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“If they pursue a fair process…and give both sides an opportunity to have input, to have a true bipartisan stamp, he’s likely to get significant support,” McConnell said of a broad stimulus plan supported by President-elect Obama. “I don’t think that they even seriously can defend… doing this without bipartisan consideration.”
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someone stab me in the eye.
lorien1973 on January 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Another one to dump when his term’s up….
MrScribbler on January 4, 2009 at 4:10 PM
give us ours and you can have yours.
rob verdi on January 4, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Is there any way to throw out McConnell out of office?
He is another RINO of the stone age that needs to go.
How did he ever get to be minority leader? He is so freakin’ dull. He must be best buds with Reid. I mean, don’t we all remember McConnell standing next to Reid as the colleagues praised each other for passing the bailout?
If Blackwell becomes RNC chair, he has a lot of work to do.
jencab on January 4, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Input=pork.
And they wonder why even their own party members hate them.
PattyJ on January 4, 2009 at 4:27 PM
You know what else would be helpful, Mitch? Mass resignations in the senate and house. Starting with yours.
Fletch54 on January 4, 2009 at 4:30 PM
I don’t think they care, actually…but, somehow we’ve got to get DeMint and Sessions into the Republican leadership of the Senate.
AUINSC on January 4, 2009 at 4:30 PM
600,000 new government employees is just the reorganization for when the government nationalizes the media. relax people.
lorien1973 on January 4, 2009 at 4:31 PM
I have gotten so many e-mails from this guy bitching about the bail-outs and asking me for money, I lost count. and I live in Missouri. and now he says he could vote for a bail-out? awe jeez… all I can say is
Kaptain Amerika on January 4, 2009 at 4:32 PM
$%^&*#@!@@!!!
Michelle on January 4, 2009 at 4:34 PM
*head to desk*
*head to desk*
*head to desk*
Count to 10 on January 4, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Ditto, the GOP is just pathetic.
Zorro on January 4, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Real conservative party we’ve got, eh?
therightwinger on January 4, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Mr. McConnell,
I’ve supported your leadership in some pretty ugly situations, but I cannot in good conscience let this dribble go. You have lost any credibility with me. Your time is at an end, you dumb A$$. Join that idiot, “I had to abandon free market principles, to save the free market,” President we have.
GO AWAY!!!
Sincerely,
One Pissed Off Conservative/Libertarian!
Troy Rasmussen on January 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Translation: ” as long as we get our cut, you can have anything you want”.
It’s over, folks. We’re toast.
Skandia Recluse on January 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Nope – health care.
rhodeymark on January 4, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Why not a quadrillion dollars? A quintillion?
It turns out the biggest risk in the first bailout was of another bailout… and another, and another.
Do your best to shore up your own life, the lesson the universe is trying to teach you is that you can’t depend on the State to save you.
Merovign on January 4, 2009 at 5:04 PM
This is just freaking stupid. It is looking awfully bleak. There are some bright spots, but bleak nonetheless.
Weight of Glory on January 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM
I am really ashamed at how the present administration has been able to make a mockery of free market capitalism. I mentioned on another post how Paulson irritates me no end with perfect examples of “crony capitalism”. Capitalism does not, has not, and will not work when the so-called market leaders are completely devoid of morals and scruples, and where the government turns a blind eye to their actions.
So, now that we have this pathetic situation because of the above reasons, do you think it is convincing to the American people to go back and say the solution to their problem is more capitalism? That’s why you see GOP-ers fall to the trillion dollar incentive. As I have mentioned before, loose or non-existent measures to control capitalism will always create a knee-jerk public reaction towards socialism.
Cheers,
The Family Guy
peter_griffin on January 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM
600,000 new govt employees in 2009
6,000,000 in 2011
60,000,000 in 2015
It worked really well in the USSR when everyone worked for the govt.
angryed on January 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM
If we don’t like the way the Congress works all we have to do is vote them out of office and the new congressmen will change things.
Keep living in denial.
Helloyawl on January 4, 2009 at 5:22 PM
I keep reading my pocket Constitution for this but can’t seem to find it. Anyone know where I can find grounds for this crap?
DerKrieger on January 4, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Milquetoast Mitch was just re-elected. So we have 6 more years of this goober, unless he bores himself to death. Like many other Republicans, he is a go along to get along guy. Together with his wife, quintessential Washington cocktail party insiders. His campaign here in Kentucky this past November was essentially “Vote for me, I’ve been in Washington a long time and can bring home the bacon.” Another expert at reaching across the aisle. He is a global warming believer (from coal producing KY). Makes me want to puke.
FredCDobbs on January 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Mitch the Magic Moron makes it quite clear that Republicans in Washington have yet to learn their lesson.
amerpundit on January 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Sickening. I just dropped him a nice note, and I urge everyone to do the same.
Rae on January 4, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Perhaps it’s time for a revolution. It’s time to round up the entire political class and let them live out their day sequestered on Catalina Island or somewhere, and return the country to constitutional rule with no political parties.
Men and women elected on the strength of their ideas.
Kjeil on January 4, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Here’s a “Main Street” bailout for you, McConnell, you unprincipled, uninspired mope.
::shrugs::
Rae on January 4, 2009 at 7:12 PM
That will never happen. There is no way they want the great unwashed to realize how much they pay in taxes.
Cindy Munford on January 4, 2009 at 7:33 PM
It could happen.
I know a majority of the political class would oppose such a logical solution to the financial mess they’ve created, but Americans would certainly be all for it. Whose government is it anyhow?
The Rs can’t oppose the Dems’ “Main Street” bailout without repealing TARP, or else they’ll look like the Corporatist $#!^heels they are.
H. R. 7309 is the only way, and the best way.
Rae on January 4, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Time for a new conservative party?
therightwinger on January 4, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Amen! Where is this money supposed to come from? China? Again? When will these idiots realize we are broke? When in the hell will they start being responsible?
That’s hard to do when we have idiots for voters. Oh and don’t forget stolen elections. *cough* Al Franken *cough*
boomer on January 4, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Everyday we become more and more disenfranchised.
True_King on January 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM