As Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell faces mounting tea party challenges (assisted by some Democrats) in his home state of Kentucky, his attempts to spin the daily news cycle in his favor are growing rather desperate. Recently, hoping to steer the base away from the reality of his fiscal cliff cave, McConnell bragged to the Republican base that he had beaten the liberals by avoiding complete Filibuster Reform.
Today, Senator McConnell announced that there will be “no more brinkmanship and no more last-minute deals.”
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has declared there will be no more brinkmanship and no more last-minute deals. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, last year’s Republican vice presidential nominee, says it’s all about “prudence.”
This translates, as the AP pointed out, to avoiding losing battles with the very popular second-term Democratic President, and instead trying to reframe Republicans’ battles as being against Senate Democrats. So much for four years wasted attacking the Kenyan Socialist and asking for his birth certificate. Republicans can’t win against Obama, so they need to pretend they are no longer interested in fighting him.
As Jason Easley pointed out for Politicus today, Republican fear of Obama is only growing, “Terror has gripped House Republicans as they have finally realized that President Obama is already working to defeat them in 2014.”
In other words, the new “bad guys” are the Democrats in Congress. Forget all that you’ve heard about the evils of Obama. Republicans are running scared of the man they claim is out to destroy them. They can’t beat Obama, so they want their base to look at the new shiny object of their hatred — congressional Democrats.
The President is only coming after certain Republicans because they have made it clear that they are not interested in governing, whereas he is. Their own whinging obstructionism led to this. They painted themselves out to be the Party of No Jobs and austerity for the poor while subsidizing the rich.
Mitch McConnell swore to devote all of the Republicans’ energy to defeating President Obama in his first term, and he failed.
Today, facing the brutal failure resulting from four years of Republican obstructionism, McConnell is like the school yard bully who can’t win against his target, so he’s going after the littler kids.
It’s also known as defeat in some circles.
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carlos m. delgado
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 5:55 pm
Advise to the GOP.. If you don’t want to lose fights against Obama ..don’t start one.
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mjh
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 6:15 pm
Mitch McConnell Gets Desperate and Promises to Avoid Losing Battles with Obama
Wow, Turtle — that’s quite a comedown from when you stated, “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
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Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 7:02 pm
Mitch McConnell, one of the 3 most corrupt people in the Senate, has to be attacked and removed on the basis of his recent acts of selling the people out to big pharma while demanding we stop spending.
This man has profited off his links to Pharma.
His income from 2004 – 2010 went up 784%. And that includes being part of the the market crashes. Some life eh? Why is this man not being investigated?
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-assets/member/mitch-mcconnell/
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Tom S
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 7:57 pm
Senator Mitch McConnell announced today that the number 1 priority of the Republicans will be to make sure Obama is a 2 term president!
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charlene
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 8:34 pm
who does this disgusting man work for !
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Terry V
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 9:03 pm
Well of course they’re targeting the congressional DEMOCRATS as the 2014 MIDTERMS are coming up and these fascists want to try and do a repeat of 2010!!! All hands on deck or more seats will got to these freaks!!
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patsy soto
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 10:49 pm
Mitch… do you hear it, Mitch? The sound of marching feet, the clap of hands, the roar of a hundred thousand throats, all saying the same thing… Vote this old turd OUT IN 2014!! It’s not President Obama you need fear… it is the PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY.. They are the ones you should be shaking in your boots about! You can screw over the people for only so long, and then THEY WAKE UP! The people of Kentucky ARE AWAKE, Mitch! Demographics DO MATTER.. And you are going to find out about that, Mitch! Either your own crazy party will primary you out in favor of someone WORSE THAN YOU… or Ms. Ashley Judd will use her dainty,lovely, Bageley-Mitchka shoes to kick your old ass out! Either way… YOU ARE GONE!!
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Lauren Vaughan
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 12:59 am
Tortuga is busy holding secret meetings with teapublicants on how To make O a one term president ……oops.
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David A. Franklin, Jr.
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 1:48 am
What this man needs to do is retire. He’s vile and a huge part of the gridlock problem we have in Washington, D.C. His time has passed and if we want true progress as a nation, the good people of Kentucky needs to do what’s honorable and get rid of him in 2014.
Whether it’s Rep. Ben Chandler or Ashley Judd the Democrats nominate? Mitch McConnell needs to go.
Just looking on him makes me physically & violently ill. Seriously, he does friends. Oiy!
~kitchenpolitics123
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j
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 8:34 am
I would like to know what is going on about the give away to the big drug company that he sneaked into the fiscal cliff deal, I heard that democratic rep Welch (from Vermont I think) is doing a bill to repeal it, anyone know if this is true?
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503me
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 4:08 pm
I also saw something about that and i can’t seem to find the link that told about it. One thing to note is that right before the vote and they were added. that a large sum of money was put in ‘the kentucky corrupted’ account
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Sharin Khosa
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 9:54 am
2014 for Obama.
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Rho
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 11:07 am
Maybe it’s time for a switch… http://cheezburger.com/6939919616
Remember…. don’t re-elect anybody!
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