Senate GOP leader (Mitch McConnell) says Bush was millstone (around our necks)

[sabra]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Despite crushing defeats in the last two elections, Senate Republicans have new “energy and enthusiasm” for winning back the majority, according to their leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

“President Bush had become extremely unpopular, and politically he was sort of a millstone around our necks in both ‘06 and ‘08,” McConnell told reporters Friday. “We now have the opportunity to be on offense, offer our own ideas and we will win some.”

Many of those ideas get presented as amendments to Democratic bills which, though usually defeated, can draw attention to GOP policy alternatives and force Democrats to take difficult votes.

“They become the way you chart the course for a comeback,” McConnell said.

Read more: http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/27/senate-gop-leader-says-bush-was-millstone/

[redwitch]

1. duh.

Well said mitch. He has been a millstone around our necks for his entire preziduncy.

[MrPerson]

2. It would also help if they weren't such BIG FUCKING ASSHOLES.

[babylonsister]

3. Energy, enthusiasm, but plum out of ideas that make any sense. nt

[Ikonoklast]

4. Step up to the plate, Mitch, you chinless bastard.

You can be the next millstone as the face of the Republic party.

[Beetwasher]

5. The GOP Is ALL Millstone And No Neck

I'm not sure what that means, but I liked the way it sounds.

[Webster Green]

6. McConnell never disagreed with anything the chimp did..

Now he's blaming the chimp for destroying their party.

What a fun meltdown to watch. :rofl:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. Insert McConell turkey neck joke here < >. nt

[fascisthunter]

8. BS - he was Your Fuhrer, and You DId as You Were Told like a good Brownshirt

[cyr330]

9. Well. . .

That fucking asshole supported *Bush's policies the entire time he was squatting in the WH. . .

[D-Lee]

10. Sure, that's why the Repugs didn't vote for the Bush programs?

What a jerk.

Not to mention ... what a liar.

[ut oh]

11. GOP throwing Bush under the bus...

What a surprize, he has passed his usefulness...

While I agree Bush was a millstone (he was a millstone around the entire country's neck as another poster mentioned).

It's funny how the GOP is clamoring to ditch the last 8 years and pretend they didn't happen, when ALL of them were just as responsible for the horrid policies pushed by the Bush Admin.

[DearAbby]

12. NEWS FLASH IDIOT

Bush is still a millstone around your neck

[davidwparker]

13. Bush was a millstone around the USA

[DLnyc]

14. Yes, they now have the opportunity to be (even more) offensive

for their own ideas.

[MasonJar]

15. And you, Mitch, are a millstone around the necks of Kentuckians and

are a dinosaur waiting to topple into the miasma of your own making. Keep up the good work, Mitch. With you in charge the GOPers are in for a long hiatus. Oh, and stay in DC as much as possible; I hate breathing the same air as you. A very, very disgruntled and disdsatisfied constituent

[jwirr]

16. Well Mitch you were there hanging onto his shirt tails supporting

everything he did. And you are still a millstone around our necks.

[susu369]

17. Hey Mitch, does your wife Elaine agree with you?

I would imagine she collected some good bucks from the "millstone."

[izquierdista]

18. LBN?!?

Come on, Mitch, that's like the captain of the Titanic saying that once they get the ice swept of the deck, it's back to full speed ahead.

On edit: I must admit though, that the Repubs don't underestimate the stupidity of the American voter -- they count on it.

[The Second Stone]

19. Republicant obstructionism

is a millstone around the necks of the US