EXCERPT; Majority Leader McConnell is still living in the world of his own delusion that a Republican midterm win would force the president to bend to his will. McConnell campaigned on breaking the president’s will and forcing him to do the bidding of the Republican Party. Immediately following the November election, McConnell expressed shock that President Obama did not immediately give Republicans everything that they want. In December 2014, Sen. McConnell said that he was perplexed by the president’s behavior. The Kentucky Republicans was confused by the fact that Barack Obama continued to act like the President Of The United States. McConnell had big plans. He was going to use the Senate to threaten the president with repeated government shutdowns in order to get his agenda passed, “The emerging strategy: Attach riders to spending bills that would limit Obama policies on everything from the environment to health care, consider using an arcane budget tactic to circumvent Democratic filibusters and force the president to “move to the center” if he wants to get any new legislation through Congress.” The Republican strategy was quickly blown to bits by President Obama’s decision to seize the agenda through aggressive executive action. Republicans have spent weeks bickering among themselves while coming to the realization that without 60 votes in the Senate, there isn’t much they can do. McConnell immediately took government shutdowns off of the table through September 2015 by cooperating on passage of a government funding bill. In reality, if Republicans are going to use their budget and shutdown strategy, they will have one shot at
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 03:05:08 +0000
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