Posted on 06/28/2007 1:25:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitch can come out of the cloak room now, the coast is clear.
Isn’t that what JFK called “Profiles in Courage?” LOL
bttt
When the leader is absent from one of the most significant battles, one should question if he really is the leader we want ... cut and run when the fight gets hot and heavy is not my choice for a leader. Shameful.
And disgusting.
I believe that the Presidential hopefuls and coat-tailers were suckered by Kennedy (with Sphinkter as a useful idiot) and Lindsey, Kyle, McCain all got sucked into this backroom think-tank Frankenstein without the guidance, sponsorship, permission or coverage of the Leader, McConnell. McConnell finds himself with these guys out on a night patrol panty raid and he is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't as far a sponsorship support or leading and opposition.
Kennedy was brilliant in his evil design. He hung out the bait and they went for it. Now they can have it both ways. The Kennedy types can claim that they were Bi-partisan, giving Kyle full input and the Republican knuckle-draggers failed to support Kyle's effort. Conversely, they can claim that now they have to have their version as the President and the Repbulican members can't keep "their guys" in line.
Ky. PING!
perhaps, but see my take at #8.
I think McConnell was “out of the loop” but not by his own doing.
I think McConnell sold his ba... to the President’s lock box. Why I don’t yet know, but I bet we would have found out if it had passed. The power of the President to buy people off is enormous.
The fact that McConnell could be bought is not a good sign.
His wife works in the WH...
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Democrats will use the bill’s failure to aid in their characterization of the senator as an “obstructionist.”"
Who gives a flying fig what they think? - They aren't going to vote for him unless he walks on water and changes to a liberal trash leftist.
Scary Harry Reid is threatening to resurrect the beast from the dead yet again. What will Mitch do, huddle in the closet with the democrats once more to bring it back or tell dingy to get lost? Only the shadow knows.
He will not be the Minority Leader for much longer. You don't vote against your own people as he did the other day, no matter what you think.
Not and stay the "leader" for very long.
Mr. Sessions seems to me to be the obvious choice for the future.
What we have here is a President that hasn't yet understood that as far as legislation goes, he is in the minority.
The strength he has, the executive strength, he understands how to use as commander in chief, but he doesn't understand how to use domestically when his party is in the minority.
If he was building fence like a landscaper being paid by the measured yard at double the unit price, and then raiding worksites and deporting people in Seattle roundups -- Bamm! he would have the Dems banging down the door whining and put Mitch in the drivers seat to get a good conservative reform that he could take to the big business leaders and the sister-in law and say, hey, look what I did. Instead, he tries to make legislation and that is not his job.
McConnell wasn’t the only one in hiding. Did anyone else notice how scare McCain has been the last few days? The media won’t acknowledge how this immigration fiasco has hurt McCain’s campaign, but he has certainly been quiet about it since his numbers started to go south.
...probably not for long now.
We need another, modern Teddy Roosevelt. That’s why I’m backing Fred Thompson, I think he’s our best chance of seeing another TR, Reagan, Churchill or Thatcher type.
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