Even Ronald Reagan Can’t Protect Heller from ObamaCare Vote
Every experienced conservative activist knows the twin pillars of Ronald Reagan’s Rules for Conservatives. First, the co-called 11th Commandment to not speak ill of a fellow Republican. Secondly, that someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is your ally, not your enemy.
Let’s look at both as they apply to Nevada Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller.
The problem with the 11th Commandment is that establishment Republicans have been twisting its meaning to protect incumbent Republicans from primary challengers. But if avoiding primaries was the actual intent of the 11th Commandment, conservative Reagan wouldn’t have challenged moderate incumbent President Gerald Ford in 1976.
So to the extent that Sen. Heller may draw a primary challenge next year, the 11th Commandment is no shield. Now about that 80 percent rule…
The fact is, from a conservative point of view not all votes are created equal. For example, a non-ideological vote to name a post office is simply not the same as, say, a vote to raise the debt limit. Some bills, by their very nature, carry considerably more weight than others.
Such is the case with repealing-and-replacing the disaster known as ObamaCare.
ObamaCare was shoved down the nation’s throat in 2009 as a perverted Christmas present from then-Sen. Harry Reid without a single Republican vote.
Republicans in Congress have been calling for and voting for repeal ever since – including Sen. Heller, who voted against the bill as a member of the House. Indeed, Heller is on record in the past saying “I think it needs to be replaced,” while asserting that “the law never should have been passed to begin with.”
Now’s his chance to actually do something about it.
The 2016 Republican Party platform unambiguously calls for ObamaCare repeal. And Republican candidates up and down the ballot campaigned last year on repealing it. And voters gave the GOP an inarguable mandate to repeal it by awarding them control of both the White House and Congress.
This ain’t no bill to name a post office.
So when Sen. Heller appeared at that press conference next to Nevada’s tax-hiking/ESA-killing/
That public statement need not and should not have been made. It gave aid-and-comfort to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. And it gave the liberal “fake news” all the grist they needed for reports of Republican dissension in the ranks.
We still won’t know for a while yet whether or not Senate Republicans blow this opportunity to rip the disastrous ObamaCare program out by its roots, or how Sen. Heller will ultimately vote on an amended bill. But even if a Senate bill passes, and even if Sen. Heller votes for it, the damage is already done.
No matter how many other non-consequential bills Sen. Heller votes for, that press conference permanently knocked a lot of conservatives off the fence about him. And it will likely result in a viable, credible primary opponent next year.
Because naming a post office ain’t the same as repealing ObamaCare.
Cheers.
Dr. Chuck Muth, PsD
Professor of Psephology (homeschooled)
Nevada’s #1 Irritator of Liberals and RINOs
P.S. With Gia and CJ out of town visiting family back in Baltimore, I took Kristen and Jenna to see the World’s Greatest Rock Show at the Stratosphere last night. Thoroughly entertaining. Absolutely awesome.
Looking for a fun show on the Strip to take family or friends? Can’t go wrong with this one!
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Queen Vic of Seaman Throws “Off with His Head” Hissy Fit
In response to my column yesterday about former Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman’s “office shopping,” a mutual friend sent me an email late in the afternoon advising that he talked to Seaman and she wanted to meet with me and try to work things out.
I’ve offered to do just that multiple times in the past, but Queen Vic always blew off such sit-downs.
In any event, before I could even
respond to the request, a clearly unhinged Seaman took to Twitter and lashed out angrily with a series of playground-level hissy-tweets.
respond to the request, a clearly unhinged Seaman took to Twitter and lashed out angrily with a series of playground-level hissy-tweets.
And continued this morning with an embarrassingly silly meme about me being a “Farmville Gossip Columnist” – whatever the heck that means.
And she was so proud of it, she posted itTHREE times!
Now how dumb is that? I don’t want to say that Queen Vic is the dimmest bulb on the Christmas tree, but she certainly ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. Seems Ira Hansen was right about her.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“She has destroyed the black community with illegal immigration! I lost my job because I did not speak Spanish in my country because of people like Maxine Waters! Nobody is representing blacks! We are American citizens. We have a right to work in our own country! You know that they have destroyed the black community, and you do nothing!” – Black protestor slamming black Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) at recent protest in Los Angeles, The Blaze, 6/26/17
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