Posted on 09/15/2015 11:31:09 AM PDT by maggief
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slammed Democrats and President Obama ahead of a second vote on the Iran deal, saying they are okay with "winning ugly" and that they are "ignoring reality" on the agreement.
"How could [Obama] justify blocking a vote now on an issue of such immense magnitude as the Iran deal? It's part of a larger retreat to campaigning instead of engaging on this important issue. ...Simply ignoring reality when it becomes inconvenient," McConnell said. "This is clearly a case of winning ugly."
The Kentucky Republican was referring to a Washington Post fact check of Obama's statement that the Iran deal has the "strong support of lawmakers and citizens alike."
The Washington Post gave Obama "three pinocchios," which according to the Post's guidelines means the president's statement had "significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions."
The Republican leader's remarks come as the Senate is scheduled to take a second vote on a resolution disapproving the Iran deal on Tuesday evening. Sixty votes are needed to move forward and Democrats are expected to block the resolution for a second time.
McConnell acknowledged as much, saying that if Democrats "share the president's determination to win ugly on this important issue, then they have sufficient numbers to do that, apparently."
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And the money we just gave them is being used to finance Assad....who is killing the bad guys that we armed and uses them to kill the Christians.
Senator Myrtle the Turtle is the most worthless sack o’ feces to ever disgrace the position of Senate Majority Leader.
No, but they’re playing on the same team.
Just go nuclear already. Then have your chosen Presidential candidates come out and support your decision. Tie it to the funding of Planned Infanticide.
Wait a minute...
Just last week I heard that McTurtle did something to block the Republicans FINAL chance of blocking the deal.
Now he’s blaming the democrats for doing what he HELPED them do???
Harry would just suspend the filibuster rule for this one itty bitty time.
Old “No Balls Mitch” can’t figure it out.
Oldplayer
Come on, Kentucky - get RID of this lying clown traitor!
Badly knows exactly what he is doing. He is on the side of the enemy and his mission is to try to destroy Srael and to succeed in destroying the US
Winning ugly is still winning.
McConnell has the IQ of dust. How can he possibly even call this "winning" regardless of how it's defined? He should be ashamed of himself and the Republican establishment better dump him quickly or they will be running an entity that is a shell of its former self.
It sure is a good thing we won the Congress, or the Democrats could still be cramming down ... wait a second!/
Barky, not Badly. Although that’s appropriate.
AH shut up, you lackeys.
Ditch = All posturing, all the time.
It’s the essence of Ditch.
Well here we go again.
McTurtle is saying anything and pretending to everything to prevent the Senate from passing the Iran deal..
Don’t believe it, he’s only try to save his seat, no other reason other than that...he doesn’t care about anything or anyone but himself!!!
Remove McConnell......NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
There are still things the Senate can do. But of cowards and words I can’t write on Free Republic.
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