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.
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Like obama, McConnell knows how to tell lies in an effort to soothe the savage beast, It Won’t Work they will take that crap from a black islamist communist elitist president, but you sir are expected to have some kind of moral back bone, you spineless twit!
Really?
No connection between the election results in Nov. giving a shot of confidence to businesses that have been holding off expanding for several years - now ready to give it a shot, cautiously gambling that with a Republican House AND Senate, it just might become a business friendly country?
You see no possible connection?
Curious
If you track the economy during the Clinton Administration, you will find that it was in the tank, sort of Obamalike only not quite as bad, until the Republican victory in 1994. After that, the wonderful Clinton economy started.Since the stock market tries to predict the future, its not irrational to suggest that a positive move might follow the results of the election, and actually precede any positive accomplishments which may eventuate.
Buy on rumor, sell on news."
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