Mitch McConnell's Replacement

By Rich Kozlovich

Assuming all the voter fraud the Democrats are attempting to inject into this election can be thwarted, the dust is settling, and it's looking like Trump will take the White House, the Republicans will take the Senate, and keep the House.   Not that the Republicans have done such a good job, but the Democrat party, as it's now configured, is in it's death throes being destroyed by the farthest left most radical people to have ever been seated in the Congress, and they've scared the nation.  But whether all that happens or not, we're going to see changes in the Congress, and especially the Senate.  

I'm channeling Oliver Cromwell here.  For those who don't know Oliver Cromwell was, he was one of the leaders in the English Civil Wars that defeated, and eventually executed King Charles I, and then ruled England as Lord Protector from December 1653 until his death in September 1658.  In 1653 Oliver Cromwell addressed a stunningly corrupt Parliament dismissing them saying:

¨"It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing lately … In the name of God go.

That same line of thought was repeated In 1940 regarding Neville Chamberlain, and again in 2022 telling telling Boris Johnson to quit. "In the name of God, go"  Well, if the Brits have the stones to do it, and if the Republicans take the Senate, then as soon as possible after January 3, 2025 some Republican leader, preferably a new Senator, needs to stand up and say to Mitch McConnell:  

"It is not fit that you should lead our party any longer. You have been there too long for any good you have been doing lately … In the name of God go.” 

Ole Mitch has decided he's not running again, however, that doesn't solve the McConnell problem because Mitch McConnell is a perfect reflection of the Republican party leadership, and the majority of  Senate Republicans, at least until January 3, 2025, we'll see then.  There won't just be an explosion the day the Republicans meet to decide who their leader will be.  I'm expecting to see an political atomic bomb going off!  Here's

Kari Lake or Ted Cruz in their US Senate races when both are locked in tight races.

• announced he's going to run for the leadership of the U.S. Senate, a Senate RINO Mitch McConnell light.  Amil Imani points out why he's unfit to lead the Senate Republicans, "he did not back Attorney General Ken Paxton during his impeachment by the Texas state House, he's anti-gun, supports illegal migration,  as A.G. Paxton has already pointed out.
• Sen. John Thune of South Dakota has been joined at the hip with Ole Mitch and it's been assumed he'd be Mitch's successor, a major set back for conservatives, and for Trump. He's all in with the special interests who support open immigration, he's a war hawk pushing for American interference in all these forever wars.  He's not a conservative.   

Trump Supporting Contenders

• Sen. John Barrasso is in the Republican leadership, and has migrated into becoming much more conservative and has consistently defended Trump.   (R-WY) is the third highest-ranking Senate Republican and one of former President Trump’s more staunch defenders. While he began his political career as a moderate Republican, the Wyoming Senator has recently become increasingly conservative, but is weak on immigration. 
• Senator Rick Scott has not been one of Old Mitch's favorites as he's been a staunch critic of McConnell.  The trouble is his record doesn't match is rhetoric, as he was aligned with former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's policies versus Donald Trump's, which is why I find it difficult to understand why he's given an upper 90% approval rating from one of the conservative think tanks. However, here's his view of earmarks:“It’s just like the swamp to take YOUR money, borrow more, and push it all into reckless political pet projects. That’s earmarks in a nutshell.”
• Then we have what's been touted as Trump's choice, Sen. Steve Daines, who I never heard of before this, and who has been a strong Trump supporter, but he's weak on immigration. 

There are others being discussed such as Marco Rubio, who says he's not interested, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, and Sen. Jone Ernst.  Why Senators Mike Lee and John Kennedy aren't included in this mix is a surprise to me, unless they've made it clear they don't want the job.

Here are two things that must be at the top of the list for whomever gets the job. First, unlike McConnell who easily gave in to Democrat demands, and in love with sending untracked billions of dollars to a stunningly corrupt Ukraine government, the next Republican Senate leader must decide his job is to fight for the Republican's priorities, and not the Democrat's, and stop this massively destructive plague of spending and borrowing that's sending the national debt into outer space.  

Second, if the Republican take the Senate they need to end the corrupt tyranny imposed on the Senate by Harry Reid that allowed majority leader prevent senators from offering amendments to bills forcing a take it or leave it position on massive all inclusive bills instead of allowing the Senate to run as it was originally intended by building consensuses crafting bills point by point, battling it out in committee and on the Senate floor.

While it's clear the Republican Senate will be more conservative, will it be conservative enough to give Trump the support he will need, or be sabotaged by feckless invertebrates in the Congress?  

Here's my view in my updated analysis of the 2024 senate race.   If the Republicans take the five seats I'm calling for them, and the three that are tossups go to the Democrats, along with the Independent taking a Republican seat, that will make the Senate a 50/50 tie, meaning the Vice President would be the tie breaking vote in the Senate, and I've come to the conclusion some of these seats will have to be taken on Trump's coattails.   

Since 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?  50 Democrat/Independents, anywhere from 6 to 10 RINO's at any give time,  leaving 40 to 44 Republicans.  That gives the Senate a potential 60/40 edge over the Republicans, even if the Senate leader is a Republican.  But at least it won't be Mitch McConnell.  

 And if elected, Trump cannot allow his appointees to backstab him at every turn, Trump’s appointees must be fiercely loyal, "That loyalty must be to the Constitution, to We the People, to the administration’s mission, and to President Trump, and that means being willing to shrink their agencies. "

Mitch McConnell Teases a GOP-Trump War in the Senate After Election Day

Booby traps against the former president don’t all come wrapped in blue.

By Joe Schaeffer | Apr 8, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics

If former President Donald Trump succeeds in returning to the White House in January 2025, he will find stout roadblocks awaiting him in Washington, DC. Among the most significant: his own fellow Republicans in the US Senate, led in spirit if not title by outgoing GOP upper chamber leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

McConnell on April 1 sought to remind whoever needed hearing it that he isn’t going anywhere. His current Senate term doesn’t end until January 2027. His words in an interview with Louisville radio station WHAS were unmistakably aimed at a resurgent America First movement that has catapulted Trump into mathematically locking up a third straight Republican presidential nomination.

‘Actually Fighting Back’

“I’m particularly involved in actually fighting back against the isolationist movement in my own party. And some in the other as well. And the symbol of that lately is: Are we going to help Ukraine or not?” McConnell told the station. “I’ve got this sort of on my mind for the next couple years as something I’m going to focus on.”

McConnell tepidly endorsed Trump once he wrapped up his primary dominance in March, choosing not to openly oppose his party’s nominee. But that isn’t stopping him from continuing to go negative. “[President Joe] Biden’s got problems too. Both these candidates don’t score very well with the public,” McConnell asserted in the radio interview. “One of them’s going to win. What am I going to do? I’m going to concentrate on trying to turn my job over to the next majority leader.”

There’s a lot to dissect in that statement. Let’s start with the fact that McConnell is calling Trump unpopular just as a new poll once again shows his own standing within the GOP grassroots to be decidedly underwater.

A recent Morning Consult survey shows former President Trump polling a whopping 43 points higher than Sen. McConnell. In the poll, conducted March 30-31 – which is just a day or two before McConnell’s radio slam – Trump’s favorability with surveyed GOP voters came in at 76%. McConnell was at 33%.

Trump’s unfavorability rating was 17%; McConnell’s was 44%.

But such polls are nothing new. The more critical part of McConnell’s quote was his reference to feverishly working to secure his own kind of Republican as his upper chamber leadership successor. Mitch McConnell may not be liked by the red base, but he has plenty of allies on his side of the Senate aisle.

Mitch’s Man Takes Heat in Texas

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is one McConnell intimate who has already announced he is seeking the post. Like his high-placed friend, Cornyn is a mover and shaker inside GOP Senate circles who is finding himself increasingly loathed by Republicans far removed from those cozy confines.

“Powerful and deep-pocketed forces in Texas plan to challenge Cornyn’s 2026 re-election bid, claiming he represents a return to establishment politics,” The Daily Caller reported April 4.

And they are not shy about saying so.

“John Cornyn is a total failure. Texas will not re-elect him to the US Senate, and his colleagues would be fools to trust him,” Texas GOP state Rep. Tony Tinderholt told the news site. “Republican voters deserve leaders who will fight for them and put America first. John Cornyn is nothing more than a swampy sellout.”

“For years, I have been looking for any evidence whatsoever that John Cornyn is actually a Republican. So far, I have been greatly disappointed, over and over again, as have all grassroots conservatives and the Republican Party of Texas,” conservative news site BizPac’s founder Joseph Trahan, who is a Republican nominee for a state Senate seat in 2024, exclaimed. “He continually sides with the Democrats and defines the Uniparty with his policies. The last thing the United States needs right now is a Democrat or RINO in leadership of the US Senate.”

Meanwhile, Trump on April 1 publicly pilloried another McConnell chum.

“One of the worst senators in the United States Senate is, without question, [Sen.] Bill Cassidy [R-LA], a total flake, Republican though he may be,” Trump wrote in a blistering Truth Social post. “He campaigned in the great state of Louisiana on Trump, Trump, Trump, and was absolutely thrilled when he was able to get my very important endorsement.”

“Nevertheless, when the Democrats’ impeachment hoax started, this lamebrain senator actually voted against me,” Trump continued.

Cassidy has echoed Democrat talking points on Jan. 6, further angering Trump. “This is not someone you want to be in a foxhole with – very disloyal and not very smart,” Trump stated.

McConnell ‘Quality Candidates’

With conflict between his MAGA agenda and Senate Republicans determined to oppose him all but assured should he win the November election, what does Trump do with McConnell’s handpicked Senate candidates running this year?

McConnell famously vowed after the 2022 midterm elections that the DC Republican establishment would “control the primary outcome” for party Senate races in 2024. Latching onto the big-box media narrative that Trump-aligned hopefuls are by default not “quality candidates,” McConnell promised to produce acceptable (in his view) choices in the next major election cycle.

How has that worked out?

McConnell has cleared a path for GOP nomination for not one but two former top executives of Bridgewater Associates, a private equity behemoth so deeply invested in China that it manages state money for the Asian communist superpower.

In New Mexico, ex-Bridgewater chief financial officer Nella Domenici, daughter of longtime GOP Sen. Pete Domenici, is expected to claim the party’s Senate nod. In addition to her corporate career at what is undoubtedly the most active US-based hedge fund doing business in China today, Domenici also served on the board of directors for Change Healthcare, an organization that sought to create vaccine passports for Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.

In Pennsylvania, former Bridgewater CEO David McCormick is poised to win the Republican Senate nomination. McCormick fell just short of the nod in 2022, losing out to TV doctor Mehmet Oz. McConnell urged him to try again in 2024.

McCormick is married to Dina Powell McCormick, a major establishment Republican force in her own right. Incredibly, Powell McCormick currently serves as board chair of a New York City-based organization, the Robin Hood Foundation, that works to bring migrants into the completely overwhelmed Big Apple – all while her husband denounces the Biden administration on the campaign trail for being soft on the immigration crisis.

Imagine the reaction these two newly minted Republican senators would have to Trump tariff proposals against China should they win their respective races.

It’s an interesting problem. Does Donald Trump endorse McConnell-backed Republican Senate candidates in an effort to help his party retake the chamber, even though it is inevitable that they will go on to help his avowed Kentuckian foe assiduously work against him and his policies should he retake the White House?

 

Read More From Joe Schaeffer

The Rise and Fall of Mitch McConnell – and What Happens Now

He will soon be gone. Most conservatives say it’s about time. 

By Tim Donner | Mar 1, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

  

In trying to untangle the complicated legacy of retiring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), one is faced with the classic choice between half-full and half-empty.

Some will remember fondly how the 82-year-old grizzled veteran of political wars and longest-serving Senate leader in American history ushered an assembly line of conservative judges and Supreme Court Justices nominated by Donald Trump through the gauntlet of Congress’ upper chamber. He was a crucial component in transforming the high court into a constitutional bulwark against the worst excesses of the hard left, increasingly defined as the Democratic Party. Ol’ Mitch was famously passionate about the judiciary and intent on making an indelible mark on American jurisprudence. His staid – some would say robotic – disposition, forged through a childhood battle with polio, and his deep understanding of Senate rules and protocol made him ideally suited for such a role.

Unfortunately, that is the lone rose among the thorns of McConnell’s many years as leader of Senate Republicans, at least in the view of not just the left, but most conservatives and Trump loyalists as well. For all of them, left to right, McConnell was never to be trusted. In the short term, his transparent hatred of Trump and, in the longer term, his firm commitment to maintaining the status quo represents everything Trump was – and may soon be again – seeking to overturn. In fact, his name is usually the first to arise when discussing the entrenched Washington establishment. He has long been the face of the Swamp. But no longer.

The Downward Spiral of Mitch McConnell

The handwriting appeared to be on the wall when the octogenarian froze while answering a reporter’s question on two occasions in 2023. Widespread speculation about the cause of his lapses centered around a concussion caused by an ugly spill in March of ‘23. But at the very least, those episodes likely contributed to his decision that now is the time for him to step aside from leadership, though he will continue to hold his Senate seat until his term expires in January of 2027. He has finally admitted what so many have urged him to embrace for years, that “[i]t is time for the next generation of leadership.”

But there is another compelling element to consider about the decision by McConnell. Did he quit, at least in part, due to the prospect of another Trump presidency, which for him in many ways presents more trouble than having Biden in the White House? He never cottoned to Trump’s temperament and talk of draining the Swamp, but the relationship was severed – likely for good – after January 5, 2021, when McConnell blamed Trump for losing control of the Senate, because the outgoing president told Georgia voters that the two senate races to determine control of the upper chamber, like his, would be rigged. The next day was January 6 – and game over for Trump and McConnell.

Then there were McConnell’s remarks about “candidate quality” during the 2022 midterms, a none-too-transparent broadside at the 45th president and the MAGA-friendly candidates he endorsed who went on to lose, most prominently Herschel Walker in Georgia. He blamed Trump for supporting unelectable candidates. Trump in turn blamed McConnell for refusing to use his considerable fundraising abilities to support those MAGA-friendly party nominees. It is a classic chicken and egg argument.

A new Senate Republican leader will not be in place for many months, leading some in Trump’s orbit to fear that with McConnell now a lame duck, he might use his influence to undermine Trump during the presidential campaign. We don’t yet know how influential McConnell will be in selecting his successor, but it’s a sure bet he will push for someone who, like him, will protect the status quo and tread lightly with Donald Trump if the 45th president succeeds in becoming the 47th. Among the senators expected to seek the leadership position are John Thune of South Dakota, currently the second-ranking Republican; John Barrasso of Wyoming; and John Cornyn of Texas – all considered conservative establishment figures. And then there is Trump ally Rick Scott of Florida, whose previous bid to unseat McConnell came up well short.

Did Mitch McConnell Like Being the Grim Reaper?

Conservatives have tried to edge McConnell out for years. But on the other side of the aisle, leftists believe much damage has been done by McConnell’s drive to promote judges and justices who seek to reduce the power of the administrative state. Indeed, though most on the right see him as the leader of the “uniparty” establishment elite, the view is quite the opposite on the left. As NBC’s longtime liberal journalist Howard Fineman wrote of McConnell, “early in his Senate career, he adopted as guiding goal the destruction of the social-welfare state as erected by the Roosevelts, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. His bleak sense of realism told him he could not get elected president to do that. Instead, he would do it from the Senate by dismantling the federal judiciary that had sanctioned and enabled the liberal state.”

Part of Mitch McConnell’s political epitaph will be his standing as the single most unpopular political figure in the country over multiple polling cycles, finishing below Trump, Biden, Pelosi, George Soros and all the other familiar national names. And all along, one got the sense that he either didn’t care that he was so disliked or that he actually embraced his status as the Grim Reaper. One way or another, his tenure in leadership will long be debated by those who credit him with transforming the federal judiciary for a generation – and those who view him as little more than the guardian of a corrupt ruling class.

Read More From Tim Donner

What are Joe Biden’s unarticulated reasons for a very costly overseas intervention?

September 9, 2023 By Victoria White Berger 

Joe Biden is undistinguished in his verbal skills, to include his speeches—also in his “come on, man” and other shallow asides—regarding the war in Ukraine. To the extent that the U.S. intervention in Ukraine is commonly referred to as a “proxy war,” it’s concerning when Biden’s own Ukraine speech releases are inarticulate and inchoate.  He cracks jokes, and as always, falsely reminisces about his own life a lot, although here the context is, after all, a war. Burisma and other foreign business dealings are a possible explanation for Biden’s failure to bring clear leadership to U.S. assistance and intervention—last month, James Comer released the third “bank memo” showing payments from oligarchs in Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan to the Bidens and their associates. Most in the media thus far are content to let Biden, as they generally do, off the hook on Burisma, as well as his odd sound bites and hefty disdain for normal inquiry about Ukraine.............To Read More....   

• Mike Lee Calls for ‘New Leadership’ as Mitch McConnell Plans to Ram Ukraine Aid Down ‘House’s Throat’  - Sean Moran 9 Sep 2023 - Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Friday night called for new Senate Republican leadership, citing a story that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) plans to ram Ukraine aid down the “House’s throat.” Citing a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Kimberly Strassel that discussed how McConnell will help Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) force the House to agree to $24 billion in aid to Ukraine. “Mitch Mc­Connell has been mak­ing daily floor speeches on the need for more Ukraine fund­ing, wor­ried Mr. Mc­Carthy can’t get this cru­cial aid past House GOP spend­ing hard-lin­ers. So Mr. Mc­Connell is … sign­ing up to help Mr. Schumer ram the whole pack­age down the House’s throat,” Strassel wrote. Lee contended that Republicans have become increasingly frustrated with Senate Republican leadership passing legislation that divides Republicans yet has strong support from Democrats...........

Why Is Mitch McConnell Allowed to Remain Senate Minority Leader?

By Rich Kozlovich 

One thing clear, Mitch isn't going to resign from anything.  If he had an ounce of integrity he'd at least step down as the Republican leader in the Senate.  If he was a man of honor, he'd just resign and go and finish his life at home surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren.  His self serving character is now clear to the most casual observer.  He fails in both categories, honor and integrity. 

But the real story is about the honor and integrity of the Senate Republicans.  They've publicly accepted the incredible claim by McConnell's doctor he's just fine and dandy and ready to go back to work, and one Senator actually claims he's just as sharp and shrewd as ever.  Of course someone may have to  recognize when he's having a seizure and just wake him up.  Yep, sharp and shrewd. 

Then there are those who don't accept such nonsense such as Sen. Josh Hawley "who said McConnell should “absolutely” not remain the GOP minority leader in the Senate following his freezing episodes."  

McConnell's critics believe, and I think rightly so, he cost the Republicans the Senate in the last election, and if allowed to remain as minority leader may well do it again in 2024.  This was the first time he received no votes as Republican leader. 

During his years of "leadership the national debt rose nearly $20 trillion, illegal immigration surged, and real wages for American workers have not grown. Obamacare was enacted in 2010. Congress bailed out big banks in 2008, and social media companies silenced individuals without repercussions."  Yep, apparently he's always been really sharp and shrewd!

So, it's my understanding the Leaders of their parties serve at the pleasure of the party members, and can be voted out of those positions.  If that's so, and as far as I've been able to determine it is, with a lot of politicking involved, will the Republicans in the Senate do it?  No!  There are a bunch of McConnell clones sitting in the Republican caucus, and it just won't happen.  

Regarding the honor and integrity of Senate Republicans?  They're sorely lacking in both. 

 

We're All Travelers in This World!

By Rich Kozlovich

Recently Mitch McConnell went completely blank at the podium during a press conference, and now, according to  his doctor, he's just fine and ready to go back to work.  Well, he's not fine, this isn't the first time this has happened in recent times, but it is the worst public exposure of his dementia, or whatever neurological issue he's having thus far, but make no mistake, it won't be the last.  One has to wonder what's he like in his office, or home when he's not on camera?

On September 2, 2023 Jack Hellner posted this American Thinker article, Mitch McConnell’s obvious cognitive deficiencies cause a Democrat panic, saying:

As instances of Mitch McConnell’s cognitive rot increase, a leftist admits without him, “things could get very scary.” The Democrats love Republican Mitch McConnell. He’s a reliable and flexible ally, and he is always willing to cut deals with the White House and Senate colleagues. Obviously though, this must be done behind closed doors, away from the prying eyes of the public, because heaven forbid that voters see how the sausage gets made, and with whom our politicians’ allegiances really are. Mitch has always been willing to trash President Trump but yet rarely says anything bad about Joe Biden, and will run cover for the latter, no questions asked.

He notes how McConnell is opposed to a Biden impeachment as it "will be bad for the country", and then goes on to innumerate all the horrible things that absolutely bad .... actually horrible... for the nation, all of which Biden is responsible, and then goes on to ask: 

It makes you wonder… What do Biden and the Democrats have on McConnell?

I commented on that article saying:

There's a great movie entitled Broken Trail about real men doing manly things who are willing to stand up for what's right starring Robert Duvall. In that movie he portrays an old cowboy named Prentiss Ritter, and has what I think is an unforgettable line saying:

We're all travelers in this world, from the sweet grass to the packing house, birth to death, we travel between the eternities.

At some point, and I think soon, Mitch's travel will be over. If he had an ounce of integrity he'd at least resign as leader of the Senate Republicans, but no matter what, his travel will soon be over, and hopefully, the Senate Republicans will develop a spine and choose a conservative, a real conservative. But I don't have a lot of confidence in them. 

Update:  Given the Senate is full of nitwits like GOP Sen. Rounds who claims McConnell capable leader and he's sharp and shrewd, there's not any reason to have any confidence in them. RK

We all come to the end of things, and when that happens, and as we review our lives, will we ask ourselves if we've had the courage to be the rock in the current, willing to stand against all odds, being real men doing the manly things needed to stand up for what's right?

I was heavily involved in my industry's affairs for many years, and unfortunately, based on my experiences, I don't think most people can answer that positively, or honorably. Mitch McConnell exemplifies that all too sad fact, along with entirely too many "leaders" in business, government, academia, and the military.

Warm memories never wear out the welcome in our lives. At the end of our lives we all become moldering mounds of rotting flesh, and in "this world" the best that can happen is we leave satisfied knowing we've left some warm memories behind for work well done.

Mitch has already lost that battle.

And as you'd expect the corrupt, collusive media portrayed Fetterman as a heroic figure!  An asset to the Senate!  A shining example for those who have neurological disorders.  That same media is demanding Mitch resign.  No double standard there.   

Well, truth be told, it's long overdue for a Constitutional Amendment to place age and term limits of all elected federal officials, and the federal judiciary.  

It ain't gonna happen. 
 

Sen. Hawley Blames Poor Midterm Outcome On McConnell

Sarah Arnold December 31, 2022

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is blaming the Republican's terrible track record during the midterm election on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).  During an interview at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, Hawley explained how several Republicans, including McConnell, have enabled the Biden Administration’s progressive agenda. 

“Listen, if you look at the last just two years in the Senate: Cave to Big Pharma on insulin. Cave to Chuck Schumer on gun control. Cave to the radical left on the climate agenda. That’s the so-called infrastructure bill,”

Eighteen Senate Republicans voted to advance the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, which contains billions of dollars earmarked for Democrats’ woke agenda such as LGBTQ museums and antiracist institutions.  “That’s a terrible record. And then they wonder, Why didn’t we do better in the midterms? Gee, why, I don’t know,” Hawley questioned...............To Read More....

What are Senate Conservatives Going to Do about McConnell?

December 27, 2022 By J. Robert Smith   

The script is sickeningly familiar by now, isn’t it?  Establishment Republicans -- led throughout the ’22 elections and in their aftermath by the notorious Kentucky senator-for-life Mitch McConnell -- betrayed their party’s base, which is staunchly conservative, increasingly in an America First sorta way. 

Yes, lest one is confused because of all the serial betrayals, we’re referring to the gross obscenity called the “$1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.”  For true-blue conservatives, the brazen middle-finger thrust rudely into their faces by McConnell and seventeen other Senate go-alongs should be an act of war.  Political war, that is. 

The first major offensive in this war needs to be led by Senate conservatives.  The mission is audacious, as well it should be given the stakes: bringing down D.C.-lovin’ Mitch McConnell as Republican Senate leader.  Ace out dull John Thune as heir-apparent.  Install Rick Scott as the new leader.  The grassroots needs to undergird the fight and sustain it. 

Why war?  Because the character of this betrayal is precedent-setting.  It sticks out defiantly like owlish Mitch’s raised middle finger.  You see, as stupid as Republicans are -- and, by God, they can be an awfully dumb bunch -- McConnell and his troop of monolith-agitated apes have realized in their dull-wittedness that they really aren’t beholden to their voters, other than tossing them bleach-whitened toothy grins and occasional bones...............The war is upon us, like it or not.  First step in winning, ditch Mitch............To Read More.....

Mitch McConnell bows down to the media and Ukraine

By Andrea Widburg  December 5, 2022

Over the last six years, we’ve learned that the Washington D.C. Uniparty, which exists in both Congress and the administrative state, will do anything to maintain its grip on power. Today, it emerged that Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (Uniparty-KY) has agreed to include in the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act a provision that will allow old-line media companies to create a cartel dictating how their material will be carried on the internet. That this newly created power has nothing to do with defense, will harm the flow of information to Americans, and will prop up a malevolent arm of the Democrat party is irrelevant.

What McConnell said “yes” to is something called the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.” And “yes,” in case you’re wondering, it means that the Uniparty has interceded in the free flow of information to prop up an otherwise dying institution—and one, moreover, that is dying because of its incompetence, partisanship, and corruption.

Breitbart provides further information:..........To Read More.....

My Take -  Why is McConnell on board now?  Well, it's clear McConnell has some personal interests in China that is in need some serious investigations.  So, is that part of the scheme?  Revealed: JCPA’s Massive Loophole for China Bill Will Allow CCP Influence Operation over Media…

As I said, some serious investigation in to Ole Mitch's finances, and those of his wife.  

 

Mitch McConnell: Leadership Wants Lame-Duck Congress to Pass Omnibus Spending Bill

Nick Gilbertson 30 Nov 2022

 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that congressional leadership is in “widespread agreement” that the lame-duck session of Congress should pass an omnibus spending bill.  On Tuesday, McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy met with President Joe Biden and discussed legislative priorities for the remainder of the year.  We’re going to work together, to fund, I hope, work together to fund the government, COVID, and war in Ukraine,” Biden said. “All controversial and consequential issues.”...........To Read More....

• Will This Year's Lame-Duck Session Bring Back a Bad Idea? 
• House Republicans Vote Against Banning Earmarks: 'Shameful Display of Swamp Politics'
• Will This Year's Lame-Duck Session Bring Back a Bad Idea? Veronique de Rugy
• Controlled Opposition: the problem is McConnell and McCarthy, not Trump or DeSantis
• McConnell Tried to Push Through Media Cartel Bill JCPA via ‘Hotline’ Procedure
• Louisiana AG Jeff Landry: Call Your Senators, ‘Do Not Vote for This’
• Controlled Opposition: the problem is McConnell and McCarthy, not Trump or DeSantis 

Our Republican Leaders Have Failed Us Jack Gleason GOP leadership broke their own rules by meddling in primaries, accepting donations from hostile parties, and may be embroiling the GOP in an embarrassing scandal with their ties to FTX................ More

The World as I See It: Happiness and The Red Wave, Part II

By Rich Kozlovich

This has been an interesting pre-election period, and if you have a sense of humor, it's even better.   Let's start out with this piece, The RNC Sues Google, saying:

People in the industry refer to your email list as your “owned audience,” but it turns out you might not own it after all. The companies that run the major email systems tend to be on the left. My own organization moved away from MailChimp on account of apparent political bias that obstructed our ability to send emails, without restriction, to tens of thousands of email subscribers. Now, the Republican National Committee is suing Google, alleging that Gmail is discriminating against Republicans during a crucial fundraising season....

How great is it for the party in power to impose censorship without imposing censorship because their catspaws are doing it for them, and apparently, it's legal since they're not government entities.

But the Democrats are also getting help from others, like Mitch McConnell who pulled PAC ads out of New Hampshire's Don Bolduc's campaign, to the tune of six and a half million dollars on an election that's now a toss up.  And why would he do that?   Well, it appears he doesn't like Bolduc and I'm guessing it's because if Bolduc gets in, he will happily hold the door open if they decide to kick McConnell out of the leadership.   But never fear, Mitch just moved some of that money to another candidate.  He's pumping around nine million in to Lisa Malinowski's campaign against Kelly Tshibka, and I'm guessing for the same reason, and "seven Alaska Republican committees have issued a public rebuke of McConnell’s financial influence behind 21-year incumbent Murkowski", demanding he stop funding anyone except Tshibka.   And where does Murkowski stand?  She pledges to vote for the Democrat running against Sarah Palin.   

Channeling Captain Renault, I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! 

And  imagine this.  The Republicans in Alaska are upset over that, but it seems to be okay with McConnell.  Imagine that.  Perhaps they're thinking it's time to ditch Mitch, who has also reduced funding for Senate candidate Blake Masters in Arizona by around $8 million.

Here's what it comes down to, kicking "McConnell from his leadership position will be a major step in dismantling the self-serving, self-promoting, self-preserving, corrupt, and nepotistic confederacy that is D.C. Democrat Establishment."  

Of course only Senators can vote on this, but whether these people are going to the Senate or the House it seems to me if there are enough anti-McConnell voices in the Congress they'll create a herd mentality and channel Oliver Cromwell.  

As for retired general Don Bolduc.  He is running for the Senate, and he says even without McConnell's help, he has momentum, and if that momentum seats him in the Senate, you can pretty much guess his vote.

So, since polls are now showing seemingly sure Democrat victories are being termed toss up, one has to ask, Is the Red Wave Back?  It seems to me, precluding massive voter fraud as occurred in the 2020 election, which I've tracked and serialized, the Republicans will not only take the House, but the Senate and in far bigger numbers than previously thought.  When you see New York City going for the Republican Senate candidate, you can understand one thing.  Americans are really not happy! And when places like Greenwich Village start objecting to the outcome of leftist policies, you know the rest of America is "really" unhappy, and that unhappiness is spreading to all factions of American society.

What tact are Republican candidates taking?

 

Leora Levy running against Richard Blumenthal, states,  Richard Blumenthal is a career politician, I’m a ‘career American", and that's resonating, especially since he's lied about his military service, he's been called a communist, for good reason, and Dan Mitchell called him the most reprehensible politician of the year, who in 2021 doesn't think a national debt of 28.4 trillion is too much.  

 

Apparently he doesn't think a national debt of 31 trillion is too much either, and as far as I can tell, he sees no amount as too much.  How can anyone that insane be elected over and over again?  Oh, I know.  It's Connecticut!  So, what's wrong with the people of Connecticut?  I guess the same thing that's wrong with the people of Delaware. 

Then we have Herschel Walker, who is claiming he'll be a ‘warrior in Washington’, and no matter how much mud the Democrats are slinging on him, it's not sticking, while the facts of his opponents ill dealings are sticking.   But this isa honey pot of voter fraud.  So, we'll see. 

 

But I think it would be a good thing if everyone clearly understood: The world is watching whether of not this midterm is a harbinger of America once again embracing the traditional values of an American society wrapped in the American Constitution, or a nation bordering on the edge of collapse being controlled by leftists who hate America and are doing all they can to destroy the only thing that stands between freedom and worldwide tyranny. Because without America, there is no free world.

 

Channeling Oliver Cromwell

By Rich Kozlovich

For those who don't know Oliver Cromwell was.  He was one of the leaders in the English Civil Wars that defeated and executed King Charles I and ruled England as Lord Protector from December 1653 until his death in September 1658.  In 1653 Oliver Cromwell addressed a stunningly corrupt Parliament dismissing them saying:

¨"It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing lately … In the name of God go.

In 1940, Sir Leopold Amery stood up and paraphrased Cromwell saying to the great appeaser Neville Chamberlain:

"Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.

In 2022 David Davis again quotes Cromwell telling Boris Johnson to quit.

"In the name of God, go

Well, if the Brits have the stones to do it, and if the Republicans take the Senate, then as soon as possible after January 3, 2025 some Republican leader, preferably a new Senator, needs to stand up and say to Mitch McConnell:

"It is not fit that you should lead our party any longer. You have been there too long for any good you have been doing lately … In the name of God go.”