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Who had the worst week in Washington? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
washingtonpost.com ^ | 2/14/14 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 02/15/2014 5:56:06 AM PST by cotton1706

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To: cotton1706
*metamorphically speaking* :-D
Love, That (real :) Sen. Ted Cruz (TX-TEA), as opposed
to Reid's "pet" Sen. *itch McConnell (Wdc-GOP/e)

21 posted on 02/15/2014 7:37:38 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: jiggyboy

So the debt limit is raised and the veterans didn’t get their benefits restored? Thanks to Paul Ryan....he made it all possible.


22 posted on 02/15/2014 7:45:01 AM PST by grania
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To: napscoordinator

I dont give a damn what party a liberal is in, they need to be removed, and the more power they have the more they need to be removed.

We got this mess in the Republican party because absolute idiots who utterly lack the mental faculties to play a long game care more about momentary party numbers than about supporting any particular ideology.


23 posted on 02/15/2014 8:10:36 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Theodore R.
Most in KY probably don’t eve know of the events of the past week in DC. Or they wouldn’t understand if they did know.

Yes, because as we all know, Kentuckians are just a bunch of moonshine swilling, snaggle toothed, backwoods inbreds.

I swear, your act here is becoming more and more transparent.

24 posted on 02/15/2014 8:58:20 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier; Theodore R.
Yes, because as we all know, Kentuckians are just a bunch
of moonshine swilling, snaggle toothed, backwoods inbreds.
speak for yourself (TR)...

25 posted on 02/15/2014 9:42:09 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: Theodore R.
I am from Kentucky. I think most of us know exactly what transpired unless we live in the Democrat part of Louisville that always seems to swing Kentucky Elections.

The State outside of Louisville is mostly conservative, very conservative. For many years there was a conservative part of the state that none the less always voted Democrat, that part of the state was the coal fields which do what the United Mine Workers bosses tell them to do. The Democrats have dumped coal, they are by dumping coal dumping those voters. No amount of cajoling by the UMW will change that.

Now, McConnell, I hardly know what to say. Mostly I have liked him. He has in the main been conservative when it was a very unpopular thing to be and mostly a pretty smart fellow. I'm sure there is a reason for this stupid vote I just don't know what it is. I have been told that his strategist mind conceived a plan for taking the Senate that did not include a fight at this time over the budget or having a government shutdown that could be blamed on Republicans.

McConnell knew for sure that for the sake of his personal politics he should not have voted the way he did. I suspect the results would eventually have been the same anyway but I think he was forced into an unenviable position. He was dammed if he did and damned if he didn't.

My experience with McConnell is that he is nothing if not principled. There must be a principle that he thinks he is working for here even if it costs him the election personally. I'm glad he was willing to put some principle above his own good but somehow it just feels like stupidity to me. I hope I am proven wrong.

26 posted on 02/15/2014 10:47:19 AM PST by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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Mitch wants to keep obamacare in the news. That is a winning strategy.

A protracted fight over the debt limit would knock obamacare out of the news...a losing strategy. This is why he voted the way he did.


27 posted on 02/15/2014 11:14:46 AM PST by what's up
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