Mitch McConnell is off to a bitter start

by confuzzled dude Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:56 pm

Mitch McConnell, the new Senate majority leader, has an exceedingly high opinion of his own power.

In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning outlining his priorities for the new Congress, the Kentucky Republican suggested that the GOP takeover of Congress — not yet 24 hours old — had already boosted the American economy.

“After so many years of sluggish growth, we’re finally starting to see some economic data that can provide a glimmer of hope,” McConnell said in his clenched monotone. “The uptick appears to coincide with the biggest political change of the Obama administration’s long tenure in Washington: the expectation of a new Republican Congress.”

But he spent more of his time scolding, and looking backward at the “countless common-sense bipartisan bills” that “died right here” during the Democrats’ control of the Senate. He chided President Obama’s “anything but productive” threat to veto the Keystone XL oil pipeline. “Bipartisan compromise may not come easily for the president — not his first inclination,” the majority leader said with a sneer. “The president’s supporters are pressing for militancy these days . . . the comforts of purity over the duties of progress.” He said Obama and the Democrats should “accept reality,” turn from their “exhausted 20th-century mind-set” — and do what Republicans want. “It’s not our job to protect the president from good ideas,” he said.

No, it’s apparently McConnell’s job to chide and to taunt — and to make the next two years as bitter and unproductive as the last four.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-mitch-mcconnell-is-off-to-a-bitter-start/2015/01/07/0b8cd304-96a0-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html?tid=pm_pop

by MaxEntropy_Man Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:05 pm

duh! what did they expect? he's a negative, bitter asshole. why is he going to change now?

Mitch McConnell is off to a bitter start

Mitch McConnell is off to a bitter start

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