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Is Mitch McConnell next?
cnn.com ^ | 9/25/15 | Dan Berman, Ted Barrett and Deirdre Walsh

Posted on 09/25/2015 7:35:47 PM PDT by cotton1706

Conservatives at the Values Voter Summit cheered Friday morning when they learned that House Speaker John Boehner was retiring. Friday afternoon, they cheered again when someone suggested the next establishment Republican to lose his job should be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

"Here's what I say to in response to Speaker Boehner stepping down. Mitch McConnell, it is now your turn," Louisiana Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Bobby Jindal said to raucous applause.

After the news of Boehner's resignation, Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon told reporters he had texted his fellow conservative friend, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, with the simple message: "the next guy in the crosshairs is probably McConnell."

The Kentucky Republican has never been the favorite of tea party-aligned conservatives. His budget deals with the Obama administration -- most notably the December 2012 agreement with Vice President Joe Biden averting the so-called fiscal cliff -- haven't endeared him to the base who say he gives up too much. He has declined to get rid of the Senate filibuster in order to block the Iran nuclear deal, and critics say he surrendered the fight over federal funding for Planned Parenthood by declaring early on that he would actively seek to avoid a government shutdown.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; boehner; elections; johnboehner; kentucky; mitchmcconnell; ohio; speakerjohnboehner
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To: cotton1706

GET THAT CROSS DRE SING FAGGOT OUT OF THERE!!


21 posted on 09/25/2015 8:01:55 PM PDT by WENDLE (Boycott FAUX!!)
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To: doc1019

Jindal was smart entering the race even though he wont win. He gets his name out there and free air time.


22 posted on 09/25/2015 8:05:19 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: DAC21

Governor’s appointment is good only until the next general election, not the full senate term.


23 posted on 09/25/2015 8:05:47 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: doc1019

Hope, and even better.... pray. And work like he!! to see it happens.


24 posted on 09/25/2015 8:08:25 PM PDT by V K Lee
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To: cotton1706
Is Mitch McConnell next?

He certainly needs to be.

25 posted on 09/25/2015 8:10:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: cotton1706

Tar and feather that Rinorat before setting him out for the garbage collectors.


26 posted on 09/25/2015 8:10:58 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: cotton1706
Ted Cruz's Justice Department.. might want to talk to Mitch..


27 posted on 09/25/2015 8:15:00 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: cotton1706

“Is Mitch McConnell next?”

Hopefully.


28 posted on 09/25/2015 8:18:33 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR)
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To: cotton1706

I wish.

Then mccainiac and then grahamnesty.


29 posted on 09/25/2015 8:18:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cotton1706

I’d like to see him leave with a broken nose.... Mississippi is still fresh in the memory banks and doubtful it will EVER be forgotten or forgiven. Turtle soup, anyone?


30 posted on 09/25/2015 8:20:52 PM PDT by V K Lee
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To: cotton1706

I don’t know. The establishment didn’t budge a bit when Cantor got tossed out.


31 posted on 09/25/2015 8:22:54 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: cotton1706

Not you personally, but let’s wait to see who Boehner’s replacement is before all the chest thumping. Cruz suspects the Weeper has already cut a deal to push through Obama’s agenda and budget. If Boehner’s replacement is no better and not a true conservative fighter, nothing will have changed. These traitors are not going to go quietly into the night and are not going to let the gains Obama has made be undone. There are plenty more RINO’s left to more than fill Boehner’s shoes and kiss Obama’s ________.


32 posted on 09/25/2015 8:27:37 PM PDT by Lake Living
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To: cotton1706

He wouldn’t step down as leader without leaving the Senate. He won’t leave the Senate right now. Not with a Democrat as governor. Now what would be sweet, sweet, irony is if Blevins (McConnell’s 2014 primary opponent) wins the governors race, McConnell pulls a Trent Lott type of error and has to resign, and Blevins appoints himself to fill McConnell’s spot.

From personal experience: McConnell is deeply entrenched in the Washington power structure. You’ll need a bunker buster, an Iowa class battleship, and Seal Team 6 to pry him from his position.


33 posted on 09/25/2015 8:29:14 PM PDT by brothers4thID ("We've had way too many Republicans whose #1 virtue is "I get along great with Democrats".")
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To: econjack

And the Conservatives almost all voted for him to be Senate Majority Leader knowing then what they know now. McConnell’s treason is not a new grown thing but extends back some years.


34 posted on 09/25/2015 8:31:37 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: cotton1706

McConnell won’t be Senate Majority leader after next year. The Democrats will elect one of their own, or at least one who is a nominal as well as de facto Democrat rather than just a stooge for the Democrats who calls himself a Republican.


35 posted on 09/25/2015 8:34:31 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: cotton1706

Pray like we have not prayed before.

Us Americans have to overcome what the fools in Kentucky and Ohio have been doing for some time now.


36 posted on 09/25/2015 8:35:56 PM PDT by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: arthurus

“And the Conservatives almost all voted for him to be Senate Majority Leader knowing then what they know now. “

Almost? http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/mitch-mcconnell-unanimously-elected-majority-leader/

And four of those guys now want us to elect them as President.


37 posted on 09/25/2015 8:40:54 PM PDT by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: cotton1706

Dear G-d let’s hope so. Where’s that picture of Boner and Turtle getting drunk in the bar?


38 posted on 09/25/2015 8:41:56 PM PDT by OKSooner (Chamberlain at least was a real Englishman, please don't insult his memory by comparing him to 0.)
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To: bestintxas

That is part of why, while I would like to see Cruz in the next Administration it is as VP rather than as President. He has the Constitutional scholarship to help steer a President Trump’s determination and get-it-done abilities but he has shown poor judgment- atrocious judgment- on the Trade deal and Iran and McConnell and H-1Bs.


39 posted on 09/25/2015 8:58:20 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: cotton1706

Think about it. Being Mitch is its own punishment.


40 posted on 09/25/2015 8:58:57 PM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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