SO, WHO IS IT THAT’S REALLY RUNNING THE SENATE???

Does anyone other than myself remember all that wonderful sounding rhetoric that we heard from, and all of the promises made by, so many Republicans in the run up to the last election?  Was I just imagining it all, or did they promise that they would work very hard to stop the Obama nightmare if only we would hand to them complete control of Congress?  And we bought it all, hook, line and sinker, as we all marched off to the polls, and very dutifully so, and, for the most part, voted for Republicans.  And what, so far, have we gotten in return?  Absolutely nothing!

And if you haven’t figured things out for yourself, I hate to be the one to have to tell ya, except for the number of players on each team, not much else has changed when it comes to what’s coming out, and not coming out, of the U.S. Congress.  Because, or so it would seem, Senate Democrats still remain pretty much on control of the legislative agenda in Congress, election results from last November notwithstanding.  And how is it that I can say that?  Well, because that’s what an analysis of all the votes taken since RINO Mitch McConnell took over as Majority Leader shows.

Apparently, with only two very minor exceptions, every single vote that has passed the U.S. Senate since the beginning of this Congress in January, has passed with at least, and usually more than, 93 percent of support from Democrats.  So what’s that’s tell ya?  What it tells me is that the legislation being voted on must be pretty much to their liking.  So I have a little warning for the Republicans, including those running for president in 2016.  The fact that we were so blatantly lied to leading up to the last election does not bode well for them in the next election.

And what we’re now hear coming out of ‘Dingy Harry’s’ office should come as a surprise to absolutely no one.  Because it was ‘Dingy’s’ spokesmoron, some boob by the name of Adam Jentleson, who said, “While Republicans have done nothing to create jobs and help the middle class, on other topics like passing clean funding for Homeland Security and confirming Loretta Lynch, Senator McConnell has done the right thing by bringing bills and nominations to the floor that Democrats can support.”  He then added, “Democrats hope this trend will continue.”

Since January, according to the U.S. Senate vote count website, 10 of Barry’s nominations have been confirmed.  And each one of those nominations has seen unanimous support from the Democrats who voted and with varying levels of Republican support.  So it would seem to me that, to use Rand Paul’s terminology, we have far more than just two lap dogs in the Senate.  And lap does are not what’s needed if we are to have any hope of saving our country.  What we need are a lot more junkyard dogs willing to take Barry and the Democrats.

Now it was seven of those ten nominations that passed the Senate unanimously.  Now what that means is that every single senator, both Republican and Democrat, who voted on those nominations voted in favor of confirmation.  Not one Republican voice any measureable opposition, not one.  And those nominations were:

George C. Hanks, Jr., to be a U.S. district Judge for the Southern District of Texas

Alfred H. Bennett to be a U.S. district Judge for the Southern District of Texas

William P. Doyle to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner

Carlos A. Monje, Jr., to be Assistant Transportation Secretary

Christopher A. Hart to be National Transportation Safety Board chairman

Daniel Henry Marti to be Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator

Michael P. Botticelli to be Director of National Drug Control Policy

For another one of those nominations, Russell C. Deyo to be Under Secretary for Management for the Department of Homeland Security, only two Republicans voted against confirmation.  And on Ash Carter’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense, just five Republicans voted no.  And on the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General, all Democrats voted in favor joined by 10 RINOs. And those RINOs were: McConnell and Sens. Kelly Ayotte, Thad Cochran, Susan Collins, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, Orrin Hatch, Ron Johnson, Mark Kirk, and Rob Portman.

McConnell broke a pre-election promise, and in near record time, that no attorney general nominee would be considered in ‘his’ Senate if that nominee supported Barry “Almighty’s” executive amnesty, something that Lynch has testified that she fully supports.  In addition to those nominations that all passed with unanimous support from ‘Dingy Harry’s’ Democrat conference in 2015, there have been eight pieces of legislation that passed the U.S. Senate so far this Congress, each passing with near unanimous Democrat Party support.  So what has changed since November?

The first bill to pass in 2015, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2015, passed the U.S. Senate 93-4. Sens.  There were the only 3 Democrats to vote against it. The only other vote against it came from Sen. Marco Rubio. Since two of the three senators not voting were Democrats, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Reid himself, that means that 41 Democrats voted for it. This was the worst vote for Democrats all Congress, with a whopping 93 percent of their conference that voted on the bill voting for it and just 7 percent voting against it.

Of the other seven pieces of legislation that passed the U.S. Senate so far this Congress, three—a Veterans Affairs bill dealing with mental health of veterans, an anti-child pornography bill, and the recent anti-human trafficking bill passed unanimously with no opposition from Republicans or Democrats.  A fourth, the so-called “doc fix” which raised the national debt by nearly $200 Billion without offsetting cuts to pay doctors who accept Medicare more, passed with unanimous Democrat support and only eight Republicans voting against it.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bill that funds Barry’s executive amnesty, despite the many pre-election promises that we heard from nearly every Republicans running that they would do no such thing, was passed thanks to Democrat support, no Democrats vote against it.  Only Republicans, and then only 31 of them, opposed the measure to fund Barry’s amnesty.  RINO McConnell got it passed with a coalition of 45 Democrats and 23 of his RINO Republican friends.  So I ask you again, what is it that has changed since before the last election?

There are only two measures, both bills, which passed the U.S. Senate in this Congress that did not have the at least 93 percent, but usually unanimous support, from Democrats.  One was a bill the purpose of which was to block Barry’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ambush elections rule and the other was a bill that would have approved the Keystone XL pipeline. The NLRB vote passed on purely partisan lines, with 53 Republicans voting for it with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska, actually joining all 45 Democrats voting to oppose it.

Meanwhile, the Keystone pipeline bill saw all Republicans who were voting, vote in favor, joined by 9 Democrats.  But it’s worth noting that Barry vetoed both the NLRB bill and the Keystone bill, and while Republicans tried to override Barry’s Keystone veto, they failed.  What’s perhaps most interesting about all this data is that there are 54—a majority—Republicans in the U.S. Senate and just 46 Democrats. The GOP majority is because of the midterm elections last November, which saw a nine-seat swing in favor of Republicans—one of the biggest in history.

But it’s quite clear from the empirical data that nothing has really changed, and as we have heard, ‘Dingy Harry’s’ office is clearly quite happy about it.  Especially since it seem as if he’s still the Senate Majority Leader.  McConnell on the other hand continues to get his ass handed to him all over the place.  Whether it’s by choice or by accident, and I’m not sure which would be worse, McConnell has no defense for his failures as a leader.  He is the one charged with getting done what the Republicans promised they would do.  And if he’s not up to the challenge, he needs to go!