Hapless & Hopeless

[Flanders]

There is every reason to believe that Mitch McConnell’s reelection to the Senate is not a lock:

A group that played a crucial role in Ted Cruz’s primary win is taking on a new challenge this cycle: The Madison Project has made it a top priority to take down the current Republican leadership, and one front in that war is Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin’s primary race against Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell.

“The problem in Washington, D.C., right now is the current GOP leadership and their unwillingness to fight the big-government policies that are coming down the pike,” says Drew Ryun, the group’s political director and a former deputy director at the Republican National Committee. “That is encapsulated in Mitch McConnell.”

September 23, 2013 4:00 AM Gunning for McConnell
A conservative group takes aim at the Senate minority leader.
By Katrina Trinko

Gunning for McConnell | National Review Online

Different arenas same game

John Boehner also has a leadership problem although his is contained inside the House, while McConnell has to convince conservative Kentucky voters he remains trustworthy. It looks like he dropped that ball. A lot of bad stuff happened while he’s been the Senate Minority Leader.

I’m not an expert on Senate rules, but it seems to me that Democrats always find a Senate rule or a parliamentary procedure to get what they want, while McConnell never finds a rule to stop anything the Democrats demand. In fact, McConnell’s problem goes deeper than rules. His “ . . . unwillingness to fight the big-government policies . . .” has to work against him come November 2014.

I’ll be the first to admit that defeating a sitting Senator is not easy. After all, Democrat Harry Reid was reelected in 2010 with the Affordable Care Act (March 2010) around his neck. The RNC refused to string him up. Look for the RNC to do the same for one of their own.

Also, in TV newsrooms any Republican is preferable to a conservative Republican; so Matt Bevin is fighting an uphill battle in more ways than one.

Dream big

Let’s say that conservatives are instrumental in giving Republicans a majority in the Senate. Question: Will McConnell try to repeal the ACA as he repeatedly promised? Answer: Not likely. Even if he does keep his promise it is likely the threat of a presidential veto will be the next fight “Republicans can’t win so why fight?”

Super majorities in both houses appear to be the only way to stiffen the backbones of Republican leaders; even then Senate Democrats will find a rule to thwart the hapless McConnell.

Finally, If John Boehner’s speakership is in trouble over amnesty for illegals, and his lukewarm support for defunding Hillarycare II, as many claim then it follows that Mitch McConnell’s leadership will be in trouble in the Senate should he be reelected. Wags might even call them Hapless & Hopeless.

 

[Flanders]

Ted Cruz is getting slammed by everybody except an overwhelming majority of Americans who want the ACA defunded until it can be repealed:

GOP lawmaker: Cruz is 'false leader'
'I think what we have to do is reach out to his people and let them know'
Published: 20 hours ago
GARTH KANT

GOP lawmaker: Cruz is ?false leader?

One thing is emerging. Nobody ever tore down a member of Congress in quite the same way Cruz is being hammered by “friends” and foes alike. For instance, standup comics never made fun of Barack Taqiyya when he was proposing:

A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.

Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not endorsed either Senator Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. But on Thursday, February 14, he is trying to rush Obama’s “Global Poverty Act” (S.2433) through his committee. The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.

Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote
Cliff Kincaid — February 12, 2008

Obama?s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote

S 2433 was so horrendous a Republican would have been burned at the stake by fellow Republicans for even mentioning it, while few Americans ever heard about S 2433 during the 2008 presidential campaign or since. In a just world Taqiyya would have been mocked for the Communist clown he is, yet nothing was said then or now.

Nor is anyone attacking Taqiyya and Harry Reid for defending a law hated by everybody except the parasite class and the insurance industry.

Nor are comedians having fun with the absurdity that says the ACA should not be opposed because Taqiyya was reelected in 2012. Defending the ACA against the wishes of most Americans is even more absurd than passing it in the first place, yet Ted Cruz is the only object of ridicule in all of this.

 

[whitehall]

Not hapless and certainly not hopeless. Republicans actually have the support of the majority of Americans including union leadership regarding Hussein/care. Joe Lieberman will be the first to tell you why there is little in-fighting in the democrat party. He was their V.P. nominee and they kicked him out of the party for being too moderate.

 

[Flanders]

Not hapless and certainly not hopeless. Republicans actually have the support of the majority of Americans including union leadership regarding Hussein/care.

To whitehall: As you indicated, that support is confined to an issue. I’m not sure that conservative Republicans support Boehner and McConnell, but are stuck with them in the fight to defund Hillarycare II.

Joe Lieberman will be the first to tell you why there is little in-fighting in the democrat party. He was their V.P. nominee and they kicked him out of the party for being too moderate.

To whitehall: Lieberman, the so-called Conscience of the Senate, was loved by the media because he was a master at playing the moderate card. In real life he was somewhere to the Left of Norman Thomas in everything except military interventions; especially the ones that served Israel. See this article:

Finally, good riddance to ‘Conscience of the Senate’
D. DOWD MUSKA

Finally, good riddance to ‘Conscience of the Senate’ | HartfordBusiness.com

I will never forget him voting Not Guilty on both counts in Clinton’s impeachment trial after his self-serving condemnation of Bill Clinton’s behavior on the Senate floor.

Incidentally, Lieberman endorsed John McCain in 2008. If that makes him a moderate the country is in trouble. The only plus I can see is that he had no use for then-Senator Obama but that was too little too late.