GOP Rep.: Maybe McConnell Should Step Down From Leadership Role

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By NICOLE LAFOND Published JULY 28, 2017 9:39 AM

After Republican senators failed to pass a skinny Obamacare repeal bill early Friday morning, one GOP congressman is calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to step down.

During an interview with CNN on Friday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said the news that three Republicans — Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Lisa Murkowski (R- AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) — tanked a bill that only needed a simple majority to pass was an “abject failure of the United States Senate” and questioned whether top leadership needed a shakeup.

“It was a failure from the newest member Luther Strange (R-AL) at the bottom to the very top with Mitch McConnell as majority leader,” he said, urging senators to stay in D.C. until “the job gets done.”

“Now is not the time to leave the American people in a lurch. Now is not the time to leave American health care at risk,” he said. “I hope they won’t quit. If they’re going to quit, by golly, maybe they ought to start at the top with Mitch McConnell leaving his position and letting somebody new, somebody bold, somebody conservative take the reins so they can come up with a plan that can get through the United States Senate.”

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[Eyeball_Kid]

1. Good idea, Mo. Replace McConnell with another loser.

[mpcamb]

23. Can't imagine why... Have they found someone even worse?

Actually the best part of all this is the R's who stood up and moved across the aisle.
They did it in the face of very direct threats to their state's funding.

Might soon be time for some Jackson Browne lyrics:

"When the walls have begun to crumble
When the laws have begun to burn
When the wind is singing freedom
When the stone begins to turn"

[Mr. Evil]

34. They're republicans. There's always someone worse.

[rzemanfl]

2. One Repuke says "by golly" another says "cock block." How can we say they are

not inclusive?

[Sunlei]

3. bring back the crying man!

[HAB911]

33. Boner must be laughing his ass off about now

[Solly Mack]

4. Ha! So it begins.

lol

[Liberalagogo]

5. "... letting somebody new, somebody bold, somebody conservative take the reins..."

Not some damn LIBRUL like McConnell!

What a bunch of shit for brains.

[mdbl]

19. Anyone remember Judge Jeanine video clip?

Wonder if she'll do the same crap about Mcconnell? If she does i hope someone posts it because I won't watch Fux Nooze.

[The Wielding Truth]

29. Obamacare is not a total disater. It just needs to be tweeked. Adding the risk corridor and

eventually going to a single payer system would help employers and workers alike.

[mdbl]

30. You won't get an argument from me

I still wonder if Judge Jeanine will call for Mitch mcconnell's ouster.

[IronLionZion]

32. They should offer some amendments but rename the whole thing to Trumpcare

it would probably pass, they could declare victory, and move on to infrastructure or tax reform or defeat ISIS or something useful.

[VermontKevin]

6. Repeal and replace.

[DonViejo]

10. LOL. I see what you did there!

[Eugene]

7. A House Republican recommends new Senate Republican leadership.

This will go down really, really well in the Senate. /sarc

[Phoenix61]

8. I think that's a great idea!

Should keep them busy for weeks and think about all the back stabbing! The more they trash talk each other the better the dem candidates running against them will look.

[Texin]

16. Sort of like watching Julius Caesar on a continuous reel.

Could be peak TV for C-Span.

[Javaman]

9. the repukes want someone new! aka rearranging the deck chairs. nt

[forgotmylogin]

11. !!!

[Julian Englis]

12. It's a contagion--More rat on rat violence. It's spreading from the White House!

Let's hope it infects the entire GOP.

[Plucketeer]

13. While the Dunce Party has all three branches

what the fuck does it matter who they might choose??? We deserve a Senate leader on par with our pResident! I'd be curious to see just how long a Christian nut-job leader would last by trying to run this country to the letter of the Bible. Hell - we might could instigate the Rapture and get some relief. We sincere and sane sorts would be whisked away - while the CONservatives, the dictators and the bible thumpers could kill themselves with back-stabbing, mass killing (wars) and liberating every molecule of carbon that can be dug up!

Halleluja!

[Maxheader]

14. I don't understand..

What does leadership have to
do with a persons preference
on an issue? They are adults,
and should have an opinion
all by themselves, without a
bunch of retarded old men
trying to bribe them..

[Bengus81]

15. Step down or STOP trying to trash and DUMP programs that HELP people....

The Republicans could roll any of their Senators in to the "leadership" position and try and kill off Social Security but who would be sucessful?? NONE of them. It doesn't come down to leadership all the time,it comes down to throwing out bills and laws that HELP everyday people instead of the RICH.

[mentalsolstice]

17. Mo Brooks is running against Luther Strange in a special election.

They're running for Sessions' former senate seat. Mo was also present when Scalise was shot, and is using it in an TV ad for pro-gun rights. Scalise's staff is upset about it.

[Texin]

18. They ain't done with this. Bet on it.

This thing is going to have more iterations than The Walking Dead before it's done or we are.

[mdbl]

20. definitely

which is why we need to let America know each every screw they try and turn to undo the ACA.

[Grins]

21. For the rubes back home...

“It was a failure from the newest member Luther Strange (R-AL) at the bottom, to the very top with Mitch McConnell as majority leader." - Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), conveniently not mentioning that he is currently running for Luther Strange's Senate seat*.

This is just Mo "People who ‘lead good lives’ should pay less than those with pre-existing conditions" Brooks delivering meth-encrusted red meat to the Talabamian rubes back home, and using CNN as the vehicle. They should have never let him on.

Strange is a real bastard, but is Brooks any better? Don't think so.

* Odds for the seat are leaning toward Roy "Ten Commandments" Moore.

[turbinetree]

22. Don't you just love when they try to eat there own...................

[INdemo]

24. McConnell should not even be a Senator because I think the election

in 2014 between him and Alison Grimes was stolen.
Grimes lead in the pole throughout the election process.
The numbers just did not add up. so could it be there was Russian hacking even then? I think there could have been
There has never been any r reports (Corporate news) about the influx of 2.5 million to a McConnell PAC by Russian oligarchs..never.

[VaBchTgerLily]

25. yes maybe he should! Get rid of yertle the turtle

[asiliveandbreathe]

26. Alison Grimes can now be front and center - a positive message for the

good people of KY - from here until elections..

[Doug the Dem]

27. Isn't Brooks a member of the spectacularly-misnomered Freedom Caucas?

Mo Fo Off!

[Sophiegirl]

28. Somewhere....

John Boner is laughing his ass off.

[Dave Starsky]

31. NOOOO! Don"t do it!

They might actually get someone who's evil AND competent. We can't have that.

Plus, turtles are cute! They're especially precious when you feed them a little piece of peach and watch them chew it with their little turtle mouths. It's just darling!

[niyad]

35. maybe he could just step off the planet?

[tavernier]

36. Why???

I think Brownie's doing a heck of a job!