Posted on 02/01/2023 10:31:57 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell booted two Republican lawmakers from a powerful Senate committee on Wednesday after an unsuccessful attempt last year to oust him from his leadership position.
Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) are no longer members of the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees issues related to interstate commerce, science and technology policy, and transportation, and according to Scott, it’s personal.
“This is what happens when you challenge leadership,” Scott said in a statement to The Post on Wednesday.
“It was McConnell’s decision to remove someone who has actually run businesses and ran the third largest state from a committee I’ve served on for four years. You’ll have to ask him why,” he added.
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According to the Hill, McConnell will appoint first-term Sens. Ted Budd (R- N.C.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) and J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) to the Commerce Committee in place of Scott, Lee........
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The problem is, McConnell doesn't have enemies on the left...
Only because I think he blackmails them or intimidates them, especially the newbies. It’s his way or no way. He’s a POS.
No surprise here. “China” McConnell is supporting those who are paying him.
It's a backstab.
You can do better, Fury.
“He is NOT a RINO!”
Okay Ann whatever you say. Many of us disagree BASED ON FACTS AND HIS ACTIONS!
I once respected Kentucky. Continuing to vote for that Chinese/Democrat owned rino two-face liar is changing that.
Exactly.
Backstabbing their conservative voters is how these GOPee "puddles of yellow" do their dirty work.
Yeh, he just doesn’t lie as well as Shiff yet, but the a$$hole keeps practicing!
I think that’s pretty reasoned thinking.
I opposed him also. In the quest for “my way”, I try to leave healthy room
for understanding that although I don’t get it the way I want, I may get a
good portion of what I wanted the way I had not preferred.
It’s my hope we won’t see too much retribution from McCarthy. He may
surprise us.
I’ll admit to being pretty leery of him. What I’ve seen out of him so far,
makes it look like some sense may have actually been beaten into him
during the nomination process.
His public comments have been much much better than I had expected.
The other day he was defending Trump from a standpoint about 180° off
what his comments were in the past.in the past
His most recent comments about dealing with the Democrats, are
somewhat troublesome from the standpoint of what has happened in the
past. There is a process though. We have to wait and see what comes
from it. Then we’ll have to ask ourselves if we could’ve done better.
I hope we’re pleasantly surprised, but then we’ve hoped that a lot in the past
too.
SWTF are you talking about?? i said VANCE was NOT a RINO! Mitch is a DEMOCRAT!
Tell that to Kentucky.
Mitch McConnell is NOT a “RINO”.
He is the essence of Republicanism, and if you are staying in that party believing it is, it can be, or it will be different - it’s YOU that’s the RINO.
LOL.
You don’t even know what jackassin’ is, apparently.
All I have to do is read your posts to see examples.
LOL! Just like I thought, no idea what it means.
You’ll find it in The Grapes of Wrath.
Now scoot along, youngster. Read and become informed.
Do better.
As I wrote before, "All I have to do is read your posts to see examples".
Deflection doesn't change that fact, child.
LOL!
Good one!
You are of course right but we may still need things to talk about in the semis some night heading to the remote concentration camps for conservative patriots. A united Dem enemy is setting us up for that.
WTF are you saying.....I said Mitch McConnell was a DEMOCRAT! YOU are TWISTING word.
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