Define "loudest voices".
If by "loudest voices" you mean "constituents", you're quite a trusting soul in the ways of Washington DC.
Here are the "loudest voices" in that neck of the woods (also known as "The Swamp"):
Posted on 04/16/2018 6:00:13 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
As plain as the nose on your face....Paul Ryan is out and now is the time for the Republican Senate Caucus to send Majority Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell packing, heading into a retirement where he will never be heard from again.
I do hope the GOP can field a replacement soon. Leaving an anti-semite as the only nominee for that seat is a sure-fire loss in November.
Great idea!
I would love to see Mitch the B*tch gone too.
I’ve always thought that if a challenger, in Kentucky, could gin up some grassroots push against him, it might at least get him to do something, at least a little bit. I know they can’t be recalled but even a symbolic, recall effort would do some damage to him. He’d either give Kentucky the finger and retire with his Communist Chinese fortune or he’d have to start working, so as not to destroy his legacy. But, then again, if he does anything for the people of Kentucky, it will all be against the wishes of his corporate puppet masters.
I am so sick of this house of lords that the Senate has become.
With all do respect to our Founders and their desire for the Senate to be a place of contemplation, and the fires and passions of legislation to chill, they blew it.
We are living in a world of faster, cheaper, quicker and of Deming and 6 Sigma of which the operating procedures of the Senate are bereft of any resemblance of normalcy of "best practices" and it is lethargy and lack of leadership is worse than GM before their Bankruptcy and the sad part of it is they can't go Chapter 11 and replace all top Mgt and or the board.
At a minimum we need:
* Someone to run against Mitch as Senate Majority leader even if they fail, let him know you aren't all that and...
* Someone to put together a Corporate Style fast track series of rules and procedures, Throw out all of what they have, the way they run things their now sucks on ice.
Fix it dang it, the rest of world got with the 21st Century and the Senate is still in the powdered wig stage..
We are going to have to somehow convince Kentuckians, who inexplicably seem to like the guy, that he’s a schmuck. Suggestions??
You're too kind. Mitch did one thing right, that was block Merritt Garland from getting to the SCOTUS. He showed that he could line up his party and get them to all execute a plan. The fact that he's never done it since is simply down to the fact that Mitch doesnt want to. He'd much rather hand over power to the dems than enable Trump in any way.
Nope, he didn't resign and he's still speaker. He has plenty of time left to continue to aggressively do nothing.
Source: Kurt Schlichter - Showdown in November: Fearsome Blue Wave or Flaccid Democrat Failure?
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A bunch of Republicans are retiring, but then a lot of them are squishes who frankly don’t fit with the GOP base anymore. The base now demands results, which make congressing a lot less fun than it used to be. These time-servers hate when stuff, like results, is expected of them. Paul Ryan is leaving too; luckily for the GOP, Nancy Pelosi is not. Ryan’s departure may or may not have to do with him not wanting to be held responsible for November, and it’s a mixed blessing. One on hand, he’s a prodigious fundraiser, and the GOP is raking in the bucks, which is good. But Ryan seems AWOL on the Doing Something front. Oh, wait, he would really like to get DACA done before he leaves, because nothing excites the Republican base like giving illegal aliens amnesty.
If Ryan was the selfless guy we keep hearing about, he would ditch the speakership now and turn it over to someone who wants to get aggressive and get the base excited. But no, because at heart, what is important to the establishment GOP is maintaining their sinecures. Keeping the country conservative, not so much – conservatism is something you yak about during election year but never actually get around to doing. You know, it’s not who we are or something.
Mitch McConnell, who swings from being awesome (Justice Gorsuch) to being awful (everything else), is doing the same treading water thing. The base is furious that he’s letting the Dems bottle up the nominations of conservative heroes like Maybe-Someday Ambassador to Germany Rich Grennell. Mitch huffed n’ puffed about keeping the Senate in session to hold the confirmation debate, but he rolled over and, as this is written, the Dems from red states whose seats we could snatch are back home campaigning. That’s a win-win for the Democrats. This is baffling, because imagine the energizing effect on our voters’ morale if Mitch had these wheezy Democrat windbags on the Senate floor in their jammies at 2:30 a.m. Saturday trying to explain why their party is discriminating against a gay nominee.
So as an elected official, how do you vote? Do you vote for what your state population wants or do you vote for what the loudest voices want? What about a state like Ohio that has a moderate Senator and a very liberal Senator? That’s what the state elected, with the very liberal Senator being the last on the ballot. Did the voters speak? Or should he or she listen only to the loudest voices?
We need to replace as many of the DC UniParty/Deep State Politicrats as possible in the next three elections.
The GOPe doesn’t give a good rat’s ass about us.
Define "loudest voices".
If by "loudest voices" you mean "constituents", you're quite a trusting soul in the ways of Washington DC.
Here are the "loudest voices" in that neck of the woods (also known as "The Swamp"):
Ryan is not gone yet. He is currently scheduled to keep the job of Speaker through the November elections. Why would the republicans want a lame duck in charge of the House? Does Ryan want a blue wave?
Some of the crap Ryan passed in the House was probably warped a bit by what he knew would happen/not happen in the Senate.
The loudest voices tend to be the base......conservative or liberal.
Again, in Ohio we have a moderate and a very, very liberal Senator. I would guess, on a state wide basis, the voters voiced their opinion with their elections. We also have the Freedom Caucus’s Jim Jordon. In his district, his voters spoke. My guess is all three’s votes would, and probably should reflect their philosophy that brought them to office.
Paul Ryan isn’t gone. He is still the Speaker of the House.
Next year he probably would have been the Minority Leader had he stayed, a voice in the Wilderness.
Ryan will be gone if and when he is replaced while the GOP controls the House. So far there seems to be no action to make that happen.
He is just a placeholder that will allow no action on POTUS Trump’s Agenda going forward this year, which just emboldens the DemoncRats going into the Midterms.
And Linda too!
McTurtle, Graham, Collins, McCain and Murjerksky needs to be retired...not one is even a moderate...
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