Posted on 10/29/2014 2:07:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Election Day isn't until next week, but Senate Majority Leader-in-Waiting Mitch McConnell is already warning Republicans who would like to repeal Obamacare and roll back environmental regulations about two key numbers: 60 and 2.
"It would take 60 votes in the Senate. No one thinks we're going to have 60 Republicans. And it would take a presidential signature. No one thinks we're going to get that," McConnell said during a campaign-stop interview with Fox News.
"This is why nobody believes Mitch McConnell anymore," said Mary Vought, spokeswoman for the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group that has pushed Tea Party candidates in GOP primaries against establishment incumbents. "He says he wants to rip Obamacare out 'root and branch,' but then flips days before his election and says he plans to surrender."
Dan Holler, a spokesman for the political wing of the Heritage Foundation, Heritage Action, said Republicans have to explain to America what they're for. "That is not going to happen if they sit there and make excuses about Harry Reid or Barack Obama. They need to be proactive about putting out an agenda," he said.
McConnell said that with a full Obamacare repeal impossible, he would instead push to repeal the law's tax on medical devices — which a number of Democratic senators already support — and to narrow its mandate on which workers must be covered.
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Er, then why should we give control of the Senate to the Republicans?
Day by Day. It becomes more and more clear. These Repugs WANT to snatch DEFEAT from the jaws of victory.
Mitch just promised he will do nothing. But he WILL push amnesty.
Er, then why should we give control of the Senate to the Republicans?
So THEY can control an ever increasingly invasive government. Didn’t you know that?
I was explaining this to my mother last night. They will try to “fix it,” resulting in an even bigger mess.
The Tea Party really is the best chance we have at a REAL third party in this country... and even these guys have started to conduct their operations like the GOP.
Sigh.
Especially since America’s Republicans are simply ‘Democrat Lite.’
Who cares? Who needs ‘em?
States, NULLIFY this unconstitutional act!
IT IS TIME!
Answer: Steep slope to Hell or just jump off the cliff and get to Hell quicker. I am sorry that isn’t very inspiring but it is honest and factual.
We’ll deal with the RINOS, you cannot deal with the rodents.
Reality knocks on the door. Whether we answer the knock or not.
LMAO
Keep it up boys. Let’s take every reason for people to vote Republican off the table six days before the election.
Good grief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes I think the quisling is worse than the revolutionary.
What? You just want Harry Reid to stay in power! /double sarc
That’s the crap you get from “R at all cost” FReepers.
No change on Obolacare.
No change on amnesty.
Where’s McCain. Can’t he endorse the Democrats across the board and be done with it?
That’s the only possible explanation. They don’t want to win because they don’t want to be responsible.
I’m not preparing for an election night celebration.
And even if the gop wins, it won’t make a difference. Reid will still be in charge just like Pelosi is in charge of boner.
Surrender Monkey (Post Turtle too).
Impeach Biden and Obama-—then move on Obamacare.
Please show me the evidence anyone has dealth with the RINOS.
You deal with them by not giving them power. If not now, when? If not us, who?
These are the people that we HAVE to vote for, right?
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