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McConnell at center of shutdown impasse but uncharacteristically disengaged
Old Mitch McConnell is this country's albatross.
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The federal government has been partially shut down for a week, and hundreds of thousands of workers are furloughed, but there’s no sign of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the veteran dealmaker who has brokered an end to so many Washington impasses.
McConnell is home in Kentucky, and the senator’s spokesman, Donald Stewart, said it’s up to President Trump and the Democrats to come up with a deal to end the stalemate over funding for Trump’s border wall.
In other words, in McConnell’s view, it’s not on him.
I believe McConnell is more destructive than anybody in our government. He vowed to oppose everything with Obama's name on it and changed his party into the "party of no".
The Republican House did not take a vote the week Trump claimed he had the votes. They most purposefully waited until the day before the deadline knowing the Senate wasn't going to pass and there was no time to negotiate.
The Republican House look like they did their job.
It was all a ploy -- a show for all of us.
The Republicans in the House & Senate & the Democrats in the House and Senate aren't engaging.
This is poor leadership.
Neither party is in the game.
It's Trump standing by himself, hurling childish insults -- hoping to bully someone into doing something.
Everyone's waiting on Pelosi and the new House majority.
If Pelosi has her druthers, the new House will show up on day 1 with an agreed-upon agenda. You'd better believe emails are flying thick and fast.
It was always going to be like this. As soon as Trump went back on what said he would agree to, the Rs threw up their hands, right along with the Ds. And why wouldn't they?
When someone contradicts himself regularly, it's pointless to negotiate on the assumption that what he thought yesterday will be the same as what he thinks today. The only out is for Congress to assume they will need enough votes to override a Trump veto, and proceed on their own accordingly.
The Republican House did not take a vote the week Trump claimed he had the votes. They most purposefully waited until the day before the deadline knowing the Senate wasn't going to pass and there was no time to negotiate.
The Republican House look like they did their job.
It was all a ploy -- a show for all of us.
AGAIN.
Exactly! They knew that it wasn't going anywhere.
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McConnell at center of shutdown impasse but uncharacteristically disengaged
