Speaker 1: Escape to our rubber resort. One week ago today, we
Speaker 1: went to the polls and reelected Donald Trump to be
Speaker 1: the forty seventh President of the United States. He gets
Speaker 1: the distinction of being forty five and forty seven since
Speaker 1: there was a break in between his presidencies. Now we
Speaker 1: watched this battle unfold in the Senate. Sometime on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: we will find out who is going to be the
Speaker 1: new Senate majority leader. Of course, we have seen already
Speaker 1: that Mitch McConnell is making his power play, is trying
Speaker 1: his best to make sure that one of his cronies
Speaker 1: is elected that position instead of someone who might actually
Speaker 1: work to further Trump's agenda, like Rick Scott of Florida.
Speaker 1: As we continue to watch this battle unfold, I understand
Speaker 1: that my two senators here in Mississippi are planning on
Speaker 1: voting for one of the McConnell choices. It's not surprising,
Speaker 1: but it's also frustrating. Nonetheless, but one of the more
Speaker 1: frustrating things is the fact that this vote will be
Speaker 1: done in secret. So if they do vote that way,
Speaker 1: unless they are brave enough to be honest with us
Speaker 1: and tell us how they voted, we won't know for sure,
Speaker 1: it's gutless that they're going to go to this a
Speaker 1: non voting so that way we won't have to secret ballot,
Speaker 1: so that way the American people won't know how their
Speaker 1: senators voted. They're supposed to be representing us, and yet
Speaker 1: when it comes to a vote as important as who's
Speaker 1: going to represent the leadership of the Senate for the
Speaker 1: next four years and probably longer. When you think about
Speaker 1: the fact that Mitch McConnell's reign, whether it was as
Speaker 1: majority or minority, has reigned for so long, it's something
Speaker 1: I think they owe us an explanation on. They shouldn't
Speaker 1: be allowed to vote for this in secret ballot. No,
Speaker 1: everything they do should be made public to the people
Speaker 1: that elected them. It's cowardly, so that way they can
Speaker 1: hide behind leadership and back the terrible candidate that they're
Speaker 1: going to ultimately back. This is frustrating to say the least.
Speaker 1: We don't need leadership that will represent more of the same.
Speaker 1: We don't need leadership that is going to be more
Speaker 1: of McConnell. The fact that Mitch McConnell is finally stepping
Speaker 1: down means he should get the hell out of the way.
Speaker 1: But he's not going to do that because he wants
Speaker 1: to maintain power, whether he's an officer or not. He
Speaker 1: wants to make sure that one of his little glithering
Speaker 1: puppets has the control. And there's a good chance that
Speaker 1: your senator, if they're not outspoken about their support for
Speaker 1: Rick Scott, is probably going to vote for one of
Speaker 1: the McConnell folks who will most likely be the next
Speaker 1: Senate Majority leader. It is beyond frustrating because here we
Speaker 1: have a Mitch McConnell, as you know, who refused to
Speaker 1: send any money to help out Ted Cruz in Texas
Speaker 1: despite the fact he was in the fight of his life.
Speaker 1: This last go around is a Mitch McConnell who picks
Speaker 1: and chooses which Republicans he thinks are worthy of his
Speaker 1: help for the next leader of the Senate, the next
Speaker 1: majority leader, the next minority leader, wherever the Republicans fall
Speaker 1: in the hierarchy of the Senate. We need somebody who's
Speaker 1: going to be bold. We need somebody who's going to
Speaker 1: to represent a change from the old guard and the
Speaker 1: old dynamic. Sadly, all because it's going to be a
Speaker 1: secret ballot hidden from you, the voter. You will not
Speaker 1: know how your people went unless, like I said, they
Speaker 1: are bold enough to speak out and say what they're
Speaker 1: going to do. Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde Smith are
Speaker 1: not bold. They never have been, they never will be.
Speaker 1: They'll be able to vote, however they won't. They'll be
Speaker 1: able to hide because we won't see how they voted.
Speaker 1: And then when it comes time for reelection, they'll do
Speaker 1: what they always do. They'll wrap themselves in Donald Trump
Speaker 1: or whatever the new flavor of the month is, and you,
Speaker 1: the electorate, will blindly go vote for them. And when
Speaker 1: I try to point out to you that they didn't
Speaker 1: support change, should be well, we don't know that because
Speaker 1: it was it was a secret ballot. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: this people. I'm tired of the games that are played
Speaker 1: there in Washington. I'm sick and tired of this type
Speaker 1: of nonsense happening. We elected them, We should know where
Speaker 1: they stand on leadership within the party. They shouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to hide behind a secret ballot. They should have
Speaker 1: to face us, they should have to tell us who
Speaker 1: they are voting for. But McConnell's smart, he knows how
Speaker 1: to play this game. He's been up there for so
Speaker 1: long that when he put this together, he understood, if
Speaker 1: I just maintain it this way, if I just make
Speaker 1: sure that they don't have to tell a soul how
Speaker 1: they're voting, then guess what I mean? That much easier
Speaker 1: for them to vote the way I tell them to.
Speaker 1: This is how the game is played, unfortunately, and the
Speaker 1: American people will once again get sold out and will
Speaker 1: have a Republican Party that, for the next four years,
Speaker 1: while Donald Trump's up there actually trying to enact change,
Speaker 1: will actively be standing against him because we've got folks
Speaker 1: that we elected were too cowardly to stand up to
Speaker 1: the Mitch McConnell's of the world and try to enact
Speaker 1: any type of change. I'm tired of it, I'm sick
Speaker 1: of it, and quite frankly, it's time that we start
Speaker 1: calling it out more. This has been Morning Coffee with
Speaker 1: the Right Side, and I'm your host, Jack Fairchild's and
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