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The House is in recess until noon on Tuesday.
The Senate will reconvene at 2 PM today and will likely resume consideration of the motion to proceed to the Corporate Welfare bill, H.R. 2072 - reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is, again, blocking Republican amendments to the bill. At 4:30, the Senate will take up two district judge nominees. Following an hour of debate, the Senate is scheduled to vote on the judicial nominees and then vote on cloture on the motion to proceed (in other words, to take up) H.R. 2072.
Ben Shapiro of Big Government has an exclusive interview with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Breitbart.com today. In summary, Sen. McConnell acknowledged the work of conservative bloggers many of whom were laboring long before their was a Brietbart.com. Below are a few excerpts from the article.
Leader McConnell says, “[I]f you’re looking for proof of the power and impact of new media today, look no farther than the outpouring of grief over Andrew Breitbart’s tragic passing. It was a fitting tribute to a real innovator who proved to a lot of young conservatives that they too had the power to break through the left-wing media filter. I put Rush and Matt Drudge in that category of early pioneers, but Andrew was obviously one of a kind too. He’s deeply missed, but he left an incredible legacy.”
“A few years ago I think there was a feeling among some on the Right that we were losing the battle for new media dominance. Those days are over. We’ve got an incredibly smart, creative, and savvy army of bloggers out there from coast to coast. They’ve totally changed the debate. It’s a great organic development, and it only makes me more convinced about my own long-held belief in the inviolability of the First Amendment.”
He adds, “[C]onservative bloggers have done a great job of framing this President’s policies as threats to the Constitution, and in getting our best arguments out there clearly and persuasively. We’ve always known we had the best arguments. The challenge was getting them out there. New media has been a phenomenal platform for that. So the proliferation of conservative sites is only for the good. . . . We’ve got all these new tools and a lot of creativity and energy within the movement. The more people who are out there doing this stuff, the better off we’ll be. The more people using Twitter, the more people setting up blogs and doing videos, the better.”
Discussing the conservative blogosphere, Leader McConnell says, “I think it’s important that we not only expose the misstatements and wrongheadedness of liberals, but also that we show that we’re a vibrant community happily engaged in a cause worth fighting for. Constitutional conservatism is extraordinarily compelling; even more so when it’s presented in the right way. Andrew was enormously helpful in that respect too, since he showed that conservatism isn’t just for buttoned-up Ivy-league types. It’s got much broader appeal than that. That’s really been a game-changing development within the conservative movement, I think.”
On his role in the Senate as Republican Leader, Sen. McConnell tells Big Government, “I view my role as Minority Leader as testing the limits of what’s possible given the diversity of views and personalities in the Senate at any given time, along with the obvious constraints of being in the minority, then getting the most conservative outcome possible. Another way to look at it is as an application of William F. Buckley’s old line about candidates for political office. Buckley said we should support the most conservative candidate who can win. As Senate Republican Leader, I try to get the most conservative result that’s possible. We can disagree on tactics or what our various roles are, but disagreements and criticism can be helpful. It sharpens our arguments and broadens our reach.”
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