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What a shame. It being a matter of yes/no numbers like that and not having enough. Count the votes ahead, see the writing, can't change reality, so that's it.
It's been a long eight years. Looking back over all the impossible things that didn't have votes we see time and again the votes were reported lacking with the dispute still raging the counting continuing even after it seems settled brought back to discussion and dragged out further for months the mountain moved, the numbers change up, down, back and forth inching one direction then another and then at length beyond even a full year, under the cover of darkness of night and behind locked doors and with no Republican voices, that mountain shifted one vote, the votes tallied and cast while the nation slept and the law changed just like that, with healthcare specifically, we saw with our own eyes politicians bought and sold for that one effort alone. Tremendous effort to push something through against the will of the nation. Careers ruined. Careers made. But the law was past with force and with vitality and thereafter one man's will is law over a nation. Same with budget. Same with trade deal. Same with Iran treaty. The re-election itself had this same cliff-hanging element of the whole world balancing at the tip of a vote. It's been infuriating seeing this man get by the skin of his teeth repeatedly. Absolutely nothing lands solidly one way or the other. And permeating every detail of life disputed and shaved pointed to the last vote. I've not seen so many things sink to the Supreme Court pushed there by executive branch.
He's saying they don't have the votes to override presidential veto. Knowing that will happen he's unwilling to make noise. Unseemly, I guess. Unwilling to clang the cymbals over presidential veto. Continuously. The way his opposition would. Unwilling to get a nation worked up. The opposite of fierce. The same as being dead.
Fair point though. Why waste energy? A person lacking vitality sees wisdom in conserving it, the fundamental of being conservative, wait for the moment to strike. Wait until there is a Republican president. Makes sense.
He cannot do anything on this until there is Republican control of House, Senate, and Executive branch, then they can do something.
Maybe.
Would that Republican Party leadership have anything half as fierce as an average Democrat voter then the defunding would be already passed long ago.
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Then let the Demos and the Whigs go on record as in favor of subsidizing something that makes Auschwitz look civilized.
Long ago, I put McConnell in the "people I detest" along with McCain.
Why not add some clever maneuvering and talking points to kill-off the demos?
Like: "We want to make sure tax payers are no longer forced to pay for PP's gruesome baby-part selling abortions. We have a bill that will provide support for any PP that does not perform abortions and whose only role, we are assured, is to provide health care for women. Leftwing Hollywood can pass the hat and figure out a way to fund the gruesome heartless baby-part exploiting abortion industry segment of PP."
Baloney. McConnel is the majority leader, and he has the power to change a majority vote to 51 votes from the current 60 votes, which was set by Harry Reid. McConnel can allow a bill defunding PP onto the floor for debate and voting, probably get 51 votes, and force the Dems to take a stand despite the videos.
But he won't, because he is a Democrat in Republican garb.
This is why the Republican Party has to radically change or it must be abandoned by conservatives. You can't continue to vote for ineffectual pansies who refuse to fight. The time for that is gone. Unless you want to surrender the country to the people who want to destroy it.
Republicans are showing why they are utterly useless at this point. It is no longer conservative, is ineffectual, weak, has no spine, is afraid of it's own shadow or any principled stance that it promised it would uphold.
Boehner, McConnell & Co. are all about doing deals. And only about doing deals. Nothing else.
The orange-turtle menace.
Amartel said...
The orange-turtle menace.
It's Orange-Turtles all the way down.
If McConnell won't get off the couch to defund an organization that desecrates the bodies of babies for profit, he sure as hell ain't going to rouse himself to defend any run-of-the-mill tea party or conservative concerns. He's a man of no principles. A coward. A hollow man. But what the hell, he's our majority leader by God.
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