Good day all. Mitch McConnell has been the minority and majority Republican leader in the Senate for a while now. He was instrumental in keeping Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court, and once the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump, took office, pushed through hundreds of new judges and supreme court justices.
However, he also is a creature of the Beltway Swamp, and was never comfortable with President Trump, or with the direction that he has been taking the Republican Party. (What the base wanted really doesn’t matter to people like McConnell) Since the Worst President in history was installed into office, McConnell has been basically, playing political games. With the recent debt ceiling increase, after saying he would do no such thing, the party caucus in the Senate is growing very unhappy with him. Here are the details from The Hill:
The backlash Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) received from fellow Republican senators last week is a wake-up call to the GOP leader that he doesn’t have any more political capital to spend on helping Democrats raise the debt limit again, say GOP aides and strategists.
McConnell is still secure in his position as Senate Republican leader, despite regular attacks from former President Trump, who has called for him to be replaced.
For now that is. If/when President Trump runs and wins reelection in 2024, he is going to remember how people he thought he could count on, stabbed him in the back. McConnell was one of them.
Yet at the same time, Senate Republican aides and strategists say McConnell’s reputation took a hit last week when he agreed to a two-month increase of the debt ceiling after saying for weeks that Republicans wouldn’t help Democrats on the issue.
McConnell didn’t announce his offer to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) until he released a statement Wednesday, and many Senate Republicans were kept in the dark about it until the statement was made public.
Even at a Senate Republican Steering Committee lunch shortly before the statement came out, McConnell kept his plans close to his vest as fellow Senate Republicans discussed various options for getting out of the stalemate.
McConnell’s “Agreement” basically screwed over a number of Republicans in the Senate. While he might not be forced out as minority leader, and he isn’t up for reelection until 2026, people aren’t going to forget what his game playing did.
What made last week’s internal Republican fight different from previous intrafamily spats was that McConnell heard criticism from allies such as Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (Mo.), a member of his leadership team, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee who has tried to bury the hatchet between McConnell and Trump.
Frankly, that hatchet should be buried in McConnell’s head, but that’s just me.
Even Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), who has become known as a moderate in the Senate GOP conference, voiced his misgivings.
“I think this was a crisis entirely of McConnell’s making when he decided to announce the caucus’s position this summer. He created drama and thought it would go a lot differently than he expected and then he blinked,” said a Senate Republican aide who requested anonymity to frankly assess McConnell’s standing after the debt limit fight. “He put his caucus into a tough position.”
“He prides himself on protecting the caucus from tough votes and that obviously took a major blow,” the aide added.
McConnell is and always has been a member of the Beltway Uniparty. He’s also a standard Country Club RINO who will always fold rather then go down fighting. He’s more concerned with his power and position then he is about the country. (In that he is very much like the average Democrat, hence, Uniparty)
McConnell won’t be able to wrangle 10 Republican votes to help Democrats raise the debt ceiling again, something he told President Biden in a letter on Friday that was also a message to Republicans.
“I will not be a party to any future effort to mitigate the consequences of Democratic mismanagement,” he wrote. “They cannot invent another crisis and ask for my help.”
In other words, he stupidly burned one to many bridges.
A second Senate Republican aide said McConnell didn’t have a politically viable exit plan in case Schumer refused to back down in the fight and use the budget reconciliation process to raise the debt ceiling.
And that is due to McConnell’s cowardice. He doesn’t have the guts to force the treasury to live within it’s means. Basically, if McConnell had stood up to UpChuck Schumer and not let the treasury borrow even more money we don’t have, the maladministration would have been forced to live within it’s means, just like everyone else in the United States, only spending money that it actually has. The United States wouldn’t default, but all those wonderful socialist programs that President Dementia’s handlers want, couldn’t happen.
The problem for McConnell is that he can’t handle what the Communazi Propaganda Corps and the Communazis would throw at him. He would rather surrender meekly and maintain his place on the Beltway cocktail circuit.
“It hurts him, which is why he sent that letter to Biden saying he wouldn’t do it again. That’s because he can’t do it again. There won’t be 10 Republican votes unless we get something,” the aide said.
“McConnell was calling and begging people to do this,” the source added, describing how tough it was to round up GOP votes just for a two-month extension.
When that extension expires in December, there is an excellent chance that most of the government will be forced to shut down. For big government types like McConnell, this is something that he can’t handle. The problem for him is that a lot of his like minded RINO’s have been electorally taken out and shot, and their replacements are not that concerned what the Beltway thinks about them.
The aide noted that McConnell’s position in the conference has weakened since the last time there was a big internal fight over the debt limit in 2014, because loyal McConnell allies such as former Sens. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) have retired.
They retired due to ill health. The voters were sick of them.
Another wave of McConnell allies are due to retire at the end of next year when Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Blunt step down.
Thanks to President Trump, and the Deplorables, the RINO, country club “Go along to get along, graceful losers” are being forced out of the Republican Party. President Trump, while not perfect, showed the base what can happen if you have someone who isn’t part of the Deep State, doesn’t swim in the Beltway Swamp, and puts the people ahead of the Chamber of Commerce and Wall Street. Now that the going is getting tough for the RINO’s, they’re doing what they always do. Surrendering.
The next battle will come up toward the end of November as the Senate nears a new debt ceiling deadline.
“This puts McConnell in a box canyon where he has to be tough and fight the debt limit,” said Brian Darling, a GOP strategist and former Senate aide. “He lost face during that debate and now he’s going to have to step up and actually be tougher on the second go on the debt limit and force Democrats to use reconciliation.”
McConnell likes to play games. This is a symptom of being in Washington for far to long. He also didn’t bring the caucus on board with this and now they’ve had it with him. When the debt ceiling needs to be raised again in December, it’s doubtful McConnell will be able to corral the votes to bail out the Democrats again.
McConnell, three members of his leadership team, moderate Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Portman and Shelby, who are both retiring, were among the 11. That vote could come back to haunt Murkowski and Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) in a primary next year, if they decide to run for reelection.
All four of these people are classic RINO’s. Collins and Murkowski have been nicknamed “The RINO Sisters” for their penchant of paying no attention to what their constituents actually want. While Collins is safe for a few years, Murkowski has facing credible primary challenges. People in Alaska have basically had it with her.
If the Republicans flip the house and senate in 2022, it’s likely that there will be new faces coming in. If Murkowski loses her primary along with Thune, McConnell’s support will drop significantly. If the trend continues, especially if Biden continues piling one disaster after another on America, or is removed from office giving us Harris, the Republicans could pick up even more seats. At that point, you will probably have a majority in the Caucus who will push out McConnell. Frankly, it couldn’t happen to a nice guy.
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