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Mitch McConnell on verge of chance to be Senate majority leader (No Thanks, we'll pick someone else)
LA Times ^
| 1/23/2012
| By Lisa Mascaro
Posted on 01/23/2012 4:56:06 AM PST by tobyhill
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell operates with a steely resolve, a political discipline that leaves nothing to chance.
A childhood bout with polio instilled in him an enormous capacity for patience. And for 25 years in Congress, the Kentucky Republican has waited for the moment now before him: the chance to become Senate majority leader.
With four seats needed to flip the chamber, or three if a Republican is elected president (because the vice president could break a tie), the GOP has its best opportunity in years to gain full control of Congress.
But McConnell and his party must first overcome the unfinished business weighing them down an extension of a payroll tax break that is the White House's top legislative priority.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: leeches; no; nomcconnell; nomitch; nono; nonono; nononono; nonononono
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To: tobyhill
Snowe or Collins /s
Seriously DeMint or Rubicon should be the leader.
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posted on
01/23/2012 5:35:47 AM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
To: tobyhill
They’ll say what the tea partiers want to hear then screw them when they get what they want. McConnell will be leader if they take the senate. And I’m not sure that will happen.
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posted on
01/23/2012 5:36:09 AM PST
by
Terry Mross
(We need a second party.)
To: liberalh8ter
Heck NO! I would like nothing more than to see McConnell go home - for good! You and me both! He can't retire soon enough for me. Every year he is in office, my view of the people of Kentucky lessens.
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posted on
01/23/2012 5:41:24 AM PST
by
Arcy
To: tobyhill
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posted on
01/23/2012 5:43:30 AM PST
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
( Media doesn't report, It advertises. So that last advertisement you just read, what was it worth?)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Duct tape McConnell to Boehner, take them up in a Huey and drop both of these wimp collaborationists in the Potomac, just off the sewage treatment plant.
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posted on
01/23/2012 5:46:35 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
((So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out this eligibility stuff?))
To: JSDude1
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posted on
01/23/2012 5:47:05 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Limbaugh: Tim Tebow miracle: "He had atheists praying to God that he would lose.")
To: tobyhill
I thought McConnell was a ‘Rat! Who knew?
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posted on
01/23/2012 5:55:38 AM PST
by
crosshairs
(Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
To: tobyhill
My first act as dictator would be to have him publicly whipped and scourged. What a molding POS he is! How do we end up with assholes like McStupid?
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posted on
01/23/2012 6:09:20 AM PST
by
Doc Savage
("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
To: tobyhill
Not just no, but oh hell no. This guy has gotta go.
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posted on
01/23/2012 6:26:56 AM PST
by
Conservative4Ever
(Waiting for the new tagline to download)
To: Nickname
When McConnell speaks, eyes glaze over.Including his own. We need some fire in the belly of our leadership.
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posted on
01/23/2012 6:35:20 AM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty and Justice for ALL)
To: exit82
‘McConnell,Frist, Lott—one of the reasons Conservatives have had it with the GOP establishment.’
Very true.
These ‘Republican Leaders’ neither represent a desire for good government nor a Conservative philosophy. They are Statists, insider get along go along good ol boys. When there is a possibility for enough Conservative votes for a win, then they fold. If the Conservative position is going to lose, then they posture and pose and prate so they will look good when they stand for reelection.
Senator Jim DeMint is the Conservative leader, but I assure you, he will never, ever be Republican Leader(Majority or Minority).
TWB
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posted on
01/23/2012 8:12:47 AM PST
by
TWhiteBear
(Jobs, Peace, Food, Security .... Down with Obama(Peacefully))
To: tobyhill
I think Jim DeMint has plans for that Majority Leader position. Thats why he didn’t want to run for President.
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posted on
01/23/2012 8:16:35 AM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: eyeamok
I cast my first vote in 1984 for McConnell and Reagan. I cast my last vote for him last go around. I can’t do it again. He and the rest of the republicans in congress are cheese eating surrender monkeys and put the french to shame.
Please bring on DeMint for majority leader!
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posted on
01/23/2012 8:21:01 AM PST
by
sarge83
To: montag813
Both Boner and Lockjaw need to go.—
BumP That!
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posted on
01/23/2012 9:50:21 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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