Posted on 12/25/2022 12:44:37 PM PST by RandFan
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, are still seething over the Senate passing last week's $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, and apparently not waiting until 2023 to negotiate terms for such a massive spending initiative.
And from the two senators' perspective, the brunt of blame lies squarely on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
"The arrogance of our [Senate GOP] leadership who said, 'We know better than House members. We're going to pass this. We'll get religion next year when it comes to fiscal sanity,'" Johnson told John Catsimatidis in a Sunday interview that aired on national radio.
"I'm not buying it. Unfortunately, our supporters aren't going to buy it either," added Johnson.
The Wisconsin Republican voted against the measure last week.
However, it still garnered passage through the Senate, with the help of a large handful of Republican senators.
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As for Senator Lee, whose Title 42 amendment for the omnibus bill had been derailed by 10 U.S. senators favoring a supposedly weaker amendment alternatively addressing the chaos at the United States-Mexico border, he pointedly believes that McConnell intentionally caved to the whims of Senate Democrats — perhaps out of spite for other conservatives.
"Our party leadership turned on Republican voters, turned on the Republican base, turned on most Republican senators," Lee told Catsimatidis. "It has happened before, but this is one too many times. For me, this is the final straw.
"As Republicans scratch their heads over their disappointing midterms, they ought to consider that voters don’t see much of a defining difference with Democrats," added Lee.
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Talk Talk Talk....
Remember when Freepers here used to think of Mike Lee as a real conservative?
Especially when there was no completed bill on paper so no one read it AGAIN
Fighting talk...
* I see the comments are already on Front page so can someone remove this?
In our deep-state controlled political system, it seems that RINOs and their GOP are designated straw-men or medieval “whipping boys,” whose sole purpose and reason for existence is to be the controlled outlet for the ire of both the hard-left, and the conservative/libertarian right.
Meanwhile, the “center” and deep-state can always proceed with their plans free of consequence.
To the Left they are “nazis” and to the conservative/traditional right they are “traitors.”
These RINOs like McConnell provide the illusion that opposition and protest against “the center,” actually matter, when in fact, they don’t
Gotta pass it to find out whats in it
Was that a real story? I must have missed that story of Jill whining at Nantucket about giving 50 billion to grifters every time Joe turns around.
Roy Blunt (Missouri)
John Boozman (Arkansas)
Shelley Capito (West Virginia)
Susan Collins (Maine)
John Cornyn (Texas)
Tom Cotton (Arkansas)
Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma)
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Rob Portman (Ohio)
Mitt Romney (Utah)
Mike Rounds (South Dakota)
Richard Shelby (Alabama)
John Thune (South Dakota)
Roger Wicker (Mississippi)
Todd Young (Indiana)
Slam away! D.C. is corrupt on both sides of the aisle.
McConnell didn’t want to run the risk of being upstaged by the House Republicans. His value to the Chinese would be diminished by that.
how much is the kickback to the Turtle?
The Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves seeing the complete failure of The Great Compromise in the Constitution. The notion of your two senators protecting your perspective states has long disappeared.
And turned on Republican candidates. Mitch is the best pal Schumer could ever have. Just go along to get along and keep the money rolling in.
Arkansas and So. Dak. had both of their [RINO] Senators sell them down the river.
Tom Cotton = Fraudulent snake.
“The notion of your two senators protecting your perspective states has long disappeared.”
Yep, it started when the 17th Amendment was ratified.
There’s nothing wrong with calling McConnell out truth is only 10 Senators wanted to replace him weeks ago.
More important now than ever to call out Mitch McConnell and keep the pressure on him.
The people in Kentucky pick a governor next year and Daniel Cameron is seen as Mitch’s acolyte.
The people of Kentucky can send Mitch a message by defeating him there.
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