Posted on 03/06/2014 9:11:34 AM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) received a lukewarm reception from conservatives gathered for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, despite delivering a speech full of conservative red meat.
The Senate minority leader's address came as he faces a fierce primary challenge from his right flank and frustration from conservatives with his role in a number of contentious policy debates this year, most recently his vote to raise the debt limit.
He arrived on stage accompanied by retiring Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), whom he thanked for his service to the movement with the gift of a rifle — and framed the rest of his speech as an homage to the "truths" Coburn has told during his time in office, and pledged to make the Senate a place Coburn would "be proud of" if he's the GOP leader next year.
But despite frequent attacks on Democrats, his address received only scattered, polite applause.
McConnell jabbed at Obama for “treating our Constitution worse than a placemat at dinner,” a line that received appreciative laughs from the crowd.
He knocked Democrats on the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations, pledging to “fight this thing with everything we’ve got,” and charged that “president Obama and the Democratic Senate have literally failed working families.”
One of his sharpest jabs, against the media, fell flat.
"They’re too busy trying to fix Benghazi for Hillary, or playing defense for Harry Reid’s latest smear campaign," he said.
And though he pledged that, if given the opportunity to lead the Senate, "I won't let you down," the crowd again responded with hesitant applause.
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Did he raise his voice? Did it crack?
This POS RINO, like too many others still in DC, has BSd the people for so long that he thinks they are still stupid enough to believe his phony patriotic display. Maybe he just forgot what he said about the establishment republicans; we must get rid of the Tea Party because they are a threat to this establishment. It are those in DC like McConnell who are THE problem.
Yeah. McConnell ‘jabbed’ at Obama alright......by PERSONALLY siding with Democrats in a Cloture Vote to bring the Blank Check Debt Bill to a plurality floor vote where he KNEW it would fail.
He should have been pelted off the stage with rotten eggs at the very least. Conniving Bastard.
Really? Does McConnell agree with Abe? How can he. He's a cog in the ruling class "machinery."
Abe recognized an identical problem 160 years ago. I think he would say this today.
". . . You now have two Americas . . . The question today is either the opponents of statism will arrest the further spread of it and place it on course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become permanent.Have you no tendency to the latter condition?
Let anyone who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination — piece of machinery, so to speak — compounded of the Republican Party hands-across-the-aisle doctrine and the dreadful actions among statism's chief architects."
Damned good question.
The turd-le is a ‘Rat. Not one dimes worth of difference.
Mitch THE FRAUD McConnell this dude IS part of the problem!
Who does he think he’s fooling? What a liar.
He is vichy and never to be trusted!
Fool us twice, shame on us..
Once is enough. You won't get a second chance.
Excellent. I like David’s analysis, as well.
retire?
Whole lot of these old fools need to go meet Saint Pete and make their plea.
Been trying to understand this a long time.... Would never have figured it out for myself.
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