McConnell disappointed by Obama partisanship

[babylonsister]

NEWSFLASH: Dems disgusted with McConnell for talking out of both sides of his mouth, and for his rank hypocrisy.

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/03/29/mcconnell-disappointed-by-obama-partisanship/

McConnell disappointed by Obama partisanship
@ 1:15 pm by Michael O'Brien


Using budget reconciliation to push through the budget would signal the Obama administration is "purely" partisan, the Senate's Republican leader said Sunday.

"I'm disappointed after two months," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday on CNN. "The president has not governed from the middle as I'd hoped he would."

McConnell said that should Obama and congressional Democrats push for budget reconciliation to shut out Republicans, it would "make clear they intend to carry out their plans on a purely partisan basis."

"This administration is going to be the furthest to the left of certainly any administration in my lifetime," the Kentucky Republican added.

He also reiterated that Senate Republicans would seek to pick off centrist Democrats in their effort to stall and revamp the budget.

[47of74]

1. Me to Mitch McChinless

Two words. One starts with F, and the other with O.

[rfranklin]

8. Translated: "Go Cheney yourself!"

A cunning linguist.

[terisan]

2. ah, the irony. nt

[otohara]

3. Oh Boo Hoo

Minority dude.

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. I know it's been repeated ad infinitum

but when did those assholes afford the right to bitch about partisanship?

[BulletproofLandshark]

5. Oh god damn. Shut the fuck up, McConnell!

Senator McConnell: you are a failure, your party is a failure, and your interest in doing anything positive for your country is as nonexistent as your chin.

[billyoc]

6. See, Mitch, the trouble is, you've dragged the country so far to the right that Leon Trotksky

would be in the middle now.

Reap the fucking whirlwind.

[Metta]

7. What an empty, morally bereft windbag. He's hoping anything will get some traction and distract

from the real issues, as always. Happy karma. Don't pack the warm clothes.

[DS1]

9. Considering he should get a punch to the face every day he shows up

I think Obama is giving him all the bi-partisanship he deserves.

[indepat]

10. Let's punch McConnell's TS card in unison

:P

[Odin2005]

11. The pot's calling the kettle black.

The GOP's hypocrisy is astounding.

[AlinPA]

12. NYT piece today reminds us of R's hypocrisy and how they used it heavily

in the past.
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But there are a couple of problems for Republicans as they push back furiously against the idea, chief of which is the fact that they used the process themselves on several occasions, notably when enacting more than $1 trillion in tax cuts in 2001.

That means critics can have a field day lampooning Republicans and asking them — as Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, did repeatedly the other day — why reconciliation was such a good idea when it came to giving tax cuts to millionaires but such a bad one when it comes to trying to provide health care to average Americans.

The record is also replete with past statements by Republicans such as Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the party’s leader on budget issues, praising the logic of reconciliation.

“We are using the rules of the Senate here,” Mr. Gregg said in 2005 as he fought off Democratic complaints that reconciliation was wrongly being employed to block filibusters against opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. “Is there something wrong with majority rules? I don’t think so.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/us/politics/28web-hulse.html?_r=1

[babylonsister]

13. Thanks for that link; I hadn't seen it. Yes, I hope every last Dem

flings the idea of reconciliation back in their faces and calls them out for the hypocrites they are.

[lamp_shade]

14. Mitch McComical has always reminded of Sam the Eagle.......

No chin.

[tabbycat31]

15. Mr McConnell, you have not legislated from the middle

or done anything but obstruct the president's agenda.

So here's a big cup of STFU for you served cold.

[TwilightZone]

16. I love the smell of hypocrisy in the afternoon.

[FLAprogressive]

17. he's been a real partisan -- that's why those of us on the left are thrilled with what he's been

doing so far. :sarcasm:

[Cirque du So-What]

18. I'm inclined to tell No-Chin

to take a gastronomical adventure of the scatological variety and then shuffle off this mortal coil.

[annabanana]

19. What an ass. . . .n/t