http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mitchmcconnell/ en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:59:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413822/posts Some commentators have accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of caving to Democratic pressure by agreeing to hold the vote on final passage of the national health care bill on Christmas Eve morning as opposed to the originally-planned 7 p.m. "Mitch McConnell Surrenders," reads one blog headline. "McConnell Weasels Out," reads another. But according to a well placed GOP Senate source, it was Majority Leader Harry Reid who approached McConnell in hopes of holding the vote earlier, and McConnell, who was prepared to go ahead with the evening vote, got some key concessions from Reid in return for agreeing to... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413822/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:59:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412135/posts Here is video of GOP Senate Minority Leader speaking before the cloture vote on the Senate Health Care Bill early this morning, where he said that if the Democrats really believed it was a good bill, they would not be voting on it "in the dead of night." The vote was 60-40 to invoke cloture, sending it on its way to a final passage vote on Christmas Eve. The Democrats pushed the vote through after 1:00 AM ET. . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412135/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:51:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411238/posts Here is video of GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell calling the Democrats' Senate Health Care Bill a "legislative train wreck." McConnell was reacting to news that Democrats now have the 60 votes to invoke cloture and move to a vote on final passage on the bill. They hope to do so on Christmas Eve. McConnell said the bill will lead to higher taxes, and that it includes "permissive language" on government-funded abortions. He said the bill will cut back on Medicare, Medicaid, and Hospice funding. McConnell pointed out that the bill now contains a special deal for Medicaid funding... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411238/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:20:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410829/posts Republicans Demand To Read Legislation Before Voting On It WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans threatened to delay Senate business with a health care read-a-thon this weekend as Democrats searched for 60 votes to advance President Barack Obama's signature issue. A forecast of heavy snow added to the list of complications. At a news conference Friday in the Capitol, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., accused Democrats of trying to ram the health care bill through with dozens of changes as yet unseen, and promised to do all they could to prevent it. "I think we've made it... WJZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410829/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:17:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409675/posts In a blatant attempt to slip into law a healthcare bill nobody has seen, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has kept hidden the actual healthcare legislation while putting forth a false bill for debate on the Senate floor--Reid's ruse. This is the charge by GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. Columbia Conservative Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409675/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:07:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406145/posts After Lying Low in Wake of 2008 Presidential-Election Loss, Arizona Senator Mounts Opposition to Obama's Top Priority. BY NAFTALI BENDAVID & GREG HITT Sen. John McCain kept a relatively low profile for months after he lost the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama. Those days are over. In the health-care battle, the Arizona Republican has suddenly emerged as the John McCain of old -- a vigorous political combatant. He has publicly hammered Democratic proposals, engaged in heated exchanges on the Senate floor and lent his voice to automated telephone calls pressuring Democratic senators in Arkansas, Colorado and Nebraska on their... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406145/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:16:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396440/posts (snip) Trey Grayson, a Republican candidate for US Senate, was the keynote speaker on the issue of global warming last year at Eastern Kentucky University as part of the National Focus the Nation event. Now, why is that such a big deal? Well, the Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for Focus the Nation is none other than Van Jones. Yes, that's right, the self-proclaimed communist Obama hired to be the Green Jobs Czar that had to tuck tail and resign at midnight. WHOA Now, let's back up a bit. Here's a bit of history on Focus the... AIP / Conservative Hippie Chick http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396440/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:28:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382767/posts Mitch McConnell on Foxnews Greta says that health care is in doubt in the Senate and that the Dem Leadership will have to convince a number of Democrats to "take a bullet for the team" for passage...(Video) hotairpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382767/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:30:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2370839/posts Here is video of GOP Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on This Week with George Stephanopoulos today, where he said Democrats are getting nervous "over this increasing view that Congress is acting like a teenager with their parents' credit card, not worried about who's going to have to pay the bill." What a great way to say it! . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2370839/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:36:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355836/posts It’s not popular with his party, but Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is saying that the Wall Street bailout was a success – one year after the historic $700 billion vote. The Troubled Asset Relief Program has “succeeded in stabilizing the banking system,” McConnell told reporters Friday. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/27851.html##ixzz0T9l2BtYV Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355836/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:51:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2301734/posts How's that Hope and Change working out? Mitch calls it a failure on CNN's State of the Union, + the numbers for Obama's first 6 months... hotairpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2301734/posts#comment Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:19:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295688/posts Mitch McConnell appears to be taking Jennifer Rubin's adage to heart as his office announced that the Republican leader will oppose the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court: McConnell gives his reasons in a press release outlining remarks he will make Monday on the senate floor: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "From the beginning of this confirmation process, I've said that Americans expect one thing when they walk into a court room, whether it's a traffic court or the Supreme Court - and that's equal treatment under the law. Over the years, Americans have accepted significant ideological differences in the kinds of... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295688/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:17:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294899/posts Friday, July 17, 2009 - Senate Republican Leader will deliver remarks on the Senate floor Monday outlining his opposition to Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court - ‘If, however, Judge Sotomayor were to become a Supreme Court Justice, there would be no backstop. Her rulings would be final. She’d be unencumbered by the obligation of lower court judges to follow precedent. She could act more freely on the kinds of views that animated her troubling and legally incorrect ruling in the Ricci case. That’s not a chance I’m willing to take.’ WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will formally... U.S. Senate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294899/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:36:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281215/posts Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) discussed Obama's health care plan and what the GOP can do to stop it. On Judge Sotomayor, McConnell said the Senate needs time to work through new documents obtained about her. On Gov. Sanford, McConnell refused to comment on the situation. McConnell was adamant about saying he has the business of the Senate to worry about. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281215/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:08:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250161/posts Senate Republicans, from the rank and file to the leadership, are supporting the inevitable move to the center that comes with backing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for the state’s open Senate seat. GOP senators accept that Tuesday's endorsements of Crist by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) is more about pragmatism than principle. The popular centrist governor faces a GOP primary from former state House Speaker Marco Rubio of West Miami, a protégé of former Gov. Jeb Bush and a more conservative candidate. TheHill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250161/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 18:25:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213818/posts President Barack Obama's 3.55-trillion-dollar budget plan will leave the United States with a worse budget deficit than Cuba, a leading Republican critic warned Tuesday. "This creates for us a higher deficit than Cuba's. This is not the kind of position we want to put the United States in," Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters. Other Republican critics of Obama's spending policies, including his nearly 800-billion-dollar economic stimulus package, have variously warned that he risks turning the country into Argentina, France, Germany, or Zimbabwe. Asked for the figures underpinning the charge, a McConnell aide pointed to a report from the... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213818/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:54:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196498/posts If you follow new GOP chief Michael Steele around these days, you can bet you’ll hear him bring up New Jersey’s gubernatorial race this year. He wants that blue state red again. From top to bottom, the GOP is talking about New Jersey. Here at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reminded the crowds that the last time New Jersey had a conservative candidate for governor, he won with 70% of the vote (Tom Kean, 1984). That’s 70% — in New Jersey. After that victory it is inexplicable that New Jersey’s Republican intelligentsia determined... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196498/posts#comment Sun, 1 Mar 2009 03:23:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176410/posts (CBS) The Senate's leading Republican said he is taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the revelation that former Senator Tom Daschle - named to a cabinet post by President Obama - recently filed an amended tax return and paid $140,000 in back taxes and interest. Appearing on CBS' Face The Nation, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., refused to say whether he thinks Daschle's nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services is in trouble, but admitted news of Daschle tax troubles was "a surprise." “The Senate Finance Committee is meeting tomorrow to go over this and to come up with recommendations for... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176410/posts#comment Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:57:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174213/posts The top Republican in the Senate is warning that the GOP risks remaining in the minority unless it does a better job of explaining its core principles to woo one-time faithful and new loyalists. "Every so often, there comes a time when a political party has to re-examine itself. For Republicans, now is such a time," Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says in remarks prepared for delivery later Thursday. "For some, the work might seem daunting. It shouldn't - because there are signs that a revival is already taking place." In excerpts obtained by the Associated Press, McConnell doesn't elaborate on... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174213/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:47:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161368/posts Allow me to be blunt: There are some of you who have fallen under McConnell’s spell in the same way the lefties have fallen under Obama’s spell. McConnell can do no wrong. You all wet your pants when McConnell publicly rebukes Reid and engage in private actions that might cause you to go blind behind closed doors in the bathroom to his floor statements against defunding the war. The idea that Mitch McConnell is protecting us from the Democrats is bullcrap. We should collectively rip off his jaw and shovel the crap back down his throat that he’s been serving... Red State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161368/posts#comment Fri, 9 Jan 2009 03:16:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157877/posts Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will be on different networks Sunday, but both will offer the same basic message — they need to work together for the good of the country and the success of President-elect Barack Obama. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157877/posts#comment Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:30:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148171/posts In the Senate's Thursday night automobile showdown, the United Auto Workers said "No thanks" to a bailout with strings attached. Most Senate Republicans took them at their word and voted to block the bill. But within hours, President Bush blinked and Treasury is now scrambling to use money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Who'd have thought Mr. Bush would want to join the long line of Detroit executives in caving to the UAW? Senate Republicans had more gumption. Led by Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, they asked the auto workers to show they were serious about making Detroit... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148171/posts#comment Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:40:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120595/posts Dear Supporter,I've just learned of a new challenge to my re-election campaign.And I need your help to meet that challenge - and overcome it.  Let me explain.Last year, the left-wing group MoveOn.org bought a full-page New York Times ad (pictured above) calling General David Petraeus a "traitor."  Conservatives, moderates, and even a few liberals roundly called them out for this despicable and uncalled for attack on the character of a real American hero.Now they're trying to influence the outcome of this year's election.  And according to a report published in today's Roll Call, they are coming to Kentucky: "the... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120595/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:46:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113382/posts On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez discussed the congressional races with the editor of the liberal New Republic magazine, Michael Crowley, and asked: "Now, if the Democrats get to 60 seats, as they hope to, what would be significant about that?" Crowley replied: "...in the Senate the other -- the opposition can filibuster. And if you have 60 votes you can basically tell them to 'shut up and we're going to pass our bill, sit down.' So 60 votes is the magic number because the opposition, if they have 41, can draw things out and prevent you from... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113382/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:09:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108592/posts Dear Supporter, Well, I told you it was coming and now my prediction is a reality.New York liberal Chuck Schumer is dumping tons of special interest dollars into Kentucky to try to save his hand-picked candidate Bruce Lunsford.  We knew they were coming, but you may ask, why now?Perhaps this will give you a clue. This note was sent to tens of thousands of Democrat activists by Schumer's committee: "We're on the verge of breaking things open.  Our chances have never looked better to elect that filibuster-proof Senate majority to help Barack Obama put this country back on the right course."So there you... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108592/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:53:48 GMT