Posted on 07/13/2011 9:44:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
McConnell’s plan is beyond bad. The plan is to basically to give Obama everything he wants and at the same time try to fool the electorate into believing Republicans are against raising the debt limit.
Is he having a stroke? He seems a little off. If his face starts to droop call 911.
Mitch McConnell should resign immediately and....John Boehner with him. Both these “closet” Democrats are aiding and abetting the enemy, POTUS Obama and his Democrat Party in their quest and trek to destroy the American economy and then, the nation itself!!!
Republicans need to stop retreating when victory is at hand.
Sorry folks, Looks like McConnell is "stumblingly" badly...probably re-electing "the Won"....
Since OBahbah couldn't "roll" the Speaker, he gone after MItch.
he must've had too much Alcohol @ the Washington D.C. Cocktail Party / Golf Outting
celebrating the NEW! (the 3rd...4th?) Stimulus Package.
McConnell admitted in an interview yesterday that his “Plan B” would not guarantee there would be any spending cuts, even should Congress vote to approve Obama’s requests. Thus it’s a straw dog of a plan. No way should this plan be considered.
This man can’t be trusted. He says one thing, then acts just the opposite. After his speech yesterday I had guarded hope that he’d made the proper decision. That’s the last time I’ll give him any credit.
I don’t care if the McConnell plan is good or bad, politically or economically.
The bottom line is that the GOP again FAILS at message coordination and discipline. McConnell deliberately and systemmatically undermined Boehner, Cantor and House Republicans — let alone our voices in conservative media.
The MSM is having a field day with this apparent fracture in the GOP ranks. We deserve better. A 10-year old could do a better job in project management.
We’re saying the same thing. Only I showed how he had to admit he was aware his plan would fail even as he presented it.
Many of those old farts in the senate love spending as much as the democrats.
Bottom line is the Senate Republicans need to replace this gutless, limp-wristed, ignorant a$$ clown out of the leadership position. THIS IS A TIME FOR LEADERS AND SENATOR MUMBLES HAS PROVEN THAT HE IS BOTH UNABLE AND UNWILLING TO STEP UP AND BE ONE!
This fraud is no Kentuckian...
No, the solution to avoid blame is not to let the deadline pass. That approach would guarantee blame on the GOP.
The House should pass the plan endorsed by NRO - a $100 billion debt ceiling increase, with new authority directed to paying SS and related benefits — coupled with a $100 billion spending reduction in discretionary domestic spending.
Obama has said he would not support a short-term deal. CALL HIS BLUFF. He is lying.
Send this House-enacted bill to the Senate. Reid cannot bury it; too many RAT senators up for re-election next year, and they will fold like cheap suits (Manchin, Nelson, Tester, and many more).
Then, you think Obama’s gonna veto grandma’s SS check?
Indeed not.
It is time for some stones, not unilateral surrender.
@1:05 - "There is a good deal of conservative support for what I laid out yesterday beginning with the Wall Street Journal editorial page today."
@1:44 - "Doing the right thing for the country is our first obligation, but we cannot force a result, we need to do the next best thing and that's clarify the differences between the two parties."
@2:14 - "They want to blame the economy on us and the reason default is no better an idea today than it was when Newt Gingrich tried it in 1995, is it destroys your brand, and it gives the president an opportunity to blame Republicans for a bad economy."
@3:03 - Laura: "While it puts the burden, it shifts the burden to the greatest extent to Obama, in effect there is kind of a vote at the beginning to raise the debt ceiling because you are ceding..." McConnell: "No, no. It only authorizes the president to ask for it. There will be no vote to raise the debt ceiling I suspect by any Republican."
Laura: "Isn't that passing the buck, Senator? Isn't that passing the buck of leadership to the White House?"
McConnell: "We've been trying to get this liberal president to sign a deal worth signing. You know it makes a difference when you only control a third of the government. If we were able to run the government out of the House of Representatives we would be able to get a result that we would like."
@4:40 - Laura: "When I see the New York Times on the other hand, praising the deal, Harry Reid seeming to be open to it, and even the White House murmers that it might be something acceptable I get a little nervous, why do you think they are embracing it?"
McConnell: "Because they want to raise the debt ceiling and of course we know that is going to happen. Just like we knew shutting down the government in 1995 was not going to work for us, it helped Bill Clinton get reelected. I refuse to help Barack Obama get reelected."
@5:34 - "If we go into default he [Obama] will say that Republicans are making the economy worse and try to convince the public, maybe with some merit, if people start not getting their Social Security checks, military families start not getting letters saying that service people overseas don't get paid, you know that's an argument he would have a good chance of winning and all of a sudden we are co-ownership, we have co-ownership of a bad economy. That is very bad positioning going into election."
@8:34 - "We had hoped this would present an opportunity to cut spending. It looks as if, it may change, but it looks as if it is only going to be an opportunity for him to try to entice us top raising taxes and as I said when I started I'm not going to be a part of turning the Republicans into tax collectors for the welfare state."
i guess being 1/100 is just as good as being king eh ???
the founders screwed the pooch when they neglected term limits in the US Constitution...
It guarantees there will not be.
even should Congress vote to approve Obamas requests
Why bother with a vote when the plan lets it pass with a 1/3 vote?
Meanwhile we cannot get any conservative bills to the floor for a vote without 2/3rds voting to do so. Like unbanning lightbulbs.
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