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McConnell: System would constrain Trump (he will suddenly remember how to check executive power!)
orlandosentinel.com ^ | 5/27/16 | Hal Boedeker

Posted on 05/29/2016 6:02:47 AM PDT by cotton1706

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will support Donald Trump and thinks the business mogul can win the presidency, the Kentucky Republican tells "CBS Sunday Morning."

To people afraid of a Trump presidency, McConnell sees protections in the system to prevent mistakes by the White House occupant.

"What protects us in this country against big mistakes being made is the structure, the Constitution, the institutions," McConnell tells Jan Crawford. "No matter how unusual a personality may be who gets elected to office, there are constraints in this country. You don't get to do anything you want to. So I'm very optimistic about America. I'm not depressed about the nature of the debate."

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; elections; kentucky; kimdavis; mitchmcconnell; newyork; pages; randpaul; thelonggame; trump
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To: cotton1706

Pathetic crap-weasels! Can’t stop anything g Owebowma does and even enable him for 8 years, but you can limit Trump?
Not saying g the executive shouldn’t be limited. They should. But how pathetic to say this at this time.


41 posted on 05/29/2016 8:05:38 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: vpintheak

“No matter how unusual a personality may be who gets elected to office, there are constraints in this country. You don’t get to do anything you want to”............

Talk about “unusual personality”, why in hell is odumbo not harnessed under this presumption? The big eared bastard child gets to do anything, spend anything, ignore anything he damn well pleases. McConnell should have been dumped a long time ago


42 posted on 05/29/2016 8:26:35 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: vpintheak

“No matter how unusual a personality may be who gets elected to office, there are constraints in this country. You don’t get to do anything you want to”............

Talk about “unusual personality”, why in hell is odumbo not harnessed under this presumption? The big eared bastard child gets to do anything, spend anything, ignore anything he damn well pleases. McConnell should have been dumped a long time ago


43 posted on 05/29/2016 8:26:35 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Starboard
marginalized and undermined the Tea Party every chance it got.

I distinctly remember Mitch saying we must marginalize these Tea Party people before they get here.

I have said since it first appeared that Trump could win that they would suddenly rediscover all the power they claimed they didn't have to restrain Obama.

Few here recognize that it will take as much power to undo the last 8 years of this unconstitutional regime, mostly because the strict conservative constitutionalist we counted on, have purposefully let this happen.

44 posted on 05/29/2016 8:30:01 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: cotton1706

The world is The Onion now.


45 posted on 05/29/2016 9:13:46 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

McConnell’s memoir bashes outside conservative groups
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3434921/posts


46 posted on 05/29/2016 10:11:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: cotton1706

McConnell is part of the problem


47 posted on 05/29/2016 11:29:28 AM PDT by Ray76
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To: cotton1706

WTF is this moron babbling about?


48 posted on 05/29/2016 12:37:32 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: bert

They certainly have the power of the purse strings.


49 posted on 05/29/2016 3:03:48 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

No, they in actuality do not. Theoretically, yes

They have the power to shut down the government and are unwilling to allow that to happen because politically it is not feasible.

The check on the Executive branch designed by the founders no longer works in actuality


50 posted on 05/30/2016 4:19:16 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Mjreagan

OMG. So these eggheads in Congress and SCOTUS couldn’t restrain the current tyrant...?


51 posted on 05/30/2016 6:16:10 AM PDT by nikos1121 (The Golden Age of Pericles is about to begin again... in America)
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To: bert
politically it is not feasible

No. It is not acceptable to their K-street overlords. Trump is giving everyone a taste of what is politically feasible when you work for the benefit of America's citizens rather than the world so-called elite.

52 posted on 05/30/2016 6:19:25 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: itsahoot

If Trump gets elected, the same Republicans that undermined the Tea Party will attempt to undermine him. These people serve their financial backers and could care less about helping to advance Trump’s agenda.


53 posted on 05/30/2016 7:03:40 AM PDT by Starboard
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