Posted on 10/22/2022 7:08:15 AM PDT by rktman
It is all too likely our Republican leaders will betray us once again and will turn our Nov. 8 victory into a defeat.
It is all too likely we will once again suffer the "death of a thousand cuts" at the hands of our leadership – bleeding away the impact of electoral success and draining the life from our great movement.
Sen. Mitch McConnell will likely hold GOP leadership in the Senate; who can stop him? He likely will be erroneously credited with the success of new and MAGA Republican senators – even though he fought against the election of most of them.
Even though his leadership is uninspired and uninspiring. Even though more often than not he uses his power in opposition to both conservative and America First principles. Even though he betrays his base with clock-like regularity.
Republican leaders like Mitch McConnell are worse than Democrats. At least Democrats fight for their own. At least Democrats are loyal to their brand.
It is more than likely Republicans will also impose upon themselves a second defeat – by electing Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House.
McCarthy, too, will wrongly be credited with the Republicans' victory this fall, despite his Herculean efforts to prevent the election of any Republican not loyal to him.
The existing and newly crowned MAGA candidates will likely not achieve numbers sufficient to unseat McCarthy. Once again we will be saddled with an ineffectual and inarticulate Republican leader, one already long compromised by his donors. McCarthy will persist, however, absent courage, absent vision and absent the wisdom to promote the America First ideas of his new colleagues.
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Usually, it takes 10 years in office for a conservative to cross over. The minute he steps into office the distinction between his constituents in his home district or state and the Beltway starts to erode. He\she is often unaware it’s happening and by the 10-year point has juicy rationalizations to explain why it didn’t happen. My rule-of-thumb; 10+ years in DC without a break is enough. They need to go home! If a political career is their desire, they need to go home and run for office there. Run for governor, mayor, county commissioner, legislature, etc. Maybe, just maybe get a non-lobbying commercial job (Hanging out in a Beltway PR\Consulting firm doesn’t count!). I look askance at conservative professional politicians. I really really look askance at youngsters running for office! Here in WV we’ve one soon to be two college students in the state legislature. Budding professional politicians, they have all the right conservative stances, etc. I really don’t want to vote for them because they have no experience of life! What keeps my vote in their camp is the fact that their Rat opponents are always crazy leftwing unionistas. I sort of feel a similar discomfort in regard to DeSantis with his professional politician resume. He’s doing a good job in Florida, so there’s that! However, is shelter and dinner pail is provided and filled by ‘political success’ always a potential moral hazard!
Repeal the 17th Amendment
Term limits!
Maybe it “use to” take ten years. Newcomers have caught on a lot quicker in recent years.
Hell yes they will. All they do for us is slow the slide down the slippery slope into the abyss. Still any slowing of the slide is good.
If the GOP doesn’t go crazy with investigations, show trials, and impeachment’s…some folks around here will feel betrayed.
If they legislate to actually fix problems…they will be called traitors.
That’s politics in 2022.
Does the sun rise in the east?
Actually a positive song. 😂✌
Even with the best intentions in the world, politicians have to prioritize and strategize. They don’t have the freedom you and I have sitting in front of a computer or phone. That said, yeah, they will probably disappoint you. Politics usually does disappoint people.
True some do start out that way, certainly almost all Rats do.
I use 10-years as the number primarily, so it covers two Senate terms. Probably more like for the House three terms (6 years).
Absolutely without a doubt.
They are in office without an agenda except to enrich themselves. That is the system.
At the federal level, there is not an iota of hope of rooting out corruption. Turn your back on it and look to your state.
Only in the states is it possible to keep tabs on corruption, but of course even there the task is overwhelming.
Read One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb. And work at the local level to protect our liberty.
Mitch McConnell has to leave. The same for McCarthy. We need new blood as leaders in Congress.
“Will GOP leaders betray us again”
Well, if history is any indication of future actions...
Yes
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Because the insurance agent, mil-industrial trough eating “repubs” are incapable of LEADERSHIP. They are USED to standing in line... like they are at some CAFETERIA of national power. Disgusting.
McConnell should NOT keep his “Leadership” role. It is time for Rick Scott or the NEW Leaders of MAGA who understand the minority GOPe Senators are of no use.
Incidentally— who will assign the replacement of Ben Sasse- provided he’s really OUT?
There’s a reason they are running without a platform and not promising to do anything specific. Because they won’t.
McConnell fancies that his special skill set is deal-making. In a divided Senate, that has worked well for him, convincing both his own party and the Democrats that he's the person to be dealt with. He's blind to the notion that the Democrats have him figured out and they can manipulate him into making deals favorable to them. Just look at how eagerly McConnell turned the Treaty Clause of the Constitution upside down to help Obama get his Iran deal through the Senate. And then look at how Schumer rolled him on the reconciliation bill/infrastructure bill. And don't get me started on how McConnell always takes a government shutdown off the table every time the Debt Ceiling comes up in the news.
Anyway, if reports of a Red Wave are true and that the Senate could possibly go 55-45, then McConnell's special "deal-making" skill becomes irrelevant; anyone can lead a near super-majority.
If McConnell really believes that a super-majority is in the cards for the GOP, then he would be willing to cause the most fringe of those candidates to lose in order to keep a slim majority that needs his "deal-making" skills to survive, in his mind.
That's why McConnell is pulling the funding from "bubble candidates;" he thinks if they could lose then he can still be the power-broker that he used to be with a smaller majority. A larger majority will put too much pressure on McConnell and might encourage a challenge from the right.
It's all about McConnell and his power, and not about doing what's right for the American people.
-PJ
Has a cat got a running gear? Or does a bear crap in the woods?
If not replaced the current leaders will. If new leaders are elected from the Pubbie center, they will likely betray us also. Pay attention and remember the betrayal. Chip away at em as best you can. All we can do in this world is the best we can.
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