Posted on 05/15/2015 1:19:00 PM PDT by cotton1706
Mitch McConnell is in a bind.
The Senate majority leader opposes changes to the National Security Agency, but his proposal to reauthorize surveillance powers under the Patriot Act “cleanly” is unlikely to pass the upper chamber.
After the House increased the pressure Wednesday with an overwhelming vote in favor of an NSA reform bill, McConnell (R-Ky.) began to look for an escape hatch, filing legislation Thursday evening that would push the June 1 deadline back by two months.
But it's unclear whether a short-term extension could pass the Senate, let alone the House, where reform supporters are vowing to oppose any stopgap legislation.
With the deadline looming, McConnell has little time left to find a way out and save the spy powers he has called critical for national security. “He’s really in a box,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Wednesday before the House vote. “With all due respect, he’s in a box that the courts have made for him, so to speak, by correctly interpreting the law.”
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Squirm, you traitorous, back-biting SOB. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy...
ditto
Beat me to it.
That feckless bastard is so compromised he would run naked down Pennsylvania Ave if Obozo told him to.
May he take his pen pal Rand Paul with him.
McConnel will go down in history as the worst Lader of the Seate ever. Kentucky should be ashamed of itself for continuing to send this selfish low-life to represent them.
My Fellow Americans .... It’s Cave Time!!!
He’s in a treason box.
Old turtle face is in a quandry.
No, Mitchy is a BIND. Sorta like a bound up bowel. He's a real pain in the intestines of this country. The longer he stays the worse it gets. Just like a foul turd that you can't pass. Mitchy needs to go in the worst way.
Amazing the lack of courage on the part of GOPers now. Can anyone imagine Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi being backed into a corner on ANYTHING? Right, neither can I.
I AM BEGINNING TO THINK WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THESE OLD GEEZERS DIE OF OLD AGE BEFORE WE GET ANY CHANGE
I can’t figure out if it is outright collusion or he was intimidated by Obama and the left. Actually, I think it is a case of the body snatchers and he was replaced by a pod person.
You’re assuming he ever owned a set.
I don’t subscribe to that theory...
double ditto
There are plenty playing the game to be the next king making, backstabbing sell out. See:Kelly Mayotte, Linsey Gramnasty, John Cornyn in the Senate.
Kevin McCarthy in the h.o.r.
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