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McConnell pushes back on 'Kentucky kickback'
CNN ^ | 10/17/13 | Byron Wolf

Posted on 10/17/2013 8:50:52 AM PDT by jimbo123

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell denied slipping a special provision into a deal he co-engineered to end the 16-day government shutdown and end a showdown over raising the nation's debt ceiling.

And the longtime Republican Senator from Kentucky had an admonishment for Republicans whose sole focus is the "impossible dream" of ending Obamacare.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: kentuckykickback; primarymcconnell; rino
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To: LibLieSlayer

She went to one too many Grateful Dead concerts.


81 posted on 10/17/2013 10:14:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: sand88

We do not have 10 years and I truly believe this to be true.


82 posted on 10/17/2013 10:15:44 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: dfwgator

Good point!


83 posted on 10/17/2013 10:16:59 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Good for Beck.


84 posted on 10/17/2013 10:21:20 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Nifster

Yep - he did us right up the behind. And then had the Nerve to put a kickback in for himself? So he screwed us - and then spit on us for good measure. This guy HATES us. He’s astonishingly blatant about it.

C’mon Ted Cruz - seems you’re our only hope. Call a press conference and DESTROY this man. They want a WAR - let’s give it to them! Call him out on national TV for the lying stinking POS that he is.


85 posted on 10/17/2013 10:26:37 AM PDT by privatedrive
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To: privatedrive

Matt Bevin is a solution for us all.....


86 posted on 10/17/2013 10:27:27 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: TexasCajun
“I’ve talked to Mitch about this — I think the whole Republican Senate is different now,” Schumer said on Morning Joe on Thursday. “I don’t think Ted Cruz will recover so quickly. . . . I think the Tea Party and Ted Cruz have peaked.”

I loathe Schumer. Has anyone looked into his closet?

87 posted on 10/17/2013 10:28:52 AM PDT by SMM48
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To: SMM48
Has anyone looked into his closet?

Bet you'd find Lindsey Graham in there.

88 posted on 10/17/2013 10:31:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jimbo123

I aqree!


89 posted on 10/17/2013 10:44:18 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: jimbo123

McConnel can say what he wants.

I’m sure the Army Corps of Engineers, shiling for or with the WH cheerleaders backing them - with as restricted as their spending became, like the rest of the federal government since sequester - had plenty of NEEEDED TO BE KEPT GOING projects that needed more funding, in every state; but where were the special provisions in the bill for them? Not there.

Its hard to escape the facts. Harry Reid needed Mitch McConnel’s cooperation to get any deal with a debt ceiling increased in it (there was NEVER a danger of default, with or without it). Harry Reid got what he needed and McConnel can now campaign on the slogan: “I ‘opened’ the government and brought home the pork”. We will keep reminding Mitch that it was pork no one else got in the bill, except Obama that is.


90 posted on 10/17/2013 11:32:50 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Gaffer

I’ll share this that I read on another website:

“A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington, DC. Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window.
The driver rolls down the window and asks, “What’s going on?”
“Terrorists have kidnapped the entire US Congress, and they’re asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, collecting donations.”
“How much is everyone giving, on an average?” the driver asks.
The man replies, “Roughly a gallon.”


91 posted on 10/17/2013 11:38:16 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Under the Democrats; the Lincoln Memorial is closed; but the southern border is open)
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