Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declined even to wade into the discussion on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I am not interested in getting into that debate … I have got better things to do than to wade in to all of these disputes and discussions that are going on out in the country,” McConnell said.
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“Slanderous” was the word used by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, to describe the NAACP’s resolution on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“I think it’s slanderous to suggest the vast movement of citizens who have gotten off the couch and showed up at town hall meetings and tea party events, somehow to smear them with this label, there’s just no basis for it,” Cornyn said.
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