Ignoring the behavior for a moment (and we'll get to that), a common assertion among the established polity is to remind everyone that they don't have a supermajority. So, after being told for years that 'we need the House...oh, now we need the Senate...oh, now we need the Presidency,' now there's another oh moment as we have to endure the droning chant of "filibuster, filibuster!" Never mind that when Harry Reid controlled the Senate, he also controlled discretion on when and when not to use this invention of the Senate (not the Constitution) to pass his president's agenda. But it's obvious that Mitch doesn't have any similar notion or drive to do likewise for his constituency, much less his commander-in-chief.
With all his lieutenants from the Corkers to the McCains, it is one Mitch McConnell who continues to be a major impediment in blocking progress towards not just the president's agenda, but an overall more conservative direction. And it is to this vital point precisely why such a caricature needs to be escorted out of the leadership role in the U.S. Senate...
Related links: Conservative groups demand that McConnell step downCR: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has a stunning dearth of knowledge when it comes to the Tea Party.
President Donald Trump and McConnell gave a joint press conference in the Rose Garden [last] Monday, in which McConnell doubled down on his support for establishment candidates. Conservatives simply cannot win general elections, the senator from Kentucky said.
McConnell sorely needs a history lesson on the Tea Party, and LevinTV host Mark Levin was happy to oblige.
“Winners make policy and losers go home,” McConnell said.
Marco Rubio. Mike Lee. Rand Paul. Ted Cruz. These are but a few winning Tea Party candidates that were opposed by the establishment but are now key figures in the Republican majority, Levin reminded.
“His mentality is that conservatism can’t win,” Levin said. “This is why McConnell must go. The United States Senate is not going to move. It’s not going to embrace conservative principles. It’s not going to embrace the Constitution. It’s not gonna deal with the debt. It’s not gonna deal with the border. The United States Senate is not going to move from its current position unless Mitch McConnell is thrown out.”
Rep. Dave Brat: McConnell failures in Senate are ‘embarrassing’
McConnell endorses Charlie Crist in GOP Senate contest
But by all means, PLEASE, take the lackluster lieutenants with him! Their disastrous records speak for themselves. Finally, some of these RINOs are jumping ship. Unfortunately, this is allowing them the levity to disgrace themselves, their party and any semblance of principle on the way out...
Related links: Arizona Sen Jeff Flake will not seek re-election; blasts Trump for 'reckless, undignified behavior'CR: LevinTV host Mark Levin started his radio show Tuesday evening tearing into retiring Senators Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., two officials who have consistently done great obstructionist harm to the conservative agenda.
“As a result of being exposed, they choose not to seek reelection,” Levin said. Both currently retain an "F" Conservative Review Liberty Score.
“It is their own constituents for whom they have utter contempt,” he added, pointing out that both were long shots for reelection.
Levin ripped Flake for insulting the conservative grassroots and reminded of Corker's central role in helping Barack Obama pass the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Big Rumor in Mississippi: Thad Cochran to Step Down
And I'd be remiss without saying more about this nonsense. We understand the Democrats' tantrums...Hillary didn't win, so they rage. However, for these entrenched Republicans, the criticism (something that's always shockingly more severe towards their ally than their adversary) appears to be about a citizen-politician being elected president under a party they were convinced they solely owned and operated...
McConnell, McCain, Corker, Flake...a cabal of the most malicious RINOs on Capitol Hill who, mark my words, are planning to stifle anything of substance or accomplishment from happening over the next year, be that from Trump or the handful of conservative senators. For all intents and purposes, they're obstructionist Democrats for the remainder of their terms, something that should already be recognizable with the ever-increasing visibility and voice the lib press grants them. In other words, useful idiots.
And speaking of accomplishments, as well as broadly returning to records, beyond the Gorsuch nomination, this McConnell-led Senate's benchmark goals have been nihil. Well, actually, there is one significant achievement (along with the House), but it's definitely not one to boast over...
Highest spending since Obama...what a record. To be fair, we all know Democrats have been equally abysmal, if not more so over shorter periods of time and in conjunction with the current spending spree. Nonetheless, I'm absolutely certain this isn't the results Republican voters were promised.CNSNews: Real federal spending in fiscal 2017, which ended on Sept. 30, was higher than in any year in the history of the United States other than fiscal 2009, which was the year that President Barack Obama’s $840 billion stimulus law was enacted.
Fiscal 2017 also saw the second highest real federal individual income tax totals of any year in U.S. history, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.
Total federal tax revenues were the third highest in U.S. history.
While it was collecting the third highest total tax revenues in U.S. history, the federal government ran a deficit $665,712,000,000 because of its high total spending.
Republicans have controlled the House of Representatives since 2011, after winning a majority of seats in the 2010 election. They have controlled the Senate since 2015, after winning a majority in the 2014 election. In fiscal years 2016 and 2017, a Congress in which the Republican Party controls both houses was responsible for enacting all federal spending legislation.
It's time to right the ship before they wreck it, folks. It starts with tackling McConnell and his lieutenants. Guys like Levin and many others are obviously a great help on the national level, but it's time for grassroots efforts to kick in as well. For their constituencies in Arizona, Tennessee and Kentucky, start lining up conservative replacements, while simultaneously demanding they relinquish attacks on their own and do the work they were sent to Washington to do. Demand they drive a conservative agenda forward! For everyone else, request that your senator not sign on with these turncoats nor kowtow to them, but assist the effort in curtailing their defiance of principled advancement. Email, fax, text, call, melt their phones, make them feel it.
