Think we are negative on Republican leadership? take a stroll through the articles and comments on some of the conservative blogospshere’s listed in our link section related to the recent CRomnibus vote.
Consider also Kevin Hall’s reserved comments in Kevin’s Korner, his featured Sunday column in The Iowa Republican, an extensively read mainstream conservative Republican outlet for news about Republican affairs in Iowa (bold our emphasis).
Have Republican congressional leaders already squandered the GOP gains from Election Day? It seems so, considering their decision to ram through the $1.1 trillion cromnibus package that funds Obamacare and Obama’s illegal amnesty order …
Three Republican senators who are eyeing presidential bids voted to filibuster the bill. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio tried to thwart bringing cromnibus to the floor for a vote. They were handily defeated, 77-19. Chuck Grassley voted in favor of cloture.
There was also a vote, led by Ted Cruz, against Obama’s executive amnesty. It failed 74-22. Chuck Grassley, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio were among the few Republicans that sided with Cruz.
I interviewed Congressman Steve King on Thursday while I was filling in for Simon Conway on WHO Radio . . . “We will get a better deal when Republicans are in charge of the House and the Senate. It’ll be more conservative and fiscally responsible. And by the way, this bill allows for the funding of the president’s unconstitutional amnesty and it’s unconscionable to vote in favor of it,” King said.
A few hours after that interview, cromnibus passed the Republican-led House. In one of his last acts as a U.S. congressman, Tom Latham voted for the bill.
If John Boehner and Republican leaders do not take apart this executive amnesty in 2015, they are toast. Then again, it’s probably already too late.
The weak sister sorority of Republican Senators were aflutter over Senator Cruz and others delaying their weekend getaway. Frequently seen in reports from the liberal media, parroting the weak sisters, was that by forcing a vote on Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty executive orders, chortle chortle, Cruz provided still Majority Leader Reid the occasion to pass various Obama nominations through the Senate.
Consider this report from Matthew Boyle at Breibart :
Some establishment Republicans like Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), in an attempt to attack Cruz and Lee, claimed wrongly that Reid was never going to bring these nominees through the Senate during the lame duck session, but high-ranking Senate sources say Reid was always planning to confirm these nominees before Christmas.
Of course Reid was going to bring the nominations up anyway, because the Senate was scheduled to come back Monday. They were brought up earlier as a time filler. But the prevarication is eclipsed by the perfidy. Again according to Boyle at Breitbart:
The measure failed when it came up for a vote in the Senate. But since some Republicans, like Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), were whipping votes, according to a congressional GOP aide, in favor of Obama’s executive amnesty against Cruz’s measure, a surprisingly high number of Republicans voted to reaffirm Obama’s executive amnesty. The measure failed with 22 senators voting for it and 74 voting against it. Toomey’s office hasn’t responded to a request for comment as to why he was whipping votes against Cruz’s measure, and in favor of Obama’s amnesty.
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Won’t it be interesting to see where Joni Ernst comes down on issues? Can you imagine the pressure from the establishment she’s already getting? (i.e. “if you want to stay in this town, get that tea party crap out of your head, Joni”) They may not even let her meet Ted Cruz. There seems to be a couple of things the GOP establishment firmly believes: 1) There is no need whatever to put a stop to the nation’s growing debt. (It’s hardly a cause for celebration to claim a “reduction in the deficit”. It is still an addition to the debt!) 2) Republican conservatives will continue to vote for Republicans regardless of how many times they are made to look like fools by candidates who promise to govern responsibly, if only they get the chance…and then, when elected, do the opposite.
But then, it was said of the Titanic, “not even God can sink this ship!”
Well, good luck with that, Cap’n Rove.