All the bold talk last November about stopping Obama's agenda was revealed today as the sheer hot air (and I'm being polite) that it always was, at least from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the establishment GOP.
Today, he and some of his cronies crossed lines to confirm President Obama's choice for attorney general, Loretta Lynch.
Aside from her genuinely racialist and radical Leftist views, she lacks the one major qualification to be the top law enforcement officer in our government...respect for those laws themselves.
Aside from her vigorous antipathy to any kind of voter ID laws, she made it plain during her confirmation hearings in January that she sees no limit to presidential power when it comes to amnesty by executive order. In fact, she refused to refused to identify to any hypothetical limit to President Obama’s power to stop enforcing existing law via 'prosecutorial discretion' and executive orders.
Senator McConnell as majority leader could have reinstated the filibuster to stop her.
He could have refused to bring her nomination to the floor, just as former Democrat Majorty Leader Harry Reid did with so many things. He didn't.
Instead, he voted for Loretta Lynch's confirmation.
Yes, in the end, the vote was 56-43, with senators Ayotte, Cochran, Collins, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Johnson, Kirk, McConnell, and Portman as the GOP 'yes' votes.
In many ways, this was the ultimate surrender. With Loretta Lynch as Attorney General, there will be no real investigations of the many scandals surrounding the White House. There will never be any kind of special prosecutor named, since that's now all controlled through the Attorney General's office. There will continue to be divisive, racially biased interventions and prosecutions by the Justice Department at every opportunity.
There will be no challenge to this president's unlawful amnesty or to ObamaCare. In fact, the Republican Leadership just signaled to this president that he can literally get away with murder and treat them with the contempt they deserve.
I expect Loretta Lynch to be even more radical, partisan and oppressive then Eric Holder was.There is, after all, a reason why Obama wanted her in the job, and it wasn't her resume.
The Republican party no longer standing up for traditional conservative values is why I have left the Republican party. If and when they should return to those values AND SHOW IT, then I will reconsider my affiliation.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Paul. But I also realize that there still are many principled and decent conservatives in dc.
ReplyDeleteMy solution would be for them to organize into a bloc caucus so they aren't so vulnerable to people like Boehner and McConnell and had some leverage to get them to act decently.
Or, to leave the party, which is were I think we might be heading anyway.Remember what happened to the Whigs?
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