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Mitch McConnell: It's Funny How The Economy Improved When The GOP Took Over Congress
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Posted on 01/08/2015 11:46:00 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appears to be touting the accomplishments of the new GOP-controlled Congress even before its members have gotten the chance to hammer out any legislation.

In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, the newly elected majority leader suggested that the growing signs of an economic recovery -- 5 percent GDP growth, 320,000 additional jobs in November, all-time highs in the markets on Wall Street and plunging gas prices, to name a few -- just might have something to do with the election of a Republican Congress.

"After so many years of sluggish growth, we're finally seeing some economic data that can provide a glimmer of hope," said McConnell. "The uptick appears to coincide with the biggest political change of the Obama administration's long tenure in Washington: the expectation of a new Republican Congress."

This, he added, "is precisely the time to advance a positive pro-growth agenda" that includes tax cuts, the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: huffpo; kentucky; keystonexl; mitchmcconnell
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I wonder if he realizes just how stupid this makes him look??
1 posted on 01/08/2015 11:46:00 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Really.

But the media will give Republicans full, complete, solitary credit any time those numbers go down.


2 posted on 01/08/2015 11:48:06 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, the newly elected majority leader suggested that the growing signs of an economic recovery -- 5 percent GDP growth, 320,000 additional jobs in November, all-time highs in the markets on Wall Street and plunging gas prices, to name a few -- just might have something to do with the election of a Republican Congress.

Happens that quickly, does it?

3 posted on 01/08/2015 11:52:00 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: TangledUpInBlue
I wonder if he realizes just how stupid this makes him look??

Hey, it worked for the Dims...

4 posted on 01/08/2015 11:52:33 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

He ain’t wrong.

Sidebar — I wonder why so many HuffPo pieces show up here as topics?


5 posted on 01/08/2015 11:53:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He doesn’t care. He won, the rest of us all lose.


6 posted on 01/08/2015 11:53:37 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: Calvin Locke

I hate to say it, but I think there might be something to what he is saying. People do act based on expectation, and people are (rightly or wrongly) expecting this Congress to be more economy and taxpayer friendly.


7 posted on 01/08/2015 11:54:29 AM PST by TheConservator ("I spent my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men.")
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Think how good things could be without Boner and Ditch Mitch as the “Leaders”....


8 posted on 01/08/2015 11:54:59 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: TangledUpInBlue

What a dummass.
The economy is starting to do better because the ball and chain of transportation costs has been alleviated somewhat with the low fuel prices.


9 posted on 01/08/2015 11:56:34 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TheConservator

Remember how the stock market tanked after ObaMao was elected and before he even took office?


10 posted on 01/08/2015 11:56:56 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

There is SOME truth to it. At the time of the election, my daughter was job hunting. She was told by every headhunter and recruiter she spoke with that business was waiting on the outcome. If the GOP won, they were hiring.

Then they did.

I loath Mitch. But there is indeed truth spoken here.


11 posted on 01/08/2015 12:01:14 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1000...and climbing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

In this case, my liberal nephew sent it to me mocking how stupid McConnell looked and I wanted the FR take.....


12 posted on 01/08/2015 12:01:40 PM PST by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

As I recall, the Media declared Reaganomics an abysmal failure - months before he was sworn in...


13 posted on 01/08/2015 12:02:04 PM PST by Paisan
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To: TangledUpInBlue

So now are McConnell & Obama going to argue about which party’s policies are responsible for this uptick in the economy? This is assuming there was one.


14 posted on 01/08/2015 12:02:47 PM PST by oldtech
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To: TangledUpInBlue

What’s it gonna take for people ro realize the GOP are RATS with a different name?


15 posted on 01/08/2015 12:03:16 PM PST by uncitizen (2015 Here we come!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

These Republicans are worse for us than the Democrats. Democrats oppose us. Republicans claim to be on our side but also oppose us.


16 posted on 01/08/2015 12:07:26 PM PST by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: uncitizen

Cattle cars.


17 posted on 01/08/2015 12:08:35 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1000...and climbing.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
I wonder if he realizes just how stupid this makes him look??

I seem to recall some conservative in the media and this website noting the collapse of the economy occured when pelozi and company took over the congress.

18 posted on 01/08/2015 12:09:33 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ryan71

No.


19 posted on 01/08/2015 12:11:29 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: oldtech
So now are McConnell & Obama going to argue about which party’s policies are responsible for this uptick in the economy?

Not the economy but in this case the stock market, a completely different animal.

20 posted on 01/08/2015 12:11:41 PM PST by mc5cents
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