McConnell: Republican Agenda 'Is Exactly The Same As The Trump Agenda'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 27, 2017, 3:35 PM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Monday that congressional Republicans agenda "is exactly the same as the Trump agenda."
McConnell, addressing reporters alongside House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) outside of the White House on Monday afternoon, made reference to Trumps planned address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday.
I think for virtually all Republicans, the chance to actually do things we felt would move the country in the right direction and have the President sign them into law is a pretty exciting prospect, so we're looking forward to a positive, upbeat presentation tomorrow night, McConnell said, and then proceeding with our agenda, which is exactly the same as the Trump agenda.
That is a bold commitment, given that parts of Trumps professed agenda that run against Republican orthodoxy.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-agenda-is-republican-agenda-mcconnell
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)The Trump Agenda is getting to be about as popular as a case of hemorrhoids
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the dark-money people are up to in Congress. 45's agenda is as much theirs as they can make it.
As we're seeing, even most conservatives didn't believe they'd really destroy the ACA. Medicaid, the VA, funding for public schools all on the block. The EPA gutted, to be eliminated. If Congress insists on having its way on the budget, they'll have to face up to the reality of cuts to Social Security and Medicare--a first step to significant numbers admitting that their "representatives" really did intend to destroy-by-privatizing these programs all along.
Plus, various things that will go wrong, like deaths of ground troops, deaths in deportation camps, old Uncle Bob coming live in their home office, etc.
Painful hemorrhoids are going to turn to serious worry that it's cancer.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Just one gigantic target, like the Death Star.
None of them can say they didn't collaborate in the looting of America and handing it over to Trumputin.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Finish it in 2020. Clear out all the deadwood, who did next to nothing for 8 years.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Let's show them what we're made of!
Volaris
(10,278 posts)He gets indicted for collusion to commit treason.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)unblock
(52,489 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)Your ball, Tom and Keith.
bdamomma
(63,960 posts)and our country is over the cliff if they do not stop this wicked man's agenda with Bannon and his cabal.
I hate them for what they are doing to our country.
Don't stop letting them know.
McConnell and Ryan need to be voted out.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)6 years is a lot of time to be immune.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)That's 5-3/4 years too long.
McTurtle has four years to go. He was re-elected in 2014.
He is a splineless, soulless poorest excuse of a human.
C Moon
(12,226 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)bdamomma
(63,960 posts)he should just go home and retire and count his money, I hope all that greed will choke him.
McConnell would not allow investigations when he was informed about the Russian interference in the election. He KNEW tRump was going to win. That is obvious when he insisted "There will be NO hearings on Obama's selection for the Supreme Court. The NEXT PRESIDENT will chose" Bastard KNEW who that would be. No wonder they do not want investigations. Too bad, we must INSIST this entire fiasco be scrutinized. Meanwhile tRump and family are draining the treasury. He is now building a helicopter pad at Mar-A-Largo. That way, he can avoid the crowds of protesters.
mikeysnot
(4,758 posts)and light it on fire.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)God, how I hate McConnell.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)bdamomma
(63,960 posts)with the pu**y grabber. Republicans are scum. Kentuckians know him well, he never did anything good for them either.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)was rewarded for her "husband's" treason with a lucrative government job. Mitch must not be collecting enough lobbyists money, he needs the old lady's help.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)BRIBE to get a corrupt politician to come around.
It works(ed) like a charm.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Nt
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Run it with every political ad until the end of time
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,476 posts)is when the money or the votes stop flowing their way.
So adjust your lives according to your wishes.
Solly Mack
(90,800 posts)Snort
tanyev
(42,669 posts)OnDoutside
(19,986 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)The Republican Party supports the deconstructionist agenda of President Bannon.
Remember this in 2018. Assuming Democrats are still allowed to vote that year.
canetoad
(17,215 posts)Of using the Nuremberg Defence: "We were only following orders."
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)I'm not exactly surprised, but I'm amazed they're coming out so early in the game.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Right you are, you bulgy-eyed, jawless freak.
He really thinks he's made this earth shaking revelation, by saying that.
Repug stupidity is matched only by their treasonous proclivities. You guys are all best buddies with Putin now, right Mitch?
Vinca
(50,326 posts)bdamomma
(63,960 posts)I hate repigs.
Cosmocat
(14,584 posts)EVERY democrat, every patriotic american, should refer to the GOP as such at every opportunity.
Volaris
(10,278 posts)It must be nice for their voter-base to have their elected Reps so utterly terrified of them...One wrong whisper and you're immediately turned into a traitorous commie liberal and blackballed to 'never work in this town again.'
I understand that we ACTUALLY dirty liberals much prefer our reps to function from a place of courage, logic, and facts instead of outright fear, it can't be said that it doesn't work for them.
NNadir
(33,583 posts)Nitram
(22,951 posts)Helps us pin this presidency on the GOP for the 2018 elections.