Posted on 08/08/2017 1:02:32 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Speaking at a Rotary Club gathering in Kentucky on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vented about how President Donald Trump's lack of political experience has led to him setting “excessive expectations” for legislative priorities.
McConnell, R-Ky., told the group in Florence that he found it “extremely irritating” that Congress has earned the reputation of not accomplishing anything.
“Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,” said McConnell, a Republican and the state’s senior senator.
Trump, a political newcomer, as McConnell noted, has a habit of declaring progress on major priorities that do not necessarily reflect the reality of lawmaking.
For example, as the House was in the midst of negotiations about its Obamacare replacement bill in February, Trump announced that Congress was in the “final stages” of its bill and said it would be ready for “submitting” in March. While the House bill was unveiled in March, that chamber didn’t vote on it until May, and health care votes continued until the end of July.
That sort of disconnect has led to Trump’s expressing disappointment when bills — chief among them health care reform — fail to end up on his desk, even though, as with health care, the political reality indicated all along how difficult it was going to be to pass legislation.
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And people wonder why Trump was elected.
Well, they sure passed sanctions against Russia in an awful hurry - how did that happen? Oh, right, it was an anti-Trump measure. Screws up or maneuvering on NK nukes, but hey, who cares about a little thing like nuclear blackmail when we are engaged in the holy rite of preventing swamp draining.
And those republicans ran on those issues, but now he’s calling those campaign promises excessive expectations.
You can;t lead - egt out of the way!
Correction: If you can’t lead, get out of the way. Sorry for the fumble fingers.
Not worthless. I think the swamp has been very kind to him and his family and now he is worth a whole lot more than he was when he got to Washington.
The swamp has been unkind to his looks, however. He is the perfect specimen of what you would find if you looked up swamp creature in the dictionary.
Asking for employees to do their job IS NOT undue expectations. Congress people do receive a rather generous pay package for little in return
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