Mitch McConnell: President Obama wants Super Congress to fail

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Mitch McConnell: President Obama wants Super Congress to fail

by Joan McCarter

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is peddling a conspiracy theory about President Obama. He says:

"I'm now convinced that the president actually believes he would be benefited by the committee not succeeding” because success "would step on his story line that we can't do anything on a bipartisan basis."

Ah, so Obama isn't getting involved in the Congressional process that is the Super Congress because he secretly wants it to fail because that would reinforce the made-up story line that congressional Republicans are obstructionists. As if every budget hostage-taking and all the filibustered jobs bills didn't exist. No, McConnell says, Republicans are just pleased as punch to be working with Democrats.

It's not as if, as Greg Sargent points out, McConnell is going around saying things like this:

"We worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off of these proposals," McConnell says. "Because we thought—correctly, I think—that the only way the American people would know that a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan. When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that’s the way forward."

D'oh! It's exactly as if he was going around saying things like that, because actually, he is. That, and this:

"I refuse to help Barack Obama get reelected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy. <...> That is a very bad position going into an election. My first choice was to do something important for the country. But my second obligation is to my party and my conference to prevent them from being sucked into a horrible position politically that would allow the president, probably, to get reelected because we didn't handle this difficult situation correctly."

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Note to Mitch: It will only fail if Republicans don't cooperate. Republicans are in a pickle and are now peddling conspiracy! Hilarious!

[sakabatou]

1. I'm sorry Mr. Turtle if you keep projecting your own faults.

[zbdent]

2. DUers: Mitch McConnell wants the economy and America to fail ...

and he intends to have the "liberally-biased media" follow his instructions TO THE LETTER and blame it on the "halfrican" ...

[gateley]

3. Liar. nt

[Vincardog]

4. The GOP does not want to take responsibility for 30 years of their policies coming to fruition?

Que Surprise! Now If Obama and the Democratic "Leadership" would start attacking those policies and proposing real solutions there might be a small sliver, of a minute fraction, of a political solution.

[CanonRay]

5. So do I.

It's a really, really, bad idea.

[Andy823]

6. He is making excuses in advance

Trying to shift all the blame on the president, like always, and make the republicans look so innocent, and turn them into the "VICTIMS" of an evil plot to destroy the country! These people are simply insane, and if they think they are pulling the wool over everyones eyes, they are sadly mistaken! Polls show a majority of support for the presidents jobs bill, yet they voted it down, and say they are doing it for the "people" who they say the majority of them "DON'T" want the bill! They have show they only work for the rich and the corporations, and I really think the vast majority of americans are starting to see this, even some republicans.

Republicans want to take the military cuts out of the equation, but leave in all the "CUT's" for programs that help those in need. What they fail to realize is that more and more people, republicans included, are in that group, those in need. When they keep lying to the public, it only makes them look worse, not better! While many republicans may NOT vote for a democrat, they will stay home and simply not vote at all, just like so many democrats did last year!

[Pirate Smile]

7. Here is a thread on this topic from yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x811238

[Number23]

8. I love GD-P for keeping so much focus on CONGRESS

and not focusing like a laser beam solely on this president.

There is a reason that most Americans' approval of Congress is less than a third of the president's support. Something I wish more folks here and in the PL understood.

[Vattel]

10. Quit changing the focus to the President.

Doh! I just did it too.

[applegrove]

9. McConnell's position is not one that can fit into a teabaggers head. It is too complicated. Now who

is responsible for teaching people to only understand simple slogans??? Why the GOP! Good luck with that McConnell.

[applegrove]

11. All McConnell cares about is the political score that will result from the legislation. He doesn't

even care about debt, let alone jobs. The American people's lives don't figure in his the way he thinks. It is all politics all the time.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

12. First place there ain't no such thing as a "Super Congress," read the U. S. Constitution.