McConnell: Senate GOP will pursue more bipartisan agenda in 2018

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 12/22/17 12:24 PM EST

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday said he expects 2018 to be a more bipartisan year compared to 2017, a year when Republicans confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and passed tax reform with party-line votes.

“One thing you can say about this year is that it was pretty partisan,” McConnell told reporters at a year-end press conference. McConnell said next year will be different.

He said with a smaller, one-seat GOP majority next year, it will be difficult pass legislation without Democratic support. Sen.-elect Doug Jones (D-Ala.) will be sworn in in the new year.

“There are areas, I think, where we can get bipartisan agreement,” McConnell said, pointing to a bill passed by the Senate Banking Committee earlier this year with Democratic support that would roll back part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366194-mcconnell-gop-will-pursue-more-bipartisan-agenda-in-2018

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McConnell: Entitlement reform would have to be bipartisan

BY JESSIE HELLMANN - 12/22/17 12:45 PM EST

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) downplayed the likelihood of achieving entitlement reform in 2018.

"The sensitivity of entitlements is such that you almost have to have a bipartisan agreement in order to achieve a result," McConnell said at a press conference Friday.

"The only time we’ve been able to do that is on a bipartisan basis and it was a long time ago." McConnell's comments come as Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) eyes entitlement reform for next year.

"I don't think the health care issue is done," Ryan said in an interview with The Weekly Standard.

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http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/366198-mcconnell-entitlement-reform-would-have-to-be-bipartisan

[Freethinker65]

1. Would be nearly impossible to be more partisan. Hahaha

[IMnotU]

29. The first thing that needs to be bipartisan is the impeaching of Donald Trump

[workinclasszero]

54. I agree

Show us what you got Turtle!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Because the election was stolen

their entire agenda and all their actions stink of illegitimacy and in a right world would be declared illegal and defunct

[ffr]

14. +1

And if we had a media arm of the DNC it would be screaming to high heaven about it, just like Fox would if the rolls were reversed. This has always been about greed and power.

McConnell is a snake, which isn't being kind to snakes.

[Scarsdale]

17. He must mean like it was

when President Obama was in office! Yeah, right. The day of the first inauguration the top gop members vowed to BLOCK everything he tried to do. He vowed to "Make Obama a one-term president" I hope he gets the same co-operation from the democratic members. They will roll over him and the rest of the gop traitors. Once the democrats are in charge, it should be full steam ahead with THEIR agenda, screw the gop. Take a leaf out of their book.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. McConnell has zero

credibility,he has burn his Bridges with the Dems. So anything McConnell says is a lie.

[underpants]

4. Even he knows going after Medicare and/or Soc Sec would be a nightmare for them

in the midterms.

[patricia92243]

5. INTERPRETATION: "Vote for us even though you hate Donald. When we win - as I am sure

you will do - we will pretend to work with Democrats to make you think you didn't waste your vote."

[klook]

6. They plan to appeal to both the Right

and the extreme far Right. Which is what they're doing now.

[dalton99a]

7. Probably after Trump releases his tax returns

[Scarsdale]

21. Well, that

plus when he tells us the results of tRump's medical examination. Which is to say - never.

[bronxiteforever]

8. McConnell is just an abusive spouse. After breaking a nose he brings flowers.

When 2018 is over he will hit and hurt again.
We won’t be fooled in 2018.

[TeamPooka]

9. Too late motherfucker. We're coming for all of you in 2018. The D-Wave starts now!

[bronxiteforever]

43. [phone]

[lastlib]

56. IOW, FUCK YOU, McTurdle!

IOW, Horse-shit, you sonofab--ch. Eat it!

[47of74]

10. And if you believe that fuck I have the following for sale

[AmericanActivist]

11. Another thread re Traitor Mitch you posted explains

McConnell’s lip service to “more bipartisan” approach.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141945579

First, Traitor Mitch is a liar! Second there hasn’t been any bipartisanship at all from him and his ilk. Third, he can see the writing on the wall.

[kysrsoze]

12. Who the fuck do they think they're kidding? They're all habitual liars and crooks.

[hibbing]

13. As usual, another lie

If this god awful tax scam bill wouldn't have been so horrendous, many Democrats would have voted for reduced corporate taxes and more focus on middle class instead of the massive redistribution to the ruling class it was. After all, they are all sponsored by the same corporate interests.


Peace

[Scarsdale]

23. The gop crafted the

entire bill with help from lobbyists, behind closed doors. They KNEW it would stink to high heaven. They looked SO proud of themselves. Wait until the democratic party takes control. Wipe all those grins off their faces. DUMP tRump and most of the gop traitors.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. He's running scared. Don't fall for it. Only allow very painful (for Rs) CONcessions, like Scotus

For example, demand that Merrick Garland be seated before any other CONcessions are made, even if it means waiting for an opening to appear. I know, unworkable, but that's the spirit that should be engaged.

[awesomerwb1]

16. Fuck you turtle, watch us vote PARTISAN Dem

as we try to get our country back in 2018!

[cab67]

19. please...

turtles are noble creatures. It demeans them to be compared with someone as odious as the current Senate majority leader.

[awesomerwb1]

20. ok, is mutated turtlenoid better?

[cab67]

53. Yes, better.

Turtles have a more sophisticated behavioral range than the senator who outwardly resembles one.

[Mr. Ected]

18. 2019 won't be bipartisan

A blue wave will overtake Washington, and we'll start to undo the damage wrought by the fascists.

[Irish_Dem]

22. So when the Dems refuse to support a bill, McC can claim they refuse the olive

branch he has offered.

[roamer65]

24. Fuck off.

Go fuck yourself, Moscow Mitch.

[mountain grammy]

26. +1

[harun]

25. November 6, 2018, GOP, You're Fired.

[Freddie]

27. So he thinks Dems are going to sign on with "entitlement reform"

Which means cuts to our earned benefits? Sorry pal, you can touch the third rail entirely on your own.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

28. No collaboration. NT

[sofa king]

30. Don't worry about that. He's lying.

[cstanleytech]

31. Fuck off Mitch, soon as we regain the majority in the House and Senate as well as the Whitehouse

I full support our guys paying you back 100x in every way that they can.

[Tom Rinaldo]

32. You burned that bridge by ramming through that tax bill along strict partisan lines Mitch.

We can all talk again after the dust settles from the midterms in November.

[Hugin]

34. And stealing a Supreme Court position.

No compromise from this Democrat... EVER!

[Faux pas]

33. Yeah

I believe that effing lying sack of a pant load.

[procon]

35. In the immortal words of Nikki Haley, Dems have been "taking names"

of all the Republicans who targeted us and criticized our choice. Fair is fair, yeah?

[Skittles]

36. LOL

these assholes, they're really something

[niyad]

37. suuuuuure, you mean it, turtle face.

[Eliot Rosewater]

38. LIAR

[paleotn]

39. Uh, no.

That dog won't hunt, Mitch. We know what you are and are going to keep it that way into 2018.

[sakabatou]

40. BULLSHIT!

If he wanted to be bipartisan, he would've done it years ago!

[rtracey]

41. that had to be

That had to be his statement. McConnell know he's reign of terror is about to come to an end. He needs to have voters think he is doing everything great for the country. He believes if he spouts bullshit about bipartisanship now, the right wing terror machine will not lose the senate or house...good luck shit brains, I hope this democratic strong machine steamrolls you and your fucking asswipe congress right into your rocking chairs where I hope you shit yourself and no one come to help you.

[Kablooie]

42. He's trying to kiss up to Democrats in hopes of keeping Republicans around in the next election.

They know the reputation of Republicans has plopped to the bottom of the septic tank.

[cstanleytech]

55. Yup and he is hoping to stop them from paying the Repugnants back like they deserve.

[COLGATE4]

44. In the words of an old Army First Sergeant

"Bull-fucking-shit"!!!

[Ken Burch]

45. Yeah...they'll be more bipartisan...

Now that everything that matters has been decided 'til the midterms. Now that there's nothing they could meet Dems halfway on that makes any meaningful difference to anyone.

Now that it's just going to be student council politics 'til next January.

[They_Live]

46. Right.

Now that you flushed the country down the toilet.

Fuck off McConnell. You took Russian money. Criminal.

[byronius]

47. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Whoooooo!!!

Burn them down.

[flying-skeleton]

48. Democrats have learned NOTHING ........

If they work with the Republicans on ANYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guilded Lilly]

49. Blow it out your tight arse, Pal. You only mention...

Bipartisan because the midterms will hand you and you vile party mates their butts on a platter to the the ranks of the unemployed unless you plot to look like you are reasonable.

You aren’t.

You are polluted with bullshit.

You’ve been an anti-humanity, foul prick since day one of Barack Obama’s Presidency so go choke on it.

[YOHABLO]

50. I don't want to work with them. I want Dem majority in both houses! Their ideology is fucked up.

[Mike Nelson]

51. Mitch and Paul...

...support child molesters and white supremacists - I say refuse to be seen with either of them.

[crazycatlady]

59. Paul will be shown the unemployment line by Randy Bryce

[blueinredohio]

52. The only thing democrats should agree with McConnell on is impeachment

[NNadir]

57. He is a racist liar; a man who subverted the constitution because he couldn't stand that...

...an African American was vastly more intelligent, more competent, more successful than he will ever be.

He's a collaborator with the most corrupt, stupid, ignorant and mindless President in US history, a man who will make the likes of Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and George W. Bush seem competent.

He needs to be kicked out in disgrace on his ass.

[onetexan]

58. make that " the most corrupt, stupid, ignorant and mindless ILLEGITIMATE President in US history"

forget working bipartisan. With hard work and luck we'll ride this Dem. wave and kick the turtle and the rest of the idiot-in-chief's asses out of office after we win back the House, and hopefully Senate too. I have faith we can do this.

[Stuart G]

60. Do you think that the Domocratic senators believe him? Those he screwed over?

And those of us who were angered when he destroyed Obama's appointment to the Supreme Court?
He is a vicious asshole. Most of us know this. If we know this, then the senators he screwed over know this too. I wonder what Schumer thinks about this statement?