Same Old Tune; It's John Thune

Timothy Birdnow

Looks like it's McConnell's mini-me to head up the Senate.

Republicans choose John Thune as next Senate majority leader

He is the worst possible choice for the senate leadership (well, worst of the candidates under consideration). This shows McConnell is going nowhere; he's planning on pulling the strings from behind the scenes rather than as the leader, and probably will continue to do so even after he leaves the Senate.

We can't be rid of McConnell soon enough, in my view.

Cornyne would have sucked but been better than Thune, and Scott would have been mediocre but better than Cornyne.

The Republicans should have picked up ten seats in this election; the Democrats were defending a bunch of them. But they barely took control of the Senate and in the next election it will be the GOP with a lot of seats to defend. Election after election the GOP has underperformed in the Senate, and that under the tutelage of Mitch McConnell, who preferred losing a seat to the Democrats to allowing a Conservative to sit in "his" Senate. His record of failure justified a drastic break from the status quo, yet here we are with the GOP majority choosing his flunky and thus continuing the McConnell doctrine, the path of the eternal loser.

We may well lose the Senate in the next election and that will be because we didn't win as we should have in the Senate. (I would add we underperformed in the House too and I place blame for that on Mike Johnson and his predecessors, who never stood up to the bullies in the Democratic Party and in the media.)

Insanity, in the words of Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The American People did their part,electing Trump. But congress has failed us and did not succeed not because the American People didn't support them properly but because they didn't support US properly, preferring to dance with the Devil for the good life in D.C. It's hard to have enthusiasm for a party that takes you for granted and whose nose is as brown as one of those discontinued M and M's that often led to the trashing of hotel rooms by rock stars upon their discovery in the candy mix. They were obviously more interested in their own fortunes and corporate desires than in the public interest and so they have struggled. Most of us know we need Congress, but many of us are unmotivated to get out the vote for a bunch of weenies and losers.

So John Thunne is just another in a long line of men with hollow chests (and double chins) to lead the Republicans into the glorious land of surrender. We deserve better.

Trump showed the way. He showed that if you fight and remain firm and do not cower you will win. This is at odds with the GOP consultant class, which argues you should be everything to everybody and hold no principles. Trump blew that notion away.

Political opinions in the nation are not set in stone, and they change all the time. You have to LEAD and the public will follow. The GOP has spent decades leading from behind, then wonder why they cannot beat the damned Bolshevik Democrats. It's not that they can't; it's that they refuse to try. McConnell and his ilk were quite happy with a Senate that was neck-and-neck so that the voters dared not turn out the RINO wing out of fear of losing the seat (just look at Kari Lake in Arizona, who could have won had McConnell lifted a finger to win that seat). McConnell's fundamental strategy is predicated on a balance of power between the two parties, and he is happy to lose a few elections to maintain his grip on the GOP. That is a loser's strategy; it benefits no-one except the Party insiders. America has been in serious decline since McConnell assumed power in the Senate and it will continue under Thune unless Thune is so afraid of Trump he obeys Trump's orders. But even then he'll probably work behind the scenes to sabotage Trump.

BTW we need the vote for Majority Leader to be public and not secret. Why make it secret? Are Senators so cowardly as to be unwilling to put themselves out there? It's not the PARTY'S decision or the Senate's; it belongs to the voters who put these people in power. They REPRESENT us; they do not rule over us. They owe us the vote tally so we know who to punish and who to reward.

Thune had nothing but bad things to say about Trump until he saw which way the wind was blowing, I might add.

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