Senate leaders missed the message of the 2014 election

Leon Wolf:
The GOP Senate is Not On Our Side
The voters did not send these people to Washington to stick it too conservatives.  But that seems to be the message the Senate leadership decided to send while blocking votes on conservative priorities in favor of a highway bill and and Export-Import re authorization.  They seem to be more interested in their club than in the people they are supposed to represent.  Did anyone actually run for the Senate on a platform of passing a highway bill and renewing the Export-Import Bank?

It was a disgusting show that could very well mean Republicans will lose the senate in 2016 because McConnell thinks he was put in charge to help Democrats push their agenda.  They managed to alienate conservative voters for legislation that is not going to pass the House.  This is the opposite of intelligent leadership.

McConnell may try to schedule votes on conservative issues now to try to look like he cares, but it will be on votes that Democrats can kill with a filibuster thereby doing nothing of importance.  It was a shameful weak for the Senate and the old guard.

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