Posted on 09/01/2015 9:40:06 AM PDT by xzins
Before the battle to withdraw federal funds from baby body parts trafficker Planned Parenthood has even begun the Senate’s Republican Majority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, has already surrendered.
In an interview with Lexington, Kentucky TV station WYMT McConnell announced “that funding the government Mitch McConnellis the top challenge facing him when he returns to the Capitol next week” and he would work with the White House to come up with budget levels to keep the government open past Sept. 30 without a rider defunding baby body parts trafficker Planned Parenthood.
“The Senate Democrats have a big enough number to prevent us from doing things. They prevented us from doing any of the bills that appropriate money for the government, thereby forcing a negotiation when we go back in after Labor Day, which I’ll be engaged in with the administration and others to try to sort out how much we’re going to spend and where we’re going to spend it,” McConnell told WYMT.
Now here’s the most amazing item of hypocrisy in the McConnell – WYMT interview; Mitch McConnell claims he “led” on the issue of stopping Planned Parenthood from dismembering babies and selling their body parts.
“We just don’t have the votes to get the outcome that we’d like,” McConnell responded when asked about defunding Planned Parenthood. “I would remind all of your viewers: The way you make a law in this country, the Congress has to pass it and the president has to sign it. The president has made it very clear he’s not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood, so that’s another issue that awaits a new president hopefully with a different point of view about Planned Parenthood.”
We are reminded that when we endorsed Mitch McConnell’s opponent in the Republican primary a McConnell supporter wrote us to extol Senator McConnell’s great pro-life record.
We’re wondering what that nice lady thinks of Senator McConnell’s “commitment to life” now.
Now here’s another interesting item buried in the McConnell – WYMT interview and ferreted out by Roll Call’s Niels Lesniewski: McConnell said that in order to really make the changes he envisions on regulations, Republicans need a nominee at the top of the ticket who can win purple states — rattling off a list of places where he also needs Republicans to win Senate contests to continue as majority leader in 2017.
“Whoever our nominee is is going to have to appeal in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Florida, Colorado, Nevada — those states that tend to go back and forth,” McConnell said. “Looking at the polling data in those key states, I think people are ready to go in a different direction. We just have to nominate somebody that they find appealing.”
Translation – McConnell plans to back a content-free establishment Republican presidential candidate like Jeb Bush or John Kasich and replay the dirty tricks campaign he used to thwart conservative senate candidates.
To paraphrase our friends at The Madison Project: If there is one individual who represents the face of the stale, tone-deaf, timid, moss-covered and obtuse leadership of the GOP establishment, it is Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell emblematizes the rudderless leadership, vacuous core, and duplicitous tendencies of the powers that be within the Republican Party.
Why even waste one moment on these GOP do nothings?
We’ve seen it again and again?
Gamble on someone new and outside the box: Trump, Cruz, Carson,
It is not possible for any of those people to be worse than what we’ve got. I could pick 535 people at random from my small county and do better than what the GOP and the Democrats offer.
Exactly. Why do we vote for them? Their priority is approving the ExIm Bank and making sure the government stays funded.
I wish I could say I’m surprised, but I’m not.
Trump exists because McConnell always caves.
And sadly some FReepers see Trump as the big problem, and post more anti-Trump drivel, than anything negative about Boehner, McConnell and the GOPe.
FReepers suffering from TDS are sight to behold.
Worse than useless.
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If the GOP will not stand up for the innocent anymore they are effectively dead as a viable political party. They may as well just merge with the democrats.
Pussy. Wait, that implies he’s useful. Tits on a bull, how about that?
And yet, they wonder why The Donald is kicking @$$ at the polls. Clueless lackeys. I have blocked the NRSCC etc. from my phone and emails; I am sick of them.
No. Mitch did not cave he did not surrender. He held his ground.
Bring us the House and the Senate, and then...
Bring us the Presidency and the House and the Senate and then...
Who is surprised? If the GOP has a choice between taking a conservative stand and doing otherwise, they will always, always do otherwise. Especially if it advances Hussein’s agenda. I think the left allowed them to win the mid-terms, in the knowledge that they would do as much for the left’s agenda as the ‘rats would. The GOP is likely riddled with leftists, and those who aren’t leftists, just don’t have any principles at all.
I can’t see going with any of the GOP-E.
I wonder who the TDS folks like?
I hope, at least, that it’s Cruz or Carson....maybe Fiorina (she’s a bit of an outsider)
“The Senate Democrats have a big enough number to prevent us from doing things”.
This right here says it all. All they have is a bunch of lame excuses to never do the right thing. Give them power, they squander it.
The GOPe does not deserve power and that is why no GOPe candidate will get my vote.
Horrible. Does the GOP even know how much we detest them? I bet it is more than they hate us?
They could be useful...if the bull is named “Cait”
He is not a surrender monkey, he’s a surrender feces.
I think they actually have merged with them, through leftist infiltration of the GOP. The ones who aren’t leftists, just don’t have any principles at all and are for sale to the highest bidder.
???
You’re being way too generous
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