Timothy Birdnow

John Thune got called out about his refusal to push for the SAVE America Act and his response?

Uh, that's what being Senate leader is all about. It's up to YOU, Senator Thune, to get the votes. If you don't want to do your job step aside and let someone else do it, someone more competent or who cares what the base of the Party wants.

Thune knows he can implement a talking filibuster and get this thing passed but he refuses to do so. He could even back passing it via reconciliation but he refuses to do so. Thune doesn't want this passed.

Why not? I've said this before; the RiNO wing of the party doesn't want to become the dominant force in Congress. They want the senate neck-and-neck so no Senator is expendable. It's job security. If the Senate is this tight nobody dares turn out any Senator, no matter how much the go against the will of the Base. If the end result will be a Democrat elected and the power structure flipped nobody will support that. It's how the GOP has been operating for decades now.

And the RINO types like the good press and like getting invited to all the parties and being treated as honored gentlemen while not having to do anything of value. They prefer to let the Democrats do the work of running things while they go on their junkets, take their gifts, take their free vacations, and strut around like peacocks, the Great Man!

And of course many of them agree with the program the Democrats are pushing, just want it to go a little slower. So many take the words of Bill Buckley, that it is their job to "sit athwart history and shout 'stop'"! When Buckley called for that there was no chance of reversing anything. But now we are in a position we can roll some of this insanity back, but it requires the Republicans going on the defensive rather than turtling up in their shell and hiding. It's easier to hide than fight.And especially since these RINO types agree with the Democrats on so many things (like the trans movement or global warming) and are at odds with the base of the GOP. In fact they disdain the base as a bunch of low-brow hillbillies. Rush Limbaugh talked about that; they tried to recruit him to their way of thinking. They hate us as much as do the Democrats.

So a big Felix Unger to John Thune (in The Odd Couple Oscar Madison voices his complaint with Felix "it took me two weeks to figure out FU meant Felix Unger.)

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