Congress Still In Recess, But Senate Democrats Are Planning More Shenanigans.

Senator Harry Reid is Desperate. Despite Many Serious Issues, Sen. Harry Reid is going to lead Democrats in a determined effort to use "Show Votes" as a political gesture to appease liberals and hopefully wrangle some votes to save his leadership. As Political Gesture To Appease Liberals.  The Senate will reconvene on Monday at 2 PM.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has scheduled a vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 19, Democrats’ radical constitutional amendment that would gut the core political speech protections of the First Amendment.

The NRSC has boldly noted in recent fund raising ads, "Right now, Republicans have momentum and the best class of Senate candidates we’ve seen in a generation. The opportunity to FIRE Harry Reid at last."  And Reid knows he must find some way to pull the "proverbial rabbit out the hat." Having worked for years with the gaming industry in Nevada, Reid knows that while odds are important, stacking the deck would help him a whole lot more.  Thus the desperate push to motive liberals to help save his position. It is indeed time for voters to fire Harry Reid as Senate majority leaders by not voting for any Democrat Senator for Congress who is up for re-election.  America was successfull in firing Nancy Pelosias House Speaker. It is time to Fire Harry Reid.

Earlier this week, the Washington Examiner’s Byron York wrote, “If you're sick of cynicism in politics, you might want to avert your eyes from the Senate for the next few weeks. There's a lot lawmakers need to do when the Senate returns from its August recess Sept. 9. To take just one example, the government is set to run out of money by the end of the month, and senators must pass a measure to keep funding going and avoid a shutdown. But the Senate will have almost no time to do anything. ‘Following the August recess, we’re going to be here for two weeks and two days,’ Majority Leader Harry Reid told colleagues before the break, according to an account in The Hill. ‘That's not a lot of time for the workload we have to do.’ . . .

“Reid has decreed that the Senate's first order of legislative business will be a proposed constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to regulate every dollar raised and every dollar spent by every political campaign in America. Put aside the merits — or lack of them — of this particular proposal. Amending the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in both House and Senate, plus ratification by three-quarters of the states. This particular amendment, supported mostly by progressive Democrats, won't even get past the first step. So why would Reid devote precious time to an entirely futile exercise? Because the Senate's brief two weeks in Washington are all about the campaign to come.”

Indeed, though there are many pressing issues for the country, including the economy, terror group ISIL, Russian aggression in Ukraine, government funding, and health care, Senate Democrats have decided the first thing they want to do is hold a political show vote.

York explained, “In recent months, Reid has used the proposed amendment as a way to bash the Koch brothers, the billionaires who fund a number of conservative and libertarian political causes. Some strategists believe villainizing the Kochs will allow Democratic candidates not only to associate Republican opponents with the villains, but also to use the Kochs as a symbol for economic inequality and blame Republicans for the nation's economic woes.” The Washington Post adds, “The measure, which is ultimately expected to fail due to a lack of Republican support, is viewed as a political gesture to appease liberals and Democratic base voters who've bemoaned the flood of unregulated money into campaigns since the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision.”

But that’s not the only designed-to-fail bill majority Democrats are saying they want to bring up. The AP reported, “Looking to motivate their most loyal supporters, Democrats may hold a campaign-season Senate vote as soon as next week on their effort to boost the federal minimum wage, Senate aides and lobbyists said Wednesday. The Senate may also revisit a pair of other Democratic measures this month that, like minimum wage, were blocked by Republicans earlier this year. One would let people refinance student loans at lower interest rates while the other would pressure employers to pay female workers the same as men. All three measures seem assured of defeat. . . .  [A]ides and lobbyists said Democratic leaders hope to stage the votes during what is expected to be a brief pre-election session of Congress scheduled to end by Sept. 23.”

As York concluded, “And what will have been accomplished? Yes, Reid and fellow Democrats will have gotten a few more days to denounce the Kochs. But the issues the Senate might have addressed — not just government funding, but the urgent crises in Iraq and Syria, not to mention continuing problems along the U.S. southwestern border — will be squeezed into a mad, and probably unproductive, final rush. Is Reid's anti-Koch crusade really worth it?”

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