Posts Tagged ‘Mitch McConnell’
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The McConnell Gambit
Posted on July 13, 2011
So what exactly is Mitch McConnell up to? McConnell offered a solution to the debt limit imbroglio that has been described as cynical, stupid, worthless, traitorous and worse. It may...
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Taking Himself Out
Posted on June 30, 2011
The President took himself out of the negotiation game yesterday with his hissy fit of a press conference where he castigated the Congress for not getting its work done when...
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Senate Should Act First
Posted on May 24, 2011
“Après vous, Monsieur Senate.” John Boehner should say that to his friends in the upper chamber when it comes to raising the debt limit. I know the parliamentarians in the...
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Open Rules Good For Democracy
Posted on February 3, 2011
You win some. You lose some. Earlier this week, the Senate voted to repeal Obamacare. The amendment failed, but that is not how either Mitch McConnell or Harry Reid saw...
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Sign of Things to Come
Posted on December 7, 2010
The deal the President cut with Mitch McConnell is a sign of things to come for soon to be ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Obama announced that he had a deal to...
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