Conservative groups demand McConnell step down as Senate GOP leader | Fox News
he leaders of several conservative groups called Wednesday for Mitch McConnell to step down as Senate majority leader, arguing the Kentucky Republican and the rest of his team should be ousted from their posts because they have not implemented the conservative agenda they promised.
“We call on all five members of the GOP Senate leadership to step down, or for their caucus to remove them as soon as possible,” Ken Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia who now leads the Senate Conservatives Fund, said at a Wednesday press conference on Capitol Hill.
Yep, time for McConnell to go; Ryan too.
They can't pass their conservative agenda because Republicans are trapped by their own flimflam.
They recently released a tax-cut sketch. Like the GOP's terribly bad health plans, that they insisted would be much much better than Obamacare -- better coverage, no mandate, lower cost, everyone gets a pony, etc. -- but actually was more expensive and threw millions off insurance -- this tax debacle was years in the making. On taxes, as with health, leading Republicans have been lying for years. And now the fraud has caught up with the fraudsters.
The road to this tax-cut turkey began in 2010, when Paul Ryan -- now speaker of the House -- unveiled the first of a series of much-hyped budget plans, all purporting to offer a blueprint for eliminating the U.S. budget deficit.
In fact, they did no such thing. They proposed major tax cuts -- primarily benefiting the rich, of course -- then simply asserted that no revenue would be lost, because reduced tax rates would be offset by closing loopholes and eliminating deductions. Which loopholes and deductions? Ryan didn’t say.
In analyzing these plans, the CBO assumed that Ryan’s revenue targets would be met. Why? -- because he instructed them to make that assumption. But the office cautioned, in what sounds like discreet snark, “There were no specifications of particular revenue provisions that would generate that path.”
And what was the Ryan plan if you took out those mysterious revenue raisers and spending cuts? A plan to drastically cut taxes on the rich, savagely cut benefits for the poor and the middle class, and increase the overall deficit. In other words, it was all a con.
It was all fine as long as the Dems held the WH -- the GOP could take 100 votes on repealing Obamacare, knowing that Obama would veto it. But then Republicans regained the WH, meaning that they had to come up with an actual health plan and tax legislation. And this has put the con under terrible strain -- how do they actually repeal and replace the ACA with a plan that works while also cutting taxes on the rich and make it look like a middle-class tax-cut? We know how healthcare ended up. They couldn't come up with a workable plan because they weren't just conning us, but themselves too. They couldn't construct a plan that fulfills their promises. On to taxes, according to the Tax Policy Center, their plan would give huge tax cuts to the top 1%, who would receive 79.7% of the benefits.
The only question is will we let ourselves be conned? It isn't really McConnell's fault. The only way he can live up to what GOP donors demands, is to rape the American people. Fortunately with healthcare, there were a few Republicans with enough patriotism to stop him from raping us.
