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And it isn\u2019t just Paxton who knows in his bones how vitally GOP voters need a win on the Save America Act, it is also Trump, who has shown a rare amount of patience with Thune\u2019s ineptitude and incalcitrance. At least so far.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Even Cornyn has come around, if only in the face of his own potential political demise, penning a column in the New York Post calling for the filibuster to be abandoned and the act to be passed.<\/p>\n
But Thune, with his long, sad face and low mournful voice like Eeyore the donkey, just keeps saying, ‘We don\u2019t have the votes to break the filibuster.’<\/p>\n
Ok, John, then how about this: Any Republican senator who refuses to vote to break the filibuster loses their committee assignments, gets no money from the party and is promised a primary.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The most dangerous thing I heard from GOP voters in Texas, and I heard it from plenty, is that they are starting to think their vote just doesn\u2019t matter, that nothing can change anyway. And right now, who would argue with them?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know who Thune surrounds himself with who told him that the anger I see everywhere from Republican voters is just a paid influencer campaign, but I would urge him to go talk to some actual voters instead of his K Street cronies.<\/p>\n
It was an ominous sign that more Democrats than Republicans voted in last week\u2019s deep-red Texas primary, but not a surprise, because the demoralized aren\u2019t eager voters. And if the Save America Act dies on the vine, even fewer will feel compelled to cast a ballot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In the final moments of ‘Waiting for Godot,’ Vladimir says, ‘Well? Shall we go?’ To which Estragon replies, ‘Yes, let\u2019s go.’ And then the famous stage direction, (They do not move.).<\/p>\n
There is no direct evidence to show that Samuel Beckett was inspired by Senate Republican leadership when he wrote this, but he could have been, because it is the same old scene, over and over.<\/p>\n
If nothing else, Thune needs to look GOP voters in the eye and say, directly, ‘We hear you. We know you are angry. We see it in the primary results and we will listen to what you want and try to do better.’<\/p>\n
Right now, Thune and Senate Republicans are like the inattentive husband who doesn\u2019t know the divorce papers have already been filed. It may not be too late to work it out with voters, but it’s getting pretty close.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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