Well, she still might not - support seems to be tepid - but what is he doing bringing her up for a vote next week?
McConnell’s office has struggled to defend the Majority Leader’s decision—which flies in the face of a pre-election promise to not allow any attorney general nominee who supports Obama’s executive amnesty.McConnell’s spokesman Don Stewart repeatedly refused to answer when Breitbart News asked him why the leader plans to bring Lynch’s nomination up for a floor vote next week. He also refused to state whether McConnell himself—even though he’s bringing up Lynch for a vote—will personally vote for Lynch, something that would be a direct violation of the pre-election promise McConnell made to voters.“He’ll speak on her next week—assuming Dems end their filibuster of the anti-trafficking bill,” Stewart said, refusing to answer where the Majority Leader himself stands and why he’s even bringing her up for a vote when he doesn’t have to. “McConnell is the leader of a majority in the Senate,” Daniel Horowitz, the Conservative Review’s senior editor, told Breitbart News.He could easily refuse to bring Lynch up for confirmation and actually stand for conservative values. However, McConnell always likes taking the path of least resistance. In this case, simply allowing Lynch to come for a vote, but personally opposing her, allows him to win the best of both worlds: avoid any confrontation with Obama but preserve his conservative bona fides.
We were assured, after the primary last year, that he had a truly conservative record in the Senate, that he just didn't have a firebrand demeanor when it came to explaining deviations from that. Well, now he's Majority Leader, and all we've seen is deviations. Would he care to get in front of a microphone in some prominent forum and explain with conviction and forthrightness just what is principled about the way he's "leading"?
That firebrand demeanor of Cruz' ain't exactly winning friends and influencing Republicans and Democrats alike. Might have worked for Hitler back in da day .
ReplyDeleteThe handful of consistently principle conservatives on Capitol Hill is dismayingly small: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Mia Love, Trey Gowdy, Louis Gohmert, Joni Ernst. Maybe a few more, but we need a lot more in their ranks next time around.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the reason Ted's getting the Palin treatment is the same reason Palin got it: the regime's propaganda arm is terrified of such people and immediately sets about dying to give them a toxic image with the public.
Not sure about other low info cattle, but I think it's the firebrand demeanor that is off-putting. Don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.
ReplyDeleteWe need firebrands more than ever. People who speaks plain truths with passion - and volume.
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