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08-21-2014, 10:37 AM
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McConnell’s plan to shut down ObamaMitch McConnell has a game plan to confront President Barack Obama with a stark choice next year: Accept bills reining in the administration’s policies or veto them and risk a government shutdown.
In an extensive interview here, the typically reserved McConnell laid out his clearest thinking yet of how he would lead the Senate if Republicans gain control of the chamber. The emerging strategy: Attach riders to spending bills that would limit Obama policies on everything from the environment to health care, consider using an arcane budget tactic to circumvent Democratic filibusters and force the president to “move to the center” if he wants to get any new legislation through Congress.
McConnell is well aware of the difficulties ahead should he finally achieve his political dream. “Being leader is sort of like being the groundskeeper to a cemetery: Everybody is under you but nobody is listening,” he said with a big laugh, crediting Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander for coming up with the line.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/2014-election-mitch-mcconnells-barack-obama-confrontation-110154.html
GOP Vows To Dismantle Or Shut Down Government If They Win SenateA Politico story being promoted by the Drudge Report, “McConnell’s plan to shut down Obama,” makes it clear that if Republicans capture the Senate this fall they will, as the Drudge Report puts it, “play chicken” and shut down the government if President Obama vetoes their legislation to dismantle the government.
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Who does McConnell say would be to blame if the President vetoes bills and Republicans then shut down the government rather than compromise? “McConnell said it would be up to the president to decide whether to veto spending bills that would keep the government open.” (In a related story this week, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) blamed the United States for making them behead an American journalist.)
Republicans say that if they take the Senate they will pass legislation to dismantle the government. Jim Manley, former aide to Sen. Harry Reid explained in April at the WSJ, “It is very difficult to imagine that House Republicans’ takeaway from such an election would be to search again for moderation.”
Republicans can be expected to:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/dave-johnson/57780/gop-vows-to-dismantle-or-shut-down-government-if-they-win-senate
Great move Mitch...run on the promise of another Government Shutdown.
If this doesn't make everyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh get out and vote to defeat these ass-hatted Repukes...then nothing will.
I especially like his line about how being a leader is like being a cryptkeeper. Keep fucking talking you magnificent bastard. If anything deserves to be buried, it's the fucking Teabagging Congress we currently have in power.
Here's hoping Mitch is standing over a bunch of graves...and it's the final resting place of corporate ass-kissing Tea baggers, and every Republican politician who enabled them.
I'm sorry Mitch, you're hard to understand with those testicles in your mouth. :laugh:
McConnell’s plan to shut down ObamaMitch McConnell has a game plan to confront President Barack Obama with a stark choice next year: Accept bills reining in the administration’s policies or veto them and risk a government shutdown.
In an extensive interview here, the typically reserved McConnell laid out his clearest thinking yet of how he would lead the Senate if Republicans gain control of the chamber. The emerging strategy: Attach riders to spending bills that would limit Obama policies on everything from the environment to health care, consider using an arcane budget tactic to circumvent Democratic filibusters and force the president to “move to the center” if he wants to get any new legislation through Congress.
McConnell is well aware of the difficulties ahead should he finally achieve his political dream. “Being leader is sort of like being the groundskeeper to a cemetery: Everybody is under you but nobody is listening,” he said with a big laugh, crediting Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander for coming up with the line.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/2014-election-mitch-mcconnells-barack-obama-confrontation-110154.html
GOP Vows To Dismantle Or Shut Down Government If They Win SenateA Politico story being promoted by the Drudge Report, “McConnell’s plan to shut down Obama,” makes it clear that if Republicans capture the Senate this fall they will, as the Drudge Report puts it, “play chicken” and shut down the government if President Obama vetoes their legislation to dismantle the government.
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Who does McConnell say would be to blame if the President vetoes bills and Republicans then shut down the government rather than compromise? “McConnell said it would be up to the president to decide whether to veto spending bills that would keep the government open.” (In a related story this week, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) blamed the United States for making them behead an American journalist.)
Republicans say that if they take the Senate they will pass legislation to dismantle the government. Jim Manley, former aide to Sen. Harry Reid explained in April at the WSJ, “It is very difficult to imagine that House Republicans’ takeaway from such an election would be to search again for moderation.”
Republicans can be expected to:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/dave-johnson/57780/gop-vows-to-dismantle-or-shut-down-government-if-they-win-senate
Great move Mitch...run on the promise of another Government Shutdown.
If this doesn't make everyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh get out and vote to defeat these ass-hatted Repukes...then nothing will.
I especially like his line about how being a leader is like being a cryptkeeper. Keep fucking talking you magnificent bastard. If anything deserves to be buried, it's the fucking Teabagging Congress we currently have in power.
Here's hoping Mitch is standing over a bunch of graves...and it's the final resting place of corporate ass-kissing Tea baggers, and every Republican politician who enabled them.
I'm sorry Mitch, you're hard to understand with those testicles in your mouth. :laugh: