Drain the Swamp: Repeal McConnell, then Repeal Obamacare

On November 8th, the American people sent a clear message to Washington
DC. We wanted to:

1. Make America Great Again—bring back jobs; reduce taxes; get rid of
the IRS.

2. Secure our Borders—build the wall, beef up funding and hiring for
border security; mandate E-verify.

3. Repeal Obamacare—and repeal all the other anti-free market, government
interventionist programs disrupting our health care systems.

Most of the headlines I have read about Trump are welcome news, like
the marked decrease in illegal alien crossings along our border, plus the
rising number of arrests and deportations. Jobs are up, unemployment is down,
and more states are prospering like never before.

Then I came across this article, a headline which I never want to see
in the news:

McConnell Admits GOP May Not Repeal Obamacare

This is beyond outrageous. With strong majorities in both houses, plus
an epic victory placing Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court after McConnell
successful stalled Obama’s last nominee, one would think that advancing Trump’s
agenda would not meet so many roadblocks. But US Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell is not leading. In fact, he’s the Bluegrass roadblock! He still
hasn’t gotten the memo that his kind of backroom, back-slapping, horse-trading
Republicanism is just as dead as the Democratic Party.

I don’t want the “adults in the room” pretending to govern. We need an
active agenda of reform, streamlining, and outright removal of Washington DC
from interference with the rights of the states and the people. Where’s the
border wall? Where’s the repeal for Obamacare? How about tax reform, welfare
reform, and the National Right to Work bill? Swamp thing, thy name is Mitch.

The tax-paying, voting public is getting restless, and we don’t have a
real penchant for mincing words, either. We the People spoke loudly and clearly
on Election Day. Republicans swept state legislatures in normally blue states
as well as retaining power in the House and the United States Senate.
Governors’ seats fell into Republicans hands, too. The Democratic Party is
losing big, and they can cry if they want to, not that anyone really cares.
Trump supporters are destroying the once-preeminent establishment of Big Media
as well as Big Business and Big Labor, all the corrupt special interests which
had been getting rich while Americans were growing poor.

Sadly, the Establishment GOP, Washington “progressive” Republicans like
Mitch are still holding onto the reins of power. McConnell’s meandering
capitulation on Obamacare is the last straw. Besides, the US Senate’s latest
iteration of repeal met a brick wall of its own. For Cruz, Lee, Johnson, and
Paul, It didn’t do enough to repeal. As for the pro-choice Republicans, they
don’t want to defund Planned Murderhood, and Dean Heller of Nevada fears the
bluish contour of his electorate. Does McConnell want to repeal Obamacare?
Senate Leader Mitch refuses to lead.

My answer: step up, put up or shut up. True leadership depends on
having a plan of action, fulfilling the promises that you ran on to win, and
that got you elected to higher office. This round of failures, this foppish
unwillingness to fight for anything but one’s cushy retirement and an elected
sinecure in one’s home state is too much to tolerate.

This country needs a majority leader in the United States Senate who
will step up to the challenges of unifying an otherwise unwieldy caucus of
moderate to conservative members. Jeff Flake is facing primary challenge, so he
should get along with the will of the conservative grassroots, or get lost. If
US Senator Heller doesn’t want to follow through on a nation-wide promise to
repeal Obamacare, then McConnell should confront Heller with US Senator Cory
Gardner, the current chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee:
“Repeal Obamacare with us, or forget the funding for your re-election bid.”

This country needs a majority leader who will put up a real fight with
the Democrats. Does McConnell even know how to count? There are 52 Republicans,
and they can count on Vice President Pence to break a tie if needed. Cryin’
Chuck Schumer is as toxic to his endangered peers for Election 2018 as is Nancy
Pelosi for her dwindling Democratic caucus.

I say McConnell needs to shut up, pack up, and take off. This man is
the lingering vestiges of nice-nice, bi-partisan cronyism. Log-rolling is not
going to save our country, especially when the Democratic Party has embraced
political views so anti-constitutional and un-American.

Future Republican leaders need to take another look at the battleground
map going into 2018. They have a solid chance at 5 easy wins, with possibly
three more pickups. The caucus has the upper hand. We don’t need squishy
compromisers more interested in keeping the peace, while the rest of us pay
dearly for their comity. It’s time to bring down this reign of error in
Washington. The grassroots with the House’s conservative leadership lead the
charge to bounce John Boehner from the Speakership two years ago. What would it
take to repeal McConnell? Surely getting rid of McConnell could not be that
difficult—and Obamacare repeal would follow.