Hey Mitch, we know the words are empty, even National RINO magazine knows it
At which point many people started taking Ted Cruz seriously.
So simple even a Romneyite Concern Troll can understand it.
As I’ve noted here before, Republicans use Senate rules to play a con game on the folks back home. In a nutshell, they first arrange things to ensure that Obama gets his way, then formally vote against him once they are certain that opposition is futile.
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The Potemkin Opposition: Epitomized by Senator John Cornyn. He looks as though he were cast by Hollywood for the role of “Senate Conservative.” He plays the role well, if looks alone were the issue. He plays this game expertly: Giving Obama what he wants, and, then, OPPOSING him on meaningless votes that are guaranteed to go the Democrats’ way.
Show-voting is easier to explain that this long article.
McConnell and his leadership flunkies WANTED the budget to pass unamended! They needed 60 Senators to vote for Cloture, closing off debate and amendments and bring it to a simple plurality floor vote. This required at least 5 (maybe 6) Republicans to vote with Democrats
Cruz caused him to get no sword fallers and McConnell & his butt buddies had to step up.
Following this in the plurality vote, McConnell and all the Republicans voted NO to the budget (for the folks back home and the news letters) in a defeat that was evident before the bill was even discussed.
They had the opportunity to load the bill up with multiple amendments to keep it from passing and they did not do it. They WANTED it to pass.
I am sick of Cornyn’s ads claiming he voted against the debt ceiling hike.
he is a LIAR and will be punished here in Texas March 4
“Unlike Republicans, they stick together to fight for the things (statism, power . . .) they believe in. Does anyone tell them, “Look, nothing can happen without 60 votes, so you’ve got to moderate?” Are you kidding?”
yep, that’s the defining difference between Dims and the GOP in Washington D.C. - the Dims go to win, win, win period, and the GOP leadership goes to compromise, compromise, compromise
they allow the Dims to never seek bipartanship, except when the Dims want to blame the GOP for not being bipartisan, reducing the meaning of bipartisan to Dims going for the jugular and the GOP going along
Buh bye, Cornyn.
Another great McCarthy article, neverdem. He’s one of the solid conservatives remaining at NR. Wonder when he will be purged?
Thanks for posting.
Unless you’ve already been banned, I’d love your take on this. (yes, I’m being snarky)
In the RINOs own National Review?
I’m speechless.
They will soon learn. Perhaps as early as, say, November?
I think the GOP needs to get with America, and bring back American jobs from China.
Actually.
Ping
A sad day Ditch? You’ve had a derelect, duplicitous, deplorable disaster of a 30 year career in the history of the Senate!