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This Is How the Left Wins in November…
…if we voters allow Republican candidates to retain Mendacious Mitch and Misleading McCarthy as the personnel setting the policy of the congressional Republican parties.
Whether in the State of the Union address or as an October surprise, the Democrats need only declare victory over COVID, in the face of an empty, more of the same fake opposition, establishment Republican campaign.
Steven Hayward, over at the new and improved, addition by subtraction, Power Line, shares the details of the Democrat strategists plan:
DEMOCRATS LOOKING TO BUG OUT OF THE WAR ON COVID?
Declare the crisis phase of COVID over and push for feeling and acting more normal. . .
Recognize that people are “worn out” and feeling real harm from the years- long restrictions and take their side.
Don’t set “COVID zero” as the victory condition. Americans also don’t think victory is COVID Zero.
Stop talking about restrictions and the unknown future ahead.
As I have written before, it is necessary, for the sake of our constitutional republic, to force our prospective representatives in the House and Senate to change policy by changing leadership, starting by ejecting Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy from leadership. Fail to insist on making this public declaration, without weasel words, by every candidate who needs your vote and you accept the repeat of the flagrant fraud of Mendacious Mitch and Lyin’ Ryan on Obamacare, the border, and every other issue not favored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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“Us”? I’m not tracking, and greatly intrigued. What’s the one-liner?
Thank you in advance.
You can swoon over the pied pipers if you want. I’ve heard this song all before, so I think I’ll hold my applause until I see a little more substance to it.
I’m not swooning. I’m saying that Rick Scott’s plan is better than the Turtle’s . . . who hasn’t got a plan. And rather than just reject it out of hand, I’m saying that something is better than nothing. The Turtle’s got nothing.
If any names came to my mind, I would be happy to share them. I am hoping someone on this thread with a deeper knowledge of the Senate than I will have some suggestions.
Whenever I think of this latter type of negotiating — conciliation, compromise, explanation, and reason — I keep coming back to the differing negotiating styles in this exchange:
Do you expect me to talk?
No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!
How do you compromise with someone whose goals are unacceptable, or negotiate with someone whose word is no good?
Reagan did this with the immigration compromise and the Democrats lied. That was more than thirty years ago, and it’s only gotten worse ever since. The only one who’s ever come close was the Orange Flamethrower.
Especially because Biden would rather punish Americans with rising fuel prices than confront the the far-Left Democrats.
As we say in Israel, “Don’t fire inside the armored personnel vehicle.”
Or who can make others get along with him.
At this point, I think the compromise we are talking about is the two halves of the Republicans. All I know is that we may be stuck with Collins and M, but Romney and Cheney can be voted out.
I hope you’re right.
I lost what little remaining faith I had in the substantial majority of American citizens in 2020.
I don’t think anyone ever accused McConnell of having people skills, he’s just very very good at byzantine politics.
Remember the media filters, though. It might look like half the country are crazed leftists, but that’s just the effect of the media amplifying the shouting of a much smaller number of people.
And remember that Biden didn’t win in 2020. The election was quite obviously stolen. And stolen big. Biden does not have that much support, and it’s falling every day.
Unfortunately, problems arise when the person driving the vehicle has a history of slipping arsenic into the passenger’s food.
I might be in denial (but I don’t think I am), but this is one reason I refuse to believe that the 2020 election was legit.
There are a lot of reasons to correctly conclude it wasn’t legit. More and more appear every week.
This. Presumably in response to McConnell declining to push to win this fall:
https://rescueamerica.com/11-point-plan/
Not perfect. But getting votes on those items in the new Congress, much like Gingrich’s contract, would put a lot of marginal Republicans in exactly the right tight spot.
The Turtle:
McConnell takes aim at Rick Scott’s plan (msn.com)
Ugh. Scott’s plan sounds nice, but it’s no CWA. I’m not faulting it really, but those are not promises that Congress can keep ragrdless of margin of (presumed) victory.
Either way, McConnell’s response shows just how arrogant he is. He doesn’t give a rodent’s hindquarters about the citizen class. Get rid of him.
C’mon, BDB. It’s meant to inspire people and let the citizens know that we’re determined to act! It’s not a working document. See my post on the Main Page to get some ideas.
Jerry, I don’t seem to agree with you often, but you are 100% spot on with this one.
Ideological purity is fantastic when it comes to debates and essays and comments sections at Ricochet and elsewhere. But perfect, which truly is unattainable in an imperfect world, really is the enemy of good if we don’t recognize our own limitations.
Any reason for me to think McConnell is on my side?
Or you could see McConnel’s statement as trolling the left. What Scott potentially does is give democrats something to rally against, rather than confront their own failures and the extremes to which they are catering.
That might very well work in Scott’s district, but it won’t play well everywhere. Some Republican candidates operate in purple areas, some in deep red; and many are running in otherwise blue areas, hoping to flip them. They are necessarily going to need to employ vastly different strategies, not all of which will involve tossing pure red meat to an already unwavering base.
McConnell is more on your side than any democrat who would replace him. And he is far more knowledgeable than most Republicans. As I’ve said, ideological purity is all fine and good, but the most ideologically pure Republican in congress may spend his entire career giving speeches and never making any difference whatsoever. While someone like Mitch McConnell can actually go toe-to-toe with Democrats when it is really needed – regardless of the fact that many republicans wish that he would do it more often.
Also giving “us” something to rally for. I’m sick of hearing what those awful Democrats will do to the country unless we give the GOPe our money and our votes. Then watching them fade like cheap shirts in Clorox.
I understand a lot of ricochetti like The Turtle, but I have despised him since he said of the TEA Party, “We’ll crush them”, and then proceeded to do it. Not that I can affect anything since I live in CA.
I would love for them to rally against that list. It would force them to reveal their actual beliefs.
How would a Democrat replace the Republican Senate Leader?
Except when you have someone inside the APC working for the enemy. As McConnell and McCarthy’s factions have had here for decades.
The ones who voted for Trump?
Hear! Hear!