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Mitch McConnell: Republicans May Lose Senate Majority
newsmax.com ^ | 8/12/16 | Theodore Bunker

Posted on 08/13/2016 6:13:06 AM PDT by cotton1706

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested Thursday that Republicans may lose their hold on the upper chamber of Congress in November, Politico reports.

Speaking to a civic group in Louisville, Kentucky, McConnell told his home state listeners "I may or may not be calling the shots next year," according to the Associated Press.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 114th; 2016issues; elections; mcconnell; trump2016
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To: cotton1706
"I may or may not be calling the shots next year"

Well, maybe if you had actually tried using that rifle legislatively speaking, dufus, you would be!


41 posted on 08/13/2016 6:35:34 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: cotton1706

Think positive, Mitch. Resign your cushy seat. Kentucky and the USA will win in a runoff for your seat.


42 posted on 08/13/2016 6:35:53 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Gaffer

I will vote Kelli Ward in the primary. If McCain wins, I leave the senator vote open in the general.


43 posted on 08/13/2016 6:36:18 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Really Mitch, with your current track record what difference will it make?


44 posted on 08/13/2016 6:38:01 AM PDT by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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To: cotton1706

What kinda list is that?


45 posted on 08/13/2016 6:38:35 AM PDT by wastedyears (#brexit - Make Britain Great Again)
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To: jsanders2001

“Oh those were Republicans?”

Apparently so.

Now they want your vote so they can continue pushing the democrat agenda.


46 posted on 08/13/2016 6:39:12 AM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: HomerBohn

Mitch you could get off your old dead ass and start working.


47 posted on 08/13/2016 6:39:59 AM PDT by magua
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To: cotton1706

If we put in Mike Lee as Senate Majority Leader (only because Samuel Adams is unavailable) then maybe keeping the Senate would make a difference. And we’re going to need Senate support when President Trump starts naming SCOTUS candidates.


48 posted on 08/13/2016 6:40:12 AM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD GUY with a gun is a GOOD GUY with a gun.)
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To: cotton1706

Its McConnell who will lose his job. Trump needs to dump this useless clown right away.


49 posted on 08/13/2016 6:40:34 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: cotton1706

The Repub response to Trump is one of my main reasons for supporting him.

They seem terrified that someone “out side of the system” could get a first hand look inside. They are scared.


50 posted on 08/13/2016 6:41:09 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: JPJones
As long as the rinos keep appeasing the democrat agenda, we shouldn’t be voting for them. Give the dems the cover of “oh this bill has bi-partisan support”. Better to have just dems pushing dem agenda so they can be blamed.

As disappointing as the poorly led Republicans have been, if Trump can win, he will have an easier time moving the needle with Republican majorities than not. If Trump wins, its a game changer.
51 posted on 08/13/2016 6:42:16 AM PDT by TimPatriot
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To: LS

At my stage here in Georgia, primaries are done, so I’m leaving the Senator vote, and the vote for my own weasel congressman open. It actually turns out that the only vote I will cast affirmatively is for Donald J Trump.


52 posted on 08/13/2016 6:47:12 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: cotton1706

McConnell whines that they might loose the Senate. Well that’s your fault Mitch old boy and your butt kissers that did nothing to stop Obama’s agenda which is what you were put there to do in the first place.


53 posted on 08/13/2016 6:47:26 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Gaffer
I had come to the same decision last year. I was done. Both Doug Collins (my rep) and Isakson are not worthy of a vote for street cleaner following horses in a parade, much less a federal elected office.

The death of Scalia changed my mind about voting for Isakson. I am voting to hold the Senate seat only.

Still not voting for Collins. He had his nose so far up Boehner’s butt, it is a wonder he did not suffer serious head trauma when Boehner passed gas. Actually it was a wonder Boehner could pass anything at all considering how many noses were up his butt.

54 posted on 08/13/2016 6:48:40 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

McConnell has let Obama call the shots since he became Majority Leader.


55 posted on 08/13/2016 6:50:19 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: cotton1706

I will not vote for Toomey this year. Everytime I email him to complain about his open borderness, his anti Second Amendment votes and his failures to vote to stop The Mocha Messiah, I get Fed jury duty in Philly. Might as well have another Specter or Casey in there.


56 posted on 08/13/2016 6:50:29 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam looks perversion look genteel.)
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To: Gaffer

“I for one am not voting for my Georgia Senator, Johnny Isakson.”

...that is also my plan. He by no means represents my conservative beliefs.


57 posted on 08/13/2016 6:50:43 AM PDT by texteacher
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To: cotton1706

Not sure I care whether the R or the D wing of the Uniparty calls the shots. I’ll be voting third party instead of the turd, Kirk. I might care if McConnell hadn’t wasted the majority while he had it.


58 posted on 08/13/2016 6:51:04 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: LaRueLaDue

What would have been different if we would have had a democrat majority for this session?


59 posted on 08/13/2016 6:52:34 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Isakson is a go-along, get-along. If there is a nomination for a liberal Justice from a Democrat President, he WILL vote for it. You can take that to the bank.


60 posted on 08/13/2016 6:53:06 AM PDT by Gaffer
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