Posted on 11/05/2014 9:17:06 PM PST by traumer
The jubilant leader of the Republicans in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, on Wednesday challenged Barack Obama to find common ground with Congress after the Democrats’ crushing defeat in the US midterm elections threatened to test the limits of the president’s power during his final two years in office.
In an ambitious speech hours after his party gained control of both houses of Congress, McConnell warned Obama not to “poison the well” by pushing forward with unilateral action on immigration reform, and promised to introduce legislation that would permit the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline, bitterly opposed by environmentalists.
Obama, meanwhile, conceded that the electorate had sent the Democrats a message, inflicting a rout on the party that was far worse than expected.
Speaking in Louisville, after defeating a well-funded challenge from Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes, McConnell called on Obama to take his lead from previous administrations that had to deal with a Congress dominated by opposing parties. “Reagan and Clinton are good examples of accepting the government you have rather than fantasising about the government you wish you had,” said an unusually joyous McConnell. “I am hoping [Obama] will decide to move to the centre.”
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Hate to tell Bitch, but basically Obola pi$$ed in the well real good today!
McConnell wants to pass 80% of Obama’s agenda and make it permanent.
Aww no! Mitch McConnell’s grand capitulation plans may be derailed by Obama’s deepening madness. The more insane he gets, the less Republicans will be game for aiding McConnell.
I am actually hoping Obama starts being a pouty little ****. It undermines Bohner and McConnell.
Obama moving to the center?
McConman is living in a dream world.
Obama is a radical Marxist bent on tearing down this country. For him its my way or the highway.
If the new incoming Senate Majority leader thinks Obama will play ball, he’s in for a rude awakening.
Mitch, in suit and tie, shows up for what he thinks is the Debate Club. The Democrats are ready for a bare knuckle brawl.
Mitch can’t win the fight. He doesn’t know he is in a fight.
Too late.
While Mitch is honing the finer points of his debate speech, the Democrats are thinking of ways to gouge his eyes out and kick him in the groin.
Don’t bring courtesy to gangsters. They make short work of you.
If McConman understands one thing, its that Obama is not the kind of guy you can trust.
He’ll knife you in the back when you aren’t looking.
The worst senate election result was that McConnell is still in the Senate and somehow will be elected leader. I don’t know which is the worst pol hack, Pelosi, Boner, Reid or McConnell.
Democrats go for the kill.
They’re not interested in meeting you half-way.
Something they never did do when they were in the majority.
They should be repaid in kind.
Apart from Ted Cruz, I despise them.
Then again, when we don’t demand more, we won’t get the leaders we truly deserve.
Republicans should replace their leaders in the House and the Senate right now!
Republicans remind of the nice guy who finishes last.
There’s a reason the Democrats get all the girls: they mean business.
Too late! 0bama had a presser already, Midge.
Live by the sword, Die by the sword.
RATS made every American they could miserable, on purpose, with deliberation, and now those Americans have thrown them to the R wolves. They WANT these destructors destroyed.
Mitch still wants to cocktail with them, Cruz wants to bury them. Stay tuned.
It will be a knockdown dragout:
A guy with no balls against a guy with no character or competence.
Poisoned the well, eh?
I wonder if the Mitch’s boys scan this site to check out is being said about him.
I wrote this earlier: “Too much bad blood and poisoned water in his “punch in the nose” and “crush the Tea Party” statements” and now later Mitch is using the term.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3223774/posts?page=3#3
Obama might think he’s untouchable now, but every action he takes can come back to punish Democrats as yesterday’s results demonstrated.
“Obama might think he’s untouchable now, but every action he takes can come back to punish Democrats as yesterday’s results demonstrated.”
Obama is a bald-faced ideologue. He couldn’t give a damn.
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