Posted on 10/13/2021 4:13:45 AM PDT by RandFan
The backlash Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) received from fellow Republican senators last week is a wake-up call to the GOP leader that he doesn’t have any more political capital to spend on helping Democrats raise the debt limit again, say GOP aides and strategists.
McConnell is still secure in his position as Senate Republican leader, despite regular attacks from former President Trump, who has called for him to be replaced.
Yet at the same time, Senate Republican aides and strategists say McConnell’s reputation took a hit last week when he agreed to a two-month increase of the debt ceiling after saying for weeks that Republicans wouldn’t help Democrats on the issue.
What made last week’s internal Republican fight different from previous intrafamily spats was that McConnell heard criticism from allies such as Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (Mo.), a member of his leadership team, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee who has tried to bury the hatchet between McConnell and Trump.
Even Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), who has become known as a moderate in the Senate GOP conference, voiced his misgivings.
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I'm guessing there was a backlash and they got an earful?
Wake up call me ass. Unless we dump 99% of them nothing will change.
Wake up call.
Right.
The Washington Generals will be right there to deal with the Globetrotters.
They only need mitch or any rino to get it pasted. Then Mitch will retire having completed his job of destroying america.
McConnell sleeps TOO CLOSE to the enemy.
His wife is Chinese.
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