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Mitch McConnell Puts Kibosh on Bill Protecting Robert Mueller
MSN ^ | Apr. 17, 2018 | Niels Lesniewski

Posted on 04/17/2018 3:06:32 PM PDT by Innovative

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he would not be making floor time for legislation designed to shield Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III from firing.

McConnell’s determination that the action is not needed is apparently regardless of what happens in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“I don’t think he should fire Mueller, and I don’t think he’s going to,” the Kentucky Republican said. “So, this is a piece of legislation that’s not necessary in my judgment.”

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KEYWORDS: andrewmccabe; christopherwray; jamesclapper; jamescomey; johnbrennan; kentucky; leonpanetta; lisapage; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; mueller; perjury; peterstrzok; robertmueller; steeledossier; susanrice; trump
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Good!

I forgive him for all previous issues for standing up to this.

1 posted on 04/17/2018 3:06:32 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

McConnell should lead a movement to fire Muller.


2 posted on 04/17/2018 3:08:50 PM PDT by Savage Beast (The Law of the Jungle has replaced the Constitutional Law of the United States.)
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To: Innovative

Excellent. Mitch still has some integrity and loyalty working for him.


3 posted on 04/17/2018 3:09:46 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Innovative

Sounds like a crossfire avoidance plan.


4 posted on 04/17/2018 3:10:02 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Innovative

Don’t forget that McConnell also kept the slot open for Neil Gorsuch.

He withstood withering attacks to do that.


5 posted on 04/17/2018 3:10:20 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Innovative

I still can’t figure out what makes Robert S. Mueller III so d@mn special. What has he done to distinguish himself from any run-of-the-mill political hack who has risen to his level of incompetence?


6 posted on 04/17/2018 3:10:25 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Innovative

.........to coin an old phrase............”even a broken clock get’s it right twice a day.”


7 posted on 04/17/2018 3:10:58 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Innovative

Self-preservation. McConnell and many GOP senators don’t want to have a recorded vote on such a bill. Such a vote would expose the anti-Trumpers who support the Mueller witch hunt.


8 posted on 04/17/2018 3:13:04 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Innovative

He doesn’t want Mueller to get fired, as he thinks Mueller has the goods on Trump. And will use them too.

Mitch might be right in this instance. But for all the wrong reasons.


9 posted on 04/17/2018 3:13:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Innovative

Well, good for him.

(Now I’m ‘waiting for the the other shoe to drop’.)


10 posted on 04/17/2018 3:14:20 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Innovative

I saw his interview with Cavuto.

Mitch was resolute.


11 posted on 04/17/2018 3:15:19 PM PDT by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WIINNING WAYsi)
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McConnell isn't doing anything courageous. He knows that Trump would never sign it, that the courts would declare it unconstitutional, and that Republicans don't need the optics of an intra-party fight going into the mid-term election.

-PJ

12 posted on 04/17/2018 3:15:57 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

All of which is commendable in this era.


13 posted on 04/17/2018 3:22:45 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Innovative

A stopped McTurtle is right twice per Senate session.


14 posted on 04/17/2018 3:24:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: kabar

Bingo.


15 posted on 04/17/2018 3:28:52 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Innovative; raygunfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON

I always used “kaibosh” but that’s just me.

Now, Joe Di\ola (DeVola?) I just don’t know.

I’m actually shocked at MM. Got something right.


16 posted on 04/17/2018 3:31:14 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: tomkat

[Sounds like a crossfire avoidance plan.]

Probably so.


17 posted on 04/17/2018 3:31:53 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: kabar

That’s probably true, too.


18 posted on 04/17/2018 3:32:56 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Innovative

hope it makes a lotta people grind their teeth.


19 posted on 04/17/2018 3:33:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Vigilanteman

Because Mueller wants to bring Trump down, and the Never Trumpers and leftists in Congress/Senate want Trump gone


20 posted on 04/17/2018 3:37:15 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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