Schoolmarm scolds conservatives for daring to shut down the government, even though it was Obama and his Barry-ers which deliberately inflicted pain on the public. In case anyone missed the message, she concluded “I hope we learned our lessons from this!”
If you’re tempted to be charitable and think she’s scolding Democrats, I urge you to read Jeffrey Lord’s article on “Kelly Ayotte’s Lynch Mob”
First we thought Kelly might be a decent conservative, especially with her fiscal voting record in 2011. Then we noticed that she was occasionally seduced to the dark side on things like immigration by McCain and Graham.
Recently, our ‘conservative’ Senator jumped into the crazy wagon with both feet, joining McCain and Graham in that lunchtime attack session, of which Mike Lee said:
“It was an all-out attack against Ted Cruz and me,” he continued. “It was unflattering. It was unfair. It was demeaning. It was demeaning to Sen. Cruz and me, but more than anything, it was demeaning to those who engaged in the attack.”
Lee said a number of senators had risen to speak against him and Cruz — “enough that I lost count.”
But fear not – our Kelly was one of the attackers – Lord quotes this passage from the NYT:
And on Wednesday [October 2nd] at a private luncheon, several Senate Republicans — Dan Coats of Indiana, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire — assailed Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who has led the movement to block funding for the health law.
Ms. Ayotte was especially furious, according to two people present, and waved a printout from a conservative group friendly to Mr. Cruz attacking 25 of his fellow Republican senators for supporting a procedural vote that the group counted as support of the health law.
Ms. Ayotte asked Mr. Cruz to disavow the group’s effort and demanded he explain his strategy. When he did not, several other senators — including Mr. Johnson, Mr. Coats and even Mitch McConnell, the minority leader — joined in the criticism of Mr. Cruz.
“It just started a lynch mob,” said a senator who was present.
And how did we know about the goings-on at that ‘private’ luncheon? Lord continues the story:
Now come these multiples of reports of a “lynch mob” from people “inside the room” of that Republican-Senators-only lunch. Tellingly the tale comes from senators who agreed with Ayotte and couldn’t wait to alert the media — and not just any media but the New York Times (!!) — of her performance. Why? Because they thought making it known of a GOP Senate lynch mob going after Cruz and Lee helped the cause they share with her. Ayotte was “furious” with Cruz, these GOP senators proclaimed. Furious because conservative groups were criticizing Ayotte for opposing Cruz and Lee in their efforts to both end Obamacare and begin the move to restore fiscal sanity to America.
Let me remind you that this denigration of Senators with actual principles came only six weeks after Cruz headlined a swanky fundraiser at the Petrone’s place, where he lavishly praised our Kelly! Money can’t buy you loyalty like that, and apparently it didn’t! (And don’t get me started over our MIA Senator who only shows up at events in NH when they pay big money!)
We wished that Palin had endorsed Ovide for senate in 2010 – apparently, Palin regrets backing Ayotte – from a Washington Times article on Immigration:
“Every politician should be held accountable for breaking their campaign promises,” Ms. Palin said, on Fox News radio. Mr. Rubio touted in his 2010 primary against Charlie Crist that “border security would come first,” and he would never vote for “legalization of illegal immigrants” and amnesty, Ms. Palin said. And Ms. Ayotte pledged on her campaign website in 2010 a “no excuses” mantra about border security — and also vowed to vote against amnesty.
Growing in office, Hanging out with her Sidecar Buddies, trashing actual conservatives…. People WERE watching and listening; You CAN’T fool all of the people all of the time! Is it any wonder that she got booed when Howie Carr asked how she was doing?
