{"id":35742,"date":"2021-10-21T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=35742"},"modified":"2021-10-21T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:45:24","slug":"senate-gop-not-very-happy-with-cocaine-mitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=35742","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP not very happy with Cocaine Mitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/sup> Century, Donald Trump, took office, pushed through hundreds of new judges and supreme court justices.<\/p>\n

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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\u2019t 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<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The backlash Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a> (Ky.) received from fellow Republican senators last week is a wake-up call to the GOP leader that he doesn\u2019t have any more political capital to spend on helping Democrats raise the debt limit again, say GOP aides and strategists.<\/b><\/p>\n

McConnell is still secure in his position as Senate Republican leader, despite regular attacks from former President Trump<\/a>, who has called for him to be replaced. <\/b><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Yet at the same time, Senate Republican aides and strategists say McConnell\u2019s 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\u2019t help Democrats on the issue. <\/b><\/p>\n

McConnell didn\u2019t announce his offer to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer<\/a> (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. <\/b><\/p>\n

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. <\/b><\/p>\n

McConnell\u2019s \u201cAgreement\u201d basically screwed over a number of Republicans in the Senate. While he might not be forced out as minority leader, and he isn\u2019t up for reelection until 2026, people aren\u2019t going to forget what his game playing did.<\/p>\n

What made last week\u2019s internal Republican fight different from previous intrafamily spats was that McConnell heard criticism from allies such as Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Roy Blunt<\/a> (Mo.), a member of his leadership team, and Sen. Lindsey Graham<\/a> (S.C.), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee who has tried to bury the hatchet between McConnell and Trump.<\/b><\/p>\n

Frankly, that hatchet should be buried in McConnell\u2019s head, but that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n

Even Sen. Mitt Romney<\/a> (Utah), who has become known as a moderate in the Senate GOP conference, voiced his misgivings. <\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cI think this was a crisis entirely of McConnell\u2019s making when he decided to announce the caucus\u2019s position this summer. He created drama and thought it would go a lot differently than he expected and then he blinked,\u201d said a Senate Republican aide who requested anonymity to frankly assess McConnell\u2019s standing after the debt limit fight. \u201cHe put his caucus into a tough position.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cHe prides himself on protecting the caucus from tough votes and that obviously took a major blow,\u201d the aide added.<\/b><\/p>\n

McConnell is and always has been a member of the Beltway Uniparty. He\u2019s also a standard Country Club RINO who will always fold rather then go down fighting. He\u2019s 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)<\/p>\n

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McConnell won\u2019t be able to wrangle 10 Republican votes to help Democrats raise the debt ceiling again, something he told President Biden<\/a> in a letter on Friday that was also a message to Republicans. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI will not be a party to any future effort to mitigate the consequences of Democratic mismanagement,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThey cannot invent another crisis and ask for my help.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

In other words, he stupidly burned one to many bridges.<\/p>\n

A second Senate Republican aide said McConnell didn\u2019t 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. <\/b><\/p>\n

And that is due to McConnell\u2019s cowardice. He doesn\u2019t have the guts to force the treasury to live within it\u2019s means. Basically, if McConnell had stood up to UpChuck Schumer and not let the treasury borrow even more money we don\u2019t have, the maladministration would have been forced to live within it\u2019s means, just like everyone else in the United States, only spending money that it actually has. The United States wouldn\u2019t default, but all those wonderful socialist programs that President Dementia\u2019s handlers want, couldn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

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The problem for McConnell is that he can\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hurts him, which is why he sent that letter to Biden saying he wouldn\u2019t do it again. That\u2019s because he can\u2019t do it again. There won\u2019t be 10 Republican votes unless we get something,\u201d the aide said. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cMcConnell was calling and begging people to do this,\u201d the source added, describing how tough it was to round up GOP votes just for a two-month extension. <\/b><\/p>\n

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\u2019t handle. The problem for him is that a lot of his like minded RINO\u2019s have been electorally taken out and shot, and their replacements are not that concerned what the Beltway thinks about them.<\/p>\n

The aide noted that McConnell\u2019s 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<\/a> (R-Kan.) and Lamar Alexander<\/a> (R-Tenn.) have retired. <\/b><\/p>\n

They retired due to ill health. The voters were sick of them.<\/p>\n

Another wave of McConnell allies are due to retire at the end of next year when Sens. Rob Portman<\/a> (R-Ohio), Richard Shelby<\/a> (R-Ala.), Richard Burr<\/a> (R-N.C.) and Blunt step down. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Thanks to President Trump, and the Deplorables, the RINO, country club \u201cGo along to get along, graceful losers\u201d 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\u2019t 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\u2019s, they\u2019re doing what they always do. Surrendering.<\/p>\n

The next battle will come up toward the end of November as the Senate nears a new debt ceiling deadline.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis puts McConnell in a box canyon where he has to be tough and fight the debt limit,\u201d said Brian Darling, a GOP strategist and former Senate aide. \u201cHe lost face during that debate and now he\u2019s going to have to step up and actually be tougher on the second go on the debt limit and force Democrats to use reconciliation.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

McConnell likes to play games. This is a symptom of being in Washington for far to long. He also didn\u2019t bring the caucus on board with this and now they\u2019ve had it with him. When the debt ceiling needs to be raised again in December, it\u2019s doubtful McConnell will be able to corral the votes to bail out the Democrats again.<\/p>\n

McConnell, three members of his leadership team, moderate Sens. Susan Collins<\/a> (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski<\/a> (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<\/a> (R-S.D.) in a primary next year, if they decide to run for reelection. <\/b><\/p>\n

All four of these people are classic RINO\u2019s. Collins and Murkowski have been nicknamed \u201cThe RINO Sisters\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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If the Republicans flip the house and senate in 2022, it\u2019s likely that there will be new faces coming in. If Murkowski loses her primary along with Thune, McConnell\u2019s 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\u2019t happen to a nice guy.<\/p>\n

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