Posted on 10/17/2013 9:31:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he will not allow another government shutdown as part of a strategy to repeal ObamaCare.
McConnell (Ky.) told The Hill in an interview Thursday afternoon that his party learned a painful political lesson over the past 16 days, as its approval rating dropped while the government was shuttered.
He said there’s no reason to go through the political wringer again in January, when the stopgap measure Congress passed late Wednesday is set to expire.
“One of my favorite old Kentucky sayings is there’s no education in the second kick of a mule. The first kick of a mule was when we shut the government down in the mid-1990s and the second kick was over the last 16 days,” he said. “There is no education in the second kick of a mule. There will not be a government shutdown.
“I think we have fully now acquainted our new members with what a losing strategy that is,” he added.
McConnell said that even though he and many other Republicans “hate, detest and despise ObamaCare,” they are not going to be able to repeal it unilaterally while Democrats control the White House and the Senate....
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Goood Night NSA
Judas, including the 30 pieces of silver for his dam project.
How can he make such a promise? How can he be certain that we won’t have the same fight?
Bevin for Senator.
Thanks. I just donated and intend to do monthly until the primary.
those hiding places that these traitors have set up for themselves when the collapse comes and they get hunted down, must be even more fortified than I imagined.
<....”McConnell says he will ‘not allow’ another government shutdown as part of a strategy to repeal ObamaCare”.....>
Is he then agreeing with the Demorats that the shutdown was HIS decision and not the Presidents?
Nobody can shutdown the government except the President.
I wonder if he really got 2 billion for Kentucky? I bet they never see it if he did.
McConnell wimps out and sets ObamaCare in stone.
When the obammunists get citizen care what will they think? I think it will be-—we treated the citizens so well. Why did they treat us back the same way???? WAAAA Waaaaa....
No longer for you to promise, Mitch. We the People will be taking it from here.
Mitch McConnell is a greasy, contemptible, corrupt whore, bought off with $2B in pork.
He sold the interests of the American people in order to line his own political pockets.
A Judas, by any other name.
Primary this turd. Enemy # 1.
We promise no more McConnell.... PERIOD
Don’t make promises with your mouth that your a$$ can’t cash.
So, he has swallowed the Media / DNC LIE that the Republicans caused the shutdown. The Minority Republican Leader is either insanely misinformed or a Collaborator.
Obama and Reid caused the Shutdown. We are living a Twilight Zone Episode.
There are hunters where this turd lives. He won’t be able to poke his head out of his a$$ again or someone may point him out. That he doesn’t seem to feel extreme shame is incomprehensible! I will never donate to the national Rethugs again. Only directly to Constitutionalists.
You are right. But I think the point he's trying to make is that he is the leader of the republican party, NOT Cruz.
I guess if he can promise that, the House should send them the same bill in jan that they sent a few weeks ago.
Then will see who the leader really is.
I think the fight is about "Ted Cruz is not the leader of the party. I am".
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