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McConnell vows ‘free-wheeling’ Senate under his leadership
McClatchy DC ^ | May 22, 2014 | By William Douglas

Posted on 05/22/2014 6:52:28 PM PDT by Mariner

Fresh off his resounding Republican primary victory Tuesday night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday laid out a broad vision of what the Senate would look like under his control.

Bottom line, McConnell, wouldn’t run the way Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., runs it now, the Kentucky Republican told the center-right American Enterprise Institute.

‘A Senate majority under my leadership would break sharply from the practices of the Reid era in favor of a more free-wheeling approach to problem solving,’ McConnell said in a speech. ‘I would work to restore (the Senate’s) traditional role as a place where good ideas are generated, debated and voted upon. We’d fire up the committee process. We’d work longer days and weeks, using the clock to force consensus.’

And McConnell’s money shot: ‘In marked contrast to the Reid era, we would allow an open amendment process – ensuring senators on both sides a chance to weigh in on legislation and alleviating the frustration that inevitably results when they can’t.’

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: idiot; kentucky; lundergangrimes; mattbevin; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell
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To: Mariner

I agree. The left have had their day. Karma is still a bitch, McConnell. Give the left a taste of their own medicine. Take no prisoners. Do to them what they are doing to us!


41 posted on 05/22/2014 7:52:58 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: Mariner

From the sound of things, one must conclude that McConnell is an unelectable candidate.


42 posted on 05/22/2014 7:54:30 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Mariner

In other words the Dems will still run the place


43 posted on 05/22/2014 7:56:24 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Mariner

Probably make Democrats the head of major committees


44 posted on 05/22/2014 7:57:06 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: sand88

Since you’re predicting future events could you include the winning numbers for this weekend’s Powerball drawing?


45 posted on 05/22/2014 8:02:24 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Mariner
This will be like Trent Lott times Bill Frist.

-PJ

46 posted on 05/22/2014 8:05:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Mariner

>>And McConnell’s money shot

I love it when they use porn terminology.


47 posted on 05/22/2014 8:05:54 PM PDT by Lisbon1940
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To: smoothsailing; JRandomFreeper; Paladin2

It’ll be Collins not Cornyn. The GOPe wants to “put a woman’s face” on the Party.

She gave a clear signal in Feb when she and Murkowsky forced Mitch and John to vote for the debt hike cloture.
She wouldn’t have done that without backing from the GOPe higher ups.

Just saying.


48 posted on 05/22/2014 8:06:20 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Mariner

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49 posted on 05/22/2014 8:07:34 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: Mariner

Is ol Mitch advertising himself for sale to the highest bidder?

Par for the course in DC.


50 posted on 05/22/2014 8:08:09 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: TribalPrincess2U

“I agree. The left have had their day. Karma is still a bitch, McConnell. Give the left a taste of their own medicine. Take no prisoners. Do to them what they are doing to us!”
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It’s not going to happen. When it comes to dealing with the DimocRATS, McConnell has absolutely NO testicles. The Senate DimocRATS have been denying the Republicans a voice (e.g., no amendments allowed) for years and McConnell will REWARD the abuse by being completely nice to the DimocRATS who have been playing for keeps.

McConnell, if he comes to “power”, does not want to merely “turn the other cheek” to evil, but wants to require the Senate Republicans to bend over and spread their cheeks to the DimocRAT statists. And then he wants to have the Republican then turn around and drop to their knees.


51 posted on 05/22/2014 8:13:15 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Mariner

How about a carefully thought out plan involving Adults and not activists?
Na, what good would that be.
What a Maroon (Bugs Bunny)


52 posted on 05/22/2014 8:13:52 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Mariner

Mitch McConnell is incapable of leading....


53 posted on 05/22/2014 8:14:54 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Mariner

This DC elite is delusional.

The KY Dems wanted to run against this K Street bagman. rather than Bevin.

Mitchy polls behind their Little Commie.

.Mitch destroys the base and he us toast in a year in which DC insiders are hated.


54 posted on 05/22/2014 8:19:29 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: Mariner; All

In other words, Mr. No Spine will fold like a cheap suit every time the dims cry


55 posted on 05/22/2014 8:25:51 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: mrsmith; JRandomFreeper; Paladin2
It’ll be Collins not Cornyn. The GOPe wants to “put a woman’s face” on the Party.

If it's a woman they want, why not Lindsey Graham? Lindsey is more of a woman than Susan Collins will ever be.

56 posted on 05/22/2014 8:30:31 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Bryan24

YEARS of evidence to support THAT!


57 posted on 05/22/2014 8:32:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Mariner
We’d work longer days and weeks, using the clock to force consensus.

Consensus is not the solution. Consensus is the problem. Conservatism needs to win. Liberalism needs to lose.

58 posted on 05/22/2014 8:32:48 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: Mariner

People that insist on finding excuses to keep supporting their own demise deserve everything that they bring upon themselves. The rest of us, unfortunately, have to suffer the results of their self inflicted stupidity.

I wonder when FR went from being a conservative site to a GOP site. The mission statement still reads conservative, but we are overrun with GOP ‘moderates’ fully on board with lesser evil.

And so we sit uselessly, hamstrung by internal division. Just as the GOP intended for us all along.


59 posted on 05/22/2014 8:33:05 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Consensus is not leadership.


60 posted on 05/22/2014 8:33:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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