McConnell caves, and before he even takes over. Damn.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/mitch_mcconnell_plans_a_bipartisan_senate.html

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December 8, 2014

Mitch McConnell plans a 'bipartisan' Senate

By Thomas Lifson

There will be no negative consequences for Harry Reid�s abuse of Senate procedures. These abuses include refusing to allow hundreds of House-passed bills to come to a vote and his infamous change requiring only a bare majority to approve most judges, which enabled President Obama to pack the bench of the federal judiciary.

Instead Senator McConnell plans to turn the other cheek. If you think this noble example will inspire Democrats to behave themselves the next time they get control of the Senate, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I�d like to sell you. �Please sir, may I have another!�

Neil Lesniewski writes an article titled �McConnell Plots a Functional, Bipartisan Senate� in Roll Call:

Sen. Mitch McConnell wants to hit the ground running in January � and he thinks Democrats are ready to join him in crafting a more open, functional Senate.

In an exclusive interview in his Capitol office suite, the incoming majority leader told CQ Roll Call he�s been preparing his would-be chairmen to move quickly since spring.

�The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing�s ready to go. So what I said to the members who hoped they would be chairmen [was], �Let�s don�t have that problem. Be thinking now about legislation that you have, preferably that enjoys some Democratic support, because we certainly didn�t think we were going to have 60 and we don�t,�� the Kentucky Republican said.

McConnell pointed to conversations he�s had with Democrats, whose cooperation will be required to get the Senate functioning as he would like.

�Up to half the calls I got after the election were from Democratic senators. I�m not implying that they were happy I won, but they were awfully curious as to whether I really meant it early last year when I pointed out that we needed to run the Senate in a very different way,� he said. �I think there�s going to be bipartisan gratitude for having a chance to be relevant, to not be marginalized.�

This is as hardball as McConnell plans to get:

McConnell wasn�t saying he would never use procedural tools, such as the Rule 14 process, to bypass committees or filling the �amendment tree� to block amendments, but he certainly wants those tools to be far more rarely used than in recent years under Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

At least he didn�t follow Hillary Clinton�s lead and vow to have empathy for Senate Democrats.

The GOP's version of John Kerry, you just can't make this stuff up!

Again - it just shows the GOP has NO BALLS... When will the voters wake up and REMOVE these weak-titted pos legislators????

reads like a script

I bet Rush and Beck will be apoplectic today. Might be worth tuning in.

2 parties, 1 ideology.

Toldja so.

Originally Posted by 4ager

Toldja so.

your some "pressed a digit ate her".

Give them a chance. I'm hoping its a trap. Please don't piss on my Cheerios.

Originally Posted by Toddly

Give them a chance. I'm hoping its a trap. Please don't piss on my Cheerios.

I'd like to be optimistic, but these guys can't set a mouse trap for fear of catching their fingers, nor actually catching their fingers if they do.

What really pisses me off the most is that I cannot get a face to face meeting with my reps so I can actually use vulgarity, knowing full well that my placid calls and letters are disregarded, and my vitriolic ones are cast aside.

I told you guys from day one that Mitch will be Obama's bitch. Now do you believe me?

In 2016 the Republicans will lose the Senate, the White House, and barely hold on to the House. Here in Montana, I'm starting to hear if the Republicans sell out to the Democrats and the Republicans will, that's it the Republicans are done.

Look for the Democrats to hold the House, Senate, and White House for now and forever until there is no nation.

It's over folks and you heard it here first.

The only reason to vote GOP is to vote anti-democrat. There is no other reason. There has been no other reason, for a long time.
I always make the effort, but only for that reason.

The old birds have no heart for a fight! There needs to be a voter induced age limit and term limit on the geriatrics who just want to get along.

If they can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Would love to see some fire breathing 40 year olds in the Senate who would tell the dems and pres no now and no forever!

Mike

They all go in office broke and retire wealthy. They don't want to change the system. The Fear of being voted from office is the only thing that will make them change. Hasbeen

Nothing to be surprised about. They caved on the budget, and this will be the way it is.

Why in the hell did the GOP re-elect Bohner as Speaker? And for that matter, McConnell as leader? And this is within their own party.

something need to take place so that congress works together for the good of the American people...

Party lines should not be the dividing line when they are all to work for the good of America...

I am holding fire until the new Congress is in session. In my view, what you are witnessing is a direct result of the STUPIDITY of the average voter, evidenced (to name just two, but there are thousands of examples) by their belief the Government Shutdown was real (it wasn't)and it was the Republican's fault at blocking budgets, when they've actually passed several which were then held hostage by Harry Reid in the Senate.

Not to mention the fact the last budget passed, crafted by a democrat house and senate, was voted DOWN in the Senate 95:0. We are awash in STUPID people, and the mess we are in is of their making. It's that simple.

In a few months we will see..

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In 2016 the Republicans will lose the Senate, the White House, and barely hold on to the House. Here in Montana, I'm starting to hear if the Republicans sell out to the Democrats and the Republicans will, that's it the Republicans are done.

So you are saying the people of Montana are puzzies and will give up at the drop of a hat? I doubt that. What needs to be done is start replacing "Republicans" with "Tea Party type Republicans", and keep replacing over and over until the whole of Washington changes. It will not be an overnight process, so you can forget that. It did not get screwed up overnight and will not get fixed overnight but our work is not done. miles

Originally Posted by Bwana338

something need to take place so that congress works together for the good of the American people...

Party lines should not be the dividing line when they are all to work for the good of America...

The American people are best served when Congress is in an unbreakable deadlock
You're foolish if you think they work for the good of the people
They work to maintain their own power.

I agree with Tracks, gridlock is a good thing. We don't need
a constant barrage of change everything - NOW!!

If you think McConnell has "caved" you simply haven't been paying attention. His Heroes are Henry Clay ( The great compromiser) and Senator John Sherman Cooper a moderate Republican and friend of John F Kennedy.

All during his recent Senate campaign all he talked about was making the Senate and the Congress work and to make the Government productive. I recommend the story on him in the Nov. 4 Washington Post. http://wapo.st/1t9CHhV

I'd say he's trying to play to the home crowd as well.

He was elected but Kentucky ain't zackly big on him, the opponent running against him just tanked her campaign

Originally Posted by milespatton

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In 2016 the Republicans will lose the Senate, the White House, and barely hold on to the House. Here in Montana, I'm starting to hear if the Republicans sell out to the Democrats and the Republicans will, that's it the Republicans are done.

So you are saying the people of Montana are puzzies and will give up at the drop of a hat? I doubt that. What needs to be done is start replacing "Republicans" with "Tea Party type Republicans", and keep replacing over and over until the whole of Washington changes. It will not be an overnight process, so you can forget that. It did not get screwed up overnight and will not get fixed overnight but our work is not done. miles

miles...you are quoting the man who said we would lose this past 2014 election

Some people never tire of being "Right"

Originally Posted by KyWindageII

If you think McConnell has "caved" you simply haven't been paying attention. His Heroes are Henry Clay ( The great compromiser) and Senator John Sherman Cooper a moderate Republican and friend of John F Kennedy.

All during his recent Senate campaign all he talked about was making the Senate and the Congress work and to make the Government productive. I recommend the story on him in the Nov. 4 Washington Post. http://wapo.st/1t9CHhV

evidently none of you guns in KY have paid any attention to McConnell either. You keep reelecting him.

Originally Posted by milespatton

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In 2016 the Republicans will lose the Senate, the White House, and barely hold on to the House. Here in Montana, I'm starting to hear if the Republicans sell out to the Democrats and the Republicans will, that's it the Republicans are done.

So you are saying the people of Montana are puzzies and will give up at the drop of a hat? I doubt that. What needs to be done is start replacing "Republicans" with "Tea Party type Republicans", and keep replacing over and over until the whole of Washington changes. It will not be an overnight process, so you can forget that. It did not get screwed up overnight and will not get fixed overnight but our work is not done. miles

Tea Party Republicans aren't the answer either. However, unless we can change our primary voting system in this state we are screwed.

Originally Posted by KyWindageII

If you think McConnell has "caved" you simply haven't been paying attention. His Heroes are Henry Clay ( The great compromiser) and Senator John Sherman Cooper a moderate Republican and friend of John F Kennedy.

All during his recent Senate campaign all he talked about was making the Senate and the Congress work and to make the Government productive. I recommend the story on him in the Nov. 4 Washington Post. http://wapo.st/1t9CHhV

Mitch the Bitch is a Liberal (Socialist) Democrat. So you are right he didn't cave he's just another Dingy Harry who will now move his lover's agenda forward.

Originally Posted by BOWSINGER

Originally Posted by milespatton

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In 2016 the Republicans will lose the Senate, the White House, and barely hold on to the House. Here in Montana, I'm starting to hear if the Republicans sell out to the Democrats and the Republicans will, that's it the Republicans are done.

So you are saying the people of Montana are puzzies and will give up at the drop of a hat? I doubt that. What needs to be done is start replacing "Republicans" with "Tea Party type Republicans", and keep replacing over and over until the whole of Washington changes. It will not be an overnight process, so you can forget that. It did not get screwed up overnight and will not get fixed overnight but our work is not done. miles

miles...you are quoting the man who said we would lose this past 2014 election

Some people never tire of being "Right"

If Mitch the Bitch moves the Obama agenda forward, as it appears he will, we did lose the Senate and I was right. At least Dingy Harry gridlocked the Congress which was a win for us.

Where everyone been the last few decades?
Did you really expect anything different?

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Tea Party Republicans aren't the answer either.

Difference of opinion here. Democrats and liberal Republicans both hate them, therefore I like them. miles

Originally Posted by milespatton

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Tea Party Republicans aren't the answer either.

Difference of opinion here. Democrats and liberal Republicans both hate them, therefore I like them. miles

Liberals hate anybody who's not mentally deficient like them.

Originally Posted by milespatton

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Tea Party Republicans aren't the answer either.

Difference of opinion here. Democrats and liberal Republicans both hate them, therefore I like them. miles

Works for me.

Originally Posted by poboy

I agree with Tracks, gridlock is a good thing. We don't need
a constant barrage of change everything - NOW!!

Geeeze! How-in-the-Hell will we ever reverse anything with gridlock?
Gridlock would mean we keep what we got now! HELL NO!
I really want to start getting rid of a whole bunch of Obama stuff.

Today, as we speak, Boehner cannot pass his own omnibus bill. He is asking Pelosi for help, because about 50 members of the 234 members of his own party are saying...Hell No!
Next year there will be at least 245 GOP members and Boehner will have a bigger problem on his hands.

Momentum for this big ship builds slowly, but we have just cast off the lines and pointed the bow to the Right.
Hatch will finally get his Balanced Budget Amendment passed and in front of Obama.
More than a few Democrats who want to get re-elected will tell him to sign the damn thing or they will help override his veto.

Originally Posted by Redneck

Again - it just shows the GOP has NO BALLS... When will the voters wake up and REMOVE these weak-titted pos legislators????

I will not live to see it

Originally Posted by Toddly

Give them a chance. I'm hoping its a trap. Please don't piss on my Cheerios.

I'm hoping it's a case of giving the Dems "enough rope".

Also and curious, are there any "blue-dogs" left in the Democratic party? If so, maybe some could be turned??

If the republicans are going to sell out we need to start riding their A55es now before it is too late.

Sayin....and doing....are two different things.

First off the Republicans are moderates as, remember, the conservative thing is still a few years away.

So, the Republicans are keenly aware they have a slight edge and need to be smart, very, very smart....

And as smart as they need to be they need to be 10 times more clever.

We saw the Democrats release the CIA report yesterday without any Republican input. It was the Democrats trying to slander the Republicans before the takeover where the report would have got the attention it deserved, in the trash barrel.

However, the lap dog of the Democrats, the majority of the media, leap upon the story and have run with it non stop...

If you don't already know, and you should BTW, this should tell you this is what the media intends to do non-stop for the next two years.

Now Mitch ain't exactly my cup of tea either but stupid he ain't.

Newt wasn't smart enough, or over estimated his strength, with the Contract With America deal as the media single handily convinced most Americans it was a Contract On America.

I'm hoping the Republicans are much smarter this go around.

Don't give the media any sound bites, any talking points that they can twist around.

The Republican's must realize the media for what they are, a mortal enemy.

I have said it a thousand times, a shift away from Socialism will take years but it can be done. The media will try and stop it by any means they can.

All Mitch really did was to not give them SOBs anything they could run with.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...ncludes-victory-for-big-banks/ar-BBgywV2

Originally Posted by milespatton

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Tea Party Republicans aren't the answer either.

Difference of opinion here. Democrats and liberal Republicans both hate them, therefore I like them. miles

Good point..

Somebody needs to clue in the Republican leadership that wwe did not put them back in power to "get along" with democraps, we sent them ther to defeat them and put them out ogf business. If we wanted them to get along with democraps, we would have elected democraps!

They don't have to worry about it for two years and think we will forget by then.

My rep, who I never liked and who will be Colorado's new Senator, voted for the bill.
He has a history of going along with the leadership and ignoring the constitution.