Conservative group leaders call for McConnell to step down, adding fuel to GOP infighting

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Sean Sullivan October 11 at 1:37 PM

A constellation of conservative activists who have long clashed with congressional Republican leaders issued a joint call Wednesday for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his top deputies to step down, marking the latest round of criticism the Kentucky Republican has received from members of his party.

In a letter to McConnell and in a joint news conference, the activists vented frustration with the Senate's lack of major legislative accomplishments this year, including their failure to undo the Affordable Care Act.

“It is time for you and your leadership team to step aside, for new leadership that is committed to the promises made to the American people,” says the letter, which is signed by six activists.

They did not immediately endorse a replacement for the job of majority leader.

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1. one of the worst things about McConnell is he's now considered "mainstream"

his considered, deliberate viciousness and ruthlessness are not enough for the RWNJs.

unfortunately for us, he's a shrewd politician and will find a way to occupy a niche that guarantees him re-election as long as he cares to "serve" as senator.

[yuiyoshida]

2. This is kind of like their "repeal and replace"

act. To Get rid of McConnell without replacing him with anyone until later, basically scale down government so you can drown it in the bathtub.

[riversedge]

12. Yes, sure sounds like it.

[Matthew28]

3. The far right won't be happy

until every protection, regulations protecting life and all wealth is giving over to the rich.

[DonCoquixote]

4. Normaly I would laugh

But just as Eric Cantor got replaced by Brat, I know the Mercers and Koches have someone twice as nuts in their bullpen.

[vkkv]

5. Dumb, Dumber and Dumbidnest !

[Solly Mack]

6. John Boehner is probably snickering right now.

Snort.

[TomSlick]

7. I'm sorry. I think this is funny as all hell.

Bannon threatening to primary sitting Repugnant Senators. The conservative "think tanks" calling for the Turtle's removal.

I love it when the other guys form circular firing squads.

[Plucketeer]

10. Somebody needs to pop the boil

named Bannon. Of course, the perpetrator would have to have a Hazmat suit!

[keithbvadu2]

8. Also calls for Ryan and Pelosi to step down... Others want their 'turn'.

Also calls for Ryan and Pelosi to step down... Others want their 'turn'.

[Thor_MN]

9. " They did not immediately endorse a replacement"

Well, yeah, just about anyone would do a better job than turtle.

[sawasigndc]

11. Worse. These are the FOUNDERS of the modern GOP.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/look-at-the-names-on-that-letter

More important is who the people are. Two of them have histories literally going back to the earliest days of the modern conservative movement.

First there’s Richard Viguerie, basically the inventor of right wing direct mail fundraising. In many ways Viguerie invented clickbait and fake news decades before the Internet. He’s 84.

Then there’s Brent Bozell. Bozell has lived his entire life in the sinecure right wing activism world, which some very unnice people are ungenerous enough to call the world of ‘wingnut welfare’. He founded the Media Research Center in 1987 – full-time yakking about ‘liberal media bias’. His father was L. Brent Bozell, Jr., partner with Bill Buckley is launching much of what we know as movement conservatism today. Among many other things he ghosted Barry Goldwater’s ‘Conscience of a Conservative’, a bible of young conservatives in the early 60s which helped launch his 1964 presidential run.

To the extent that Trump is something ‘new’ in the GOP firmament, these folks are as old as it gets. The other three all predate Trump and in key cases predate the Tea Party. Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots is the ‘newest’ person on the list.

This doesn’t mean they can’t write letters or that they’re not influential. But this is an example of what I think is really the truth. There’s no new anything. Trump is the candidate of the most unreconstructed elements of movement conservatism.

[Honeycombe8]

13. The Bannon group is going after both McConnell and Ryan. There's a takeover of the country

being attempted. Then we'll have not just a madman in the W.H., but controlling Congress, too.

[Tanuki]

14. Turtle recall