Posted on 07/29/2022 10:11:31 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said on Thursday that Senate Republicans got tricked into passing a semiconductor bill after believing that a Democrat reconciliation bill was dead.
(snip) The same day that the Senate passed the CHIPS bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced a deal on the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill that would aim to reduce the deficit, raise taxes, and boost climate change and Obamacare spending.
Announcing the deal immediately after Senate Republicans backed the CHIPS bill left many GOP lawmakers with egg on their faces.
We got our ass kicked. It’s just that simple. Looks to me like we got rinky-doo’d. That’s a Louisiana word for ‘screwed.’ And we got our ass kicked. That’s the way my people back home see it,” Kennedy said.
Asked if he had played McConnell, the Senate majority leader said, “We’re just doing what we have to do.”
McConnell also lost to Schumer on a debt ceiling fight in 2021, which led to a debt to temporarily create a carveout for the legislative filibuster. One former senior GOP aide said the deal was to save McConnell’s “ego.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It is absolute incompetence of McConnell to keep letting them get away with it.
Here's an oldie post of mine from 2009 on Harry Reid's history of reneging on promises:
...McConnell got Reid to agree to hold a high-profile debt-limit vote next month -- just before the president's State of the Union address...Specter suggests Reid reneged on word.
Newly-turned Democrat Arlen Specter today hinted that that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reneged on his word to allow Specter to keep his seniority on committees on which he sits. "Sen. Reid assured me that I would keep my committee assignments, and that I would have the same seniority as if I had been elected as a Democrat in 1980," Specter said in a written statement today.Reid Bows to Far Left as Rs Rank Judges Issue #1.
And they undoubtedly have the Rasmussen survey results in the back of their minds as they consider their reaction to Majority Leader Reids broken promise to confirm three appeals court nominees before the Memorial Day recess, as well as Reids sure-to-be-broken earlier promises to meet the historical average (17) for appeals court confirmations in a presidents final two years. With just a couple of months left in the confirmation window, Reid is less than halfway to meeting that average.[snip]
A good GOP Senate source reports today that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the entire Republican Conference about the judge-fight issue. McConnell is said to have been very insistent that he would not let Majority Leader Reid's broken promise go unpunished He would not tell the Conference exactly what action he was planning, but he did say it would be very firm, and that all concerned would know it when we see it. Quin Hillyer (5/21/08)
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While Sen. Lott overcame numerous obstacles to get Paez and Berzon confirmed, Sen. Reid has looked for excuses to renege on his pledge.
[snip]
GOP senators are understandably angry that Sen. Reid broke the golden rule of senatorial honor by reneging on his commitment.
[snip]
Democrats Target Coburns Holds
To ease passage of the public lands measure, Reid promised Coburn the chance to offer a limited number of amendments.Reid: No Vote On Lifting Drug Import Ban Before Health-Care BillBut after the majority leader objected to a Coburn proposal that would have eased restrictions on firearms in national parks, the package stalled for months, prompting Coburn to charge that Reid reneged on their agreement.
Coburn eventually got to offer four amendments all of which were defeated but not the guns measure.
Republicans accused U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., of reneging Tuesday on a pledge to allow a Senate vote on a measure lifting an import ban on pharmaceutical drugs before lawmakers take up health-care legislation.The development, supported by major drug makers, comes as the Senate is moving to craft the politically delicate compromises needed for the broader health care overhaul bill.
In a letter to a bipartisan group of senators that have been pushing for the import ban to be scrapped, Reid said there wouldn't be time in the busy legislative calendar for full consideration of legislation lifting the long-standing prohibition now.
"He did commit to us and obviously that commitment is not going to be kept," Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., said Tuesday evening.
Recently...
AFL-CIO Boss to Harry Reid: Go Nuclear
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) accused Republicans of trying to disable the administration by blocking the appointments, though he stopped short of saying campaign donations are directly attributable for GOP opposition. Merkley received $1.2 million from labor groups since 2010, including more than $275,000 for his 2014 campaign.Now we can add Chuck Schumer to the list of Democrats who can successfully roll Mitch McConnell.Merkley defended President Obamas recess appointments while the Senate was in session because functionally we were out of session. He also accused McConnell of violating a pair of gentlemans agreements to confirm President Obamas nominees without obstruction from the minority.
Obama and Reid reneged on a labor truce of their own when the Democrats re-nominated Block and Griffin to the board, according to a top Republican aide.
-PJ
Don’t feel too bad.
Dems have been out-snookering Pubbies for a 100 years.
Pubbies are so gullible they fall for it all the time.
Cartoonists have made careers out of drawing cartoons of Dems out-snookering Pubbies.
It even happens when Pubbies have a majority.
Sadly, that is the history of the GOP — Gullible Ole Party.
Look what you have now besides the last Republican did win however rigging changes all the rule many have wised up to the rigging game.
But with an "aw shucks" country charm littered with goofy phrases.
Laughing all the way to the bank.
“Evil always wins because good is dumb.”
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Mitch supports Fauci
Mitch supports Cheney and her Commission
Mitch supports Ukraine spending
Dems fight for every inch of the political battlefield 24/7/365. Look how they gaslight on what a “recession” is now. Swamp GOP, OTOH, are lazy. They just not interested in day to day political combat. They’ll hit and run at a committee hearing but that is about it.
No, RINO McConnellIdiot got tricked/duped, Mr. Kennedy....
Says a lot about linda and none of it is good.
Same thing with coburn from oklahoma saying obama was his friend.
I told him I don’t have friends like that and am not friendly to people who do.
McConnell did not get duped, he wants it as bad as Schumer does.
Was thinking near same to myself but opted not to post such cause FR has its McConnellIdiot backers....pissed of a couple this morning.
Exactly.
Kennedy trying to sugar coat it.
More like pissing on our leg and telling us it’s raining.
Mitch is a RINO.
Just McConnell doing what McConnell does best — give in to the democrats. Yet, the dam- Republicans continue to put him in the leadership so it is as much their fault as it is McConnells. A pathetic group, the entire lot.
We don’t call them the stupid party for nothing
No, he is an actual Republican. Not as conservative as someone like, for example, Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz, but vastly conservative than the most right wing Dem, Joe Manchin. So people who say he doesn’t disagree with dems on anything except a few green bills are either stupid or ignorant.
Fomenting instability, promoting injustice and creating confusion have become the strong suits of American government. We've reached a point where a lousy economy, attacks from foreigners (this includes open borders) and mismanaged "pandemics" etc. may not be enough to encourage a predominantly softheaded nation to save itself from extreme pain.
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