When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna. - Napolean Bonaparte In November, Republican voters will be asked if they wish to take The Senate. If that is the goal, take it. But a number of Republicans, well intentioned, seem more inclined to jawbone about the necessity of taking The Senate, than actually committing to doing so. Winding through the primary season, there has been a modest shakeup in the Republican lineup. Certainly the defeat of House Majority Leader Cantor, R-VA, was more than modest. But overall, other than a tweak here and there, the same incumbent team heading into the primaries will head to November. This has for many, caused great consternation, including voiced thoughts of staying home, committing to a write-in and all but supporting the Party candidate. Fine. That is the free choice of those who follow that path. There is great talk about cleaning house in the Republican Party, to oust those lacking purity and certainty as to where they stand, if they stand at all. I get that (although I flinch at the thought of political purity...that smacks too much of totalitarianism). But worrying about your teams line up without first winning the game, is a backward approach. If you worry about the score, your focus is off the goal: winning. Bad case scenario in November: by the lack of effort on the part of some, Democrats keep The Senate (there is no serious suggestion that they will take The House). That keeps Harry Reid, D-NV, as Majority Leader and all that entails. Quick primer on such a power: can keep off the floor even for consideration, bills or language not to his liking or in his partisan ways, any bill that troubles Obama. And that means no matter what bill comes from The House, Reid as Leader can deep six it. Wresting Leadership from Reid would end that. Worse case scenario if Democrats keep The Senate: a Conservative Justice retires or dies while on the Supreme Court bench while Obama is in office. Think he would not seek to turn the Court into a Liberal rubber stamp? If that happened, and just looking at recent 2nd Amendment cases, they were all decided 5-4 against the wishes of those who would all but delete the right to keep and bear arms. The most recent and affirmative case on the 2nd, Heller v DC, was 5-4. Four justices voted that you do not have the right as an individual to keep and bear arms. Obama with Reids assistance could make that a reality. The stakes in November could not be higher and likely not be of a greater concern in the future. See: SCOTUS. And while some say Republicans controlling The Senate would end Obamacare, a cancer that grows with alarming rapidity, that may not come to pass. But with Reid at the helm, it certainly wont. Recall in The House, sensible amendments to Obamacare were offered before it passed. All rejected. And in The Senate? Same treatment only they were not even considered. With Reid in Leadership, Obamacare stays as is. If the goal is to take The Senate, take The Senate. If your personal goal is not BIG PICTURE, and despite every effort other than yours, The Senate does not change Parties, talk to the hand because talk is what you seem best at, not actionable effort.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:48:31 +0000
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