Posted on 08/08/2017 1:02:32 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Speaking at a Rotary Club gathering in Kentucky on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vented about how President Donald Trump's lack of political experience has led to him setting “excessive expectations” for legislative priorities.
McConnell, R-Ky., told the group in Florence that he found it “extremely irritating” that Congress has earned the reputation of not accomplishing anything.
“Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,” said McConnell, a Republican and the state’s senior senator.
Trump, a political newcomer, as McConnell noted, has a habit of declaring progress on major priorities that do not necessarily reflect the reality of lawmaking.
For example, as the House was in the midst of negotiations about its Obamacare replacement bill in February, Trump announced that Congress was in the “final stages” of its bill and said it would be ready for “submitting” in March. While the House bill was unveiled in March, that chamber didn’t vote on it until May, and health care votes continued until the end of July.
That sort of disconnect has led to Trump’s expressing disappointment when bills — chief among them health care reform — fail to end up on his desk, even though, as with health care, the political reality indicated all along how difficult it was going to be to pass legislation.
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Yeah Mitch... President Trump trying to hold the Republican party to their word is excessive expectiations.
Good grief this is coming from the Senate Majority Leader! How weak... How pathetic!
McConnel is a putz!
Drain the swamp!
Mitch ... worthless pup
Mediocrity at its finest
OK Start listing the accomplishments...
If they aren’t there to “legislate” then why the hell are they there?
7 or 8 years of “building” expectations and then you say these are excessive? They are your (”your” as in GOPe) expectations
Rotary’s 4-Way Test considers the following questions in respect to thinking, saying or doing:
<>Is it the truth?
<>Is it fair to all concerned?
<>Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
<>Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
Mitch must not have been reading the banner hanging on the wall.... /extra sarc
Well ya wuss resign and let a man take over the job
McConnell’s an idiot. He’s had his lifetime in the Senate to get things done, yet barely lifts a finger!?
“High expectations?!”
Allow me to rent you a bulldoze to scoop all the sand out of your vajajay!
Jeez!
hmm..
When Obama was in office, how many times did Congress successfully pass a full Obamacare repeal bill?
And now that Obama is not in office, and there are R’s everywhere, how many times did Congress pass a full Obamacare repeal bill?
Methinks Mitch is a whiny little do-nothing afraid of his shadow %$#@!.
Well Mitch, we all kinda though 7 years would be enough time. How much time do you need?
Feeling the heat there Mitch?
Hard to imagine Mitch getting sympathy from anyone with his whiny lame excuses.
Trump still won’t say anything bad about McConnell.
Love it.
Gorsuch + Not Much....
Aren’t ““High expectations?!”” the solution to the “Achievement Gap”?
Trump should threaten to fire Elaine Chao, Mitch’s wife.
Mitch badly needs some motivation.
Maybe we should found out why Mitch left the Army so soon in 1967 to go to DC.
As some wit once said, asking the Republicans to govern is like asking Barney Frank to judge the Miss America contest. If the interest isn’t there to begin with then the results aren’t going to be that great.
Dead silence.
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