Posted on 07/30/2015 6:47:52 AM PDT by C19fan
Before he took over as majority leader, Mitch McConnell was a harsh critic of Harry Reid’s use of a parliamentary tactic to block amendments on the Senate floor. The Kentucky Republican said it was an abuse of the chamber’s rules that stifled debate in the famously deliberative body. But in his first seven months as Senate majority leader, McConnell has employed that same tactic to push through a highway bill, trade legislation and a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. McConnell has used the maneuver more often than past Senate majority leaders — Robert Byrd, George Mitchell and Tom Daschle, all Democrats — and he’s done it just about as much as Reid did during a similar time period in the Nevada Democrat’s reign.
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Same coin - different sides..
McConnell is a two-faced disgrace. I’d trust him as far as I could toss the state of KY.
McConnell and Boehner have ruined the GOP with their
LYING, augmenting Romney’s statism and backstabbing.
What a party of stinking traitors and losers.
That is right. He is using it only against Ted.Cruz.
Mitch McConnell is still protecting his buddies. But oddly enough, it is the SAME bunch of buddies that Harry Reid was protecting.
Who won the last election, anyway? We don’t need preemptive surrenders, terrible strategy on the very worst of days. And even more so when it is totally unnecessary.
KY people know a secret they are keeping from the rest of the country!
People in KY will always believe they did the righty thing in sending McC up there.
Birds of a feather......
Yep, Reid/Turtle one in same..both use hardball tactics against GOP
It better be a good one 'cuz I see nothing worthwhile coming from him.
“The GOP is saturated with communists and are more aligned with King Obama and his thugs than the conservative Constitutional Republicans. “
What we are finding out is this is pretty much the Russia/Germany non-aggression pact. It’s the Crony Capialists/Fascists and the IslamoMarxists in alliance to destroy the only thing in their way to global dominance. Human spirit and the second amendment.
Do you ever see Reid and McConnell in the same room together?
I'm surprised they haven't been caught in the same stall.
Q: Why doesn’t Mitch McConnell have a chin?
A: Because Obama’s balls have to go *somewhere*.
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