By Carl Hulse
...The thought that Democrats (click here) might be playing hard to get for political purposes has occurred to Mr. McConnell and his fellow Republicans.
“It’s
almost as if a few Democratic leaders decided long ago that bringing
our country to the brink would make for good election-year politics,” he
said.
“Democrats
are marching us down a path that leads to a shutdown in order to gain
some sort of political advantage,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas,
the No. 2 Senate Republican.
The problem for them and the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan
of Wisconsin, is a familiar one. Republicans probably lack the votes to
pass a stopgap funding bill without Democratic help since a significant
number of Republicans in the Senate, and particularly in the House,
refuse to vote for any spending bill whatsoever to avoid conservative
backlash or provide fodder for a future primary challenge....
Have you ever wondered when Republicans finally grow up and stop blaming everyone else because they can't accomplish a thing honestly.
Let me think about that a minute.
The minute is up.
Mitch McConnell decided to bring a ten week funding bill to the US Senate floor without checking to be sure there were enough votes. Really? Not really. What Mitch McConnell did was to begin political grandstanding by bringing a bill to the Senate floor that the American people want.
The favoritism of Mitch McConnell in allowing the funding for Louisiana to stand while denying the funding to Flint, Michigan is PROOF he does nothing in his leadership but play politics with the lives of Americans.
NOTHING.
There is nothing else Mitch McConnell does with his power as majority leader in the Senate but parlay every aspect of governance into political grandstanding.
It is no different than the nomination of an eminently qualified candidate for the Supreme Court that has a record of voting in favor of conservative values as well as more liberals values. The reason Judge Garland does that is because he decides about what is constitutional and what is not. Not every ideology of conservatives are protected by the US Constitution and the same goes for liberal values as well.
But, does Mitch McConnell care about the country? No.
Does Mitch McConnell care about the people? No.
Does Mitch McConnell care about his own grandiose political standing? Yes.
Can the same be said about Paul Ryan? Yes and no. He puts politics first, but, he also stumbles a lot in his leadership of the US House. I don't think there is one word, only one word for that phenomena. Nope, can't come up with one.
Have you ever wondered when Republicans finally grow up and stop blaming everyone else because they can't accomplish a thing honestly.
Let me think about that a minute.
The minute is up.
Mitch McConnell decided to bring a ten week funding bill to the US Senate floor without checking to be sure there were enough votes. Really? Not really. What Mitch McConnell did was to begin political grandstanding by bringing a bill to the Senate floor that the American people want.
The favoritism of Mitch McConnell in allowing the funding for Louisiana to stand while denying the funding to Flint, Michigan is PROOF he does nothing in his leadership but play politics with the lives of Americans.
NOTHING.
There is nothing else Mitch McConnell does with his power as majority leader in the Senate but parlay every aspect of governance into political grandstanding.
It is no different than the nomination of an eminently qualified candidate for the Supreme Court that has a record of voting in favor of conservative values as well as more liberals values. The reason Judge Garland does that is because he decides about what is constitutional and what is not. Not every ideology of conservatives are protected by the US Constitution and the same goes for liberal values as well.
But, does Mitch McConnell care about the country? No.
Does Mitch McConnell care about the people? No.
Does Mitch McConnell care about his own grandiose political standing? Yes.
Can the same be said about Paul Ryan? Yes and no. He puts politics first, but, he also stumbles a lot in his leadership of the US House. I don't think there is one word, only one word for that phenomena. Nope, can't come up with one.
