Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–Timid) is now part of a Republican leadership that controls the Senate, the House and the Presidency. The only Democrats remaining in positions of power are the leftists who have burrowed their way into the permanent federal bureaucracy.
Leftist agitators are outraged at the dual prospect of an assertive Trump presidency and the damage the new $15/hr. minimum wage will do to their rent–a–crowd budget.
Even Mexico is quietly investigating what current US construction costs are.
Naturally McConnell’s message to conservatives for 2017 is: Don’t get your hopes up.
The Wall Street Journal reports McConnell “cautioned Republicans against reading their sweep as license to push through a strictly partisan agenda.” McConnell explains, “Overreaching after an election is, generally speaking, a mistake. I don’t think we should act as if we’re going to be in the majority forever.”
This is exactly the kind of preemptive surrender on the part of faux conservatives that drives the genuine article crazy. Cong. Louie Gohmert (R–Defiant) has seen this mentality firsthand. When he first entered the House in 2006 the talk was of the big things the Republican majority was going to accomplish.
So what exactly did the intrepid Gohmert see in his first term and is it relevant to today, or at least this column? You guessed it. You’ll have to click on the link below and be transported to my Newsmax column where you can discover the answer.
Michael R. Shannon (The Whole Shebang (mostly)) is a Virginia-based public relations and media consultant with MANDATE: Message, Media & Public Relations who has worked in over 75 elections on three continents and a handful of islands.
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–Timid) is now part of a Republican leadership that controls the Senate, the House and the Presidency. The only Democrats remaining in positions of power are the leftists who have burrowed their way into the permanent federal bureaucracy.
Leftist agitators are outraged at the dual prospect of an assertive Trump presidency and the damage the new $15/hr. minimum wage will do to their rent–a–crowd budget.
Even Mexico is quietly investigating what current US construction costs are.
