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Am I the only one who finds such pre-emptive grandstanding profoundly unhelpful?:

Pardon me for having been paying attention for the last four years and change, but ladies and gentlemen, we've been down this road before.  We know what happens when tighty-righties like Jim DeMint quit on the party.  The only winners end up being the Democrats.  Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid got control of Congress in 2006 due in large part to so-called conservatives staying home on Election Day four years ago to "teach the GOP a lesson," as though majority power was a switch that could just be flipped on and off at a whim.  Well, did the GOP learn its lesson in the '08 cycle?  I don't know how you describe nominating John McCain, the Ultimate Enemy Within, as presidential standardbearer, but I took that to be a resounding "BLEEP NO!"  It was just what I was afraid would happen.  The "lesson" the Republican establishment learned was the exact opposite: "We can't trust or rely on those 'true conservatives,' when it counts, so screw them, we're going full-bore hard-core RINO."  And the results were entirely predictable: an even more crushing defeat than the one two years before, and the past two years of merry hell bulldozing America to the edge of the Abyss.  All because tighty-righties like Jim DeMint insisted on making perfection the enemy of the good.

And now he isn't waiting for any actual RINO lapses, he's anticipating them.  He's expecting them.  Hell, he sounds like he's looking forward to them so he can make his grand, point-making, attention-grabbing exit.  What he would do afterwards is anybody's guess; still caucus with the GOP as an independent?  Go knock on Chucky Schumer's door (anticipating a Harry Reid defeat ten days from now)?  Be a "caucus of one"?  Tilt at the third-party windmill?

And don't think for a moment that I'm the only observer who's drawing these conclusions.  Look at the little bit o' fun the Assholiated Press had with Jeffy Lord yesterday:

A story in LaborUnionReport.com has Tennessee GOP Senator Bob Corker telling "high dollar donors" at a GOP event something prospective Republican voters will be surprised to hear:

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP colleagues have no intention whatsoever to repeal ObamaCare. None. Zip.

According to what the story says are "multiple sources," here's the skinny:

The junior senator from Tennessee told the gathering of donors not to worry about the incoming class of "crazier Republicans" because the majority of Senate Republicans, especially minority leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), had no intention of repealing the president's health care bill. They instead planned to fix only the "bad parts" of the law, Corker reportedly told the group.

Get that? The Senate Republican Establishment is already actively planning to sabotage any effort by new colleagues…colleagues they consider to be "crazier Republicans" …to repeal the law that has infuriated a majority of Americans.

If this is true, the very first move of these "crazier Republicans" should be to remove McConnell from his leadership post, and make sure Corker is never put anywhere near any of the lesser leadership spots.

What could McConnell and Corker possibly be thinking? Perhaps it would be easier to preserve the Democrats' Senate majority if the two just switched parties outright. Having apparently decided to deliberately sabotage Item One on the conservative agenda from inside, why not just go all the way? When Harry Reid is defeated perhaps McConnell could take a run at being the Democrats' Senate Leader?

What I get from Jeffy's hair-trigger reaction is that he's as fratricidally bloodthirsty as Senator DeMint and is rabidly eager to snarf up any Obamedia-disseminated story that feeds into his anti-Republican prejudices.  Leaving aside everything else, how stupid does he think Senator McConnell is?  Four years ago the GOP leadership might have been in blanket denial about what was about to happen to them, but no Pachyderm could possibly harbor any delusions about the consequences that would ensue from a betrayal like this after the grassroots uprising of the past eighteen months.  McConnell knows that if his caucus gets to fifty-one a week from Tuesday, it will only be because of the Tea Party movement, and he'll have to make a good-faith effort on delivering results (i.e. attempting to repeal O-Care and making the Dems filibuster it and/or Obama veto it) of he and his colleagues want to remain in the majority.

In short, I think that Corker story is anonymously-sourced bullshit thrown out there to torpedo the restorted Republican majorities before they're even elected, aimed right at the tighty-righties who will answer Pavlov's bell.  And it will be the first pebble of an avalanche of them.

Senator McConnell will have enough of a headache fencing with the Donk media without having to keep AmSpec's d'k tahgs out of his baby back ribs.  Thanks to Jeffy, the perchance-Senate Majority Leader-in-waiting's office had to fire off an identifiedly-sourced rebuttal, which he did post.  But then the AP stirred the pot again, this time directly: