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Mitch McConnell ‘Delighted’ Congress Passed $1.2 Trillion So-Called Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
Breitbart ^ | 11/08/2021 | Sean Moran

Posted on 11/08/2021 9:58:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Monday that he was “delighted” to hear Congress passed the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, granting President Joe Biden a significant legislative victory.

“I was delighted to hear that the House finally found a way to pass the infrastructure bill last week,” McConnell, one of the 19 Senate Republicans to vote for the bill, said during an event in northern Kentucky.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: delighted; infrastruture; mcconnell; passed
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To: rdcbn1

Big Bump!


41 posted on 11/08/2021 10:42:19 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: 1Old Pro

Obviously, the GOP wants the Green New Deal bill to pass. “Master parliamentarian” China Mitch has teed it up to pass via the reconciliation process that requires only 50 votes. Never Forget. Never Forgive


42 posted on 11/08/2021 10:45:47 AM PST by lodi90
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To: joe fonebone

#34: +100


43 posted on 11/08/2021 10:51:47 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All
Sen. McConnell needs to be on the short list of senators who would make best poster child for why 17th Amendment should never have been ratified imo.

Based on a related thread...

Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate infrastructure imo. This is evidenced by the writings of President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court justices, Jefferson actually encouraging the states to amend the Constitution for such a purpose imo.

In other words, governors accepting so-called "federal" infrastructure funding can argue that they are recovering state revenues stolen by the feds by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the very corrupt, alleged election stealing, Democratic Party-pirated Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government stealing from the states and their taxpayers...

Consider that all the states can effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing the following.

Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.

Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states, the amendment limited to repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.

Patriots then need to follow up the repeal of 16 and 17A by pressuring their state lawmakers to do the following.

State lawmakers need to call a constitutional convention to amend the Constitution to give the power to confirm new Supreme Court justices uniquely to state legislatures, each state providing two natural born citizen justices.

And when justices are evenly divided on a decision, a constitutional convention will automatically be convened to reword relevant constitutional clauses.

"If the two departments [Federal and State] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided not compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best." —Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.

Insights welcome.

44 posted on 11/08/2021 10:53:39 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: lodi90

Well, I’m not current but as I recall, Republicans have been asking since early on for an infrastructure bill.

Pelosi tried to thwart that effort by insisting the $3.5 trillion bill go first. She apparently gave up that effort.

Now, the Senate Republicans can make modifications to return the effort to what they proposed back in say January. As I recall Republicans have always favored an infrastructure bill of about $1.2 trillion that is actually for infrastructue meaning roads and bridges and perhaps broad band


45 posted on 11/08/2021 10:54:21 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Free Republic has gone to hell is a Covid handbasket)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d like to stick those 2000 pages right up his RINO arse!


46 posted on 11/08/2021 10:56:47 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: sport

Well some do learn by their mistakes and pain we shall see.


47 posted on 11/08/2021 10:56:49 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: joe fonebone

“McConnell is not the enemy..
The people who elected him ARE..
The sooner we accept this, the sooner we can correct it..”

Absolutely correct.


48 posted on 11/08/2021 11:00:51 AM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It wasn’t bipartisan. It was passed with the help of fake Republicans.


49 posted on 11/08/2021 11:04:50 AM PST by Toespi ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

can we have turtle soup for thanksgiving?


50 posted on 11/08/2021 11:06:08 AM PST by dadfly
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe; All

He brings in the pork to Kentucky, just like Byrd did to WV. I imagine Graham does something similar in SC. How do you fight that ? The average voter wants their time at the federal trough ! FR readers are not the average voter nor the average conservative voter. We think its terrible, but most don’t. Particularly when its “our senator\congresscritter” ladling the money out to the state\district out of the treasury !


51 posted on 11/08/2021 11:08:34 AM PST by Reily
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“I was delighted to hear that the House finally found a way to pass the infrastructure bill last week,”

Is he mental?

52 posted on 11/08/2021 11:14:31 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why would anyone be surprised that a statist goon would vote for statist things?


53 posted on 11/08/2021 11:17:53 AM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mr. Bean’s understudy is at it again...

What a colossal richardhead...


54 posted on 11/08/2021 12:15:47 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t want to get banned but yikes.
He has no idea how angry the Base is at him and his do-nothing Senate.


55 posted on 11/08/2021 12:17:14 PM PST by Zathras
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To: joe fonebone
"The sooner we accept this, the sooner we can correct it.."

Yes indeed...

56 posted on 11/08/2021 12:20:06 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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I warned this board about Mitch, but most people didn’t believe me.


57 posted on 11/08/2021 12:25:57 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can ANYONE explain to me why this bill doesn’t have to go back to the Senate after all the changes the House did with it???


58 posted on 11/08/2021 2:27:06 PM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let’s go turtle!


59 posted on 11/08/2021 2:48:02 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

GOP is useless


60 posted on 11/08/2021 3:27:31 PM PST by Hojczyk
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