Posted on 07/17/2014 11:01:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The tell-tale sign Republicans expected to lose the Senate in 2006 appeared June 28 of that year. That was when the GOP turned to stunts to save themselves.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., brought to the floor a constitutional amendment banning the burning of the American flag. Flag-burning had not been a serious issue for years. But after Hurricane Katrina, and with the Iraq War going poorly, Republicans were desperate to change the subject.
“Flag burning is a form of expression that is spiteful or vengeful,” said the late Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., whose chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee was at stake in the coming election. “It is designed to hurt. It is not designed to persuade.” The amendment failed by a single vote. (To his credit, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, now the Senate GOP leader, voted against it.)
Today, the Senate is a mirror Image of what it was then. Senate Democrats, expecting to lose, have given up on actual bills intended to become law in favor of more cynical political stunts.
Their bill to undo the Supreme Court's recent Hobby Lobby decision is just a bit of blue meat for the base -- a messaging opportunity for their well-worn “war on women” theme.
More audacious, perhaps, is their proposed constitutional amendment to let Congress regulate political speech. This attempt to weaken America's original Bill of Rights could well backfire on the 41 Democrats who are co-sponsoring it, but for now it serves as a symbolic sop for the Left's naïve true-believers in campaign finance reform.
Neither of these measures has a prayer of passage -- especially the constitutional change, which would require two-thirds majorities in both the House and Senate and ratification by the states.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The Wapo makes it an 86% the Republican wing of Uniparty takes over.
Next step , kill all these Unconstitutional(in A Demonut’s head)Voter ID laws
Tanks to Dems who elected America’s first terrorist president..
I only respect one thing about the dems and thats their willingness to pander to their base. The GOP considers its base racists, homophobes and nativists to be ignored as they pander to lefties who laugh at them and vote dem.
So, since the GOP is NOT pandering to it’s one-time conservative base, what does that mean?
The rats are desperate, they smell their coming destruction.
Wouldn’t count my senate seats before they’re sat in. The gop-e is trying it’s hardest to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Or is it the other way around? I’d love to see hairy run out of his chair but I ain’t holdin’ my breath.
Ok, so let’s just assume the Establishment-controlled Republican party wins back the Senate in November. Then what??
Don’t forget the Dems have the cemetary vote, the illegal vote, and those that vote multiple times. Far from certain.
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Well said... Especially that last part about the GOP’s insane pandering to the lefties.
I miss gridlock but it’s probably too late for gridlock to do us any good, the judges are making our law now.
Bump
It means they are taking our votes for granted.
RAT campaign tactics are fear-mongering and vote fraud. If they couldn’t lie and cheat, they’d never win another election.
I also give grudging respect to their willingness to fight 24/7/365 to win. They have a thirst for victory that GOP can only dream of. I despise Nancy Pelosi, but I have no doubt she can kick the snot out of any of those candy-assed Republican "leaders" anytime. They play to win... The GOP only plays not to be disliked.
No friggin' way. They don't WANT to win.
I can’t stand rats. You have to use paraquat on them.
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