Posted on 02/02/2023 4:54:16 AM PST by RandFan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has pulled Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who tried to oust him as the Senate’s top Republican in a bruising leadership race, off the powerful Commerce Committee.
McConnell also removed Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who supported Scott’s bid to replace McConnell as leader, from the Commerce panel, which has broad jurisdiction over a swath of federal agencies.
The GOP leader insisted last year that he didn’t take the attempt to end his leadership reign personally, but the latest move sends a clear message to conservatives that challenging McConnell’s leadership carries a cost.
“McConnell got to pick. He kicked me off; he kicked Lee off,” Scott confirmed in an interview.
Scott acknowledged that running against McConnell was the likely reason he was booted from the panel despite his relative seniority on the committee and experience running a major company.
“I probably ran the biggest company almost any senator in the history of the country has ever run. I was governor of the third-biggest economy in the United States, Florida. I’ve got a business background,” Scott said, ticking off his credentials.
But Scott and Lee have teamed up to challenge McConnell’s leadership of the GOP conference on fiscal and spending decisions, and Lee gave one of the nominating speeches for Scott’s bid to take over as GOP leader.
Scott said he learned of the decision in a text message.
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His comment timing aside, he is accurate in that we must get this welfare federal system under control as we are sinking the country. A small example is housing illegals in luxury hotels, reparation demands, student loan expunging, and other too numerous to mention. I know SS is not going away but it was to be a safety net not a retirement program. Only way to balance the budget is to reduce everything across the board some percentage, not just SS. None of this detracts from fact McConnell is a turd.
There are a million like him waiting to take his place.
You are a minority among those who self-identify as Republicans.
You are, in fact, a "Republican in name only".
If you want to know what a real Republican is, you need look no further than Mitch McConnell.
McConnell is an oligarchic prick that knows he won’t be removed until HE chooses to retire or dies.
He has hand-picked most of his fellow Republican senators, and disallows anybody who opposes him from entering HIS senate. And any that actually do he works to co-opt.
Rino McConnell is owned by the Chinese and maybe is just following orders.
If you can’t remove Mitch as your leader, then all you care about is money. Why don’t the other Senators protest what Mitch did? They fear he won’t fund their reelections. Mitch has no personality either.
Someone should pull Mitch into a corner and beat the crap out of him
He will be dead soon. Death ends corruption, making way for new corruption.
The GOP leader insisted last year that he didn’t take the attempt to end his leadership reign personally, but the latest move sends a clear message to conservatives that challenging McConnell’s leadership carries a cost.
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Well if it carries a cost, then he did take it personally, didn’t he?
If they prayed five times a day (minimum) this would not have happened.
And as honest as Joe Biden /s
“Team Mitch” is a vengeful sot.
Turtle bites without any teeth!
Only if they were facing Mecca while praying..
Agree. The 17th Amendment has been a disaster.
Total disaster. Same can be said of the 16th Amendment, as well.
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