Mitch McConnell's bizarre threats show danger of a GOP Congress

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With Mitch McConnell threatening to sink a China competitiveness bill if Dems keep negotiating a new BBB, Dems are unveiling a plan to tax very high earners to extend the solvency of Medicare.

Republicans will oppose this, but let's see them defend that.

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Opinion | Mitch McConnell’s bizarre threats show danger of a GOP Congress
Republicans may sink a bill boosting competitiveness with China to block lower health care costs.
9:09 AM · Jul 7, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/07/mitch-mcconnell-threats-gop-congress/

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has long benefited from a kind of built-in media presumption of his tactical brilliance. His procedural feints are regularly depicted at first as masterstrokes, even though they sometimes flop, showing him to be operating from a weaker position than his perpetual aura of confidence implied.

Yet now the Kentucky Republican’s latest move is raising eyebrows among some of the savviest reporters in Washington. McConnell is threatening to tank negotiations over a major bill boosting U.S. manufacturing and research — to get Democrats to back off pursuing a Democrats-only bill addressing climate change, prescription drug prices and health-care costs.

It’s a useful warning of what a GOP-controlled Congress would look like: More governing-by-arsonist-threat, and more blockading of policies that might actually help people, justified with arguments that are saturated in bad faith and driven by no discernible vision of what’s in the public interest.

Democrats are set to respond with a new proposal to tax very high earners to extend the solvency of Medicare, a Democratic aide tells me. This will be added to a package being negotiated with Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), to pass with only Democrats via “reconciliation.”

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[barbtries]

1. so much that is wrong in this country

can be laid directly at his feet. he's evil.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes pure evil.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes pure evil.

[2naSalit]

2. Domestic terrorist leader.

That's what he is.

[Caliman73]

3. Imagine what would be said...

if a Democratic Senator or Congressperson was threatening to disrupt a bill to make the United States more competitive with China by making favorable policy toward domestic industry. Imagine the names that the Democratic politician and Party would be called.

Why aren't the "savvy" reporters in Washington calling McConnell what he is? UnAmerican.