Without McConnell declaring the lands bill a party vote, ther is no way to protect Senator Coburn’s rights

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But without Mitch McConnell standing up for Coburn, Harry Reid will be able to blame Coburn for the Sunday vote, which is the whole strategy, to isolate him

This isn’t happening in a vacuum and McConnell’s actions are sending a deliberate message!

No Republican has to bother showing up to vote, They can all stay away and not dignify Reid’s stunt and Reid still loses.

All I’m saying is that it would behoove concerned people to call other Republican offices as well and encourage them to vote no before we condemn McConnell when we don’t know that he’s done anything wrong.

If you’re interested in changing it…get involved at the next precinct convention and work for someone who will change things!

Apparently we have more R Senators who are of French heritage than I had previously suspected.

And I want everyone to know, my ideal Senator is Tom Coburn. I support him unconditionally. Even when the majority of Rs are against him. The man is truly a conservative, not just an R.

The bill planned last summer (and probably this one as well) consisted of every bill that Coburn put a hold on by himself. Individual senators can put holds on bills that make if fairly difficult to push them through the Senates workings (remember you can do just about anything in the house with 218 votes, but in the Senate, one Senator who knows what he is doing can keep bills from going anywhere).

I know that some of the bills that Coburn put a hold on had a majority of support among the Senate Republicans as well as a majority of the Senate Democrats and which had passed the House. As I understand, Coburn also used his hold considerably more than the average and in some cases refused to remove a hold even when requested to by the Republican Senate leadership.

So with the start of the 111th congress clearing the deck of everyting in terms of holds, Reid is making a catch all bill of everyting that Coburn got in the way of and forcing it through. My belief is that this is comprised only of bills where Reid and McConnell both think that that there are 70-75 votes for.

So, in that regard, yes McConnell *is* hanging Coburn out to dry, and I would expect that the Democrats can get 60 with the assistance of those Republicans in the Senate who have been there a while. I wouldn’t be all *that* surprised to see someone like Hatch vote with the Democrats on this.

As for needing Republican votes to get cluture…do you really believe Ried will have any problem getting that with Snowe, Collins, Graham, McCain, Voinovich, etc in the crowd?

Spare me please!

Call 202-224-2541 for press inquiries.

Plus, I don’t believe that the Country can survive the years it would take for grass roots efforts to bubble to the top.
Any grass roots efforts to force the leaders of the Party to change course would be temporary and only enough to calm the base.
Then it would be back to DC business as usual.

The only sure thing in politics is war as that nothing good will ever happen if you just sit back and let the enemy continue to kick your head in without a fight!

We need to let these crap weasels know we’re watching!

Use the fax number and jam up the machine and call his office to complain!

We as RedState regulars are going to need to get more involved locally and change our own precincts. Then change the adjoining precincts. Then the counties. Then the states.

It’s going to take time, but it can be done as it has been done before.

And it all starts in your own neighborhood.

Grassroots efforts work, but they require good men and women who will work for the party and conservative ideas at the local level.

So Reid filed a cloture motion to overcome Coburn’s objection.

I don’t know the inside maneuvering, but unless Coburn’s upset with McConnell, I don’t think there is anything here to be upset about.

Like I said, in this instance, a Republican not showing up is the same as showing up and voting no.

A Republican not showing up to vote is the same as a Republican showing up to vote no.

Reid needs a 3/5 vote of the full Senate (usually 60, but with the Burris imbroglio and Coleman’s seat undecided it is 59 votes right now).

So that means Reid needs all of his side to vote for this, and, since Biden is still a Senator but on an overseas trip, they actually need to pick up Republican votes.

Plus who knows if all the Dems will show up in Washington on a Sunday for this farce.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise if a lot of Republicans don’t show up to vote on Sunday, they all have better things to do than play footsie with Reid.

The ones to condemn are those that show up and vote yes on Sunday.

Got to start somewhere. Burr is already tired of hearing from me.Too bad, he should be used to it by now…..

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing,”

Regards