A writer under the pseudonym Elfego Baca at Spectator.org asks what is the danger that Roy Moore poses to Senate GOP? Then he answers his own question.
Why do Republicans spend thirty million dollars defeating a conservative politician most likely to vote with Republicans?
Then the writer characterizes Mitch McConnell as wanting to sabotage the repeal of Obamacare and needing to find another vote beyond McCain and Susan Collins and Flake and Corker to vote no on tax reform. And fearful of having a larger majority with fewer plausible explanations for failures to investigate crimes of the last eight years, before the writer says, no, that can't be it.
According to Baca, it's not Moore's lack of character, rather, it's his presence of character and his demonstrated willingness to do what is right. He will do what is right for Alabama and for America, so when McConnell calls for unanimous vote to declare the Senate to be in a Pro Forma Session, Senator Moore will vote no.
The Baca explains that in the past, Presidents routinely made recess appointments. Clinton made 139 and George W. Bush made 171. But then Senator Reid used pro forma rules to delay President Bush's appointments and then turnabout being fair play later when McConnell did the same thing to block Obama's appointments.
But now McConnell is using the pro forma vote to sabotage his own party's President, as happened in August when Senator Murkowski set up a series of pro forma sessions to prevent President Trump from making recess appointments.
According to CNN within one year of their elections Bush had 455 appointees and Obama had 310, while Trump has only 249.
If Moore is elected then Trump will get some relief to run government instead of being tied up.
(Tied up by Lilliputians. And this explains the Gulliver's Travels graphic heading the article.)
Baca provides more information about pro forma sessions in the concluding paragraph.
Baca's writing style is frontal attack and sarcastic. He's very good at making his points. I think you will enjoy reading him if you decide to click over.
I looked up the name Elfego Baca. There's a lot more to the name than I knew.
The article evoked 72 comments, and the number is still growing and they are all impatient. Examples:
* Fritz Pfister
Establishment Republicans present as lethal a threat to America as founded as the dead left Democrats. A vote for Moore is a vote against both.
* Trev Noceslaf Fritz Pfister
Where is Ted Cruz in all this? Why is he allowing these Pro Forma sessions to go on without his resistance? Where’s Mike Lee? Rand Paul?
* Peta Johnson Trev Noceslaf
My guess is the funds from the national senate committee would be cut off.
* PSEUDO MACARIOS Fritz Pfister
1) Trump has failed to nominate over half of the 1,200 appointments requiring Senate confirmation.
2) Democrats are delaying confirmation of appointees by blue-slipping and other tactics.
3) As the article states, Senate Majority Leader McConnell has blocked Trump from making recess appointments.
4) It is amazing that not one Republican Senator has voted to go into recess, which would allow Trump to make recess appointments if such a motion were to carry.
5) Rosenstein, who is running DOJ, should be fired and replaced by a Republican.
6) Mueller, Rosenstein, and McCabe are implicated in the Uranium One scandal and the Russian fake dossier scandal.
* Major914
Would absolutely love to see Roy Moore beat the snot out of Mitch McConnell...
* Peonie
Good God. Our president, with God's help, llifted the rock from over D.C.and the creatures revealed are ugly indeed. I'm praying that the good people of Alabama do the right thing and send Judge Moore right to the Senate.
AngelHorseMomMD223
The neoconservatives in power today are simply the communist statesmen of yesteryear, repackaged with howdy do folksy sayings, corporate sponsors for their pseudo free trader ideology with a stipend of collectivism to drug and control the masses. They conserve nothing they hate everything that republicanism stands for.
4 comments:
This is exactly right. With Judge Moore there will be no "unanimous consent" to the crooked deals that the duopoly cooks up.
Judge Moore is not afraid to stand alone. That is why they fear him so.
Read this account where a soldier who served with Judge Moore had to say about his character.
I will take his word over the Washington Post any day of the week.
McConnell doesn't want to doublecross his buds, but he is hand-in-glove with Trump on judicial appointments. Hard to figure. These guys have been so scared by Demos for so long, they forget the principles that brought them there.
And a very pointed question Trev Noceslaf asks. Where are Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul?
PS The 2 Whigs from AZ will soon be gone, so, with the addition of Moore, and a couple of good men from AZ, we just might see the logjam breaking.
PPS The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca made a star out of Robert Loggia. He played it exactly in accord with Baca's personality and Walt made sure us kids knew what a good man he was.
If Moore is elected HEADS WILL EXPLODE ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY!
Which is a good thing, and I say that not as an admirer of Moore, but as an admirer of exploding heads.
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