Posted on 12/26/2022 3:22:14 PM PST by RandFan
Republican Sens. Ron Johnson (Wis.) and Mike Lee (Utah) slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and their GOP colleagues on Sunday for supporting the $1.7 trillion omnibus package that Congress sent to President Biden’s desk on Friday.
The GOP senators had argued it would have been better to wait for the GOP to take control of the House in January to pass an omnibus bill, arguing this would have given Republicans more leverage.
Lee denounced the omnibus as “the ugliest spending bill on record,” taking aim at McConnell and the party’s Senate leadership in an interview with radio talk show host John Catsimatidis on Sunday.
“Our party leadership turned on Republican voters, turned on the Republican base, turned on most Republican senators,” Lee said on “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM. “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,” he added.
The Senate easily passed the massive spending bill on Thursday, with 18 Republican senators joining Democrats in supporting the legislation that will fund the federal government through next September. The package is now headed to Biden for his signature, after passing the House on Friday.
Those arguing in favor of the omnibus said it was a way to lock-in increased defense spending for the next year. The bill included $858 billion in defense spending, a 9.7 percent increase over the year before, while non-defense spending was increased at a rate less than inflation.
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2 Senators plus Rand Paul is 3 Senators
3 out of 100 is 3% of Senators
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Sen Lee- Please define what is the final straw-I hope one part is you will actively work to throw fellow Utah Senator Mitt Romney under the bus in 2024 and actively work against him
I feel a strongly worded letter coming on.
How much of that is going to Ukraine, and how much is going to American forces?
If you take a look at his alleged "military" record (it's on wiki) Mister McConnell had 37 whole days in uniform and as if by magic, got himself medical separation (all this just after law school, figures), it's a clue as to whether McConnell is a principled person.
The camel’s back was broken a long time ago. Sadly, everyone’s too comfy with their high-speed Internet, social media, and cheap merchandise to give a rip.
The final straw for me was the 2020 election!!
The sad thing is MORE and MORE MAGA are going to withdraw, stop voting knowing it is ALL RIGGED!! I don’t know the answer anymore EXCEPT to go to that place where NO ONE seems ready to go!! Don’t exactly know what it will take until WE BECOME like the population of Brazil with MILLIONS taking to the streets!!
Murkowski looks like a Praying Mantis.
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Lol
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My friends have given up.
Went from libertarians to Republicans and now are bowing out of Voting and donating all together.
Some Republicans to Conservatives to just stepping away, now.
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They feels so strongly that NONE of them attempted a filibuster? Who requested the Omnibus be read aloud to the chamber?
NONE OF THEM. Voting no and bi+ching about it does not constitute fighting for us!
They all wanted to be at home, snug in their beds, like Rand Paul’s cute little Grinch poem teaches us.
More doing less talking gents.
Boozman and Cotton sold out Arkansas.
Been at this for 50+ years, working offices, knocking doors, making THOUSANDS of calls, delivered THOUSANDS of signs donated monetarily what I could BUT the time I have given over the years MAKES ME SICK!! We keep winning elections YET losing our country!! Trump was the ONLY damn candidate (besides Reagan) I could not wait to vote for!! For DECADES have held my nose and voted for who they shoved down our throats!! TRUMP won in 2016 I was SO ELATED I could not stop smiling, THEN the bastards on our side of the isle fought him, blocked him at every turn, Trump had the house AND the Senate and these bastards gave us the middle finger, what McCain did with Ocare was such a betrayal, I don’t give a damn how he felt about Trump Ocare was a MAJOR ISSUE for the base and they gave us ALL the middle finger!! The border wall made me FURIOUS!! I frankly don’t give a damn ANYMORE, I AM DONE for the first time in 50+ years I did not vote in the last election!! Our elections are IN YOUR FACE being stolen and our side does NOTHING! We have political prisoners who have done NOTHING wrong and our side DOES NOTHING!! Our entire government has been weaponized and our side DOES NOTHING!! It is not going to help the nation for us to drop out BUT really caring and being active has done NOTHING!!! It is a very sad situation but losing the elections is just the same as winning the elections SAME EXACT OUTCOME!! These bastards have done more to move Biden’s agenda than they EVER did for Trump!!
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YES!
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