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The
White
House Is Not Enough
by Erick
Erickson
Monday,
June 18th
Consider
this Wall Street Journal editorial your must read of the day. It
highlights why
adding conservatives to the United States Senate is so important.
This past
week, Republican in the Senate, including Mitch McConnell’s leadership
picks,
sat idly by saying nothing while the Senate Democrats pushed forward
the
nomination of Andrew Hurwitz, who helped formulate the reasoning behind
Roe v.
Wade while a law clerk. Hurwitz is quite fond of that bit of his legacy.
Andrew
Hurwitz’s nomination could have been blocked from consideration had
just one
more Republican voted no.
John
McCain, Jon Kyl, and Lamar Alexander all voted for cloture. Most
troubling,
Harry Reid slid Hurwitz’s nomination to the floor with the unexpected
request
of a voice vote and the Republicans present did not object. It’s a
technical
issue, but I will put it to you this way: both Senators and outside
groups who
were trying to stop Hurwitz understand that Hurwitz’s confirmation was
part of
a deal struck by Republican and Democrat leaders in the Senate. The GOP
Senators were too scared of the “war on women” angle to pick a fight
over
Hurwitz. I’m sure we’ll see the GOP’s payoff in the farm bill.
Only after
Hurwitz had secured the confirmation hurtle did Mitch McConnell boldly
and
bravely declare the GOP would shut down further judicial confirmations
for the
year. Leadership staff would have you believe the Hurwitz mess was just
a run
of the mill loss and there was no back room whispering involved and
timing of
the shutdown of confirmations occurring after Hurwitz was just
coincidental.
Likewise,
Marco Rubio helped round up votes to get Mari Carmen Aponte confirmed
as
ambassador to El Salvador. Ms. Aponte dated a Cuban spy for 20 years,
was a
director of La Raza, and she has incensed Catholics in El Salvador with
her
political activism in support of gay rights.
Now sixteen
Senate Republican have managed to keep sugar prices high to help
corporate
interests, though in a time of economic recession doing so hurts
American
consumers and keeps prices artificially high — not to mention keeps us
from
having coca-cola made with real sugar unless we get the kosher or
Mexican
varieties.
This is why
we must continue supporting Ted Cruz. Between David Dewhurst and Ted
Cruz,
there is no doubt Cruz will side with Jim DeMint and Dewhurst with
Mitch
McConnell. It’s not enough to get a Republican in the White House if we
don’t
have conservatives in the Senate to both help and guide a conservative
agenda
for America.
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