Conservative Senators Talk About Possible Ouster of Democrat Rat Mitch McConnell

The spirit is willing, but the GOP is weak.

Henry Rodgers for the Daily Caller:

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell's days leading the Republican minority could be numbered following the collapse of Senate leadership's bipartisan national security supplemental aid bill this week. Several prominent Republican senators expressed that the border bill debacle could push the GOP conference over the edge to remove McConnell from leadership, they told the Daily Caller in exclusive conversations Wednesday.
"Mitch McConnell, in effect, gave the largest in-kind campaign contribution to the Democrats' Senate campaign committee in history," Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told the Caller.
Conservatives both inside the official Republican Party apparatus and out have long criticized McConnell, an institution in the Senate with a reputation for shrewd negotiation and savvy maneuvering, for not taking sufficiently hardline stances on key issues to the party's base. McConnell has continued to keep a stranglehold on power in the Republican conference for nearly two decades, but momentum to remove him has reached a fevered pitch after a tidal wave of backlash to the border policy proposal unveiled this week.
"I think this is our opportunity to take him out, and we're sort of working to figure out if that's possible. I think that there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem where I think you probably have the votes, but you need somebody to step forward and that person's that unwilling to step forward unless you have the votes, it can't just be a Mike and Ted and a sort of everybody who hates Mitch thing," one Republican senator, who was granted anonymity to speak freely without worry of retaliation from leadership, told the Caller. "You obviously have to get kind of the middle of the conference. So that's all being worked on behind the scenes. And I think, frankly, how this vote works out will help determine whether the conference, broadly speaking, is willing to go in that direction."

McConnell put Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford in charge of border deal negotiations with Democrats and the Biden administration. Every Senate Republican the Caller spoke with laid the blame on McConnell, however, saying he was the one truly crafting the deal behind the scenes and used Lankford, who is not running for reelection, as a pawn to take the fall for what the lawmakers said is a gift to their opponents.
"Every single Democrat candidate in the country running for Senate, running for House will use the identical talking points -- they will all say: We wanted to secure the border. We tried to secure the border, but the Republicans wouldn't let us," Cruz continued. "Now, that is a wild-eyed lie. It is completely false. This bill would have made the border crisis worse."
"As long as I've been serving in the Senate, there's never been an issue where the American public is so overwhelmingly in support of our position, which is to secure the border. So how can you take as leader, how do you take an issue where the American people support us and lead us into a box, where now, when a bill is produced, it is worse than doing nothing," Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said. "When that's rejected, we get blamed. I mean, you got to work overtime to screw that up."
"I've even heard privately, Democratic colleagues, tell me 'your leadership was desperate to make a deal, that it made us less willing to negotiate'. So this is an open secret that these guys were not driving a hard bargain and you see the results in the border package that came out," Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance told the Daily Caller. "And now we're seeing the second step of the process, which is kill the border package. Jam through the Ukraine package. It doesn't make any sense."
The Senate deal, which included $60 billion in aid for Ukraine, was shut down Wednesday afternoon after a motion to proceed failed 49-50. Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and Lankford were the only GOP Senators who voted to pass the legislation. Meanwhile, several Democrats also opposed the deal, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and Massachusetts Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer then put a package on the floor to ship aid to Ukraine and Israel, with no provisions for border security.
Meanwhile, the predictions of Cruz and others came true before the body of the deal was even cold Wednesday. This week, President Joe Biden blamed Republicans for the crisis at the southern border, stating that their inability to pass legislation to solve the problem was going to be used against them every day on the campaign trail between now and November. Other Democrats have begun deploying the same line.
Republican hopes of using Ukraine aid to secure a big win on perhaps 2024's biggest issue, the border, went up in flames.

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1 I’ll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 06:01 PM (u73oe)

2 On a roll today.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 06:02 PM (u73oe)

3 And while we're cleaning house, they can also give Mike Turner the boot from the house intel committee.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2024 06:02 PM (XV/Pl)

4 McConnell looks as bad as Biden. It seems like his batteries freeze and he needs to be rebooted. Why is he still in congress? He should be gone.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 19, 2024 06:03 PM (TFcmW)

5 Whores.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 19, 2024 06:04 PM (R4t5M)

6 If McConnell pouts and takes his ball and goes home, does that mean Kentucky's Democrat Governor gets to appoint his replacement? Don't bet against McConnell using that as leverage, which is a perfect illustration of someone with no business being the Senate Republican leader.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at February 19, 2024 06:04 PM (4+3qm)

7 "you got to work overtime to screw that up."

Heh. Indeed.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 19, 2024 06:05 PM (MvF+J)

8 Ace from the future is the best Ace
Ditch the Turtle

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 06:05 PM (fwDg9)

9 I have just folded space from Ken'tuki. Many new dams in Ken'tuki.

Posted by: Guild Navigator Mitch McConnell at February 19, 2024 06:05 PM (aD39U)

10 "Conservative Senators Talk" - And there's the problem.

Talk. Not do.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 19, 2024 06:06 PM (qPw5n)

11 McConnell must not have a working dick else he could be gone because of that. The ones that got one are just happy that McConnell has shade for them to hide in.

Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2024 06:07 PM (goGTI)

12 This week, President Joe Biden blamed Republicans for the crisis at the southern border, stating that their inability to pass legislation to solve the problem was going to be used against them every day on the campaign trail between now and November. Other Democrats have begun deploying the same line

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What crisis? They’ve been telling me for three years that the border is completely secure.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 06:07 PM (u73oe)

13
Republican hopes of using Ukraine aid to secure a big win on perhaps 2024's biggest issue, the border, went up in flames.

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Excuse me, what? Are those people speaking the same language?

"GOPe hopes of swallowing poison in exchange for getting shot" is how I read it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 19, 2024 06:07 PM (T3es0)

14 Yeah..... the GOP needs a more pliable leader who'll bend over and take it up the ass quicker than the slow turtle McConnell.

Good move, GOP. Expected nothing less.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2024 06:07 PM (Q4IgG)

15 lol. A large amount of the Republican senate voter for a "immigration" bill that sold out the entire country and did zero to close the border or kick people out of the country. 21 then voted for a bill that gave money to Ukraine and Israel and not a dime to secure our border.

You've got a bigger problem then McConnell.

Posted by: Thor's Pimp Hand at February 19, 2024 06:07 PM (BKsfb)

16 Kentucky legislature controlled by Rep passed a law saying the governor must choose from a slate submitted by the legislature. The governor said he'd fight that as unconstitutional. We shall see

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2024 06:08 PM (byGob)

17 BREAKING BIOLOGICAL NEWS!

Daily Mail Online
@MailOnline
Row as hospitals say hormone-filled milk from trans women who were born male is just as good for a baby as the real thing

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Also, pigs who identify as eagles can fly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 19, 2024 06:09 PM (FVME7)

18 Chuck, like NY's Kathy, is supported by the Democratic Socialists. He'll be a fool to save his own skin forever - imho.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun and bear, they only have to outrun us - for now at February 19, 2024 06:09 PM (GshMh)

19 I liked best the part where anyone who asked, "what did conservatives get out of the deal?" was told FYNQ and "this is the best we could get."

Even more amusing was when we then asked, "what did the Democrats give up as part of the negotiations?" and they said FYNQ and "this is the best we could get."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2024 06:09 PM (cSaKW)

20 I solemnly promise to vote harder than I ever did before in my life for these fuck knobs.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 19, 2024 06:09 PM (MvF+J)

21 Anybody remember Tortuga from Breaking Bad?

Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 06:09 PM (SYTee)

22 Danny Trejo!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 19, 2024 06:10 PM (MvF+J)

23 @greg_price11 X
Guys, I'm just so glad we don't live in a country like Russia, where the ruling party uses corrupt law fare to put their political opponents in jail for life, remove them from the ballot, and bankrupt their family business
4:20 PM · Feb 16, 2024

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun and bear, they only have to outrun us - for now at February 19, 2024 06:11 PM (GshMh)

24 Senators from deep blue states are hardcore lefties. Many Senators from deep red states are squishes. That’s the problem.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 06:11 PM (u73oe)

25 It was really something that "the strongest border protection bill in decades" was unanimously supported by all Democrats--including those who have called for the abolition of ICE.

Really odd that such a draconian bill was supported by even the most open of open border zealots.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2024 06:11 PM (cSaKW)

26 McTurtle has had his knife in the back of every conservative for a long, long time. Look how he delayed and denied all of the border bills under Trump and how he has blown every opportunity to create a new one restricting entry. He should have been gone the last electin cycle but just like Biden he was reelected.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at February 19, 2024 06:12 PM (qZdIZ)

27 I'm giving a big thumbs-down on ditching my friend Mitch, you hobbits!

Posted by: John McCain, only a semi-zombie pending end of my funeral at February 19, 2024 06:12 PM (5fDan)

28 Zardoz works in mysterious ways

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Hobos and Associated Hermits at February 19, 2024 06:12 PM (dzZCL)

29 I just wanted to be sure to bring this over from the other thread, Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks:

Nikki Haley
@NikkiHaley
12 fellas down. 1 to go.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - states deserved it in the 1860s but it's different today because reasons at February 19, 2024 06:13 PM (0+Kup)

30 Just declare him an 'insurrectionist' and refuse him.
Either way it works.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 06:13 PM (cOq4q)

31 If congress had to follow the Truth advertising law that border bill would be called "Democrat wish list".

Posted by: vic at February 19, 2024 06:13 PM (A5THL)

32 Lets make a deal!

Posted by: Tortuga at February 19, 2024 06:13 PM (SYTee)

33 The senators already own ten of everything from the SkyMall catalog. Maybe bribem with Hammacher Schlemmer.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 19, 2024 06:16 PM (MvF+J)

34 Ballotpedia

As of Feb. 15, 2024, 50 members of Congress—seven members of the U.S. Senate and 43 members of the U.S. House—announced they would not seek re-election in 2024.

Of the U.S. Senate members not running for re-election, six—U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.), and Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.)—announced their retirements from public office, while the other—U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.)—is running for governor of Indiana.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 19, 2024 06:16 PM (GshMh)

35 The open border is official Democratic policy, even those with an "R" after their name. McConnell tried to bail out Biden with this nonsense, and even as stupid as so many Americans have become, even they know who is responsible.

There are enough Republican senators to remove McConnell and his lieutenants now, but it is too little, too late. The open border was the final nail in the country's coffin.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 19, 2024 06:16 PM (KSNKu)

36 Believe McConnell is gone when I see it,probably give Graham a tiara and scepter and put him in charge.

Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2024 06:17 PM (NxC5+)

37 This close to pride month?

Posted by: Montec at February 19, 2024 06:17 PM (YMqA6)

38 Wake me up when something happens.

Posted by: Rip Van WinkleHoard at February 19, 2024 06:18 PM (DsA2n)

39 37 This close to pride month?
Posted by: Montec at February 19, 2024 06:17 PM (YMqA6)

It is a different Soviet month.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 19, 2024 06:19 PM (KSNKu)

40 Eromero, nah, our own Jonh Cornyn has his lips lips firmly locked on mitch's ass.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:19 PM (NCs6d)

41 McConnell is older than Joe, isn't he?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 19, 2024 06:20 PM (xcrUy)

42 We would be better off without McConnell and better off without the seat too. Because then the campaign cash that used to flow through McConnell would not and we could then lose a few more RINO seats.

The first two years of Trump we had both houses too. All we got for it was a tax cut that sunsets soon. We're better off in the minority than having sellouts getting elected using our credentials blocking our agenda.

McConnell for some strange reason saved us from Merrick Garland but really is there anything else he did that matters? Let's start the war without his kind in our ranks. We have the People if we can rid ourselves of the RINO's.
One thing you never get out of McConnell and his ilk is America First. It's like kryptonite to Superman. It should be every candidate's litmus test.

MAGA is the big tent we can win with Trump and post Trump.

Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2024 06:21 PM (goGTI)

43 >>> Believe McConnell is gone when I see it,probably give Graham a tiara and scepter and put him in charge.
Posted by: Eromero

A scepter with a big purple knob on the end and he would on it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 06:21 PM (cOq4q)

44 How many "conservative Senators" are there? 2? Maybe 3?

Posted by: blaster at February 19, 2024 06:21 PM (IFNME)

45 A scepter with a big purple knob on the end and he would on it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 06:21 PM (cOq4q)
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Phrasing?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 06:22 PM (0gvpA)

46 Hard to believe that the left thinks they are holding a winning hand by refusing to secure our border which Biden could do without another dime unless we give Ukraine another $60 billion.

Completely tone deaf.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:22 PM (LkLld)

47 Every time I see Mitch, he sounds more and more like Mumbling Joe and Stuttering Nancy.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 19, 2024 06:22 PM (BVrf9)

48 How strange it is that McConnell, who not long ago was hospitalized for an apparent stroke, and who more recently *couldn't speak* during one or two public appearances and had to be ushered away by protective staffers -- how strange it is, I say, that this guy can't handle his job. It's almost like being Senate Minority Leader requires you to have a functioning brain.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at February 19, 2024 06:23 PM (qUkBO)

49 McConnel is the best freeze-tag player in The Senate.

Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 06:23 PM (SYTee)

50 Also, on replacing McConnell. With who?

Look upon these works ye mighty and despair:

https://www.republican.senate.gov/

Posted by: blaster at February 19, 2024 06:23 PM (IFNME)

51 Ben Had, Mrs. E and I vote early tomorrow, eat breakfast, and go to the range.

Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2024 06:24 PM (NxC5+)

52 When McConnell wore that Ukraine lapel pin he should have been gone the next day.

Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2024 06:24 PM (goGTI)

53 *peeks in*

Posted by: Shrek Fetterman at February 19, 2024 06:24 PM (R4t5M)

54 Replace him with someone who wants to send even more money to Ukraine, maybe.

Posted by: brak at February 19, 2024 06:25 PM (AR07F)

55 The only place mitch is going is into his grave. Hopefully God takes him soon and he sorts out where he will spend eternity.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 19, 2024 06:26 PM (2NHgQ)

56
scepter with a big purple knob on the end

The Paolo?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 19, 2024 06:26 PM (Blz2Y)

57 Finland to open 300 shooting ranges to boost interest in national defence

Posted by: SMOD at February 19, 2024 06:27 PM (RovqD)

58 "you need somebody to step forward"
______

Unfortunately they don't use the rules for Speaker of the House. If they did, the obvious choice would be George Santos.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 19, 2024 06:27 PM (1bNHn)

59 Born in '42, so 82.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 19, 2024 06:28 PM (di6C2)

60 McConnell is hated in KY... where I live. He does maintain a robust election fraud and ballot operation in the big cities.

Thus... he maintains R status here.

The alternative is D status... which is probably indistinguishable from his position anyway.

So... what exactly is the point of defeating him?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2024 06:28 PM (Q4IgG)

61 I think we should GoFund a new Tesla for Mr. and Mrs. Commie Turtle.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2024 06:28 PM (eYF7X)

62 Where's that X button...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 19, 2024 06:29 PM (XMwZJ)

63 Eromero, sounds like a lovely day. I'm waiting until voting day and will be voting against my state rep, Congressman and current sherrif. Rancherbob/CowHorseQueen 's son is running for Sherrif

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:29 PM (NCs6d)

64 A lot of Republican Senators are trans. Transpolitical. They really are Democrats but have to identify to the voters as Republicans to get elected. They're very good at it.

Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2024 06:29 PM (goGTI)

65 Who does KY have in the wings to replace McTurtle when he expires.

Posted by: davidt at February 19, 2024 06:30 PM (SYTee)

66 Nice. Both Milei and Bukele will be speaking at CPAC.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:31 PM (LkLld)

67 Finland has like the fifth most guns per citizens. There are some bad actors on that list though.

Posted by: torabora at February 19, 2024 06:32 PM (goGTI)

68 41 McConnell is older than Joe, isn't he?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 19, 2024 06:20 PM (xcrUy)

I believe so. Congress has become an elder-care facility. This July 4th, the United States will be 248 years old. The combined ages of Mitch, Nanzi, Corn-subsidy Grassley, and Jim Clyburn is well over 250 years.

Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2024 06:33 PM (5fDan)

69 And just so we're clear:
The same people who were whining about McCarthy getting the boot will show how eco-friendly they are by recycling those whines if removal of McConnell gets serious.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2024 06:33 PM (cSaKW)

70 Senator Kookaburra says Joe is just fine.

Simon Ateba
@simonateba
JUST IN: Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) says she spent over 60 minutes with President Biden and she can confirm to America that he is not suffering from any cognitive decline: "He was focused, his recall was good," she said.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 19, 2024 06:33 PM (FVME7)

71 It seems to me the the KC Parade shooters are worse than Hamass.

At least Hamass cares enough to choose which women and children they shoot.

These KC fans are sub-subhuman.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 19, 2024 06:34 PM (os8zY)

72 40 Eromero, nah, our own Jonh Cornyn has his lips lips firmly locked on mitch's ass.

Posted by: Ben Had at
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There's a nasty secret going on down in Texas. While everyone is high-fiving Abbott for his border work nobody's watching him endorse Blue Republicans all over the state.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 19, 2024 06:34 PM (jnt+a)

73 >>69 And just so we're clear:
The same people who were whining about McCarthy getting the boot will show how eco-friendly they are by recycling those whines if removal of McConnell gets serious.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I would not bet against this hypothesis.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2024 06:35 PM (eYF7X)

74 69 And just so we're clear:
The same people who were whining about McCarthy getting the boot will show how eco-friendly they are by recycling those whines if removal of McConnell gets serious.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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All the better to affirm who the RINOs are.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 19, 2024 06:36 PM (jnt+a)

75 Did Speaker Johnson ever get his one-one with Bribe'em?
NO

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:36 PM (NCs6d)

76 >>JUST IN: Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) says she spent over 60 minutes with President Biden and she can confirm to America that he is not suffering from any cognitive decline: "He was focused, his recall was good," she said.

That's good to hear. I was getting concerned that what I can plainly see and hear with my own eyes and ears was telling me Joe was senile. I feel much better now.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:36 PM (LkLld)

77 Not an exact quote from The Bee but close:

Family grapples with decision whether to put grandpa in a nursing home or run him for Senate.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 06:37 PM (u73oe)

78 63 Eromero, sounds like a lovely day. I'm waiting until voting day and will be voting against my state rep, Congressman and current sherrif. Rancherbob/CowHorseQueen 's son is running for Sherrif

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:29 PM (NCs6d)

Holy Cow! If he wins he may become the youngest sheriff in Texas. I hope he does win. He's an impressive man.

Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2024 06:37 PM (5fDan)

79 76 >>JUST IN: Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) says she spent over 60 minutes with President Biden and she can confirm to America that he is not suffering from any cognitive decline: "He was focused, his recall was good," she said.
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They shared salads and combs.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 19, 2024 06:37 PM (jnt+a)

80 "I mean he ate his salad with this weird pointy metal thing, but other than that he seemed perfectly normal."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 19, 2024 06:37 PM (9UlRk)

81 76 >>JUST IN: Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) says she spent over 60 minutes with President Biden and she can confirm to America that he is not suffering from any cognitive decline: "He was focused, his recall was good," she said.

That's good to hear. I was getting concerned that what I can plainly see and hear with my own eyes and ears was telling me Joe was senile. I feel much better now.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:36 PM (LkLld)

Yeah, but Joe was only awake for 4 of those 60 minutes.

Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2024 06:39 PM (5fDan)

82 Was just thinking how I could work salad and a comb into a comment and then boom.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 06:39 PM (u73oe)

83 Gref, probably not this time around but he has scared the incumbent.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:40 PM (NCs6d)

84 6 If McConnell pouts and takes his ball and goes home, does that mean Kentucky's Democrat Governor gets to appoint his replacement? Don't bet against McConnell using that as leverage, which is a perfect illustration of someone with no business being the Senate Republican leader.

I'll take that deal every time. Short term pain for long term gain, so long as Cruz et al choose the replacement.

But of course, McConnell will also install one of his fake-R DRC stooges (Barrasso, Thune, Cornhole, Tillis, Yankford) on his way out. That would be lose-lose. I'd rather let Glitch McConnell die in the Leader's chair. Cruz, Scott, et al had damn well better have their Man or Woman picked for when the Reaper comes for the Turtle

Posted by: Ex GOP at February 19, 2024 06:41 PM (qS8WV)

85 If you’re trying to convince people that your guy is not senile, you’re in a tough spot.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 06:41 PM (u73oe)

86 >>If you’re trying to convince people that your guy is not senile, you’re in a tough spot.

They seem to be trying a new tactic. I've heard a couple times over the last couple days pundits claiming that Joe has had one of the best first terms of any president in history.

That's just crazy but they seem to be going with it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:43 PM (LkLld)

87 Ben Had @ 63-
That’s great news! Been a while since we had a Sheriff in the family.

Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2024 06:44 PM (NxC5+)

88 They seem to be trying a new tactic. I've heard a couple times over the last couple days pundits claiming that Joe has had one of the best first terms of any president in history.

That's just crazy but they seem to be going with it.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:43 PM (LkLld)
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This morning we were discussing some new list that has FJB as the 14th Bestest POTUS ever. You-know-who is at the bottom of that list.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 06:44 PM (BpYfr)

89 I don't need assurances, my ears and eyes work just fine. The poor man needs to sit in a recliner and watch tv, not try to shove spending bills down our unwilling throats.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 19, 2024 06:45 PM (MeG8a)

90 85 If you’re trying to convince people that your guy is not senile, you’re in a tough spot.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 06:41 PM (u73oe)

Convince away. The only way it works is if Joe never comes out of his bedroom.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 19, 2024 06:45 PM (3CVIc)

91 Ben Had, only seven weeks to darkness at noontime!

Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2024 06:46 PM (5fDan)

92 ******* All we got for it was a tax cut that sunsets soon*****

That shit drives me up the wall.

The medieval English parliament had a better grasp on liberty than this. They would levy taxes that had an expiration date. The king would go to parliament and say "the Scots are getting uppity and we have to do something". Parliament would levy a 5 percent tax on the wool trade for ten years and tell the king "here is your pile of money, go win the war." And 10 years later boom! tax is gone.

Our retards make taxes permanent and relief temporary.

Bastards.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at February 19, 2024 06:46 PM (3DZIZ)

93 The Dynamics of the process preclude McConnell from doing anything else other than staying for the duration. You can't get rid of him because he insulated himself. He can't protect his reputation of his posterior on all his side hustles from outside the loop (China, Ukraine, etc). How does he manage this? Simple. He selects and surrounds himself with others who were given a taste...and are now compromised (unable to go against his little fiefdom). The last thing he wants is "loudmouth moralistic senators coming in to rock the boat". You, of course, recall the attempt at bribing Kari Lake out of the race. Or the campaign funds pulled in the last election of candidates with a similar pedigree. BTW, that Kari Lake bribe thing sure went away fast, didn't it? It helps went the Senate Minority leader is involved (private citizens don't hold that sort of sway). He's never leaving, unless it's in a box. He can't afford to.

Posted by: Orson at February 19, 2024 06:47 PM (dIske)

94 This morning we were discussing some new list that has FJB as the 14th Bestest POTUS ever. You-know-who is at the bottom of that list.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 06:44 PM (BpYfr)

"Why are we heading for extinction," they cry, as they shit out a preposterous listicle ten years after anyone anywhere gave a shit about listicles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 19, 2024 06:47 PM (9UlRk)

95 I know Mitch intimately well and I can assure you fellow conservatives that he is more severe of a Republican than I am!

Posted by: Senator Pierre Delecto at February 19, 2024 06:48 PM (PJaTp)

96 "...pundits claiming that Joe has had one of the best first terms of any president in history."

I'm sure it's going great.
For them...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 19, 2024 06:48 PM (MeG8a)

97 IN: Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) says she spent over 60 minutes with President Biden and she can confirm to America that he is not suffering from any cognitive decline: "He was focused, his recall was good," she said.

That's good to hear. I was getting concerned that what I can plainly see and hear with my own eyes and ears was telling me Joe was senile. I feel much better now.

Posted by: JackStraw

Wasn't her desk that the gay stuff was being done and filmed on?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 06:48 PM (cOq4q)

98 Mitch McConnell is the Worm Emperor of DC.

Someone needs to drown him in a few inches of water.

Making a big ol funky pot of Jambalaya so I could just throw his innards in there and spice it up a bit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 19, 2024 06:49 PM (R/m4+)

99 Fuck this shit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2024 06:49 PM (2fIO4)

100 >>This morning we were discussing some new list that has FJB as the 14th Bestest POTUS ever. You-know-who is at the bottom of that list.

That just flies so flat into the face of reality it's not even wrong. It's just nuts. I don't even know any Democrats who believe he's anything other than a very poor president at best.

Despite having a virtual monopoly on the media he is still losing to the Russian asset with numerous indictments.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:50 PM (LkLld)

101 45 of that 60 minutes was trying to get him to wake up but after that Katy bar the door.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:51 PM (NCs6d)

102 In fact that would be a good amendment.

"All federal taxes expire after 10yrs unless reauthorized in a stand alone bill 90 days before the expiration date."

Make the bastards vote on that.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at February 19, 2024 06:51 PM (3DZIZ)

103 Here’s an idea the Republican and Democrat Senate Campaign Committees are Deep State ops to keep a firm control of Congress.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 19, 2024 06:51 PM (dhtLi)

104 >>Wasn't her desk that the gay stuff was being done and filmed on?

I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:51 PM (LkLld)

105 Was just thinking how I could work salad and a comb into a comment and then boom.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

No, Amy, that was just greek dressing on your desk.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2024 06:52 PM (cOq4q)

106 DITCH MITCH THE BITCH!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 19, 2024 06:52 PM (pohLc)

107 >>Wasn't her desk that the gay stuff was being done and filmed on?

I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:51 PM (LkLld)

"Some asshole stole my pen."

- Amy Klobuchar

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 19, 2024 06:53 PM (9UlRk)

108 Amy got some concessions from Sundowner

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 06:53 PM (fwDg9)

109 More from Klobuchar -

"He clearly knew who I am. Occasionally. But that's OK. A lot of my friends also call me Joan, Sally, Amelia, and LaQuisha."

Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2024 06:54 PM (5fDan)

110 Gref, hahahaha.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:54 PM (NCs6d)

111 Oopsie. Looks like Navalny might have been a slightly different guy than leftists thought he was.

http://tinyurl.com/4tw5hmrr

Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:58 PM (LkLld)

112
"He was focused, his recall was good," she said.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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Honestly, that sounds exactly like an assessment of a recovering stroke patient who remembers what he had for breakfast and was able to put together a 20-piece puzzle.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 19, 2024 06:58 PM (T3es0)

113 >>There's a nasty secret going on down in Texas. While everyone is high-fiving Abbott for his border work nobody's watching him endorse Blue Republicans all over the state.

This is truth. Almost half of the 96 gopers in the house vote with dems to kill conservative efforts. Here's the proof.

https://grassrootspriorities.com/index.php

Two groups come to the same conclusion.

Posted by: DanMan at February 19, 2024 07:00 PM (8uzBS)

114
Joe has always been good at private meetings with supporters.

But his childhood stutter that comes out in public makes callous opponents pounce, and sieze.

Posted by: Auspex at February 19, 2024 07:01 PM (j4U/Z)

115 .
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Posted by: Mitch McConnell at February 19, 2024 07:02 PM (ycI94)

116 "All federal taxes expire after 10yrs unless reauthorized in a stand alone bill 90 days before the expiration date."
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Amendment: reauthorization in a stand alone bill that can be passed no sooner than 90 after the tax expires and submitted no sooner than 60 days before Election Day.

Make the fuckers vote to raise taxes after the public sees how much more they were paying in taxes and that they voted to raise back those taxes just before the Election.

Of course, John "Retarded Solomon" Roberts will rule all taxes are penalties for assessment purposes but taxes for Constitutional reasons.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2024 07:03 PM (cSaKW)

117 "Some asshole stole my pen."

- Amy Klobuchar
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 19, 2024 06:53 PM (9UlRk

ISWYDT

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 19, 2024 07:03 PM (3CVIc)

118 Oopsie. Looks like Navalny might have been a slightly different guy than leftists thought he was.
http://tinyurl.com/4tw5hmrr
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:58 PM (LkLld)

He seemed like a good guy.

However, we are nothing like those nasty muzzies.

Posted by: Cockroaches Everywhere at February 19, 2024 07:03 PM (R/m4+)

119 I just finished the new True Detective series on Max.

What a shit show with a ridiculous ending.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 19, 2024 07:04 PM (3CVIc)

120 So... what exactly is the point of defeating him?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2024 06:28 PM (Q4IgG)
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Pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 19, 2024 07:05 PM (1bNHn)

121 Nope, still don’t give. Fuck about Ukraine. Europe can kiss my ass too.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2024 07:06 PM (u73oe)

122 68 41 McConnell is older than Joe, isn't he?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 19, 2024 06:20 PM (xcrUy)

I believe so. Congress has become an elder-care facility. This July 4th, the United States will be 248 years old. The combined ages of Mitch, Nanzi, Corn-subsidy Grassley, and Jim Clyburn is well over 250 years.
Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2024 06:33 PM (5fDan)
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That is what "senate" means after all.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 19, 2024 07:07 PM (1bNHn)

123 jambalya's thecobbler of stews, just a big bunch of stuff boild together

Posted by: N at February 19, 2024 07:08 PM (RjBju)

124 Did ya all catch Zelensky saying he wasn't looking for alternative funding because he knew the Congress would do the right thing?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 07:08 PM (NCs6d)

125 Did ya all catch Zelensky saying he wasn't looking for alternative funding because he knew the Congress would do the right thing?

wouldn't matter anyway, he has no alternative funding anywhere

Posted by: N at February 19, 2024 07:10 PM (RjBju)

126 124 Did ya all catch Zelensky saying he wasn't looking for alternative funding because he knew the Congress would do the right thing?
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 07:08 PM (NCs6d)

He means the predictably corrupt thing. Yes, it's a sure thing.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 19, 2024 07:10 PM (UAO/v)

127 That's just crazy but they seem to be going with it.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2024 06:43 PM (LkLld)

The gaslighting is part of the kink.

Posted by: blaster at February 19, 2024 07:11 PM (IFNME)

128 We will see how well Sundowner is around October

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 07:11 PM (fwDg9)

129 This kind of reaction is always what surprises me. Are you suddenly surprised that Mitch is UniParty because this latest shit-show is suddenly the straw that broke the camel's back ? As opposed to when people pointed out that he wouldn't recess the Senate during Trump ? Or all the failure theater Mitch orchestrated during ObamaCare ?

Sometimes I wonder if some folks are just figuring out that wrestling wasn't real, and Perry Mason wasn't a lawyer.

Posted by: Pair A' Dimes at February 19, 2024 07:11 PM (yw9il)

130 Thom Tillis is very bi. It seems like every ad he puts out, he uses the word bipartisan. Our other Senator, Richard Burr isn't even listed, He's retiring and keeping a low profile. I think there were some insider trading accusations or something.

Posted by: TC at February 19, 2024 07:11 PM (OgfrC)

131 At Universe Today: "There’s One Last Place Planet 9 Could Be Hiding."

In my pants.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 19, 2024 07:12 PM (MvF+J)

132 We will see how well Sundowner is around October
Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 07:11 PM (fwDg9)

Oh! I would love to see him stroke out live on TV.

Blood, vomit and feces spraying the journalists.

A Man Can Dream.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 19, 2024 07:12 PM (R/m4+)

133 132 We will see how well Sundowner is around October
Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 07:11 PM (fwDg9)

He'll be in his bunker as WWIII rages.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 19, 2024 07:13 PM (UAO/v)

134 PHV -- yeah that's even better.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at February 19, 2024 07:13 PM (3DZIZ)

135 Did ya all catch Zelensky saying he wasn't looking for alternative funding because he knew the Congress would do the right thing?
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No war in history has ever been won by stacking up money and burning it.

But that is exactly what we're doing in Ukraine.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2024 07:14 PM (cSaKW)

136 The nood cafe is open!

Posted by: SimaHayha at February 19, 2024 07:14 PM (HBnxr)

137 130 Thom Tillis is very bi. It seems like every ad he puts out, he uses the word bipartisan. Our other Senator, Richard Burr isn't even listed, He's retiring and keeping a low profile. I think there were some insider trading accusations or something.
Posted by: TC at February 19, 2024 07:11 PM (OgfrC)
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Burr is gone. It's now Mike Budd, who so far seems a lot better.

I will vote against Thom ("I take it up the butt") Tillis any time I can, even if I have to vote for Ilhan Omar to do so.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 19, 2024 07:15 PM (1bNHn)

138 Conservative Senators Talk About Possible Ouster of Democrat Rat Mitch McConnell
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The operative skeptical phrase being, 'Talk about'.

Posted by: NASA astronautettes at February 19, 2024 07:16 PM (XeU6L)

139 The border crisis:

It's not happening, and it's great that it is, and you're a racist for noticing.

Posted by: pookysgirl, combining the memes at February 19, 2024 07:16 PM (dtlDP)

140 WHATEVER!

They - the senators in question - are only doing what Republicans always do. They get in front of a camera, look all serious, talk heavy and use Gowdy-like words in order to get the right sound bites on record for the rubes back home. Then they go right back to grifting at their master's behest. Lest we forget, this is the "nothing we can do here" party that did nothing as 2020 was being hijacked. So yeah, McConnell is going nowhere and he knows it.

FUCK THE G.O.P.!!!

Posted by: Tracy at February 19, 2024 07:16 PM (ghPWo)

141 Are we willowed?

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 07:18 PM (fwDg9)

142 Wyoming is nicknamed 'The Suffrage State,' the world's first sovereign state to declare womens' suffrage, in 1869. According to some rando site.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 19, 2024 07:25 PM (MvF+J)

143 Rando also sez "In 1935, the Wyoming legislature designated 'the Equality State' its official nickname."

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at February 19, 2024 07:26 PM (MvF+J)

144 Would the country be better off if

Posted by: TC at February 19, 2024 07:30 PM (OgfrC)

145 144 Would the country be better off if

the 17th amendment was repealed?

Posted by: TC at February 19, 2024 07:33 PM (OgfrC)

146 President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and officials are banking on March’s State of the Union address to help reset his 2024 bid as he trails former President Donald Trump in the polls, according to Axios.

Posted by: SMOD at February 19, 2024 07:38 PM (RovqD)

147 McConnell is the worst facets of Romney, McCain, Rockefeller, Bush and Cheney combined and expelled by the GOPe annus. Its not enough that he be deposed he must be exposed and punished. Look at his wealth, estimated at 100 million. How did he get this?

Posted by: Sally at February 19, 2024 08:49 PM (bXvrr)

148 Appreciate all of you at Ace. The channeling of the spirit of 'Sundance' is... wise at the very least.

Not here to lecture any of you wonderful People; WE have a common purpose and that is to live our very best lives - with common ground. And we do. Sir.

Respectfully

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 20, 2024 12:18 AM (ryUqI)

149 Gimme the random set of names out of the phone book (I know, they don't make those any more).

We'd have better Representation.

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