Posted on 10/17/2013 9:31:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he will not allow another government shutdown as part of a strategy to repeal ObamaCare.
McConnell (Ky.) told The Hill in an interview Thursday afternoon that his party learned a painful political lesson over the past 16 days, as its approval rating dropped while the government was shuttered.
He said there’s no reason to go through the political wringer again in January, when the stopgap measure Congress passed late Wednesday is set to expire.
“One of my favorite old Kentucky sayings is there’s no education in the second kick of a mule. The first kick of a mule was when we shut the government down in the mid-1990s and the second kick was over the last 16 days,” he said. “There is no education in the second kick of a mule. There will not be a government shutdown.
“I think we have fully now acquainted our new members with what a losing strategy that is,” he added.
McConnell said that even though he and many other Republicans “hate, detest and despise ObamaCare,” they are not going to be able to repeal it unilaterally while Democrats control the White House and the Senate....
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
McConnell got his $2 Billion. He’s happy now.
He surrenders and racks up more debt for our children and grandchildren which they can’t afford to pay.
A generational thief. Remove him.
The RINOs are using the democrat mantra that conservatives (not Obama/Reid and the Senate) caused the shutdown.
I think the Senate RINOs are trying to save face. Perhaps they know that after some time goes by and the dust settles the American people will realize that the bill stopped in the Senate and it was not a shutdown bill until it fell on Harry Reid’s lap and went no further.
Maybe they see polling data they we don’t see.
Seems like the blame gap has been closing the last couple of days.
He won’t allow it? He won’t allow it? Is the senate now telling the house how to vote? Oh, never mind.
A statement like this shows you the house is now irrelevant. Thanks a lot, Boner. You can all go home now.
Cruz and Lee and the tea partiers showed the world just who owns obamacare. It is owned by the democrats and their rino friends. Now the people are getting a taste of obamacare and they know who tried to get it defunded.
SAme thing happened when Obamacare was first voted on...one man alone turned the vote..and he too was “Paid Off”.
McConnell, Ye wee stupid beastie!
OUT with the OLD——IN with the BOLD.
McConnell is a relic-—Cruz IS the inspiration.
And I forgot to as what is the proper treatment for traitor communists like McConnell? I think he should get 0bammacare with the restrictions for someone his age. 0bama likes abortions, even late term....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/congress-votes-to-end-shutdown/house.htm
Remember them when the 2014 primaries begin. Will be your chance to get even.
Worse...he walked away lining his own purse with 2 Billion smacker-roos and got NOTHING WHATSOEVER for the people...nadda...he just gave the Democrats all.
Didn’t this guy just get a 2 billion dollar bribe from Obama about a new dam?
Boehner and McConnell vow to repeal Obamacare with radical “pretty please, with sugar on top” strategy.
It’s no question that McConnell is a whore and now he’s set his price for his sellout to the Donkeys. Two billion dollars is the price of McConnell’s Kentucky Purchase. Matt Bevin needs to hammer him hard on this.
Amazing! He's caved even before the next fight starts.
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