Comments on: The GOP in the Senate https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:13:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Dave https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/#comment-2267554 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:13:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=71913#comment-2267554 I could never understand why democrats only demand the abolishment of the electoral college claiming that its undemocratic for the fact that electorals aint proportional assigned according to each states’ population, but made no such demand to abolish the senate while being even more guilty for the same crime under their standard. Now I understand why, it is simply bc they have been enjoying an advantage in the senate for so many years over the republicans.

]]> By: Rick Gutleber https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/#comment-2262337 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 23:13:04 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=71913#comment-2262337 Lizzie, it’s almost as if many in the GOP in the Senate want to punish the electorate for foisting Trump upon them. No, wait, it’s exactly like that.

]]> By: parker https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/#comment-2262006 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:25:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=71913#comment-2262006 I think amending the Constitution should be a rare thing, but an amendment to repeal the 17th is a no brainer to me. It strengthens the role of the states and given that the GOP controls more state governments currently, it would hopefully negate the votes of the ‘mavericks’ or eliminate they all together. The founders wanted the sovereign states to have an important seat at the table.

Unfortunately, the 9th and 10th have been ignored by DC and the courts for a long, long time.

]]> By: Lizzy https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/#comment-2261951 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 21:19:34 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=71913#comment-2261951 I’d guess that this annoyance has to do with this group’s history, along with Lindsey Graham and Snowe (when she was still there), in regularly breaking with the GOP to assist the Democrats in the Senate in implementing their progressive policies. Bi-partisanship can be great, but it only seems to happen in one direction.

Conservative voters gave the GOP the House, the Senate and the presidency and yet this crew continues to assist the Democrats. You’d think the GOP Senate would seize this moment and work together to implement conservative legislation. Instead, they are slow-walking legislation, publicly fighting among themselves, and battling Trump as if he were the opposition party.

There are a lot of big egos on the Hill and in the WH, and we know there’s some animosity, but is it too much to ask that they deal with this behind closed doors and get busy doing what they’ve promised their voters they’d do?

]]> By: Geoffrey Britain https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/#comment-2261947 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 21:04:04 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=71913#comment-2261947 neo,

Hopefully that represents a counter trend. Imagine a world in which common sense and classical liberalism ruled.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/#comment-2261941 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:46:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=71913#comment-2261941 Geoffrey Britain:

I agree about the leftward march in general, but I don’t think it’s been reflected in the recent senates during the 20th Century. The biggest Democratic majorities—by far—occurred during FDR’s time and then again in the 1960s and 1970s. The GOP has gained power in the Senate after that, during some of the Reagan years, some of the Clinton years, some of the Bush II years, and now.

]]> By: Geoffrey Britain https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/#comment-2261930 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:25:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=71913#comment-2261930 Since the make up of the Senate is an exact reflection of the voters, clearly the March Through the Institutions has succeeded.

The problem isn’t the Senate, the problem is the electorate that elected that Senate.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln

“We cannot expect Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.” Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/#comment-2261914 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:30:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=71913#comment-2261914 I’m not sure who the 4 people are.

neo: Perhaps physicsguy is thinking of Rand Paul as the missing fourth.

]]> By: Cornhead https://thenewneo.com/2017/09/30/the-gop-in-the-senate/#comment-2261904 Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:03:08 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=71913#comment-2261904 These Democrat Senators will NEVER vote with the GOP on anything that is important and where their vote would matter.

Ben Nelson of Nebraska held himself out as a moderate and independent but when it counted, he was with his party. Party is more important than state or country.

If Mitch wants a legacy, get rid of the 60 vote rule. It is just a rule; not like Hamilton put it in the constitution.

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