Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire McConnell caves, and before he even takes over. Damn.

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

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

Some people never tire of being "Right"

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

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

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.

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?

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.

Works for me.

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.

I will not live to see it

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.

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.