Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., on Tuesday pushed back an effort to slow a leadership vote and emerged as commander of the Senate’s soon-to-be significantly diminished Republican conference.
Despite losing at least seven GOP seats and the majority in a gruesome midterm, 31 Republican senators thought it a good idea to go ahead with the conference leadership election. Facing no challenger, Thune will now become the leader of a minority party that lost control because it failed to deliver on the America First agenda that so many of its globalist, RINO members abhor.
Failure rewarded. Lessons not learned.
Many of the same Republicans are laying the blame for the blue wave that swept them out of power entirely at President Donald Trump’s feet. They’re “furious,” The Hill reports.
Thune’s compatriots were returned to their posts as well, including Sen. John Barrasso, R.- Wyo., as whip, Tom Cotton R-Ark., as conference chairman, Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., policy committee chair, and James Lankford, R-Okla., to serve as conference vice chairman.
The frustration from the conservatives who tried to slow the runaway Thune train was palpable, too.
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