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McConnell Is Facing Two Showdowns This Fall
New York Times ^ | September 23, 2013 | By JONATHAN WEISMAN and JEREMY W. PETERS

Posted on 09/23/2013 4:16:05 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As Congress trudges toward its next budget showdown, the Mr. Fix-It of Washington is looking more like its Invisible Man as he balances his leadership imperatives with his re-election ones.

Mr. McConnell is dealing with an unwanted primary challenge from a well-financed Tea Party candidate who keeps telling Kentucky voters the senator is an establishment pawn.

Mr. McConnell is leading his challenger by a large margin in internal polls. But after Tea Party candidates rose from nowhere in the past two elections to beat veteran senators, Mr. McConnell is leaving nothing to chance.

“He’s got an election,” said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader. “And that’s his No. 1 concern. I hope we can work together on things, but we’ll just have to wait and see.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: mcconnell; obamacare; primarymcconnell; primarytherino; rino; socialism
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1 posted on 09/23/2013 4:16:05 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

After what he did tonight, I may even give to his Democratic Challenger. I am so p-o’d I could scream...


2 posted on 09/23/2013 4:19:21 PM PDT by taildragger (The E-GOP won't know what hit them, The Party of Reagan is almost here, hang tight folks....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“He’s got an election,”

There is something jokeworthy about that line.


3 posted on 09/23/2013 4:20:37 PM PDT by webheart (Watch out for the bots! They will disagree with you!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Mr. McConnell is dealing with an unwanted primary challenge from a well-financed Tea Party candidate who keeps telling Kentucky voters the senator is an establishment pawn.

When did he get promoted to pawn?

4 posted on 09/23/2013 4:21:29 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
McConnell is a weasel. The ONLY thing he said he was sure of was that he wanted to keep sticking it to the military and devastate its budget. Way to go Mr. Ferret.
5 posted on 09/23/2013 4:28:42 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

On thing we know: If Harry Reid could vote for McConnell he would.


6 posted on 09/23/2013 6:53:07 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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