Mitch McConnell Just Proposed the “Pontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011"

Redstate ^ | 7/12/2011 | Erick Erickson

[Sarah Barracuda]

All McConnell is ensuring is that Obama gets re-elected..absolutely DISGUSTING how the GOP time and time again caves to the DemocRATS..they have no spine. Sarah already said that if they cave there will be hell to pay. If she runs as an Independent who can really blame her at this point

[verity]

Exactly!

Some doofus throws out some red meat and the FR crowd (except you)mindlessly goes for it.

[brothers4thID]

Revenue and budgets are the responsibility of the Congress. If Sen. McConnell cannot handle that, he should resign.

[Outlaw Woman]

for later...after the flames start.

A side note: they (gop) really are going to screw around and hand the marxist another 4 years. Unless Palin gets involved and reverses this, I see nothing positive coming up.

[skeeter]

And some freepers, considering themselves more level headed, become irritated when other conservatives overreact at news of republican capitulation.

[lephantom]

Obviously Mitch McConnell has been bought out to be one of the “elites”, which so many people have been saying, some of the “elites” ARE Republicans. So now BOTH parties are selling out WE THE PEOPLE, and are expecting us to go grudgingly into debt as slaves for them for a few generations as they are creating criminal wars with their illegal aliens, islamics, and communists,and as WE THE PEOPLE will be the slave population quickly rubbed out as WE THE PEOPLE are CHRISTIANS.

[mcmuffin]

Is it time?...

[svcw]

There is nothing in this article that matches his statements:
http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=5819f616-f203-41bd-bd32-1523fb078416&ContentType_id=c19bc7a5-2bb9-4a73-b2ab-3c1b5191a72b&Group_id=0fd6ddca-6a05-4b26-8710-a0b7b59a8f1f

[stevem]

If they pass a debt increase of fifteen cents without a trillion in pending cuts they are moving toward the elimination of the United States. Luckily, McConnell can neither lead anyone to any destination nor lead anyone away. With the votes he has in the Senate, all be can to is blow...hard.

As much as I can tell, the people who can save the nation work in the House. So far Boehner is doing the job. So far the troops are, as well.

[MestaMachine]

This is not the whole story. It’s just the part designed to p*ss you off.

[Jim Scott]

Outrageous, if true. That weasel McConnell is selling us out to Obama and his Marxist scheme to bankrupt America. Screw the GOP and it’s ‘leaders’ that simply lead us into being screwed over by Obama and the Democrats. McConnell’s tough talk is BS and he is a traitor to anyone that thought we might get real change in congress by electing Tea party candidates last November. Not as long as hacks like Mitch McConnell are still running things in the GOP Congressional delegations. Our only hope is House Speaker Cryin’ John Boehner will not play along and that this attempt to hand Obama a huge victory will be thwarted. I’m not holding my breath but I am exasperated by RINO sell-outs such as the weasel McConnell. This guy definitely needs to be soundly defeated in 2014. His constituents should not forget this treachery born of the genetic RINO desire to be loved by the leftmedia.

[stevem]

There is nothing in this article that matches his statements

I heard of the offer on the radio. If it's untrue, it would not be the first time the Washinton press invented a story.

[Qbert]

“This is not the whole story. It’s just the part designed to p*ss you off.”

I’m trying to sort out all the details, but doesn’t this plan beg a simple question: Is more, unchecked debt a bad thing, or not?

[MestaMachine]

“As the Politico notes...”

What about POLTICO don’t you understand???

[andy58-in-nh]

I have to believe that people are jumping the gun here. That is perfectly understandable, given how many times the GOP has caved in the past. We expect them to fold, and they never disappoint. But there is something else going on this time that makes me believe that McConnell might just know what he's doing, and has no intention of selling out.

Surrender is not an option this time, and every Republican in the House has to understand that. So let's see how this plays out before we start reaching for the pitchforks.

[Qbert]

“Some doofus throws out some red meat and the FR crowd (except you)mindlessly goes for it.”

So drop the ad hominem attacks, and explain why you feel you are correct...

[9YearLurker]

What’s so scary is that it’s not just “some” of them. It’s a majority of our GOP senators, for example—or we wouldn’t have McConnell leading them.

[MestaMachine]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2747521/posts

There is a HUGE stick with this carrot. HUGE.

[BelegStrongbow]

Correct. In the whole article there is not one direct quote of Sen. McConnell. It is very possible the whole thing is construed from what he did say, with which I was tremendously heartened.

We really need to revisit the slander law.

[kiltie65]

I don’t think they paid McConnell off...I think they found him out. They’ve probably got something on him. Boehner was going great guns on Obummer until the tabs started talking about Boehner liking to stop by the local pub every night after work, and a couple of women he was seeing...suddenly, all is quiet, no more mention of his drinking or womanizing, and he’s out golfing with Obummer.