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  1. I’ll believe it when I see it with Mitch. I doubt it. They are all buds; members of the professional political class.

  2. so 41 Democrats can stop anything from passing. Well, that brings up an interesting question. HOW DID THE DEMOCRATS PASS OBAMACARE IN 2010? Didn’t we have at least 41 Republicans in the Senate?

  3. neo: “…..and (b) possible grounds for a lawsuit against Obama.”

    Since the votes aren’t there for an impeachment conviction in the Senate, this would at least establish the facts of Obama’s violations of law in a court.

    Impeachment sounds like a good way of holding a President in check, until you encounter a party like the dems that will put their power ahead of the good of the nation. At some point we are going to have to find another remedy for a President that enforces only those laws he agrees with and ignores those he doesn’t like. If we don’t do that, we are going to sink further and further into Banana Republic status.

  4. Jack:

    Don’t you recall “reconciliation”? That was a special trick to get around the problem, a remedy unavailable in this instance for various reasons too complex to go into here. On this blog and others, look for posts on Obamacare and “reconciliation” and you’ll see. Of course, once Obamacare was passed, Obama was going to sign it, so there was no veto hurdle to get over.

    Republicans actually faced a situation there where they tried and were powerless. Scott Brown could explain it to you.

  5. McConnell is an incompetent fool who was too comfortable with his minority party leadership role to be able to handle success.

    The problem is that the Minority Leader just has to complain, not to actually accomplish anything. Mitch is incapable of accomplishing anything, and is scared witless that the country will discover the truth about him.

    The Tea Party’s biggest failure was not mounting a credible primary challenger to that old RINO.

  6. Frog:

    I use different sources at different times for different reasons.

    Politico is not an especially favored source of mine. But sometimes it is the best source available for a certain purpose, at a particular time.

    For example, in the case of this post, I very much wanted to get the statements of Boehner and McConnell on why they did what they did, and what their plans were to do next about voting on the Iran deal. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find the full text of their statements. Sometimes the internet has that sort of thing and something it does not. In this case, nada.

    So the next step was to find experts—quotes—from their statements on what they planned next. It was very hard to find, and it was taking a long time, and I had to write the post rather than keep going with it.

    So I went with the best source I could come up with. It was actually one of the very few source that even mentioned McConnell’s plans. It didn’t even contain a direct quote (I always prefer a quote to a summary of what the person said) from McConnell about what he plans to do next. But it had something, at least, so I went with it.

    Some time after I wrote the post, I found another source that corroborated it. So that was fine.

    Just now, though, as I Googled it again, I found another site (one that hadn’t come up earlier when I wrote the post; it may not have been put up yet) that discussed McConnell’s statements and plans for the next step. Here it is, and it’s even got a video.

  7. Sometimes the internet has that sort of thing and something it does not. In this case, nada.

    Gotta love gov transparency.

    Ah, “experts”, our rulers that we must respect. That probably wasn’t your implication, Neo, but the West itself is a very different beast on this subject.

  8. The Tea Party’s biggest failure was not mounting a credible primary challenger to that old RINO.

    That’s why the GOP called in the Democrats to land an artillery strike on the Tea Party formation. Problem solved.

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