Trump barrage stuns McConnell and his allies

The Hill ^ | August 12,2017 | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

[Hojczyk]

Sources close to McConnell say he is stunned by Trump's attacks, which have only increased in recent days, as an attack on a member of his own team.

Some in the Trump administration, however, think McConnell should have seen it coming.

A senior administration official expressed “100 percent agreement” with the president that McConnell has not done enough to advance his legislative agenda.

The source cited McConnell’s failure to pass healthcare reform and the record-slow pace in confirming his nominees to key executive branch positions.

Trump and his allies recognize he was elected to the White House despite the barrage of personal attacks from Hillary Clinton because voters want accomplishments that will change the status quo.

The administration delegated the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare to McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and they’re not getting the job done.

“People think Mitch maybe has lost a step,” said the source.

While McConnell argues he worked hard and exhausted every option to pass ObamaCare repeal legislation, the source pointed out that senators just left town for a four-week break from Washington.

The complaint among Trump allies is that while McConnell vowed to “burn the midnight oil” to get things accomplished in the majority, that hasn’t happened in practice, said the source.

McConnell had deftly avoided confrontations with Trump during last year’s presidential campaign, but he stepped on a landmine Monday when he said Trump “had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the Democratic process.”

Scott Jennings, a former senior political adviser to the Kentucky lawmaker, said McConnell was merely offering a “dispassionate, emotionless” view of “the reality of Washington, which is things happen more slowly than we would like.”

[frnewsjunkie]

mcconnell thinks the President should work mcconnell’s hours and pace??? The election was about getting things accomplished and Trump’s hours are 24/7. There are yet many things that are not done and congress went on vacation... not only that, but mcconnell went live with complaints and blaming his lack, on Trump.. and did not expect it to backfire??!!

Mcconnell was already in hot water with his laziness and acting like the old guard... to attack Trump was not smart!

[littleharbour]

“Our new president has of course not been in this line of work before,” he said at a Rotary club in Florence, Ky. “And I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process.”

~ Mitch McConnell

The ENTIRE reason Trump was nominated - and then elected is because he was not in this line of work before. The GOPe doesn’t have a clue how despised they are are by Joe and Jane Public. Voters elected Republican majorities in the House and Senate on Trump’s coattails, because they thought they were giving him the weapons to advance his agenda to Make America Great Again. If Trump goes down because of their betrayal of American voters, the retribution against the GOP will be massive and decisive.

[Pelham]

McConnell is an ass a turtle.

[Stentor]

Turtle messed with the wrong human. It’s going to get Wagner in.

[hal ogen]

IF mitch had any integrity he would resign immediately. ..he doesn’t.

[Stentor]

Wagnerian. Ignorant ass autocomplete.

[LouAvul]

They are royalty. Elected to lifetime positions that don't require they do anything productive, are not accountable to anyone, and live by an entirely separate set of laws than the laws they hand down to low class scum like us?

If that doesn't sound like the elite royal dirtbags in england, nothing does.

[goodnesswins]

McConnell could have used McCain’s plan from 2008...

Why McCain has the Best Healthcare Plan...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3576158/posts

[butlerweave]

If you can’t Lead ,step aside

[COBOL2Java]

The complaint among Trump allies is that while McConnell vowed to “burn the midnight oil” to get things accomplished in the majority, that hasn’t happened in practice, said the source.

Mitch McConnell: long on promises, short on delivery

2014: "If I'm given the opportunity to lead the U.S. Senate next year, I won’t let you down"

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

2016: "When we come back Jan. 3 we'll be moving to the ObamaCare replacement resolution, the ObamaCare repeal resolution will be the first item up in the New Year!"

2017: "The President harbors excessive expectations about the pace of Congressional progress"

[EQAndyBuzz]

They expected Hillary would win and they would run in 2018 on repeal and replace. That was the republicans “race” card. Hillary lost and now they have no clue nor message for 2018.

[Hostage]

McConnell is on Vacay; can’t be bothered.

Oh, and did we know that ArchDuke McConnell is worth at least $28 million? Now how did that happen on a US Senator’s pay?

Life’s good for Mitch. Life’s a bitch for us the unwashed out in the boonies outside the Beltway class.

Here’s what the ArchDuke needs to see from WE THE PEOPLE:

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AMENDMENT XXVIII (’State Suffrage’)

To restore effective suffrage of State Legislatures to Congress, the following amendment is proposed:

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Section 1.
Senators in Congress shall be subject to recall by their respective state legislature or by voter referendum in their respective state.

Section 2.
Term limits for Senators in Congress shall be set by vote in their respective state legislatures but in no case shall be set less than twelve years nor more than eighteen years.

Section 3:
The seventeenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

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[magua]

Mitch I have two words for you “Trent Lott.”

[Terry Mross]

When things are being done too slowly it’s because the people doing it are doing it too slowly. Same people, same adverb.

[nickcarraway]

Trump & McConnell got exactly what they wanted.

[Sontagged]

Trump needs to fire McConnell’s wife.

Who’s idea was it to hire her in the first place? Preibus’s?

[Leep]

Obama treated him good.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

They’re ALL a bunch of inbred, conniving, THIEVES in D.C.! So frustrating! they spend all of their time making money off of We The People.

Term. Limits. Now. It’s worse than generational welfare!

[Ray76]

McConnell is @#$&! backstabbing clown.

[Da Coyote]

Not only is McConnel an ass, but his allies are asswipes.
Apologies for the crude language, but one must face the truth.