Mitch McConnell
Peter Robinson ·
March 23, 2012 at 11:37pm
Does the United States Senate work? Here's a short preview of our next show with Senate Minority Leader and the longest serving Kentucky Senator in history, Mitch McConnell. The interview was conducted in the Strom Thurmond room in the U.S. Capitol.
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Dec '10
Re: Mitch McConnell
In the Make Believe world I maintain in my head, ordinary Americans would see this, contemplate, and nod.
May '10
Re: Mitch McConnell
This is what now dominates my impression of Mitch McConnell. He interrupted Boehner's debt ceiling negotiations with the dumbest plan in recent history.
Mar '11
Re: Mitch McConnell
Slowing things down for your own side is not a good thing, Senator.
May '10
Re: Mitch McConnell
Slowing dumb things down: Good.
Slowing necessary, responsible things (like a budget or jobs legislation) down: Feckless, unconscionable, irresponsible, immoral, dishonorable, (how long would you like me to go on?)
Mar '11
Re: Mitch McConnell
Err, it's good that the Senate hasn't passed a budget in several years?
If Ricochet's prophets of doom are correct, and Mr Obama returns, triumphant, to the White House, then we will continue to have no budgets, even if the Senate has a Republican majority. Oh, and Obamacare will be unstoppable (unless the Supreme Court stops it).
Oh, well, the weekend is here :-)
Jan '11
Re: Mitch McConnell
Why do we need to reelect any of you if your best attribute is the inability to act. Rookie senators can vote present as well as you. H.R. Clinton, Barry, Edwards...the list carpetbaggers in the senate is almost as long as the list of blowhards.
Mar '11
Re: Mitch McConnell
Call me cynical, but I get the impression that Senator McConnell is telling Peter what he believes Ricochet/NRO readers want to hear.
Aug '10
Re: Mitch McConnell
Conducted in "the Strom Thurmond Room" tells me all that I need to know.
Were I to have my way there would be no thing named for a career politician ever, be it a bathroom or a gutter. Well, maybe those.
Politicians spend other people's money on edifices to aggrandize themselves - that really isn't a just expenditure.
Jul '11
Re: Mitch McConnell
I am not sure why people make a big deal about budgets. It is not like they actually follow the things.
Sep '10
Re: Mitch McConnell
Another one of your big government GOP friends. I won't waste my time listening.
Jan '11
Re: Mitch McConnell
Oh, I don't know, he may have a point. Obamacare is a travesty and a disgrace, but at least Obama had to use up a lot of energy and political capital to get it passed. Can you imagine what life would be like if he'd been able to pass some Byzantine government overreach every couple of weeks, instead of one in two years?
May '11
Re: Mitch McConnell
truly inspiring stuff from one of our party leaders...
Oct '10
Re: Mitch McConnell
Peter, I must take a contrarian view to some of the comments. I think Mitch McConnell has one of the best political minds in Washington, and has creatively managed the Republicans in the Senate to prevent President Obama and the Democrats from doing even more damage than they have already done. One of the tyrannies that our political system was designed to prevent was the “tyranny of the majority”. It was designed to prevent significant things from being done quickly simply because there is a majority or it is popular. I have read a lot of the pros and cons that were debated about the Senate when the constitution was being created, and I think the founders correctly defined the role of the Senate.