Snatching Defeat Out of the Jaws of Victory

 No one does it better than the Republicans

By Rich Kozlovich

 

This was a cartoon that appeared this week, and it really says it all, but I'm going to do a bit of history and analysis anyway, since we now know McConnell won via John Thune. 

There was a lot of CO2 wasted this week over who the GOP leaders in the Senate would be in the next Congressional term.  The House chose to keep Johnson as Speaker, and Thune as the Majority Leader in the Senate.  

It took only two secret votes in for the GOP to pick Thune, who beat out Cornyn with a vote of 29 votes to 24, and Scott who scored third in the first round of voting, and was out of the running.

Think about this, and I'm going to make an assumption here, if Cornyn got 24 votes in the second round of voting, it seems to me that means Scott had to have had 11 or less votes in the first round.  Out of 53 Republican Senators 11 or less voted for the one who had a history of  being on Trump's side. 

That left the two big McConnell RINO's, which I think is telling, and McConnell's number two man, John Thune won, who for years supported everything Ole Mitch wanted to do, or not do as the case may have been, and while he didn't vote to impeach Trump, there's a huge negative history between he and Trump.   Are we to believe he's going to be all warm and fuzzy now with his claim of being anxious to implement Trump's agenda?  You would think that would be most telling for the GOP, but apparently not.  I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that.  

Let's start with John Cornyn, who came in second with the Senate GOP:

RINO Senator John Cornyn, who’s been deeply involved in a left-wing “disinformation” group that uses the old Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense to run a so-called foreign disinformation department. Elon Musk suspects it’s actually a front to control social media behind the scenes, and he’s probably right......[he wasn't] just a gun-grabbing liberal in Republican clothes..........he’s so much more than that. Not only does he feverishly push the left’s agenda, but he’s also working behind the scenes to help run left-wing “disinformation” groups.............

And he was in Mitch's leadership group, are we to believe Mitch didn't know any of that?

Senator Rick Scott was absolutely one of the biggest Trump supporters in the Senate, and in 2022 offered this 11-Point Plan to drain the swamp and fulfill the MAGA agenda.  The GOP didn't take the Senate in 2022, but the plan showed clear intent to support a Trump agenda, which neither Thune or Cornyn have ever shown such intent.  They're part of the "establishment Democrats and Republicans and their corporate media mouthpieces view the American taxpayer as an ATM to fund their priorities."

The so-called infrastructure bill that 19 miserable, loathsome Republican senators just helped to pass shows the utter worthlessness of a corporatist Republican Party out of touch with its constituents. Most of these senators are from red states, and many of them are people Trump bailed out in 2016 and 2020 (including McTurtle) and helped to get reelected. They just gave their voters, and the American people, the middle finger. One can’t help but think they’re either incredibly stupid or incredibly corrupt; probably both if we’re being honest......

 

While both Thune and Cornyn voted nay on that bill, Mitch McConnell voted for it, and they're his acolytes, which tells of a certain mind set.  Just because they got something right once doesn't give them a pass on all the damage they've done.  Who wants to own a watch that doesn't work just because it right twice a day?

 

Eric Utter posted this piece today:

 

Thune elected majority leader, RINOs emboldened? John Thune.... is a McConnell acolyte, and a bend-over-backwards to compromise with Democrats Trump-disdaining RINO. This is a bad sign. Spineless establishment Republicans can always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Even a rout. Trump is transforming the party, and they feel threatened like the Deep Staters do..................The Democrats will do everything they can to destroy Trump and all of his cabinet picks, indeed everyone in his administration, because Trump is trying to Make America Great Again...........

 

Eric went on to say, "Republicans—all of them—need to stand up to Democrats, not aid and abet them in their quest to return to power.........".   And is that going to happen?  Here's my analysis of how Senate power will play out.  

 

There are 53 Republicans and 47 Democrat/Independent Senators, with Arizona being challenged for voter fraud, and Pennsylvania attempting to perform a massive level of voter fraud.  So, what does that mean in the real world? It means the Republicans will officially be in charge of legislation and it also means the Democrat/Independent cabal will still be in control.  

 

Why?   

 

Because the Democrat/Independent contingent will vote in lock step, and there are so many RINO's who will typically vote with the Democrats, the Democrats will still control the Senate.  The realistic numbers?   Anywhere up to 19 RINO's will give the Democrats exactly what they want, and that's the history of Mitch McConnell, and his two acolytes, Thune and Cornyn. 

After all that should we rationally believe Thune when he says he's "extremely honored” to be leading the “Republican team [that] is united behind President Trump’s agenda”? 

Snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory is legendary for the Republicans because they're not who they claim to be, conservatives, they're like John Kasich, who suffers from a serious case of weird compounded by a massive infection of hubris claiming he has the right to define conservatism as he sees fit.   Which is on the left side of a one way street, and he's not alone.  

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. - C.S. Lewis