by Stephen Kruiser
Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is meeting with attorneys regarding a fabric misfortune over the weekend at San Diego Comic-Con.
In these wild, seemingly unpredictable political times, the Republican Party is actually doing better than the Democrats’ propagandists in the mainstream media would have people believe. Here’s the thing, though, I think that the GOP should be doing much, much better.
As I wrote in a column last week, the Democratic Party is really riding the struggle bus in this critical midterm elections year. Any way you look at the Dems, the view is an ugly one. Given the state of toxic disarray over there, Republicans should be running roughshod over them and getting whatever they want, even with their slim majorities in the House and Senate.
Unfortunately, whenever the Democrats aren’t providing much in the way of competition, the Republicans are always willing to step up and get in their own way. In fact, the GOP has long been the GOP’s most difficult foe.
Everything that is wrong with American elections can’t be fixed this year, but the SAVE America Act is quite a big step in the right direction. That the Democrats are so vehemently opposed to is should be the only sign that any Republican needs to prove that it is important legislation and needs to be passed.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune doesn’t have the sense of urgency about passing the SAVE Act that most people on the right who are outside of Washington, D.C. do. The Mitch McConnell legacy is a uniparty squish who’s more concerned with being liked inside the Beltway than with the needs of Republican voters throughout the land. After months of dragging his feet, Thune was hoping that he could head back to whichever Dakota he’s from next month and rest up from not doing anything helpful for the American people.
Luckily, not all of the Republicans in the Senate are invertebrates. This is from Catherine:
RINO and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) thought he could get to the August recess without having to vote for election integrity legislation or a budget resolution. But two Republican senators have now stepped up to force a roll call vote on the SAVE America Act.
Get-out-the-vote warrior Scott Presler triggered the upset in the Senate by begging one senator — any senator — to request a roll call vote and force senators to go on the record about the SAVE America Act before the recess. This action is in accord with Senate rules and is based on Article I, Section 5, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) responded to Presler by offering to take up the challenge, and then notified Thune, “I hereby object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August—at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act—and hereby request a roll call vote.”