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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell asks new Democratic House if it will choose "policymaking or presidential harassment"
I think the correct reply would be 'go fuck yourself, mitch'"Im glad to be welcoming back my friends and returning colleagues to what I hope will be a productive session," he said.
McConnell also spoke about the House, which switched from Republican to Democratic control today.
"We know that the Senate with a Republican majority is fertile soil for big, bipartisan accomplishments. The question is, will the newly Democratic House join in this good momentum or bring it to a standstill?" he said.
He continued: "It's a clear choice and will be clear to the American people watching all this at home. Good governance or political performance art? The public interest or political spite? Policymaking or presidential harassment?"
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/new-congress-january-2019/h_c27c07aec381b62659b0200d4e010425
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,110 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)That's one of the basic ideas of Christianity. Republicans should check it out sometime.
Too late now for the KGOP republican liars, cheaters & traitors.
TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts).
The Republicans didn't block or harass Obama, did they?
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Hermit-The-Prog
(33,562 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,378 posts)LisaM
(27,863 posts)I swear, he should be locked into a room with his eyes taped open and made to watch film of himself saying the exact opposite when Obama was president.
(To be clear, I don't REALLY condone this type of torture, but he should have to answer for this hypocrisy somehow).
riversedge
(70,464 posts)CincyDem
(6,419 posts)Starseer
(72 posts)what is right, Addison.
madaboutharry
(40,247 posts)albacore
(2,408 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)3catwoman3
(24,132 posts)...in presidential harassment.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)reason and evidence, is going to be seen as policymaking. Every challenge to the raging narcissist is going to be seen as egregious oppression of poor, poor Dear Leader.
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)RockRaven
(15,096 posts)This lying disingenuous f--ker doesn't give a rat's ass about policy making.
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,344 posts)elleng
(131,410 posts)deminks
(11,026 posts)But then you do neither, amirite? A do nothing GrOPer.
PatSeg
(47,770 posts)but totally predictable. Whatever McConnell said yesterday never happened.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)tomorrow like today,the phone lines over the week end are going to be white hot. Wall Street is alarmed at what is happening and the Oligarch's are seeing a threat to their way of life.
matt819
(10,749 posts)He's a republican.
He lies.
He's a hypocrite.
He's fucking insane.
And he's on the list of people who, if they'd never existed, the US would be a better place.
Others on that list? Limbaugh, Coulter, all of Fox News, Falwell (Sr and Jr), O'Reilly, Paul Ryan, the Pauls (R&R).
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)The Democratic House will show donnie the exact same amount of respect the republican house showed President Obama.
niyad
(113,962 posts)mindem
(1,580 posts)The problem is, too many people think the repukes are as pure as the driven snow no matter what they say or do. This clown is one of the worst.
akraven
(1,975 posts)still_one
(92,526 posts)DBoon
(22,430 posts)Many effective policies will result in Trump's reign coming to an end.
A policy of removal from .office and prosecution for soliciting foreign national involvement in US elections is a very good policy
It is impossible to enact sane policies without the insane complaining about harassment
riversedge
(70,464 posts)already but fear it will be a well used meme. damn
lark
(23,199 posts)You have no right to say a damn word about obstruction, your picture is next to the word in the dictionary; you so embody it. It is the Democrats job to obstruct you and the Russia asset & pretend president every step of the way in your planned destruction of this country and it's ideals. You governed in a 1 party fashion for the past 10 years, there was nothing bipartisan in one single thing you did, none. It's not going to work anymore, regardless of your idiotic and meaningless nattering. Dems care about the priorities of the people and protecting us from the criminality and treason of your party and leader and will do so regardless of your unmanly whining. Hope you enjoy wearing orange, traitor.
erlewyne
(1,115 posts)Yes
ismnotwasm
(42,027 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,981 posts)Paging President Obama
How do you feel about McTrutle's proclamation???
0rganism
(23,994 posts)i think our congresscritters are paid enough to walk and chew gum at the same time, and American people deserve to learn the truth about the circumstances of Putin's absolute victory over our nation. i also think a majority of the Americans who elected this congress are quite aware that nearly all Democratic legislation coming from the house is doomed to die in the senate or on shitler's spite-veto pen. so what's left?
open up committee investigations. many of them. they cannot be vetoed or filibustered and they make for entertaining spectacle which will get plenty of media coverage.
pass popular legislation which costs the Republicants politically every time they shoot it down.
pass a continuing resolution every week with $0 allocated for wally walls.
just my humble opinion.
leftieNanner
(15,206 posts)so STFU. Nancy Pelosi and the House are going to do their JOBS!
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)Theres plenty of resources to do both!
book_worm
(15,951 posts)honest.abe
(8,689 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,222 posts)when law breakers such as rump need to be thrown in jail, or removed from office. Doing this is not political art, not political spite, not presidential harassment, it's doing the job of Congress to oversee the executive branch which you failed (mitch m.) miserably at.
Obviously you need to have another civics course.