Steve R.
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I'm coming around to think that Mitch McConnell must be voted out of the Senate and replaced by another (conservative) Republican.
The first recent spark that prompts me think this way is that the proposed bipartisan Senate immigration bill would essentially legitimize the entry of illegal immigrants into the US instead of actually closing the border if passed into law. This implies that both Schumer and McConnell worked cooperatively together. Working together is normally a good thing, but in this case McConnell appears to have blown-off the requests from conservative Republicans that the border be closed.
This thread was triggered by the following article: 18 GOP Senators Help Democrats Pass Bloated Spending Package, 3 Did Not Vote. See the first post in this thread. McConnell was accused of betraying Republican fiscal interests.
Today, on the Mark Levine's show, Ted Cruz explicitly pointed out that McConnell had refused to provide financial re-election assistance to certain Republicans, one of whom was Cruz. Cruz called on McConnell to resign.
Previously, the expected 2022 "red-wave" fizzled. Following that disaster, rumors started to materialize that McConnell refused to help certain conservative Republicans with their election efforts as McConnell believed that they would not support him as the Senate Leader. Essentially, McConnell preferred to purposely "lose" an election to Democrats just to retain his position as Senate Minority Leader. Republicans don't need this type of self-serving "leadership". Republicans need to take control of the Senate to implement a conservative Republican agenda.
As an associated observation: Republicans also need new leadership. Ronna McDaniel, still retained her position as head of the Republican National Committee Chair despite the "red-wave" fizzling.
The first recent spark that prompts me think this way is that the proposed bipartisan Senate immigration bill would essentially legitimize the entry of illegal immigrants into the US instead of actually closing the border if passed into law. This implies that both Schumer and McConnell worked cooperatively together. Working together is normally a good thing, but in this case McConnell appears to have blown-off the requests from conservative Republicans that the border be closed.
This thread was triggered by the following article: 18 GOP Senators Help Democrats Pass Bloated Spending Package, 3 Did Not Vote. See the first post in this thread. McConnell was accused of betraying Republican fiscal interests.
Today, on the Mark Levine's show, Ted Cruz explicitly pointed out that McConnell had refused to provide financial re-election assistance to certain Republicans, one of whom was Cruz. Cruz called on McConnell to resign.
Previously, the expected 2022 "red-wave" fizzled. Following that disaster, rumors started to materialize that McConnell refused to help certain conservative Republicans with their election efforts as McConnell believed that they would not support him as the Senate Leader. Essentially, McConnell preferred to purposely "lose" an election to Democrats just to retain his position as Senate Minority Leader. Republicans don't need this type of self-serving "leadership". Republicans need to take control of the Senate to implement a conservative Republican agenda.
As an associated observation: Republicans also need new leadership. Ronna McDaniel, still retained her position as head of the Republican National Committee Chair despite the "red-wave" fizzling.
of the sacrificial lamb is just that. bull
isn't working.
