Mitch McConnell Splits With Trump Over Government Shutdown, Returns to Kentucky
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Source: newsweek
By Benjamin Fearnow On 12/30/18 at 11:32 AM
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Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has washed his hands of President Donald Trump's border wall ultimatum, hiding out in Kentucky amid the government shutdown.
One week before the Christmas break, McConnell led the Senate in passing a short-term spending bill he believed Trump would sign. But the president's latest rebuke of fellow Republicans has caused McConnell to retreat into the shadows since a quarter of the government shut down on December 22. Although McConnell issued a statement publicly supporting Trump's push for a border wall, he has been noticeably absent from the president's side despite his reputation as a Washington "dealmaker."
"McConnell is one of the best vote-counters in politics, and he generally knows when to fold a losing hand," former Biden chief of staff during several McConnell deals, Bruce Reed, told the Washington Post Saturday. "He did that on a number of occasions in the Obama years. He's now stuck with a president who prefers to double down on a losing hand."
However, the 76-year-old Kentucky senator, who is up for reelection to a seventh term in 2020, was recently touted by the president on Twitter. Although McConnell and Trump fought over attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, McConnell gained favor with the president over his brutal maneuvering to put conservatives on the Supreme Court. ....................................
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-government-shutdown-kentucky-absent-trump-border-wall-1274846
#trumpshutdown is maybe giving the old turtle heartburn!!
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Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has washed his hands of President Donald Trump's border wall ultimatum, hiding out in Kentucky amid the government shutdown. Getty Images Chip Somodevilla/Staff
groundloop
(11,486 posts)erlewyne
(1,115 posts)Trump ain't trump ... Pelosi is. Mitch is done,
he is going to want to be with his family.
elleng
(130,126 posts)farmbo
(3,120 posts)... and the two new conservative justices will ruin protection for pre- existing conditions?
elmac
(4,642 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)He is drowning in Russian money, too. He knew all about the Russian interference in the elections, yet refused to have it looked into. He is vile, a traitor. He told President Obama NOT to raise the issue of the Russians, it would look too "political" All the while, he was getting money from Putin for himself and the RNC. President Obama was much too decent for Mitch's taste, he likes crooks like himself. Chinless wonder that he is. He has had way too much power for way too long.
czarjak
(11,191 posts)Ted says stand strong, and whatever you do, dont blink!
PatrickforO
(14,514 posts)He needs to be put in the dock and tried for treason in not helping Obama and Biden when they brought the Russian hacking to his attention. He has forgotten how to be an American, aided and abetted a hostile foreign power in fixing an American presidential election.
If that isn't treason, I don't know what is.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)nothing more, nothing less. He'll do anything to support the interests of big business.
That means insuring he stays in power. Therefore, anything goes......
duforsure
(11,882 posts)As many more run away from trump and the gop now. Its the opposite of what trump wants it to be, and he's losing support now faster, but it'll only make the Senate flip over to the Democrats easier the longer he lets this go on. The trump shutdown is failing badly on him, and McConnell is distancing himself from trump knowing that , and the investigation will expose everything on trump soon. trump is making himself more toxic every day , and he'll soon be saying something completely different when he realizes people are running away from him and the gop so fast. Even most in the gop know this is a complete failure doing this.
no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)for inflicting him on the rest of the country.
Maxheader
(4,366 posts)The wall?
The trade war?
All the bills cheetoz past to trash the environment?
The attempt to destroy obama care?
Is mitch the bitch one of the senators that thinks the orange haired traitor...
Is nuts?....
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Over 12 hours old. Published at 11:32 a.m., posted on the LBN Forum at 11:59 p.m.