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McConnell pushes back on 'Kentucky kickback'
CNN ^ | 10/17/13 | Byron Wolf

Posted on 10/17/2013 8:50:52 AM PDT by jimbo123

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell denied slipping a special provision into a deal he co-engineered to end the 16-day government shutdown and end a showdown over raising the nation's debt ceiling.

And the longtime Republican Senator from Kentucky had an admonishment for Republicans whose sole focus is the "impossible dream" of ending Obamacare.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: kentuckykickback; primarymcconnell; rino
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To: jimbo123

Anybody out there from Kentucky know what the odds are to flush this sob from office?


21 posted on 10/17/2013 9:00:11 AM PDT by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama)
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To: jimbo123

He hates the fact that he can’t get earmarks anymore especially since he’s up for reelection. But he finagled one anyway.

He barely won in 2008. He’s going to lose this time one way or the other. His mission now is to prevent a conservative from getting into the senate by winning his primary.


22 posted on 10/17/2013 9:00:15 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: jimbo123

23 posted on 10/17/2013 9:01:14 AM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: jimbo123

The best way to tell Midge McConnell to FO is to donate to Matt Bevin so we can get a real conservative in that Senate seat!

https://mattbevin.com/


24 posted on 10/17/2013 9:02:00 AM PDT by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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To: jimbo123
Bitch is a walking neon sign that keeps blinking "TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITS...

This forever smirking fool (Can't help it. Face was badly burned while eating hot government slop)is such an accommodator that he must be retired. Too damned bad he gets perks and pay for the rest of his life!

25 posted on 10/17/2013 9:02:00 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: jimbo123

McConnell is such a ....well I can’t say it in polite company.


26 posted on 10/17/2013 9:02:14 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: jimbo123
I am irked at these Republicans that buckle every single time an important vote comes up.

That being said I think Obama is using it to his advantage... divide and conqueror.

27 posted on 10/17/2013 9:03:11 AM PDT by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010 and Mom 4-20-26 12-8-2012)
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To: jimbo123
From my previous link:

“I’ve talked to Mitch about this — I think the whole Republican Senate is different now,” Schumer said on Morning Joe on Thursday. “I don’t think Ted Cruz will recover so quickly. . . . I think the Tea Party and Ted Cruz have peaked.”

28 posted on 10/17/2013 9:03:15 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracka -- Don't Call Me Cracker)
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To: jimbo123

In other words, he told out his State’s future for $2 billion now.


29 posted on 10/17/2013 9:03:25 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: blackdog

POST OF THE DAY!!!!

Make EVERYONE participate in this wonderful new program....NO EXCEPTIONS!


30 posted on 10/17/2013 9:03:44 AM PDT by M-cubed
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To: NonValueAdded
Perhaps, and I wouldn’t put it past the RATs to stick it in there just to gore him.

He is such a piss poor leader that giving his state Three billion dollars worth of pork was to keep him in office.

The man belongs in a nursing home. Get him out of there.

31 posted on 10/17/2013 9:03:56 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The debt limit is the emergency brake on government spending)
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To: NonValueAdded

“Perhaps, and I wouldn’t put it past the RATs to stick it in there just to gore him.”

Really??? Are you saying he and his staff didn’t read the bill he helped write???

That little project that the bill funds is a black hole that has been in the works since the mid 1990s. Now, how did that pesky thing get in that legislation? hmmmmm

Really???


32 posted on 10/17/2013 9:04:16 AM PDT by BlessingsofLiberty (Remember Brian Terry...)
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To: jimbo123

It doesn’t matter who put it in there, it was for McConnell’s vote. That makes him just another bought and paid for politician. Choke on it liar.


33 posted on 10/17/2013 9:05:32 AM PDT by ZX12R (Never forget the heroes of Benghazi, who were abandoned to their deaths by Obama)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
And then beat McConnell bloody with it.
unfair..He'll get to use his NEW Health Care package...
(non 0'BlahBlah's DeathCARE) to heal his wounds.

34 posted on 10/17/2013 9:06:09 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: jimbo123
" the "impossible dream" of ending Obamacare" Why even send Republicans to office then?
35 posted on 10/17/2013 9:07:32 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: blackdog

Make Bammy put back all his waivers and exemptions and make sure they go in effect January 1.

You’ll see a tidal wave GOP win after 11 months of original recipe Bammycare. Delaying it a year means nobody get to feel the pain prior to the election.

It’s time America gets the goobermint they voted for. Instead , the morons in the GOP will save Democrats from themselves(again)

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”-Abraham Lincoln


36 posted on 10/17/2013 9:08:28 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: MeganC

This is what we need to do. Instead of trying to unseat all the RINOs at once, we should concentrate on McConnell first. As someone here said, he is the poster boy for RINO betrayal.

Everybody send Mitch’s opponent $10, $20, or whatever you feel you can. If enough people contribute, small amounts will add up to big money.


37 posted on 10/17/2013 9:10:03 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

“His friend Lamar! Alexander put it in.”

grrrrr LOL


38 posted on 10/17/2013 9:11:01 AM PDT by BlessingsofLiberty (Remember Brian Terry...)
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To: Pining_4_TX
Instead of trying to unseat all the RINOs at once

Worked great in Indiana. We traded an 80% Republican for a 97% Democrat! I'm sure Kentucky can be equally successful. The media loves to shred Tea Party candidates. Whoever replaces old McC in the general election better be d@mn good, like a Ted Cruz.

39 posted on 10/17/2013 9:14:23 AM PDT by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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To: TurboZamboni
See a politician? Turn your back on them.

Everyone! It doesn't matter who or what party they are with. We have to live with their results. Their results are shameful.

Let's get real Amish and shun them. Turn our backs to them all. If you are at home in front of a television, turn your back by turning CNN, Fox, MSNBC, PBS, and network news off.

In a month they will be destroyed.

40 posted on 10/17/2013 9:14:27 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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