Tag Archives: Sen. Mitch McConnell

Will A Debt Ceiling Summit Become Health Care Summit Part 2?

Posted on July 6th, 2011

When the Obama Administration proposed a bipartisan meeting at Blair House on Feb 25, 2010, the main reaction from the GOP was to denounce it as a ‘Trap’.  Soon afterwards, Star Wars pop-culture stepped in to fill the void, mainly towards Admiral Ackbar’s “It’s a Trap” quote. The Trap gag became immense joke fodder, and Ackbar [...]

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Senate Votes Down Effort to Repeal Health Care Law

Posted on February 2nd, 2011

FOXNEWShttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/02/senate-debates-health-care-law-anew-wholesale-repeal-unlikely/ Although several states indicated they will not implement the health care law now that one federal district judge has ruled it void, a Republican effort Wednesday to add an amendment to an airports construction bill to repeal the law failed by a Senate vote of 47-51. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to use [...]

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John McCain’s new role: GOP agitator

Posted on December 19th, 2010

By MANU RAJU POLITICO Sen. John McCain is getting under the skin of Democrats these days — and he seems to be relishing it. After Democrats scrapped a massive $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill Thursday, McCain gloated about its defeat — and Democrats fumed. When he took a whack at efforts to bring up a [...]

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Obama Dares Republicans to Fight Wall St. Bill

Posted on April 15th, 2010

By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & GLENN THRUSH For weeks, the White House strategy on financial regulatory reform remained an open question: Would President Barack Obama water down his bill just to get something passed — the way he did on health care?  A Palinesque “Hell no!” was the answer coming from the White House on Wednesday [...]

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Five Reasons Not to Despair

Posted on March 22nd, 2010

By: Rich Lowry If your heart didn’t sink when the Senate bill went over the top in the House last night and Democrats began chanting “Yes, we can” on the floor, you’re either not a conservative or inured to all disappointment. Conservatives will be temped to despair in the weeks ahead, as the magnitude of [...]

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Obama Says Bipartisanship, But What He Wants Is GOP Surrender

Posted on February 10th, 2010

By: Mark Knoller Unannounced, President Obama took to the lectern in the White House briefing room today to give a personal readout of his meeting earlier with congressional leaders of both parties. “Despite the political posturing that often paralyzes this town, there are many issues upon which we can and should agree, he said. It [...]

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Stop and Start Over

Posted on January 24th, 2010

POLITICO Sen. Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, says he hopes health care reform in its current form “is finished,” yet he stops short of pronouncing it dead. “What we really need to do is start over,” McConnell said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The message in Massachusetts was “absolutely clear,” he [...]

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