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To: Innovative

I don’t get Mitch McConnell.

He did very well with prevention of voting on Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, and did well to get us through the nuclear option, so that we would see Justice Gorsuch confirmed to the court.

So he can be a tough effective leader sometimes. On the Obamacare repeal, he’s not able to keep his troops in line.


13 posted on 07/18/2017 3:06:41 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Mitch McConnell is overdue for being sent out to pasture. If he took an “I Love America” test, he would probably fail.


15 posted on 07/18/2017 3:10:50 PM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
You seem to be making the mistake of assuming that McConnell is a national leader with some kind of broad authority over all of the GOP senators. It doesn't really work that way. Senators answer to their own constituents, first and foremost.

It's much easier to hold up a Supreme Court nomination because senators think of those things in very ideological terms and can't really know the short-term impacts of a new Supreme Court justice. With health care, however, the impact on a senator's home state could be immediate -- and devastating (if not done right).

18 posted on 07/18/2017 3:15:54 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
There is a difference between *preventing a vote from happening* (Garland) and *holding a vote and forcing > 50 "yea" responses*
(GOP Senate will show House whippersnappers how it's done
"Repeal and Replace"
"Repeal"
Blame Trump and Hope nobody notices)
23 posted on 07/18/2017 3:21:00 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

you dont “get” it, because you assume he wants the same thing we conservatives want.

are you surprised every time Republicans are in power that planned parenthood keeps getting funding?

we have a bunch of traitors representing us who tell us what we want to hear to get elected and then “pretend” to make a failed effort to actually do it.


25 posted on 07/18/2017 3:25:37 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

On the Obamacare repeal, he’s not able to keep his troops in line.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Its simple really. The vast majority of Senators are in the bag for the Insurance Lobby. And remember, each one of them and their staff and families have a lifelong Cadillac Health Insurance Policy. In short, they have been bought.

Get Congress off of their special policy and into the pool with the rest of us. Then you would see the repeal process succeed instantly.

MConnell is done, So is Ryan. Get rid of them both.We need new Congressional leaders.


85 posted on 07/19/2017 3:42:06 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism (http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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