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Swordsmyth
07-31-2017, 10:09 PM
Mitch McConnell is unleashing the full force of his political machine in an all-out push to stop two far-right conservatives who threaten to make his life miserable in the Senate.
The Republican leader is aiming to thwart Rep. Mo Brooks and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in a special election in Alabama next month. Both men are campaigning against McConnell as a despised symbol of the establishment — and both would exacerbate his already stiff challenge wrangling his GOP Conference.



McConnell is responding in kind. His super PAC is set to spend as much as $8 million to boost his favored candidate, recently appointed Republican Sen. Luther Strange. McConnell has activated his sprawling donor network and pressed the White House for more resources. And the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate GOP campaign arm McConnell controls, has warned consultants they'll be cut off from future work if they assist Strange’s opponents.
And in a highly unusual step, one of McConnell’s top political lieutenants has begun quietly advising a long-shot Republican primary candidate running for Brooks’ House seat. The move is designed to get in the congressman’s head and dissuade him from emptying his campaign war chest in the race for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' old Senate seat.
It’s a massive undertaking by McConnell and his allies on behalf of Strange, who was appointed a mere six months ago to fill the seat until a special election. In part, McConnell’s urgency reflects his long-standing promise to protect besieged Republican incumbents in primaries. But it also underscores his struggles managing his narrow Senate majority, which were punctuated by the collapse of Obamacare repeal legislation last week after three Republicans broke ranks.

More at: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/31/mcconnell-alabama-moore-brooks-strange-241138

Brian4Liberty
07-31-2017, 10:29 PM
Why doesn't McConnell take away McCain's committee positions? Didn't McCain just very publicly give him and the GOP the finger?

Swordsmyth
07-31-2017, 10:33 PM
Why doesn't McConnell take away McCain's committee positions? Didn't McCain just very publicly give him and the GOP the finger?
Because McConnell probably knew what McPain had planned and agreed, McPain takes the hate because he is a dead man walking anyway.

Brian4Liberty
07-31-2017, 10:53 PM
Because McConnell probably knew what McPain had planned and agreed, McPain takes the hate because he is a dead man walking anyway.

Most likely the correct answer, although they put on the appearance of trying to get it passed.

vita3
08-01-2017, 03:28 AM
Would love to see better Republican leadership out of the Senate.