Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a bipartisan effort to enlarge the COVID relief bill to $2,000. President Trump supports the enhanced relief package. As a consequence, in justifying his maneuver McConnell did something we are all too familiar with. It is time to expose the Decepticon game again; this time people will accept.
[POTUS Tweet Link – Washington Post Link]
At first blush you might ask yourself why Mitch McConnell would block this bill and put the Georgia special election senate races in question. He just handed Georgia democrats an atomic sledgehammer. However, what most people do not understand is how McConnell works; being in the minority position is not adverse to his interests. McConnell operates with a Machiavellian strategy, so we will explain.
Senator McConnell said the $2,000 bill would be attached to two other POTUS priorities including (1) section 230 reform, and (2) a request for congressional review of the 2020 election fraud, both have been requested by President Trump. This is how Mitch McConnell justifies; this is how the GOP will defend his decision; the creation of a false dichotomy is how McConnell works. But watch what he is really doing.
McConnell admits in his floor testimony the three stage bill will take time to assemble. In essence he admits publicly the $2k, 23o reform and 2020 election review committee will take longer than the January 5th Georgia runoff. So he is admitting the toxic political issue of the $2,000 denial will exist to benefit the democrats in the race. Accept this.
Second, McConnell knows a second bill with all three elements will not pass the House. McConnell knows it is a pure political posturing exercise that will produce nothing, yet provide more justification for his blockage.
Once you stop being a battered conservative; meaning once you accept that McConnell knows he is creating a dynamic that supports the GA democrats; then you move to the question: ‘why would McConnell take an action that would put him in the minority?’
On its face the question seems absurd; however, it only seems absurd because people don’t understand the schemes in the upper chamber, the Senate, under Leader McConnell and Leader Harry Reid before him. The institution of the Senate requires a voter to understand the shell game. The pea is never where you think it is.
Defenders of the Decepticon schemes rely on our inability to understand a hidden agenda; a secret agenda… However, with more eyes now open this outline will start to make sense.
First, McConnell doesn’t care about holding a majority position in the Senate. Whether he is a majority leader or a minority leader doesn’t matter to McConnell. In fact McConnell’s political skill-set does better in the minority than the majority.
The preferred political position for Mitch McConnell is where he has between 45 and 49 republican Senators, and the Democrats hold the Majority with around 55. Of course with Senator Harry Reid’s retirement, this would now imply Majority leader Chuck Schumer holding office.
Why does McConnell prefer the minority position?
The answer is where you have had to actually follow Mitch McConnell closely to see how he works. When the Majority has around 52 to 55 seats, they need McConnell to give them 8 to 9 votes to overcome the three-fifths (60 vote) threshold for their legislative needs. It is in the process of trade and payment for those 8 to 9 votes where McConnell makes more money, and holds more power, than as a sitting Majority Leader.
The 60 vote threshold, and McConnell’s incredible skillset in the minority, is where he shines. Each of the needed votes to achieve sixty is worth buckets of indulgence to the minority leader and those on K-Street who need the Senate to support their legislative constructs. The votes to get to sixty are worth a lot of money.
This institutional dynamic is the currency of affluence and influence in the Senate; this is why Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell never changed the Senate rules for legislative passage. This is why the filibuster was retained and why the 60 vote threshold was always beneficial to both parties. The color of the flag atop the spire matters not.
Except for budget passage (reconciliation); and McConnell being forced by intransigence in the era of Trump resistance to change the judicial vote threshold to 51; McConnell would never consider changing the legislative threshold (60 votes) to a simple majority (51 votes) because it would be removing his favored position.
A simple majority vote is adverse to the institutional interests. That is why McConnell retained it during his reign as majority leader; as did Harry Reid before him.
The process of selling votes to the 60-vote threshold in the Senate is where the UniParty operates; and where the status of maximum financial benefit for the minority exists.
Currently, as majority leader with 52 GOP senators, McConnell needs to purchase eight or nine votes for each legislative priority.
Mitch McConnell doesn’t like being the purchaser, he prefers being the vote seller where his skill-set as a broker really shines. McConnell is much better at extracting terms for his vote sales, than being the purchaser for the votes of an intransigent minority wing. This is why the current Senate doesn’t pass many bills.
If Democrats were in the majority, and McConnell was the minority leader, we would see much more legislation pass because Schumer is a more well financed buyer (K-Street) and McConnell is a much better seller. Whenever we have this minority dynamic it always leaves people confused because few really watch what McConnell is doing.
McConnell takes his favorite 18 controlled GOP senators (Decepticons) and he brokers their votes on an ‘as needed’ basis. The eight to ten senators he selects each time get compensated in the process. McConnell rotates the financial beneficiaries on a bill-by-bill basis. As a consequence each of the 18 or so McConnell senators get quite wealthy over time, and McConnell gains additional power and influence.
McConnell decides who takes committee positions, those committee positions are worth money to K-Street purchasers of legislation. That’s one aspect to his power.
McConnell also hand-selects which senators will provide the votes to the majority to reach the 60 vote threshold. He uses a formula of favoritism, loyalty and studies the election cycles to determine who in his tribe will sell their votes and gain. That is the second aspect to his power.
If any of the republican Senators attempt to disrupt this UniParty business model McConnell excommunicates them from the legislative process; the best reference for the ‘excommunicado’ approach is former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC).
Additional references for how McConnell operates this scheme as the Minority Leader can be found in the Corker-Cardin amendment which allowed the Iran nuclear deal/payments under Obama; and/or the “fast track” Trade Promotion Authority deal for TPP passage, again for President Obama’s maximum benefit.
In these two examples McConnell worked with Harry Reid to flip the vote threshold from two-thirds (super-majority) need to approve, to two-thirds (super-majority) needed to deny. They flipped the dynamic in order to give Obama the tools he needed for the Iran deal and the Trans-Pacific-Partnership trade agreement (TPP).
[SIDEBAR – Within TPP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was again working on the priorities of U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue. McConnell and Donohue have been working together on UniParty trade and domestic legislative issues for around twenty years. It is well established that Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has one major career alliance that has been unbroken and unchanged for well over two decades. That alliance is with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and specifically with CoC President Tom Donohue.
CoC President Tom Donohue represents Wall Street interests and supports: all multinational trade deals, open-border immigration policies, amnesty legislative constructs, and all of the issues that have generally irked common-sense GOP voters for the same period of time. [SEE HERE and SEE HERE]. Tom Donohue is the biggest lobbyist spender in DC every year, by a mile.
To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles: CNN Part I and CNN Part II both showcase how McConnell works. Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE] – END SIDEBAR].
Hopefully, now you can see how the business model within the senate is lucrative from a financial standpoint. Selling votes from the minority position is worth a lot of money. Additionally, the power dynamic is essentially even within this process. The majority holds political and financial power… and the minority holds enough political power to keep the majority in check (as well as mutually beneficial financial power).
For those who understand the dynamic the next obvious point is: what happens if Schumer takes the majority, eliminates the filibuster and takes legislative passage to a simple majority (51-votes)? This is, after all, what the far-left has promised to do.
From McConnell’s position if the Democrats are the party that changes the precedent for Senate legislative passage, he feels it will provide him ammunition to retake control in the 2022 mid-term; and he wouldn’t be the historic figure to have changed the rules.
McConnell counts on the GOPe machinery (RNC), the purchased and allied Wall Street media, and his K-street backers to assist him in getting back in power. The righteous donation requests from the political and financial class are always enhanced by the extremes and outrage. If Schumer kills the filibuster and takes the senate to a simple majority McConnell will weaponize the maneuver against his “friend across the aisle”.
That’s the way the Machiavellian processes work….
This country needs an enema.
I hope you are entirely wrong about this
The CoC is the portal where a vast majority of the graft is funneled. The filth is far more then trips to Maui or some pedo island. A Washington politician is immediately edumacated into the “way things are”. Being a “ggod” boy or girl and voting the way the don orders you to means enormous payoffs and untold wealth. You’re taught how to set up “charitable foundations that “administer enormous contracts with the US government and US multinationals all over the world implementing the foreign funs you just voted for. This funds personal offshore accounts fat with cash, entry into fine private schools and universities for your kids, incredibly lucrative jobs for friends and family, private tables and obsequiousness at clubs and taverns and restaurants, special deals on cars and real estate “opportunities”, quiet stock and bond whispers. Much of this is funded and administered through the CoC. The CoC is one of the filthiest broker of graft and corruption in Washington today. There is not a single virtuous or honorable characteristic to this bribery den.
Mitch just gave us Delusional Joe’s dark winter.
…letting all Americans know where they stand. Along the lines of, “You don’t have anything, unless I give it to you. So shut up and lie down.”
You people need to read what Trump demanded and it explains why McTurtle stopped this nonsense!
YES AND HE IS TRAITOR AND A TREASONOUS CRIMINAL AND EVERYONE NOW SEES IT
If Delusional Joe would only change the lightbulbs in his s basement the winter wouldn’t appear so dark. I’m it may make him appear even dimmer (if that’s possible)!
Has America finally opened her eyes to what DC/Congress/Politicians have done for yrs and yrs? Do we finally SEE they don’t care? It’s all about THEM, their pockets and their power, control and greed.
All those $trillions going abroad will find their way back to the politicians, don’t doubt me. Why all of a sudden are we doing biz like this? Because Biden will be in WH and it will be like old times. Every member of Congress is corrupt to the core. All. Don’t think yours/mine any diff. They all eat/drink/fill their coffers at the same trough, courtesy of We The People, who are never looked after.
Yet We The People have the bills. NONE of the fun, pleasure, fruit…just the bills.
Word hard Americans, those $trillions in debt are on your back.
This crap is why congress needs term limits. The longer they stay in, the less they work for We The People.
How do we go about getting term limits
The Constitution would have to be amended.
A convention of the states
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A CoS is the LAST thing we need! We could have a runaway convention, and we could end up with a new Constitution in the bargain. You think not? Think back to what happened at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Why was it originally convened, hmmm? It was to tweak our original COTUS, The Artricles of Confederation. Once in the room though, the delegates scrapped the Articles, and they gave us the COTUS we now have. Do you REALLY want to take that risk?
First of all, who would be delegates to the CoS? Who would determine that? How would you feel with a bunch of Dems and RINOs attending a CoS? Moreover, what MEANINGFUL controls could we establish, so as to prevent a runaway convention? If history (i.e. 1787) tells us anything, not much.
Here’s something else to consider: adding amendments, a la Mark Levin’s “Liberty Amendments”, wouldn’t rein in an out of control gov’t. The very notion is absurd! Think not? Let me ask you some questions. Can’t we agree that the Federal Gov’t is operating beyond the bounds of the COTUS? Aren’t they already going far beyond the limits the COTUS imposes on the Federal Gov’t? If they’re already flouting the limits of our present Constitution, what makes you think that they’ll respect the limits of new amendments or a new Constitution? Obviously, they won’t.
In closing, a CoS won’t work because, one, the Federal Gov’t is already exceeding the limits imposed upon it by the COTUS we now have. What makes anyone think that they’ll respect new or revised limits, hmmm? Secondly, if a CoS is convened, then there’s a chance we could get a new COTUS out of it. If you think not, then you forgot what happened in 1787! If it happened before, it can happen again. Those are my thoughts…
Reminder: Mitch McConnell’s family owns large shipping company through his wife. They are close to the CCP leaders and do massive business with China.
I’ve often wondered why that isn’t more of a story. Do conservatives just turn a blind eye to this?
It’s no story because, the result fits the Leftist agenda. More money and power to China, Less money and power to Americans, and (most importantly) plenty of CASH to line the pockets of Politicians in BOTH parties.
Trump appointed her to a cabinet post? WHY? Betsy Chow. Still there? Her family is Chinese and involved with CPC. They have air rights and plans to build on the illegal reefs in So China Sea….DC smells like rotten fish, b/c it is….
I could never stand the BS laden McConnell. He did everything he could to stop Trump for four years and somehow Trump managed to accomplish more for Americans that any other president ever. Imagine where we would be today if Trump would have had any support along the way. For sure, China would not have been able to whip up a pandemic because they are, and should be, afraid of Trump.
Term limits via “vote ’em all out” None of them are good enough to stay more than 6 years.
How do you “vote them out” when our elections are rigged?
The system is broken because of Jabronis like McConnell. He is part of Oligarchia, which believes all animals are equal but, some animals are much more equal than others. The founders never intended for Senators and Representatives to make a lifetime job out of their seats. A Constitutional amendment for term limits and control of lobbying is drastically needed IMHO.
Term limits, Campaign finance reform, and Line-item veto.
…. and a Balanced Budget amendment!
Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama is a giant among Decepticons. Shelby was a life-long Democrat until Newt Gingrich brought in an across-the-board Republican majority in 1994. Shelby & Alabama-4 Representative Robert Aderholt have not uttered one single word in support of President Trump or against the Fraud of 2020. I believe the big global push to legitimize cyrpto-currency is part of the plan to stop any kind of monetary support for anybody who goes against UniParty-DeepState-Communist Chinese. These political monsters want to control the flow of money. The beast of Revelation is taking shape before our eyes.
Mitch got us to bankroll his re-election and now its back to RINO business again. No more RINO’s.
Wife had OAN on when I came in from the shop. I saw the chyron on the screen describing McConnell’s “alternate bill.” It took me about ten seconds to see his plan. BASSTURD!
A thesis on the definition of “Swamp”
Left wing right wing we need to put an arrow through the heart of that bird and eat it for dinner!
Too much emphasis on “inside baseball”. You could have written this basic article on any number of occasions. Why now? Are you out of material? Go to work and dig up some news – not trivial legislative analysis.
Somewhat rude and definitely missing the fundamental issue, lad.
No one makes you read it… I found it interesting and important. Perhaps you simply aren’t interested in the subject.
I, for one, was glad to read this again! As the fella once said, repitition is the key to learning. This is something we all have to learn, so reading about it every now and then is good. Plus, the sidebar articles are insightful. Read the CNN pieces; they actually engaged in JOURNALISM! They give great insight in to how Mitch McChao, Tom Donohue, and The Swamp all work together, and how they neutered the Tea Party…
Welp, depending on what happens on January 6, Georgia conservatives will know what to do. If they manage to steal this election from Trump, then no need to cast a vote for any Swamp creature, that’s for sure. Let Schumer eliminate the 60 vote scam, it’s best for the country that it disappears anyway. We have a country to clean up. If we’re ever going to hold these politicians accountable, we have to start with the vulnerable among them, and right now that 60 vote scam is being used to shelter and bolster those vulnerable senators.
We were kind of hoping for that $2,000. Husband still has medical bills from an emergency surgery earlier this year. And we’ve got a car loan to the tune of $14k still. We’ve been living on the money we set aside for a “one day” down payment for the past month waiting for him to get paid in his new job. $2k each, plus $1200 for the kids, would’ve really helped us out. $600 is just a slap in the face.
We need to rebuild the Republican party. McConnell is the worst of the worst. I am sick of being fleeced by all politicians. I hate the majority of the Republicans more than I hate the Democrats.
The Profiles in Corruption book is a great example to prove what garbage most of these politicians are. There have been others of course but this one I actually read. I truly thought all this very damning evidence was going to change congress. I thought that surly this would bring a full attack to those appearing in that book by their Republican “foes”.
None of them seemed to care at all about any of that or the fact an election was stolen. Trump single handily saved the Republican party in this last election. His thanks for that was most of them almost immediately recognized biden as president elect. These same republicans are even fine with talk of identifying and punishing Trump supporters.
God forbid we lose the senate… part of me feels like it could actually be a blessing. People will have to take notice at that point. It seems our country is all but gone already. Trump was only one man. Think about how little the rest of the republicans did when we held all the power for Trump’s first 2 years. They did nothing…
The only question that matters is – how do we conservatives organize so that we can remove these people in the primaries? Once we can do that this crap will end instantly on our side.
And this should result in all of us asking the question: Why did Trump run as a Republican instead of as the populist leader of a new Party he could have named the No More Bullshit Party (NMB). That way, he could have exposed all of the politicians in Washington and built a viable nationwide following that is even more inclusive than the MAGA branch of the Repugs. He could have destroyed the Party that would have tried to elect Jeb Bush and beaten the crap out of the Democraps just with his agenda.
Trump has run before for President in the Reform Party. Obviously if no one remembers that, well, that should say something.
Because he would have split the vote with whomever the Republicans nominated.
Exhibit A for term limits
This assumes that Schumer does not kill the filibuster for regular bills. It only takes a majority vote to change the rules – and Schumer has already said that this was “not off the table”. He will hold that threat over McConnell to offset any “payment” for votes he needs. McConnell holds out – and the filibuster goes away and the Democrats have the ability to just ignore any GOP opposition to anything.
McConnell reminds me of the David Niven character in Bridge on the River Kwai.
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With the Democrats in power there will never be fair elections again.
Good luck with depending on election results to take back the majority.
Sundance nailed it as usual. Is it possible for Kentucky to recall the Turtle? I know it would be a long shot, but shots not taken are never made.
Mitch’s legacy will be in conservative federal judges.
But there was soooo much more he could have done to help Trump and fill his Administrative positions.
He has also allowed younger Senators a voice in key positions. We now have a rich crop of good, young Senators with some even willing to fight.
We are much like the Romans. Let us hope our future elected leaders have the wisdom to represent the people and not govern.
what a crock……there is no good senators, including both of mine in Idaho.
You mean, the “conservative” federal judges who are helping steal the election from Trump? This last fig leaf used to defend McConnell needs to be stripped away. He has no interest in the kind of judges we need, never has.
McConnell is a failure in every way. There are no positive notes to what he does. None.
The election theft makes apparent a present open contempt for due process and law. This is going to destroy all law. If I were one of those conniving in the theft I would be worried that the wind being sown here will bring on the whirlwind. As Thomas More points out in A Man for All Seasons, “This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?”
All y’ all officials, congress persons, judges, etc, thimk real hard now, y’her ? Unless you like the idea of being stew in big C’s pot.
What does everyone think about McConnell and Nancy working on a rule change to block the electoral college objection?
END THIS TREASONOUS SWAMP GAME NOW ALL OF THEM BEHND BARS OR DEATH PENALTY WER THE PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH AND WE MEAN IT THIS TIME
Start of the republics decline ” The 17th amendment”.
Many here in Arizona could not make sense of why the governor Doug Ducey would have appointed the recently defeated and very unpopular Martha McSally to hold John McCain’s senate seat until the special election. Now it all makes sense, the Republicans froze out the primary challenger and never gave an equal footing, even though everyone knew McSally was a proven horrible candidate. It was like they didn’t care if they lost the seat, as long as they didn’t allow someone who was strong on borders, 2nd amendment, and conservative to possibly win the seat. Honest citizens currently have no party.
I’m finished with these A-holes. Have been for a long time. Washington DC is gone. Our only hope is to start another “long march through the institutions.” Not even sure there is time for that. We gotta start at the town, county level. School boards, town councils, select boards, etc. These people will respond too pressure. They don’t want to be embarrassed or called out and are easier to vote out of office. Several years ago a few people I know asked me to run for a local budget committee. They were trying to keep some a-hole outta there so, I did it. Just put my name in, that’s it. I won. Spent three years listening to people like the guy who cleans out the town cemeteries ask for a few thousand bucks, etc. Bored myself to death but learned quite a bit. Anyway, that’s how easy it can be to win this stuff. Bottom line – Governors can’t do crap without the locals and if you can make inroads there, the possibilities to change some things exist. I see it as the only way to make a dent save violence and I don’t want that for my kids.
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If the entire crew is not taken out by force then it must be done via a new political entity.
It will take some years but it will work.
Who will lead?
No Vichy GOP need apply.
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Martha McSally was a pawn appointed to make sure the senate lost the seat. Thank You Doug Ducey
Sounds akin to a track star thinking that shooting himself in the foot will make his opponents overconfident and therefore lose the race. I’m not quite ready to put on THAT tin foil hat but interesting take.