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The Spectacle Blog
Here we go.
With a mere 13 days to go in this election — an election in which all things left are on the verge of being thoroughly repudiated if every poll out there is to believed — a shocking story appears.
A story in LaborUnionReport.com has Tennessee GOP Senator Bob Corker telling “high dollar donors” at a GOP event something prospective Republican voters will be surprised to hear:
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP colleagues have no intention whatsoever to repeal ObamaCare. None. Zip.
According to what the story says are “multiple sources,” here’s the skinny:
The junior senator from Tennessee told the gathering of donors not to worry about the incoming class of “crazier Republicans” because the majority of Senate Republicans, especially minority leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), had no intention of repealing the president’s health care bill. They instead planned to fix only the “bad parts” of the law, Corker reportedly told the group.
Get that? The Senate Republican Establishment is already actively planning to sabotage any effort by new colleagues…colleagues they consider to be “crazier Republicans” …to repeal the law that has infuriated a majority of Americans.
If this is true, the very first move of these “crazier Republicans” should be to remove McConnell from his leadership post, and make sure Corker is never put anywhere near any of the lesser leadership spots.
What could McConnell and Corker possibly be thinking? Perhaps it would be easier to preserve the Democrats’ Senate majority if the two just switched parties outright. Having apparently decided to deliberately sabotage Item One on the conservative agenda from inside, why not just go all the way? When Harry Reid is defeated perhaps McConnell could take a run at being the Democrats’ Senate Leader?
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Siegfried X| 10.20.10 @ 11:07AM
The Democrats are planting these stories all over the media. It's part of their "kitchen sink" strategy, to throw everything including the kitchen sink at Republicans in order to distract them and help Democrats win the election.
Don't y0u get it? The way to win is to be disciplined and "on message". For the next two weeks we need to target the Democrats, not each other. Blogs like yours help the Democrats.
First, win the election. Only then do we start governing.
Denver| 10.20.10 @ 11:40AM
Sieg Fried
McConnell not wishing to repeal NHC wouldn't be surprising in any event. The man is a RINO and has been thoroughly corrupted by Washington.
We can wait; then vote that bastich out.
Steve-O| 10.20.10 @ 11:10AM
Don't trust Corker.
Siegfried X| 10.20.10 @ 11:17AM
This blog is also full of distortions and is hysterical about nothing. First of all, there is no chance of totally repealing ObamaCare while Obama is president. So this blog is hysterical about something which is impossible for the next two years.
Second, since the very beginning McConnell has been saying "repeal and replace", which is the same thing in the Pledge To America. Whether one agrees or disagrees there is no excuse for hysteria and pretending that this is new and shocking news.
There is a double-standard which is sickening. Last election the Republican Party showed perfect discipline in the weeks before the election, even though the candidate was "Maverick" McCain who was running on a Democrat lite platform and had spent the prior decade helping Democrats pass Ted Kennedy's legislation. Yet now that the party has moved a little to the right, Republicans are attacking each other up until election day, and are demanding absolute perfection.
I can't help but wonder if blogs like this aren't an attempt by the Republican establishment to sabotage the Tea Party candidates. Then after the election we will be told that only RINOs can be elected.
Texas Mom 2012| 10.20.10 @ 11:17AM
I pray this is not true. But if it is there will be a huge rebellion. If the Republicans try to continue to do business as usual, there will be a third party possibly resulting in Obama's reelection, re. Perot. I have voted mostly Republican since getting the vote in 1980 and straight ticket since 1992 but I will leave the party over this. And I will do everything I can to defeat them. I will go door to door in my wheelchair.... I will print and distribute flyers with my own money and willpower. I am already mad as h3ll but this will put me over the edge. I haven't joined a local tea party yet but I will be very active if the Republicans spit in my face...
Al Adab| 10.20.10 @ 11:29AM
Sen. McConnell:
In 1994 we elected the GOP. You failed us then. After 2000 you began a spending spree and failed us again. Please listen closely. DO NOT FAIL US AGAIN> The consequences of failure are too bitter to contemplate. Consider Senator, what options do the citizens retain should the Republicans fail once more? What is that right of the citizens to "...alter or abolish"?
Ken (Old Texican)| 10.20.10 @ 11:40AM
Al Adab,
We are with you on that one, bub.
If the ballot box won't work...what are our options?
PS: Al Adab, if your Texas Said No! book hasn't come yet, please check your spam file. Some folks' filters are so high, we have had to modify the e-mail deliveries. www.texassaidno.com
LarryK| 10.20.10 @ 11:48AM
"If the ballot box won't work...what are our options?"
You being a Texican, do you really need to ask what comes next?
Al Adab| 10.20.10 @ 12:57PM
Larry,
The question is rhetorical, we know the answer. We just would rather not have to use it.
Ken,
Thanks I'll check for it.
ElicCrapton| 10.20.10 @ 11:37AM
Let's see, we could call it the "Tea Party Party," the "Tea Party," the "Back to Our Founding Principles Party," the "S___w-Me-Once-Shame-On-You-S___w-Me-Twice-Shame-On-Me Party," the...
Jeff| 10.20.10 @ 11:59AM
this is just another media whore (Corker) trying to get a headline ... total BS on steroids ...
McConnell held the entire causus together during the healthcare votes ... why would he go wobbly AFTER Nov and the big GOP win ?
Of course he wouldn't ... and won't ... he'll have 250+ GOP members who just won their election running on REPEAL ...
Kyle| 10.20.10 @ 12:04PM
Please, tell us what Republicans have been running on Repeal? Maybe some of the new tea party candidates are, but beyond them, I am not seeing it. I'm seeing Republicans run on tweaking Obamacare, but running on Repeal has been diminishing by the day since the bill was passed in March.
COnservative Bob| 10.20.10 @ 12:10PM
THe only thing to focus on in the next several days is winning on Nov and making sure none of those results are stolen in the aftermath.
Whether this story is true or not doesn't matter.
The day after the election we will all need to pay close attention to every action of every elected official. IF they fail to deliver we find someone to run against them in the next cycle.
THis is the new normal. THis is not a one off deal, pay attention for one election and then go back to sleep. The price of freedom is eternal vigilence. We went to sleep and almost lost it. None of these people are going to give up power easily or voluntarily. We will have to stay on top of them and force them to govern according to our wishes.
This election is the first step not the last!
Siegfried X| 10.20.10 @ 12:19PM
Yup. RINO hunting season opens again on November 3rd. Until then let's target our fire on 'Rats, as in Democ'Rats.
Brian72| 10.20.10 @ 12:13PM
This is my Senator, Corker.
I voted for him mainly to prevent myself being represented by Harold Ford, Jr.
I didn't know much about him other than he made a fortune in the construction industry, and was the Mayor of Chattanooga.
Mr. Corker, get on the train or be run over by it.
You are up for re-election in 2012.
Do not forget that, I certainly won't.
You will be primaried if this continues, even one more day.
I'm not kidding. Call Jim DeMint, and beg for forgiveness, or we will have him and Sarah Palin help us find a real conservative to represent this red state in the future.
That is all.
Siegfried X| 10.20.10 @ 12:16PM
The Republican messages now should be:
Unemployment is 17% and Obama doesn't have a plan to fix the economy.
Obama's stimulus plan failed and made unemployment worse.
We need to extend all the tax cuts in order to heal the economy.
Kyle| 10.20.10 @ 12:49PM
So, just forget the passing of Obamacare never happened? The 3 points you posted are easy. Every politician runs on these every election cycle. Conservatives fought the largest political battle in years (Obamacare), and now we are just supposed to forget about it when we go to the polls? Am I supposed to wait until the 2014 election when Obamacare kicks in and it is too late to repeal, before I care about it?
Cris Worth| 10.20.10 @ 12:53PM
Big deal, the GOP has a history of consolidating Democratic Party legislation. The obvious ones IKE did nothing about the New Deal, Nixon the same with the Great Society. In fact both Presidents added on to these programs. The GOP establishment is liberal make no bones about it. The Tea Party has dumped into the harbor some old fogey establishment types but the liberal wing will control the senior Congressional positions come January.
Warrior | 10.20.10 @ 2:58PM
Correct. The only hope is to actually get the States to stop this madness. They must force the federal government back to only acting within the Enumerated Powers. It's sad when you realize that JFK acted overall in a more conservative fashion than George W. Bush.
HostileLogic| 10.20.10 @ 1:07PM
I feel certain now that on the morning of November 3rd we conservatives will be celebrating a great victory. It will have been a battle deservedly won. But it will only have been a battle. We have some distance to go before winning this war. And make no mistake, if we are going to take this country back, this WILL be a war. Those entrenched at the levers of power, once they see we are serious, will loosen the floodgates of hell against us. They will create wars and civil chaos in order to crush our will. They are quite accustomed to having us act as their compliant slaves and they will not go quietly.
Democrats are not the only problem plaguing this country. Republicans have also betrayed us, the Constitution and the guiding principles that were given to us by our Founding Fathers. It is our duty to set them straight as to what we expect of them, and that we expect not one iota less than complete adherence to the principles that the Republican Party is supposed to represent. We must not allow them any quarter to compromise. That old refrain about “bipartisanship” has got to go. It’s nothing less than the compromising of righteous principles.
We need to stay vigilant and aggressive. We need to make the whole political/ruling elite understand that November 2nd is not our destination. It is simply the down payment.
We need to look towards 2012 with even greater determination and grit. We need to uproot and replace ALL politicians that show disrespect for the Constitution of this nation and this people. This people have had enough and we are not going to take it anymore.
We are in a war. And we had better perfectly realize this indelible truth.
chris| 10.20.10 @ 1:40PM
As a conservative Tennesseean, I can promise that Bob Corker is a tremendous disappointment.
He stated the day after NHC passed that it wouldn't be repealed.
I plan to vote against him in the primary and, if he wins, in the general election in 2012.
Unfortunately, Lamar Alexander is worse than Corker.
They both need to go.
AJsDaddie| 10.20.10 @ 1:55PM
HostileLogic is absolutely correct. 2010 is the easy election, 2012 is the hard one. That being said, though, conservatives nationwide should be taking great heart in the fact that their voice is going to be heard. Not in the Gray Lady, not on the Abbott and Costello of Hollywood elitism (aka The Daily/Colbert Show/Report), but where it counts, in the ballot box.
Let's be serious. Even fairly conservative estimates put the Republicans in power in the House with a pickup of at least 50. That's a blowout, and unless something unfathomable happens in the next two weeks, the pickup is likely to be closer to 70.
It looks unlikely that we'll win the Senate, but that's okay; the difference between 49 and 51 is big, but not nearly as big as the difference betewen 59 and 61, and that is within reach in 2012. Remember, there are NINETEEN Dem seats up in 2012, as well as the two independent seats. Throw in Olympia Snowe (and even Corker himself) and we have what you might call a seriously Target Rich Environment.
So yeah, life could be better. O'Donnell could have been a remarkably erudite sleeper candidate and Barbara Boxer could have done something even more stupid (well maybe not, but you get my point). That's okay. Let's enjoy November 3rd. I intend to explain to AJ why he is lucky enough to be growing up in one of the most historic epochs in American history.
And then let's get ready. We'll only have 733 days days until we have to take out the trash again. :)
Judas Priest| 10.21.10 @ 8:54AM
I don't think these stories are a plant by the Democrats. I really think there are a bunch of RINO Senators there who think it's going to be business as usual - Republicans helping Democrats pass their agendas. Otherwise McConnell and Corker and Boehner would be at the mics all day screaming that the Left is wrong and that there will be no compromises. Has anyone heard that yet? I sure haven't! Vote TEA Party! Clean the crap out!