Posted on 10/17/2017 7:37:27 AM PDT by Mariner
While President Trump claims that his relations with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have never been better and while Stephen K. Bannon continues his war against McConnell and a long list of Republican Senators, we will learn whether Bannon is fronting for Trump or acting against him.
If Bannon does not end his attacks against incumbent GOP senators, we will know that he is colluding with the president, who is dividing Republicans — and all Americans — against each other and endangering GOP control of the Senate.
In the 10th month of the Trump presidency, the Republican Congress still has not passed one major piece of legislation proposed by the Republican president, public disapproval of Congress stands at levels that should be alarming to all incumbent Republican senators, and the president and GOP leaders in the House and Senate all suffer from abnormally high levels of disapproval.
Bannon is bidding to become the most powerful Republican in America by seeking to promote primary challenges against key Republicans in Congress, including possible primary challenges against every incumbent Republican senator running for reelection in 2018 except Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
If there are any smart and polished people out there. It seems only the worst among us run for office; people who have no shame. But on the whole I totally agree with you.
Why don’t you offer Jim $1,000 bucks to get me kicked off? Do it rich guy. Throw your money around. Or shut up. Squish.
The author and all the weenies trying to say bannon cannot succeed or is bad for conservatives
Here's what else is happening in Pennsylvania. Lou Barletta, who was the first House member to support Donald Trump in the 2016 primaries and has been one of his staunchest supporters, has announced that he's going to run for Democrat Bob Casey's seat in the U.S. Senate next year.
I'd love to see Barletta beat him, but Barletta has a Heritage Action Scorecard rating of only 50% -- which means he's even less conservative than Pat Toomey (59%). This kind of makes me wonder if Barletta would even win a primary against another GOP candidate.
The people who run this website know exactly where I stand. They are free to do as they please.
“but Barletta has a Heritage Action Scorecard rating of only 50%”
I would bet Trump’s “score” is under 50%.
If you are a nationalist you cannot score above 50% at either Conservative Review or Heritage Action. It’s just not possible.
They give too many points to open immigration and “free trade”.
In Barletta's case, for example, he voted to give Barack Obama "fast-track" authority to negotiate trade deals. He also voted for every health care and transportation spending bill that Heritage opposed. He is apparently a big-government Republican in every way.
So if Ban on keeps attacking RINOS he is “colluding” with Trump. If he stops attacking RINOS because Trump is working with them he is NOT colluding with Trump? Ha! It can’t be both you idiot (author).
I'm beginning to catch on to the game...I expect to see these assertions repeated ad infinitum from every freaking PAC and Super PAC created by David Brock, Hillary, Soros and weirdos who love to make stuff up and shape general perceptions that are royally fake.
Mostly, of course, anti-Trump, anti-patriotism and antifa...
“In Barletta’s case, for example, he voted to give Barack Obama “fast-track” authority to negotiate trade deals. “
Every orthodox Republican since 1980 has supported “fast track”, no matter who POTUS was at the time. It would have increased Barlettas score.
It’s one of the reasons the Republican Party ain’t worth a sh!t for nothin’.
Steve Bannon is so far beyond these people. The more they talk about him losing, the more he wins.
They are too stupid to see it.
Bannon’s move to purge GOP may backfire
Is this news from the BIG BROTHEL on THE HILL? More BS from the BS generators.
Heritage opposed it.
This means their ratings are probably more reflective of a nationalist conservative philosophy than your previous comment about these ratings seemed to indicate.
“https://www.heritageactionscorecard.com/members/member/B001269
I don’t think I would have done much better than Barletta, but for different reasons.
It reads like an Orthodox Republican scorecard in many cases.
He DEFINITELY has some important misses here. Even for an Economic Nationalist.
Stevie must be scaring the crap out of the swamp dwellers. Go Steve GO!
You're obviously not familiar with the political landscape in PA if you think that Toomey "outperforming" Trump among suburban Republicans is some kind of accomplishment. The PA State Republican Party is Establishment/UniParty Central and those suburban Republicans are part of the swamp.
I live in a district whose Republican House member was a big supporter of Obama's deal with Iran ... because one of the largest employers in the district (and THE largest manufacturing employer) is a major supplier to Boeing, and Boeing got some huge concessions in that deal to supply aircraft for Iran's national airline.
You're not winning on another candidate's "coattails" if you attract different voters than he did.
This article was written by a Hell staffer. The Hell (fka The Hill) makes the NYT look sane..
You're not winning on another candidate's "coattails" if you attract different voters than he did.
I understood your point completely. You said that Toomey won because of a different demographic and also stated that the rural dems who voted for Trump didn't vote for Toomey. But you can't possibly know that, can you?
Mariner merely suggested the coattails. You, on the other hand, reject the possibility without fact or local perspective.
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