For those of you in a rush, I’ll paraphrase: a bunch of our establishment GOP leaders are timid little vaginas. And not the smart, mousy, librarian kind who, once you convince them to take off their glasses, lose the frumpy cardigan, and buy a pair of heels, become like confident, glorious swans; but rather the really stupid and ignorant ones, like the kind that Meghan McCain may one day use as a chute to foist upon us another outbreak of the Maverick Plague.
Now, the unparaphrased version. For you who have more time to savor the details:
The GOP’s Neville Chamberlain Caucus, led by Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham, secured peace in the Senate this week by capitulating in the face of the threat of Harry Reid’s “nuclear option.”
The nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure where Democrats would ignore the rules of the Senate and abolish the filibuster with only 51 votes — a move that would fundamentally weaken debate in the Senate and help liberals pass even more legislation.
In the face of that threat, Senators McCain and Graham led the surrender. Instead of calling Senator Reid’s bluff and forcing him to explain why he was destroying the Senate, they gave him what he wanted.
Senator McCain led the way by voting with the Democrats to end debate on the nomination of Thomas Perez, President Obama’s radical pick to be Secretary of Labor. Perez is famous for suing numerous states for passing voter ID laws.
McCain and Graham also betrayed conservatives by voting to end debate on Richard Cordray, Obama’s nominee for the Dodd-Frank Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Republicans were insisting on changes to this job-killing agency before Cordray could be confirmed, but McCain and Graham killed the effort by joining the Democrats.
These were two remarkable sellouts, but the crowning achievement of the McCain-Graham appeasement strategy was when they agreed to allow Obama to pack the National Labor Relations Board with two new members who were hand-picked by the AFL-CIO.
Whose team are these guys on?
Their epic capitulation has now sent an unequivocal message to Senator Reid that all he has to do to break Republican resolve in the future is threaten them with the nuclear option.
It’s time to replace McCain and Graham with true conservatives. We can’t tolerate this kind of policy betrayal anymore. And we shouldn’t allow them to get away with calling conservatives like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul “ridiculous” and “wacko birds.”
We are mapping out plans to defeat these two RINOs as well as several others. Please help us elect strong, principled leaders to the U.S. Senate by making a contribution to the Senate Conservatives Fund today.
First things first. Take over the NRSC and do away with open primaries. That’ll rid us of the Grahams of the world, and lessen the power of a coalition of RINOs always ready to sell out in exchange for media whispers that they have the biggest and bestest cocks among all the Republicans — and they know how to use those hard, inviting meat scepters like the iconoclastic royalty they are!
Because until that happens, you can’t and won’t defeat these glistening tools. The way they and the media service one another is just too powerful a bond of love for mere jealousy to break.
What’s needed is political arsenic slipped into their Scotch. Or in the case of Graham, into his sloe gin fizz — maybe by way of a tainted mini-umbrella shaft.
I always envisioned Miz Graham as more of a white wine spritzer or fuzzy navel kinda guy.
NTTAWWT.
Somehow or other the first thing occuring to some people seems to be to keep Mike Enzi in office come what may. Strikes me as an odd reaction though, but only I guess since I hadn’t known how crucial Mike Enzi is to the maintenance of the Republic.
Enzi needs to go, but Wyoming needs a better alternative than a parachuting Virginian who just happens to have Wyoming ancestry.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Virginians in Wyoming, but I doubt Liz could outdraw Trampas.
Under the offer made, it seems as if Enzi doesn’t need to go, but must positively stay. That’s where anyone attempting to unseat him, no matter who that may be, would be opposed.
Under the offer made, it seems as if Enzi doesn’t need to go, but must positively stay. That’s where anyone attempting to unseat him, no matter who that may be, would be opposed.
Count me as one of the Enzi backers. or maybe I am just skeptical of the Cheney daughter. Pandering to “teh gheys” (like they will *ever* back a true Republican anyway???) is a tip-off.
Take over the NRSC and do away with open primaries.
Second, schedule five primaries each election year with 10 states voting each primary. The grouping of the states is different every year, decided by lottery, so that Iowa and NH don’t decide the thing for the rest of us.
Liz is great at fending off Stupid Press Tricks, and she defended the Bush admin’s Iraq stuff very ably.
But she’s too East Coast for me to trust her to not be embarrassed by the Hobbits and other Unhelpfuls that she’d represent. Wyoming is Deep West, not like Colorado at all.
I once had an idea of two primary states a week, by order of admission to the Union. This would make Pennsylvania the first primary to really separate the men/women from the boys/girls running for Prez. And perhaps wrap it up at California (31st state, 16th week)
Other ideas:
1. NO “open primaries”. If you want to vote in the GOP primary, you are registered GOP. Period.
2. NO “Caucuses”. They are just plain goofy.
3. Proportional delegates. Let the delegate haggling and the selection of the ultimate nominee happen at the actual political conventions. Conventions would have actual personal and platform ferment, rather than being elaborate coronation ceremonies for the would be King.
For the last two days, Hot Air has been non stop Liz Cheney Wyoming primary central. I’ve been reading all the articles to try to figure out what platform Liz Cheney is running on and so far all I can figure out is that she is against collegiality and won’t be one of those “get along to get along” Republicans. To be honest I don’t know the first thing about Wyoming politics or how conservative Enzi is(I did read he was the 6th most conservative politician in the senate but I have no idea who ranked him so).
Can anyone tell me what Liz Cheney’s big selling point is especially for a state like Wyoming? What is her position on illegal immigration? I understand the idea of getting a 3 term hack out of office but is Cheney going to be better? I’m asking seriously because I just don’t know.
Liz is Change™ — they Hope™.
I live in a city with a larger population than Wyoming. Which means there are less assholes in that whole state than in this stupid vain liberal scarred mess of a city. Austin is the live music capital of the world. (For values of the “world” that are about 200 miles across or smaller). “Keep Austin Weird!” is the unofficial chamber of commerce motto.
Strangely, many lefty cities have that unofficial motto.
“Liz is Change™”
more ruling class bs. vote enzi ask ron paul?
that was a bad attempt @ sarc. me eff ruling class family dynasties.
Liz is a fresh face
Team R is stale and funky-smelling and Enzi is a fat old white guy who pretends to be all up into jesus and he has a perverted fetish for amending the constitution for stupid shit
both of them hate actually living in wyfuckingoming
“Liz is a fresh face”
someone not named cheney is a “fresh face”. the dickster been around as long as the “swift boat man”
outside of protecting the borders the fed gov’t should mean nothing to us.
me i couldn’t bestir myself to vote for either one
but I have a very high viscosity
“but I have a very high viscosity”
refined olive oil will do that
From Infobase :
Since the Presidential Primary System is a creation of the Progressives and Leftists are Evil, I say we get rid of the whole System.
I want candidates who represent the interests of the Several States. I also want them to represent the interests of their Party’s members, so that we have a greater potential for choices and not echos.
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