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bdamomma

(63,848 posts) Mon Jan 21, 2019, 12:34 PM Jan 2019

McConnell and Pelosi Have a Fraught Relationship. The Shutdown Hasn't Helped.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/politics/mcconnell-pelosi-government-shutdown.html

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WASHINGTON — As the reality of divided government sank in the day after the midterm elections, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who had just expanded his majority, held out hope that he and incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi would find a way to get things done despite their deep differences.

“We’re not unfamiliar with each other,” Mr. McConnell told reporters in November, recounting their time working together on spending bills, “and we’ll probably have a lot more dealings with each other in the future.”

Those dealings are off to a terrible start. A significant portion of the government remains shut down, angry accusations of irresponsibility are flying and the prospects of finding a quick solution to the crisis — or of coming together to pass significant legislation when it ends — remain grim.

Now, with Mr. McConnell making his first significant legislative overture to break the stalemate on Sunday, the outcome might rest on the capacity of Ms. Pelosi and Mr. McConnell to find a way to bridge the divide between them, their parties and the White House.

Ms. Pelosi says the Senate should allow votes on House-passed measures to reopen government agencies; Mr. McConnell says Democrats should support border-protection measures they have backed in the past — including those in the president’s offer on Saturday that would extend temporary protections for thousands of young immigrants at risk of deportation in exchange for wall funding. Mr. McConnell is intending to put on the Senate floor this week a plan that would immediately reopen the government, impose the deportation protections, provide the president’s wall money and offer other sweeteners for Democrats.

Mr. McConnell has tried to turn up the pressure on Ms. Pelosi in recent days — with little success — in a series of speeches on the Senate floor, accusing the “very distinguished congresswoman from San Francisco” of playing to her party’s left wing with her description of the wall as an immorality.

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McConnell and Pelosi Have a Fraught Relationship. The Shutdown Hasn't Helped. (Original Post) bdamomma Jan 2019 OP

McConnell is so far up Russian collusion's treasonous ass maxrandb Jan 2019 #1

Oh my,happy days at the NYT's. Wellstone ruled Jan 2019 #2

Seems rather dispassionate. They carefully bury their opinions between the lines in these pieces. maxsolomon Jan 2019 #3

They as the Paper of Record, Wellstone ruled Jan 2019 #5

I read the opposite way most of the time: maxsolomon Jan 2019 #7

Ah,you noticed that style as I have in the past. Wellstone ruled Jan 2019 #9

Two words malaise Jan 2019 #4

Pelosi must answer that looming question: How do you deal with a horse's ass? Sneederbunk Jan 2019 #6

I hope she's not "irrational" when she does it! maxsolomon Jan 2019 #8

maxrandb

(15,325 posts)

1. McConnell is so far up Russian collusion's treasonous ass

Reply to bdamomma (Original post)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 12:38 PM

Jan 2019

He can see Sarah Palin's house.

He's a wholy own subsidiary of the KGB.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

2. Oh my,happy days at the NYT's.

Reply to bdamomma (Original post)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:00 PM

Jan 2019

Declaring the narrative of division once again. Instead of doing reporting on the cost and affect of Trump's shut down,they are driving the Political Division Train.

maxsolomon

(33,327 posts)

3. Seems rather dispassionate. They carefully bury their opinions between the lines in these pieces.

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:10 PM

Jan 2019

They can't flat out call McConnell a craven, malignant, power-mad reptile. It's more subtle.

There are other articles covering the shutdown effects.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

5. They as the Paper of Record,

Reply to maxsolomon (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:14 PM

Jan 2019

love to drive the Rethug Propaganda Bus via as you mentioned subtle opinion style of writing.

maxsolomon

(33,327 posts)

7. I read the opposite way most of the time:

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:26 PM

Jan 2019

they're criticizing while quoting them. Maybe I just see what I want, but that's also the way Repukes take it, too.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

9. Ah,you noticed that style as I have in the past.

Reply to maxsolomon (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 01:50 PM

Jan 2019

Stop the Times when they went pay wall. And just read their stuff here on the board. A old Roomy of mine back in the ancient times,had a name for this stile of Journalism and it escapes me today. Well,the Roomy went on to teach Journalism at U of Missouri. Some reference to the Hearst Yellow Journalism Model.