McConnell: OBVIOUSLY we're gonna raise the debt ceiling! Obviously? Since when? (employment, Reagan)

[Swingblade]

The {R} senate would be wise to dump McConnell and start moving up their younger and more personable members. Face it, McConnell is old has no personality{ they do not make fun of him on SNL} and no back bone what so ever. The {R} party does need a make over.

[MMS02760]

McConnell spews BS. Always has and always will.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by MMS02760

McConnell spews BS. Always has and always will.

He represents the GOP.

[Wells5]

Addison McConnell who goes by the folksy name "Mitch" is above all the chief shill for the tobacco industry. Anything else is secondary.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by Swingblade

Where's Ted Cruz when we need him?

Keeping a low profile. What, you poor suckers thought this was a fight on principles?

You and yours elected a GOP Congress and they're going to increase the deficit, raise the debt ceiling, do all the things they claimed to hate over the last 8 years. But at least they'll make life worse for those who have little, so you have that going for you.

[Kracer]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Ehhhh....REALLY?

What about the old need for spending cuts in exchange for raising it like Republicans insisted MUST be done these past eight years?

What happened??? Did Repubs change philosophy?

McConnell: 'Obviously' Congress will increase debt ceiling | TheHill

Obama called GWB unpatriotic for his run up of the debt, then Obama ran up a mountain of debt that made GWB look like a piker.


Difference now is Trump is cutting fedral spending. A start, but at least an attempt to approach a balance between spending and saving.


The results of the spending is intended to create jobs and boost the economy to further balance the budget and pay off debt. something obama never did.

[JAMS14]

Remember the days when the GOP forced Democrats to offset every single expenditure with a cut somewhere else before they would even consider raising the debt ceiling?

What happened to those Republicans?

Oh, yeah, they're in power now. The debt no longer matters.

Until they aren't in power again. THEN we will have to shut down the government every time the debt ceiling needs to be raised.

[sholomar]

Liberals have a valid argument on this one. Belling, the guy out of Milwaukee I like to listen too, is known for bashing Republicans in his state for the same thing... taking power and then proposing tax increases rather than taking a more hardline stand with the budget.

States do need to balance their budgets, the feds to not.. I'm not one that cares that much about the national debt which is why I don't criticize Obama for increasing it any more than I'll criticize Trump.

[Dane_in_LA]

Originally Posted by Kracer

Obama called GWB unpatriotic for his run up of the debt, then Obama ran up a mountain of debt that made GWB look like a piker.


Difference now is Trump is cutting fedral spending. A start, but at least an attempt to approach a balance between spending and saving.


The results of the spending is intended to create jobs and boost the economy to further balance the budget and pay off debt. something obama never did.

You can say it. Republican Debt is Good Debt.

[CraigCreek]

Originally Posted by Loveshiscountry

McConnell doesn't have a problem raising the debt ceiling. He was the same way 2 years ago. Nothing new for him.
He also doesn't represent conservatives.

Mitch McConnell doesn't represent anyone who doesn't add to his own political stature or personal wealth. Take it from a life-long Kentuckian.

McConnell scornfully and smirkingly called his constituents who asked him to represent their own wishes and best interests "losers", and told us to go home while he, a "winner", got to make policy. Refused to acknowledge 1,000 of his constituents who attempted to meet with him in Lawrenceburg, KY, about three weeks ago. Padlocked the gates of the barbed-wire fence surrounding the place he met with 50 "paying guests" (about 15 or 20 of whom were not his supporters, but were still constituents). Whizzed right by us outside like a bat outta ...a cave, almost taking a corner on two of the four wheels of his window-tinted black SUV.

He has no interest in talking with us, hearing our points of views and our concerns, trying to find common ground. We are losers according to him, and we should just go home while he gets to make policy.

Yet he is supposed to represent us and work for us. He does neither.

McConnell's office phones are rarely answered, and when callers do manage to get through, the voice-mail box is full or has been turned off. Emails get form letters back which bear no relation to them. Actual letter and postcards get the same - or no - or very belated responses.

Kentucky's Kynect health care provided insurance for hundreds of thousands of citizens who previously lacked coverage. It drew bipartisan praise throughout America, as a workable plan that saved lives and money. Now, McConnell, along with Governor Matt Bevin, Vice President Pence, and Trump, is among the first to destroy it, with nothing viable to replace it.

Pence was here just last weekend. Trump is coming to Kentucky next Monday evening to gloat and get ego stroked by the Trumpites. McConnell will be at Freedom Hall in Louisville to join Trump. Once again, there will be concerned Kentuckians aplenty whom both men could address.

They won't.

It will be a repeat of Lawrenceburg, on a larger scale.

How many taxpayers' dollars will be spent on the costs of Pence and Trump's trips? How much medical care could those dollars provide?

Why conservative and ill-educated Kentuckians continue to think McConnell - and Trump - work for them is anybody's guess, except perhaps they are victims of a sort of Stockholm Syndrome.

I have no love and little respect for the corrupt, cynical and rude Mitch McConnell. The sooner he is out of office, the better for the people of my beautiful, much-maligned, long-suffering state - and the people of the United States.