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Mitch McConnell is off to a bitter start
Washington Post ^ | January 7, 2015 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 01/08/2015 1:14:37 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

"................McConnell took the Senate on the low road. He stood still at his desk, lips pursed, clearing his throat often, and reading a grim message. “Moment of great anxiety . . . lost faith in their government . . . no longer trust Washington . . . losing health plans after being told otherwise . . . rising medical costs . . . difficult just to get by . . . world filled with chaos . . . autocrats scoffing at a superpower that doesn’t seem to have a real plan.”

“Confidence in the American dream has plunged,” McConnell said, pointing an index finger downward. “Anxiety about the type of country we leave to the next generation is widespread.” He declared the government “uninterested or incapable” of addressing Americans’ concerns and “working for itself instead of them.” Wiping his nose with a handkerchief, he went on to decry a bureaucracy that tries “to muzzle political opponents and ignore the needs of veterans.”

There’s nothing like a fresh start to bring out that patriotic spirit. And Democrats responded in kind: Minority Leader Harry Reid, injured in an exercise accident, had his lieutenant, Sen. Dick Durbin, read out a statement after McConnell’s speech, saying Democrats wouldn’t repeat Republicans’ “gratuitous obstruction and wanton filibustering.”.....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; congress; gop; gope; ussenate
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To: bmwcyle

Defeating DEMOCRATS AND RINOs should be our two front strategy for Victory.


41 posted on 01/08/2015 5:35:53 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Ann Archy

Scum of the earth, all four of them.


42 posted on 01/08/2015 5:38:46 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Theodore R.

“Term limits for Congress are impossible: the American people reelect over 90 percent of their popular incumbents.”

Precisely WHY term limits are needed. Duh!


43 posted on 01/08/2015 5:44:33 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It reads almost as satire. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what’s in store for us with the repubs in their anemic power status.


44 posted on 01/08/2015 5:49:33 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Seattle Conservative
A "one bedroom apartment" at the Ritz.


45 posted on 01/08/2015 6:02:49 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: DaveA37

Term limits will only come about if they are initially self-imposed by citizen legislators of high character.


46 posted on 01/08/2015 6:12:05 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: 867V309

Great analogy. That’s what it is “a fake fight.”


47 posted on 01/08/2015 6:14:00 AM PST by parthian shot
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To: Movemout

Opulent definitely describes it!

https://mobile.ritzcarlton.com/h5/hub?pagePath=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ritzcarlton.com%2Fen%2FProperties%2FWashingtonDC%2FPhotoGallery.htm&fullScreen=true


48 posted on 01/08/2015 6:22:08 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: sickoflibs; GOPJ; stephenjohnbanker; Grampa Dave; ken5050; Jane Long; notted; Libloather
Important to remember that what Mitch McConnell and John Boehner think are totally irrelevant----

...........the MOST IMPORTANT THING IS WHAT WE, THE PEOPLE, THINK..............

49 posted on 01/08/2015 6:36:35 AM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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To: smoothsailing

I remember when many Freepers hated the term RINO. I glad to see many understand now. It is late but time to clean house.


50 posted on 01/08/2015 8:12:12 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: smoothsailing

The picture looks like a meeting of the anti-American club.


51 posted on 01/08/2015 8:44:39 AM PST by jhroberts
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To: jhroberts

That’s because it is! B^)


52 posted on 01/08/2015 9:02:33 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: cdcdawg
Milbank is not clueless. He is not a stupid man. Milbank intentionally lies.

I read Smashmouth by him a number of years ago. I had to stop about 1/2 way through. Couldn't bring myself to finish it.

I know what Milbank is and what he does.

53 posted on 01/08/2015 9:45:17 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: eCSMaster

Wish i did.


54 posted on 01/08/2015 9:49:26 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: grania

That’s not how Milbank meant it.


55 posted on 01/08/2015 9:50:53 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: smoothsailing

Nice! I’ll bet Harry’s is even “ritzier” than that one - probably special furnishings and décor since he’s lived there so long.


56 posted on 01/08/2015 10:09:19 AM PST by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: sauropod

I don’t believe that he really understands the difference between John Boehner and the Tea Party. I don’t mean to say that he’s stupid, but that he is ignorant. Like all of them, for him it’s all about the contest for power, the politics, the maneuvering, and his team “winning”. The arena of ideas and principles is alien to his ilk; not completely unlike Karl Rove, frankly. Of course he intentionally lies all the time. He’s a propagandist for the status quo.

I admire your fortitude in getting halfway through his book. That could not have been easy going. I tried to get through Obama’s second autobiography, and didn’t get that far.


57 posted on 01/08/2015 10:18:13 AM PST by cdcdawg
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To: Seattle Conservative

I agree, he’s gotta dump all that dirty money somewhere.


58 posted on 01/08/2015 10:25:19 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Seattle Conservative
and you know he has to have the fancy bathroom so he can soak his broken bones and bruises!


The Ritz-Carlton Suite features a luxurious soaking tub with seperate shower stall as well as Asprey bath amenities.

59 posted on 01/08/2015 10:36:34 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Lousy 400 thread count linen who wants that.


60 posted on 01/08/2015 11:54:48 AM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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