird UFO stuff right there!
The Senate is supposed to represent the interests of the states, as opposed to the interests of the public at large or the interests of the federal government. Of course, it will never serve that function again until we repeal direct election of senators.
Ted Cruz lays out an indefensible case against McConnell in this video....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwrxCMDPfo&feature=youtu.be
It is the most compelling argument against this type of “leadership” that can be made.
In it, he details 24 times when Obama declared he wanted a vote to go a certain way, the Senate Democrats voiced support for the measure, McConnell brought the measure to the floor, all or nearly all Democrats voted in favor and the vote received less than a majority of the Republican support. It is absolutely terrible.
Among the examples are...
DHS funding for Obama’s amnesty
Climate Change Amendment acknowledging AGW
Doc fix
Loretta Lynch confirmation
Iran nuclear deal final approval
Crominbus Deal
Export-Import bank
Education bill
These all had Obama approval, majority Democrat approval and majority Republican DISAPPROVAL. Yet still, somehow McConnell found a way to get them passed.
He is a traitor.
‘And, though many haven’t noticed yet, the bipartisan cooperation has been good for our politics.’
How true but terrible for the country.
In addition to confirming treaties and approving justices, senators were expected to protect their states by not only killing House bills that the House could not justify under Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, but also by killing House appropriations bills that not only steal 10th Amendment-protected state powers, but also steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The problem is that the anti-constitutional republic Progressive Movement spooked citizens into twisting the arms of their state lawmakers to ratify the ill-conceived 17th-Amendment, that amendment totally defeating the purpose of the Senate by allowing low-information citizens, citizens easily influenced by the corrupt media, to vote for senators.
For example, regardless what lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices want everybody to think about Obamacare, since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes, the Senate should have killed the bill that established Obamacare, but failed to do so.
And what’s worse is that the corrupt Senate confirms state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices who unsurprisingly declare that unconstitutional laws that the Senate wrongly helps the House to pass are constitutional.
The corrupt Senate, not the corrupt Oval Office, is the most unconstitutionally powerful office in the federal government imo.
Trump needs to lead the states to repeal the 17th Amendment. The 16th Amendment can go too.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support Trump, but will also put a stop to unconstitutional taxes and federal interference in state affairs.
Note that such a Congress will probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
How it spoze to work is the Democrats control the Congress, both Houses, whether they are in the majority or the minority, even a small minority. The Bureaus and Agencies are controlled by Democrats and other socialists and are not subject to control by the Congress other than to receive more grants of power from Congress.Republicans are very comfortable with this system because they are allowed a portion of the inevitable corruption in such a system and so long as they are enriched, everything is just fine.
This article is a rambling statement by a cowardly quisling advocating surrender to America’s enemies.
Time to start talking about American-style Nuremberg trials.