{"id":2632988,"date":"2026-07-21T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lazy-senate-republicans-attack-j-d-vance-to-distract-from-their-own-failure\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:19:02","slug":"lazy-senate-republicans-attack-j-d-vance-to-distract-from-their-own-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lazy-senate-republicans-attack-j-d-vance-to-distract-from-their-own-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Attack Vance To Distract From Their Own Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flazy-senate-republicans-attack-j-d-vance-to-distract-from-their-own-failure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2632988&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune is portrayed as pleased with columnist Kimberley Strassel&#8217;s recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal,where she criticizes Vice President J.D. Vance. Strassel, anonymously defending certain senate Republicans, blames Vance for the Senate&#8217;s inaction on President Trump&#8217;s policy agenda, particularly efforts to pass the SAVE Act. She criticizes Vance&#8217;s limited involvement and recent comments on election legislation, suggesting he is neglecting his duties and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uaw-strike-general-motors-ceo-blasts-union-president-over-negotiations\/\" title=\"GM CEO criticizes union ... in UAW strike talks.\">prioritizing personal ambitions<\/a> over party success. The article argues that this blame-shifting is transparent political strategy fueled by pressure from President Trump and Republicans&#8217; reluctance to pursue certain legislative reforms. It also highlights Strassel&#8217;s pro-Israel stance, contrasting it with Vance&#8217;s more ambivalent position, and criticizes her for partisan bias. the piece suggests that Republican senators are using these attacks to divert obligation and that Strassel&#8217;s commentary is dishonest and unhelpful.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune is no doubt very pleased with Kimberley Strassel right now. The Wall Street Journal columnist has excused him and other Republican Senate leaders of all the responsibilities that their very job titles convey and attacked Vice President J.D. Vance on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed for the Journal on Thursday, Strassel granted anonymity to very brave Senate Republicans so that, using her as cover, they could blame Vance for the party doing essentially nothing this entire year to advance President Trump\u2019s policy agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Vance \u201cwas in the Senate less than two years ago,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/president-vance-goes-awol-93f153d3\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/president-vance-goes-awol-93f153d3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote Strassel<\/a>. \u201cHe is \u2014 by his reports \u2014 trusted by the president. Yet he\u2019s nowhere. Members hugely appreciate frequent visits from energetic cabinet members \u2014 notably Secretary of State\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0and Defense Secretary\u00a0Pete Hegseth. But it only further highlights the vice president\u2019s lack of interest, and it fuels criticism that Mr. Vance is putting his presidential ambitions ahead of a GOP Congress\u2019s success.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Writing on behalf of the Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn wing of the GOP, she also said the \u201cexperienced legislators\u201d have grown angry \u201cover Mr. Vance\u2019s decision to position himself as scolder of the body over which he constitutionally presides, rather than showing up for the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By \u201cscolder,\u201d Strassel was referring to comments Vance made during a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.happyscribe.com\/the-joe-rogan-experience\/2526-jd-vance\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/podcasts.happyscribe.com\/the-joe-rogan-experience\/2526-jd-vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> on Joe Rogan\u2019s popular podcast, wherein the vice president lamented the failure of the Senate to pass election safeguard legislation (<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/20\/meet-election-attack-bombshell-with-the-save-act-or-there-wont-be-a-republic-left-to-save\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/20\/meet-election-attack-bombshell-with-the-save-act-or-there-wont-be-a-republic-left-to-save\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the SAVE Act<\/a>) because of \u201cweird, procedural, archaic things.\u201d Namely, the filibuster rule, which if suspended would allow Republicans to pass the SAVE Act with a simple majority vote.<\/p>\n<p>What Strassel and her anonymous friends in the Senate are doing is laughably transparent. President Trump has been putting pressure on the Senate to pass the SAVE Act, and since congressional Republicans rarely show interest in moving legislation that isn\u2019t a tax cut or sending money overseas, they\u2019re hoping to place the blame on Vance for their failure, accusing him of neglecting his own responsibilities. (Well, it\u2019s not like Vance has been trying to negotiate an end to an exceedingly unpopular war or anything. Not sure why he can\u2019t have more meetings with fat senators.)<\/p>\n<p>As for Strassel, she\u2019s very invested in keeping the U.S. shackled to Israel. She once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/P_F_DwWLS8Y\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/P_F_DwWLS8Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called it<\/a> \u201crepulsive\u201d and \u201cdisqualifying\u201d to suggest limiting military aid to the country. By contrast, Vance is, at best, ambivalent toward Israel and has recently upset some very pro-war Republicans and conservative commentators by openly acknowledging that American sentiment is rapidly turning against Israel across both political parties, and the tiny country is alienating the rest of the world, too. It\u2019s not a mystery as to where Vance\u2019s political career is heading. Strassel and people like her see it and they oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>The result of these colliding dynamics is the dishonest piece of content pushed by Strassel in her employer\u2019s newspaper targeting the vice president. J.D. Vance\u2019s constitutional obligation to the Senate is limited to presiding over the chamber \u2014\u00a0something no modern V.P. has physically done on a daily basis for decades, because it\u2019s neither practical nor necessary \u2014\u00a0and breaking tie votes. For everything else, the Senate has its own leadership. The White House can\u2019t do everything for Republicans; otherwise there would be no need for them to have their own office space. (Wait, maybe I\u2019m onto something here \u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the Senate need to grow up, be men, and stop hiding behind Kimberly Strassel. And she should try being more honest with her audience the next time she wants to attack the vice president.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party\u2019s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strassel defends GOP leaders, blames Vance-op-ed attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2632989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/J.D.-Vance.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5843,4188,5894,3756,15469],"class_list":["post-2632988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-distraction","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/J.D.-Vance.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632992,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632988\/revisions\/2632992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2632989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}