Posted on 01/05/2019 2:35:07 PM PST by Bratch
Sometimes we must call the baby ugly. CTH has followed and mapped how Mitch McConnell operates for over a decade. Here’s the deal as we see it…
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has one major career alliance that has been unbroken and unchanged for well over two decades. That alliance is with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and specifically with CoC President Tom Donohue. [SEE HERE and SEE HERE].
Mitch McConnell is stealthily working against the efforts of President Donald Trump. The effort is to support his primary Wall Street financial benefactor, Donohue. However, Mitch McConnell cannot directly be connected to underhanded efforts against President Trump because it would lead to: (A) questions about a confrontation; and (B) public exposure. [ex. think about how McConnell is blocking President Trump from recess appointments]
Mitch McConnell is up for election in 2020; in the exact same cycle as the reelection of President Trump. If it became more obvious what McConnell is doing, there’s a strong, heck, guaranteed, likelihood Trump would be empowered to turn against McConnell. Therefore Mitch McConnell has to be very careful about the visibility of how he undermines the President. Everything must have built in plausible deniability.
McConnell has a history of getting caught. However, fortunately for him people also have a tendency to forget (see McConnell’s scheme in the Mississippi 2014 Cochran race as an example). Almost no-one remembers that U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, the founder of the Senate Conservative Fund, quit the Senate specifically because of the schemes and internal Machiavellian power moves of Mitch McConnell.
So when the carefully constructed, pre-planned, pre-scheduled, and pre-organized public op-ed by incoming Senator Mitt Romney was deployed in the Washington Post… for those who have watched McConnell work; we knew exactly who orchestrated it and why.
Senator Romney will be one (not the only) visible face of the opposition. However, just like former Senator Corker and current Senator Sasse, the instructions (direct and indirect), and/or the approvals, will come from Leader McConnell’s office.
Through his power structure McConnell directly controls about 8 to 15 republican senators; we have called them “The Decepticons” for years. [Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Graham and now Romney]
McConnell needed to test Romney’s commitment to the Decepticon club. Romney passed the test. Romney was rewarded with placement on the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Those Senators who sit on this committee get the most financial benefit from foreign lobbying. To understand the financial process think: Qatar & McCain Institute etc.
That’s what is going on internally…. and no, I doubt President Trump knows the scale of it; or maybe he does, and he has to pretend like he doesn’t to navigate his agenda… but somehow I doubt it.
To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles: CNN Part I and CNN Part II both showcase how McConnell works. Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE].
Yes, Democrats are the opponents. However, the far more urgent MAGA enemy is Mitch McConnell.
There.
it’s a hundred miles of wall and not all of it is in a populated area.
Border Patrol Agents agree across the board that walls work. They are effective. Very few will get through and those few will have the Border Patrol in pursuit.
Most of the GOP Senators are Cheap Labor Express stooges.
They MUST be replaced if we want to keep our country.
They will never give us the enforcement we need.
And why has mcconnel not put the senate in full recess? For the life on me I can’t figure out why no one is making a bigger deal out of that.
This one may be a true exception. Any Senate Majority Leader has to attempt to appear impartial.
When Scalia died (murdered), Obama appointed Merrick Garland to fill Scalia’s seat. McConnell insisted that a new appointment should wait until after the election to allow a new President to appoint the new justice. This was the correct and only reasonable decision because Obama appeared to be in pursuit of packing the court on the heels of a suspicious death of a Supreme Court Justice.
Obama’s minions threatened to recess appoint Garland but McConnell blocked it by refusing to adjourn the Senate. If he adjourns the Senate now. he will be exposed to being labeled as untrustworthy, as hypocritical, as impartial.
McConnell has carved his reputation as a Senate leader who disallows recess appointments. Fine, but on other matters, he can act in support of the President but refuses to do so. For example, he could have brought forward the bill to fund the Wall as a budgetary bill requiring only a simple majority. He refused to do so because his biggest backers are pushing to kill the wall as they are globalists and open borders for their special business interests.
Judicial appointments do proceed normally during normal sessions only because Grassley is in control there. McConnell cannot block appointments during normal sessions. He can cause a delay but he can’t block. He can only block recess appointments. Grassley can do nothing about that.
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“McConnell took reconciliation off the table for one important reason: It enabled him to hide the embarrassing reality that he didn’t even have 50 votes for the House bill — let alone 60.”
That makes sense, unfortunately. Trump should have insisted anyway, letting the chips fall where they may. Get the traitors on record.
But I get it. McConnell protects the Senate. No matter what. He would have penalized Trump later, in a backstabbing move. It’s what he does.
A$$hat.
He’s up for election again in 2020. Maybe...
Yup. The TEA Party was a sponteneous grass roots movement, and both parties were scared shiiteless. And did everything they could to kill it. And pretty much succeeded. But we never changed our minds, just stewed until Trump came along. We never had a leader, who “got it.”
Then came Trump. And they know a grassroots movement needs a great leader, or their combined efforts to kill it will succeed.
“The Turtle.
Great on the judiciary.
A nightmare on immigration.”
Yup. The COC is OK with the judges. But they are globalists, and get rich via offshoring and cheap labor.
I’m guessing Trump is every bit as aware as the author of this piece....probably more aware.
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