Mitch McConnell: Dumping Obama in 2012 Is The Only Way To Achieve The GOP Agenda

[SunsetDreams]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tamped down expectations about the repeal of health care reform on Thursday, saying that the only way that goal can truly be achieved is if voters help get rid of President Obama in 2012.

McConnell stood by his recent comments that the "single most important thing" for the GOP to achieve in the new Congress is to make sure Obama doesn't get a second term.

"Over the past week, some have said it was indelicate of me to suggest that our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term in office," McConnell will say at a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation on Thursday at 11:00 a.m, according to his prepared remarks. "But the fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things. We can hope the President will start listening to the electorate after Tuesday's election. But we can't plan on it."

McConnell added that Republicans will still nevertheless repeatedly propose and vote on straight repeal. "But we can't expect the president to sign it," he added. "So we'll also have to work, in the House, on denying funds for implementation, and, in the Senate, on votes against its most egregious provisions."

More here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/mitch-mcconnell-heritage-health-care_n_778796.html

[SoCalDem]

1. Why wait 'til '12?

Watch them try to impeach him.. They are impudent bullies..

[SunsetDreams]

2. and if that don't work, guess we could always

Primary him, get him limping to the General Election, then see what happens.

He'll be fine though :)

[gkhouston]

3. Why would we *want* to achieve their agenda? That's how we got here. n/t

[SunsetDreams]

6. yeah 8 years of Bush was enough!

[Skidmore]

7. And why wouldn't we want to achieve our own agenda.

Rs have a huge sense of entitlement.

[AndrewP]

4. Well, no chin....how about you show us your birth certificate????

[SunsetDreams]

5. "no chin"

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

8. What we should do is adopt every county in KY and help them to a new Senator.

They deserve at least one sane one, preferably with a chin. :)

[SunsetDreams]

11. Now there's a plan, start the adoption proceedings

:)

[WinkyDink]

9. I suspect most Republicans want a Republican president, no?

[treestar]

10. He's right about that.

For the next two years their agenda gets vetoed. They'll have to beat him in 2012 if they want their agenda to proceed then. Duh.

[SunsetDreams]

12. yep exactly, we should send Obama some extra pens :)

[bullwinkle428]

13. I need an Enigma Machine to figure out just exactly what he's trying

to express with this statement.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

14. That's a tautology

Dumping Obama in 2012 Is The Only Way To Achieve The GOP Agenda which consists of nothing but dumping Obama in 2012

[SunsetDreams]

15. Whatever do you mean?

[Lorien]

16. It looks like the GOP agenda will be acheived either way

ongoing wars, not holding banking crooks or war criminals accountable, continued offshoring, attacks on public schools, medicare, social security, torture, continued tax breaks for the wealthy, no action on climate change, increased offshore drilling....America is a Republican utopia and they STILL aren't happy!