| Yes, instead of doing his job and working with the President to ease the pain he caused Americans McConnell went another route. He obstructed anything that would have even partially cleaned up the mess he made.
Now he wants it both ways. After impeding progress for Americans he is asking those same Americans to give him leadership of the Senate once more and telling us how "different" things would be if he got it:
"We have got a $16 trillion debt, millions out of work, the biggest tax hike in history looming, and our military faces crippling across-the-board cuts. The nation and the world need strong American leadership and robust political institutions to meet these challenges, but the President with a lot of help from the Democrat-controlled Senate has deliberately chosen inaction.
Democrats haven't passed a budget in more than three years, despite the fact that, as Senator Sessions pointed out, the law literally requires it. It doesn't say, don't pass a budget if it's hard, don't pass a budget if you have to negotiate with the House, you don't have to pass a budget if you have to vote. It says, pass a budget.
Democrats haven't passed a budget in more than three years, despite the fact that, as Senator Sessions pointed out, the law literally requires it. It doesn't say, don't pass a budget if it's hard, don't pass a budget if you have to negotiate with the House, you don't have to pass a budget if you have to vote. It says, pass a budget.
"So the pledge we make to the American people, if they decide they want to try new leadership in the Senate, we will do these things, even if they're hard.
http://www.mcconnell.senate.go...
However, with all this bluster by McConnell and the Republicans he "leads" one fact remains. Every attempt has been made to reach out to him in a bi-partisan way. The truth is that with these Republicans there is no compromise.
They have ignored anything that would help anyone but them. They have decided if you aren't a Communist oppressing slaves or passing out huge tax cuts to greedy gazillionaires then you are not worth working for.
Harry Reid summed up McConnell and the greediest and least patriotic among us in a nutshell:
But the reality is that Democrats cannot advance job-creating measures like these on our own. We need cooperation from our Republican colleagues to move forward. Whether we are able to make real progress for the middle class this fall hinges on whether Republicans will join Democrats to find common ground, or continue to cater to the tea party and right-wing extremists like Grover Norquist.
Republicans have mounted filibuster after filibuster against legislation they opposed for reasons of politics - not substance. Since Democrats took control of the Senate in 2006, Republicans have mounted 380 filibusters. This far exceeds anything we've seen before in the Senate. By comparison, in Lyndon B. Johnson's six years as Senate majority leader, he faced just one filibuster.
The bills Republicans have been blocking are simple measures that include Republican ideas and input. They are the types of legislation that used to pass the Senate on a broad, bipartisan basis. But sadly, we have seen that cooperation evaporate as the tea party has cowed Republicans into opposing policies they might otherwise support.
This knee-jerk opposition has led Republicans to vote numerous times against tax cuts for the middle class. It's led them to filibuster tax cuts for small businesses, along with legislation that would end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas and provide new incentives for companies to create jobs here at home.
These are not partisan bills - they are common-sense policies designed to spur growth and create jobs. They represent areas in which we should be able to find common ground. But unfortunately for Americans across the country, who are looking for better jobs and bigger paychecks, Republicans have hewed closely to a narrow political strategy: If the president supports it, Republicans oppose it.
http://www.politico.com/news/s...
You see, as always Mitch McConnell is not only a disgrace but a lying disgrace. He has had every chance to work with Democrats to do the business of the American people but instead he has chosen his own greed and the interests of the very selfish over that. He cares nothing of his country or anyone within if he cannot profit somehow itself.
The good news is despite his pleas I think the American people have seen the truth of Mitch McConnell. My guess is that the last thing they will allow is for him to "lead" anything again.
After October our only goal around here is to make sure Kentuckians see the truth of McConnell too, and make him the most ungodly four-term Senator in American history as well as being a Communist, an elitist and a lying disgrace.
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