Escape to our rubber resort. One week ago today, we went to the polls and reelected Donald Trump to be the forty seventh President of the United States. He gets the distinction of being forty five and forty seven since there was a break in between his presidencies. Now we watched this battle unfold in the Senate. Sometime on Wednesday, we will find out who is going to be the
new Senate majority leader. Of course, we have seen already that Mitch McConnell is making his power play, is trying his best to make sure that one of his cronies is elected that position instead of someone who might actually work to further Trump's agenda, like Rick Scott of Florida. As we continue to watch this battle unfold, I understand that my two senators here in Mississippi are planning on voting for one of the McConnell choices. It's not surprising,
but it's also frustrating. Nonetheless, but one of the more frustrating things is the fact that this vote will be done in secret. So if they do vote that way, unless they are brave enough to be honest with us and tell us how they voted, we won't know for sure, it's gutless that they're going to go to this a non voting so that way we won't have to secret ballot, so that way the American people won't know how their
senators voted. They're supposed to be representing us, and yet when it comes to a vote as important as who's going to represent the leadership of the Senate for the next four years and probably longer. When you think about the fact that Mitch McConnell's reign, whether it was as majority or minority, has reigned for so long, it's something I think they owe us an explanation on. They shouldn't
be allowed to vote for this in secret ballot. No, everything they do should be made public to the people that elected them. It's cowardly, so that way they can hide behind leadership and back the terrible candidate that they're going to ultimately back. This is frustrating to say the least. We don't need leadership that will represent more of the same. We don't need leadership that is going to be more
of McConnell. The fact that Mitch McConnell is finally stepping down means he should get the hell out of the way. But he's not going to do that because he wants to maintain power, whether he's an officer or not. He wants to make sure that one of his little glithering puppets has the control. And there's a good chance that your senator, if they're not outspoken about their support for Rick Scott, is probably going to vote for one of the McConnell folks who will most likely be the next
Senate Majority leader. It is beyond frustrating because here we have a Mitch McConnell, as you know, who refused to send any money to help out Ted Cruz in Texas despite the fact he was in the fight of his life. This last go around is a Mitch McConnell who picks and chooses which Republicans he thinks are worthy of his help for the next leader of the Senate, the next majority leader, the next minority leader, wherever the Republicans fall in the hierarchy of the Senate. We need somebody who's
going to be bold. We need somebody who's going to to represent a change from the old guard and the old dynamic. Sadly, all because it's going to be a secret ballot hidden from you, the voter. You will not know how your people went unless, like I said, they are bold enough to speak out and say what they're going to do. Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde Smith are not bold. They never have been, they never will be.
They'll be able to vote, however they won't. They'll be able to hide because we won't see how they voted. And then when it comes time for reelection, they'll do what they always do. They'll wrap themselves in Donald Trump or whatever the new flavor of the month is, and you, the electorate, will blindly go vote for them. And when I try to point out to you that they didn't support change, should be well, we don't know that because it was it was a secret ballot. I'm tired of
this people. I'm tired of the games that are played there in Washington. I'm sick and tired of this type of nonsense happening. We elected them, We should know where they stand on leadership within the party. They shouldn't be able to hide behind a secret ballot. They should have to face us, they should have to tell us who they are voting for. But McConnell's smart, he knows how
to play this game. He's been up there for so long that when he put this together, he understood, if I just maintain it this way, if I just make sure that they don't have to tell a soul how they're voting, then guess what I mean? That much easier for them to vote the way I tell them to.
This is how the game is played, unfortunately, and the American people will once again get sold out and will have a Republican Party that, for the next four years, while Donald Trump's up there actually trying to enact change, will actively be standing against him because we've got folks that we elected were too cowardly to stand up to the Mitch McConnell's of the world and try to enact any type of change. I'm tired of it, I'm sick of it, and quite frankly, it's time that we start
calling it out more. This has been Morning Coffee with the Right Side, and I'm your host, Jack Fairchild's and we're a part of the Midnight Ride Network. This show has been brought to you by Pearl River Casino and Resort,