CONSERVATIVES DEMAND OUSTER OF DO NOTHING SENATE GOP “RINO” LEADERS
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group of conservative leaders is demanding the resignation or removal of
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his deputies from
their leadership posts.
“We call on all five members of the GOP leadership to step down or
for their caucus to remove them as soon as possible,” Senate
Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli said at a press conference Tuesday.
Those members consist of McConnell, Assistant Republican Leader John
Cornyn (R-Texas), Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.),
Republican Conference Vice Chairman Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), and Republican
Policy Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wy.). All are
middle-of-the-road legislators; their cumulative Freedom Index scores range from Blunt’s 55 percent to Barrasso’s 72 percent.
In a scathing letter to McConnell, the conservative leaders stated:
the millions of Americans who fully expected, and had every right to
expect real change in Washington. Republicans were given full control of
the federal government. They — you — have done nothing. Worse, it is
painfully clear that you intend to do nothing because, as is most
apparent, you had no intention of honoring your solemn commitments to
the American people. You were not going to “drain the swamp.” You are
the swamp.
And that was just for openers. The letter listed several promises on
which Senate leaders have reneged: stopping illegal immigration,
shrinking the size of government, ending deficit spending, repealing
ObamaCare, enacting tax reform, and defunding Planned Parenthood.
Failing to repeal ObamaCare was “perhaps the greatest betrayal,” the
leaders wrote. Republicans, they maintained, control the White House and
both houses of Congress because of their longstanding vow to expunge
“the single most devastating piece of legislation against freedom ever
crafted” from the books. “President [Donald] Trump and the House of
Representatives have done their part,” they averred, perhaps overlooking
the fact that every bill the House passed this year left significant
portions of ObamaCare intact. “You sank it all.”
“The Senate under the leadership of Mitch McConnell has done nothing
to honor their promises,” said Media Research Center President Brent
Bozell. “Even worse, this Senate leadership has nothing on the horizon
to honor these promises. It’s shocking that apparently the Senate
leadership is virtually incapable or never had any intention of keeping
faith with the American people. It’s been an absolute betrayal.”
The conservatives also faulted GOP leaders for failing to confirm
Trump’s judicial nominees. “There are more than 100 vacancies in the
federal judiciary and there are more vacancies today then there were on
the day that Donald Trump was sworn in as president,” said Jenny Beth
Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. “Because the Senate has taken
off so much time they’ve only confirmed six, six nominees not named
Gorsuch.”
In their letter, the leaders pointed out that while the House has
passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Protection Act “three times” — most
recently, last week
— and Trump “has publicly stated his eagerness to sign this
legislation,” McConnell’s team has “not lift[ed] a finger to advance
this bill” and Cornyn has called it “not a short-term priority.”
In addition, they criticized Senate leaders for doing things that
serve their own interests and those of their donors at the expense of
ordinary Americans, such as “deceitfully advancing the Export-Import
Bank.”
On top of all that, they claimed that McConnell, et al., have engaged
in “vicious, continuous, merciless attacks on grassroots Republicans,
but most especially conservatives.”
“America,” they told McConnell, “is too good for you to lead it.”
“This pattern of failure of McConnell’s gang of five leadership team,
while loathing and attacking their own base, the most loyal bloc of
voters that has elected them, and all of their caucus members, can no
longer be tolerated,” declared Cuccinelli.
“If this was a football team and you’ve lost this many times, you’d
start firing the coaches,” said ForAmerica President David Bozell.
According to the Daily Caller,
“Most of the leaders demurred when asked who could replace McConnell as
majority leader.” Cuccinelli said it was “up to the caucus” to pick
more principled and effective leaders. But given that these same people
chose the current leaders, how likely are they to select better ones
next time?
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http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/McConnell-Ltr-11Oct17-1.pdf