Posted on 02/15/2014 10:41:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he voted to advance a clean debt-ceiling bill this week because his job is “to protect the country” when he can.
The Republican leader said at a Friday campaign event in Louisville, Ky., that he has long preferred making structural changes to fiscal policy as a condition to raising the debt ceiling.
But given that the House could pass only a clean debt ceiling — every policy rider Speaker John Boehner tried to attach failed to garner sufficient support — McConnell said he was left with one option: Avoid economic catastrophe.
McConnell and most of his leadership team voted to break a filibuster demanded by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), to the ire of many conservatives and surprise of Capitol Hill, given his recently stated opposition to any clean lift of the debt ceiling.
“We were confronted with a clean debt ceiling in the Senate or default. I believe I have to act in the best interests of the country, and every time we’ve been confronted with a potential crisis, the guy you’re looking at is the one who stepped up to solve the problem,” McConnell told reporters, according to Associated Press video....
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If McConnell thought that a increase in the debt ceiling was necessary to “protect” the country then why did he vote against it?
The GOP ran an unelectable presidential candidate.
/johnny
He has gotten his big payouts and kickbacks and its time for a new little pig to move up to the D.C. trough.
McConnell said he was left with one option: Avoid economic catastrophe.
So increasing the national debt is avoiding economic catastrophe so much for logic only in D.C. the bloody fools will soon be out of office.
You are DC K street paid poster here!
You promote the Amnesty traitors/ bought off crooks like Johnny C and
the amoral lying trash like Mitchy!
Who are you trying to fool here !
Mitch is a vile K street whore !
“the amoral lying trash like Mitchy!”
Yes, you on the other hand are the pure white immaculate “conservative” supporting “holy Obama” against the evil Republicans.
Who are YOU trying to fool here?
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
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