Sen. McConnell: Obama Agenda Is ‘Over’
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared Saturday that President Barack Obama’s legislative agenda is “over,“ but said GOP lawmakers are willing to work with the White House to do what they ”think is right for America.”
In a speech Saturday night to a GOP crowd in his hometown, the Kentucky Republican derided Obama for performing “Clintonian back flips” to portray himself as a moderate, but said it’s yet to be seen whether the new tone is “rhetoric or reality.”
McConnell, who in the past has touted his ability to bring federal spending to Kentucky, took a hard line on cutting federal spending. He said the Democratic president’s credentials on spending and debt “are horrible, and he earned it.”
But McConnell said that congressional Republicans — who took control of the House and increased their numbers in the Senate following last year’s election — are “prepared to do business” with Obama.
“And to the extent that the president wants to do what we think is right for America, we won‘t say ’no‘ simply because there’s an election coming along,” said McConnell.
After the fall elections, McConnell was criticized for saying his No. 1 goal was to make Obama a one-term president. But her later worked with the president to push through an extension of Bush administration tax cuts, including for top-earners.
Still, McConnell drew cheers from the partisan crowd when he declared: “The legislative agenda of Barack Obama is over.”
McConnell also laid out the strategy of Senate Republicans, saying, “Whatever the House can get out of the House with a majority vote is the goal of the Senate.”
While Republicans remain in the minority in the Senate, McConnell said Democratic senators facing re-election next year have a political motivation to join GOP lawmakers in pushing for spending cuts.
“We’ll see how many of them come over and join us and begin to tackle our annual deficit,” he said.
McConnell said the national debt has grown rapidly with the stimulus spending under Obama, and yet national unemployment remains stubbornly high.
McConnell warned that cutting federal spending won’t come without some pain.
“Everybody is going to have to do with less if we’re going to get this job done,” he said. “And we need to get it done.”
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Comments (112)
Boojer56
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:19amIts amazing to me that the drive by media thinks that the conservative base in this country is a bunch of uneducated hicks. Now they are trying to portray Obama as Reagan thinking that us stupid hicks will vote for him because Reagans name is used. Is that not an insult to our intelligence. Obama is nothing but dark skinned Jimmy Carter on steroids and he will be a one term president.
Report Post »glennisright.com
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:41amThere is no reason to bring skin color into this….but the Carter on steroids part is true.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:15pm@glennis………Obama has a kind of bronzy skin. I am a pale face. So friggin what???
Report Post »Helldogger
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:15amBlau, blau, blau. If I were king I’d pay you bastards on commission & at this stage of the game you’d be paying me.
Report Post »Peacewise
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:05amUnless the agencies like the FCC, FDA, EPA and others are defunded and all the Czars are zeroed out then they really haven’t done anything.
Report Post »How many of the “Cuts” were simply reductions in the INCREASE of those line items?
Smart
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:49amIt is not over. Michelle Obama wants amnesty for illegal aliens. We will not allow that. That is why the Democrats were voted out in November 2010. No amnesty for illegal aliens. Deport them now.
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First Lady Michelle Obama called on the Latino community to put pressure on Republicans to support comprehensive immigration legislation.
In an interview with Univision, the first lady said President Obama wanted to pass immigration legislation, but could not find enough support among Republicans to move a bill.
The DREAM Act, a bill to give undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children and are pursuing higher education an opportunity to become U.S. citizens, had little support among Republicans, she said. The latest attempt to pass the legislation failed in December.
“So I urge the Latino community, he needs help, he’s got to have Republicans and Democrats in Congress who are going to step up,” the first lady said. “If a sound immigration bill gets put on the President’s desk he is going to sign it. But it’s got to get through Congress. He can’t do it alone.”
Asked if the president pushed hard enough to pass an immigration bill, the first lady defended her husband.
“Immigration reform has been at the top of my husband’s agenda from the minute he thought about running for this office,” she said, adding later, “But people have to know that the President can‘t pass immigration reform without the support of Congress and we don’t have that.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/143691-michelle-obama-urges-latino-community-to-pressure-gop-to-support-immigration-bill?page=4#comments
Report Post »jose wasabi
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:44amStop talking and get it done. Specifics, not political rhetoric.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 6:47amI kind of like McConnell but he is still a politician making yet another political speech to his constituency here. The first comment by ‘HappyStretchedThin’ says it all…It “makes a nice headline”, but I would add, headlines don’t feed my grandchildren.
Our response should always be..Show us the goods. When we see hard evidence that spending cuts are in place and efforts to continue responsible reduction of the giant bureaucracy are being made, then maybe we can begin to trust them a little.
Report Post »Colonial Revolutionary
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 6:34amWho care what this RINO says. The guy has been in politics since he got out of going to Vietnam in 1967. He is a career politician who reported a minimum net worth of $6.15 million in his most recent financial disclosure report. How do you accumulate that kind of wealth being a public servant? This hack is part of the problem and needs to go.
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 6:00amIt will be interesting to see how liberal Reid “leading” the Senate and his followers respond to the House spending cuts. Obama will no doubt interject himself in the middle and say “now, now, lets play nice, we can compromise.” Don’t do it GOP. Even $100 billion is a drop in the bucket of what we need to cut. I wish we would have taken the Senate too-it would have made this much more doable.
Report Post »boston dotty
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:47ami think it’s all too late ,im depressed ,i see no one in the repubs who really speaks up to Obama ,who really says what he’s doing is unconstutional . they talk a lot and say nothing :-(
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:25amOh, Lord….forgive us for being asleep and allowing these people to be leaders of our government. Thank you for waking us up. Help us return to you and send us a leader with the spirit of our founders. Have mercy on us………..Fight for us and help us……….Amen
Report Post »boston dotty
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:41amin communist massachusetts illegals get food stamps, welfare payments and low income housing , only one catch , a lot of Americans are being evicted from low income housing for any small reason and illegals especially muslims are being move in ,these American families usually go to live with relatives or end up on the street
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:27amObamanation will NEVER give up on his agenda! He is out to destroy this country as it has been to make it into a communist, muslim nation. Anything he does now that even remotely looks good is designed to keep his office in 2012. If he does, this country will be gone. I know there are things that are wrong with it; but, it is still better than other countries. Especially if we can get the DESTROYER out in 2012.
Report Post »Ron Staiger
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:11amREPUBLICANS! Let’s not lose sight of the mandate:
DEFUND
Report Post »REPEAL
OBSTRUCT
INVESTIGATE
SUBPOENA
MILITARY TRIBUNALS FOR MARXISTS
EXPAND GITMO
HairRazor
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:02amyeah
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:43amYou forgot IMPEACH
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:17pmMost IMPORTANT:
HOLD CENTER OF MASS.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:03amObama is an “Imperialist” that he falsely claims to be against. He is EXACTLY like the almost 30 year dictator of Egypt that was just thrown out of power. His speech to the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC – included the words: “you can’t just worry about your bottom line, you must also make sure that your workers benefit from the profits”. Spread the wealth. Dissolve the investor class who expect a return on their investment. Reward those who have not risked or invested anything. It’s the Communist way.
The very worst thing that can happen in the USA, is to have this Imperialist re-elected in 2012. If he wins re-election in 2012, the very next thing to happen will be to end the two term limit for Presidents.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:23amDiane that is his goal,to be the last President of the United States of America and there are millions of Americans that are so blind to his actions,anyone with any common sense can see what his true agenda is,he and Chavez are good buddies,he totally admires Chavez and wants to be just like him or worse
Report Post »Christian Kalgaard
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:52amObama will be a slave in the world to come
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:18amahh well i think Obama will be screaming in hell in his next life
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:40amIf what he says about Obama’s agenda being over, watch the left go into
Report Post »4th gear! They will start a revolution. Are we ready and prepared for
that? I hope and pray we are.
tobefreeinmt
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:02amMitch is either clueless, or a fraud like the rest. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, but that doesn’t change the fact that this whole thing is a scam of the highest order. NWO is here, like it or not.
Report Post »The question is: what are we going to do about it???
spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:56amNWO agenda just switched tracks from the “dem progressive caucas” to the“ repub progressive caucas”–THATS ALL, not much will change——UNTIL all progressives are weeded out and progressivism outlawed and I dont see that happening………..
Report Post »DONT-TREAD-ON-ME
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:20amIf I were elected President in 2012, the first thing I would do after my inaugural address would be to say, “Uh, Cass….. you ARE FIRED!!!” As a matter of fact, my first order of business would be to eliminate all of these (LOL) czars… As for Mitch….lets see if the rhetoric is rhetoric or reality….
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:33amI wouldn’t say “Uh, Cass”…I would say something much more obscene! I would be mad as hell!
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:45amWe need leaders we can actually TRUST. That is step #1. Other steps will fall into place, it’s the first one that is proving so difficult to get to.
Report Post »dirtypolitics
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:44amAccording to McConnel, Obama is performing “Clintonian back flips” to portray himself as a moderate, but said it’s yet to be seen whether the new tone is “rhetoric or reality.”
Mr. McConnel, until now you don’t know whether it is rhetoric or reality? No wonder Obama and the Democrats are making a fool out of you and your fellow Republicans. You should know Obama by now. Have you not observing him for the last 3 years?
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:26amThis story contains exactly one meaningful word – the word “minority” in the phrase “Senate Minority Leader.”
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:48amSo? Nancy Pelosi was once the Speaker of the House, but she got demoted to “House Minority Leader”. John Boehner (Bay-ner) is now the Speaker of the House. People are regaining their senses, and I fully expect to see a Republican Leader of the Senate in 2013.
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:04amREAGAN on Socialism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
Barrycare?? Most of you already know what Ron said in 1961. He nailed it!
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:29amI hope you realize that in 1961 Ronnie was speaking against Medicare, and that if they still had elections for dogcatchers a candidate who was still against Medicare couldn’t win one.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:29amI actually think barry is living by Obi Wan’s quote “These are not the droids you’re looking for”
Report Post »whybother
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:29amyup….the indoctrination worked for years chet! thats why hempstead used to be the greatest city on LI and is now a DUMP….thanks Dems!
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:44amOn this happy thought i am going to sleep and have nice dreams goodnight & keep the fire going.=)>
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:41amStop talking about it and get to work and get it done, I say! We the people are tired of words and promises, we want results. If you can’t stop flabing your lips about it and get your sleves rolled up and get things done and change the direction of this country then we will replace you with people who can. enough with the speaches and hot words. We are going to vote on results. If the republicans won’t do it then we will get some independants to do it.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com Western artist
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:53amAgreed, the time for words is past, now the actions need to match the promises given during the last set of elections; we need to keep the legislature feet to the fire and make sure they remember that we will hold them accountable – or fireable in this case – for failing to give the maximum efforts to make it happen as the people want.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:24amjoseph, americans will not act. the door has closed on courage and as much a glen might like each person to step up in their own area it is not going to happen. the people of the u.s. have past the tipping point. there will be no revolt or violence just words. until the words are silenced by the government or the muslims. look at the result of the republicans being elected. they are backtracking as fast as they can.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:34amSure makes a nice headline…
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:46am“Everybody is going to have to do with less if we’re going to get this job done,” he said.
Report Post »———-
Does that include illegals too ?
If not , then you have nuthin
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:02amSure legislatively it’s over, but he still has the regulatory means. Until 2012, we cannot rest, Cass Sustien is still in, the FCC, FDA, and EPA are still working.
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:06amIts about Dam time someone from the right stands up to this traitor! If we don’t start now, we won’t have a country by 2012! I‘m surprixed he hasn’t asked the mulim world to move to the US!
walkwithme1966
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:54amObama has already gotten most of his agenda passed – he can wait 2 years to do more in his second terms. http://wp.me/sYLB7-outfoxed
Report Post »brliantedj
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:48amThat‘s likes saying the leak of crap you’re covered with is capped. We still have the crap you’re covered with to dig out of!!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:51am@Darmok
Exactly, the executive order he has signed has given all but carte blanch to the various departments and agencies to rewrite their own rules and regulations as they see fit – so long as it is to the benefit of the progressives agenda; and to the eventual destruction of the country.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:42amThen bring on the pain!
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
HairRazor
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:00amdocgreen
Report Post »the muslim world.. uhh, they’re here. mosquess are poppin up everywhere.
tower7femacamp
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:28amthat is just great, from a guy who says TARP worked
Report Post »yes if you wanted CRIMINAL banking scams to go
unpunished then TARP did it’s job
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/27851.html
tower7femacamp
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:32amhttp://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/29/kill-the-bailout-the-house-floor-debate-is-on/
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:44am.
Report Post »Sounds great, but do we trust Mitch to really do something………..
tower7femacamp
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:44amGoldman Sachs agreed Thursday to pay $550 million to settle a fraud suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that accused the storied Wall Street bank of selling a subprime-mortgage investment that was secretly designed to fail.
The fine is the largest the SEC has ever assessed against a financial company. But the settlement also is striking because Goldman agreed to a host of changes to how it does business and because the bank, while not admitting wrongdoing, agreed to express “regret” for including “incomplete information” in marketing materials touting the investment to clients.
By doing so, Goldman acknowledged “the fundamental basis of our complaint,” SEC enforcement director Robert Khuzami said at a news conference, standing with 10 colleagues who worked on the case. “Today’s settlement is a stark reminder — a very stark reminder — that there will be a heavy price to be paid if firms violate the principles fundamental to securities law.”
While Goldman will pay only a tiny fraction of its $13 billion in annual profits to resolve the claims, the settlement represents a black mark for the bank, which had insisted since the suit was filed three months ago that it had done nothing wrong. It comes on the same day that Congress sent legislation to the president to curb many Wall Street practices — including ones that have made Goldman a lot of money.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/15/AR2010071505111.html
How TARP money did GS get ?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/133090-goldman-sachs-tarp-went-to-buffett
yes Rich McConnell TARP worked just the way you wanted it.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:52amDARMOK AND JALAD, I agree. His bad guys are much worse than our good guys since their agenda is polar opposite of what is best for the country. Somehow voter registration fraud needs to be addressed before 2012 and absentee voting needs more oversight. I think those may be the two biggest crimes of the 2008 election and soon the 2012 election.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:01amObama care will be ruled Constitutional by the Supreme court
Report Post »Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan,Sonia Sotomayor
and the deciding vote will come from Kennedy
and the sheep will ba ba ba ba while the secret Lucifarian Banker cartel
fully takes over.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:08am@Grandmaof5
Indeed the forces of darkness they have do seem overwhelming; yet we have to remember and take faith in the fact we do have the Almighty upon our side, even when all seems hopeless and lost unto us at any time. The storm at hand will be hard, and fierece, yet ultimately the nation will only pass to the night if we all give up upon Him and Jesus.
Yes it will be hard to make the changes needed, the progressive agenda has had 100 or so years to make the new structure of theirs, yet they also have pushed far and fast, seeking to extend their own grasp at this time that they are over reaching indeed and America is ready to shove THEM down to the ground.
We can change things around, and the future will be bright indeed.
So morning Grandmaof5, hope all is above the 29degrees you mentioned yesterday (if I remember it correctly), and wish you well; also a new work is up in my gallery, just click the link on my screen name and look for concept 28.
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:09amTough talk… but only talk! Won’t be long before the repubs will be “sucking up” to the dims again…
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:11amSaying it and doing it are two very different things. I really hate to use this term, but “I’ll believe it when I see it” happen. The people are weary of being told one thing, and then have something totally different happen!! I hope Obama’s “agenda” is over, for the sake of the American people; we’ll see if it is or not!
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:23amTOWER7
Just admit it
you HATE CAPITALISM.
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:32amSounds good to me. While I don’t think his agenda will actually be over until we vote him out in 2012, it sure has a nice ring to it.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the Obama on Egypt video
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:19amYeah, and pigs can fly.
Report Post »TurnRight
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:44amHow come we are the ones who have to “deal with less” Why don’t they cut the spending to all the nations over sea? Leave our programs alone. How come no one address’s that?
Report Post »hickoryrat
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:11pmDifferent jukebox,same old song. You can’t work with liberals.You can’t negotiate with them.
You must defeat every idea that they have.You may feel sorry for a rabid dog,but you don’t try to pet it,you destroy it.
V
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:48pmHairRazor
Report Post »No I’m not talking the ones here! I’m talking the rest of the muslim world! Kid of like what the hispanics are doing where they flood in like ants!
What's next
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:34pmWhy did Michelle and hussain Obama have to give up their right to practice Law?
My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:01pmI don’t like or trust Mitch McConnell. He is a career man all the way, and i want him out of the Senatoral ladership. We need an idea man in charge, and all he gives us is the same ole “We are right and the other side is wrong” BS. You are BOTH wrong, sir, and it is time to tighten the eff up on ALL our belts. Makes me sad to think Rick Santorum lost in 2006.
Report Post »Get out of my Senate, you has-been hack McConnell.
Make way for Rand Paul.
Showtime
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:39pm@DashRipRock
Re: Tower’s comment
From what My Sacred Honor said about FemaTower7, I’m inclined to disagree with you. Lot of “crazy talk,” but thinking he’s one of us.
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