McConnell at CPAC

Blogging from CPAC in Washington.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spoke this afternoon at CPAC. He rallied the conservative foot soldiers in attendance--although on the heels of last year's GOP landslide, it may not have been needed. But encouragement is always welcome.

What I like to call so-called campaign finance reform has been something McConnell has been fighting for years. He got in a good line about it:

Some of you might not remember this, but before I had my current job I had what a lot of people probably thought was a full time job battling campaign finance reform.

Now, a lot of you understand why that legislation was a bad idea. But when that debate started, getting anybody to even pay attention to it was like trying to get a deaf dog off a meat truck.

But McConnell's argument finally prevailed when the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Citizens United case last year.

The Court may figure into ObamaCare--unless Congress repeals it first. McConnell continued:

When we started this debate, the president’s vision of reform had the support of nearly 70 percent of the American people. But here’s the problem: we didn’t swear an oath to uphold whatever’s popular. We swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. And according to the Constitution, nobody in Washington has a right to force anybody to buy something against their will.

That's just one of the reasons Republicans have been fighting this bill.

That's why I filed a brief in support of the governors who say it violates the Constitution.

And that's why Republicans will keep fighting it in the House, in the Senate, in the courts, and at public forums throughout the country until Obamacare goes the way of Hillarycare.

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