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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell tells Senators the shutdown isn't his fault, and pulls out his stupid effing "mule" quote
This is your fault, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at one point, according to two Republicans who attended the lunch and witnessed the exchange.
Are you suggesting Im enjoying this? McConnell snapped back, according to the people who attended the lunch.
Also during the lunch, McConnell made clear to Pence and others in the room that the shutdown was not his idea and was not working. According to Republicans familiar with his comments, he quoted a favorite saying that he often uses to express his displeasure with government shutdowns: There is no education in the second kick of a mule.
McConnell started using that saying after the 2013 shutdown, which lasted 16 days and ended after the public largely blamed Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/this-is-your-fault-gop-senators-clash-over-shutdown-inside-private-luncheon/2019/01/24/cde0ca22-2045-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,751 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,485 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Sweet.
UpInArms
(51,285 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Sorry ass bunch of people. EXHAUSTED by the level of contempt they show for our country.
Volaris
(10,275 posts)Which means I give this about 10 more days--next week plus the bookending weekends, and McConnell will have something substantial passed by a veto-proof margin and Trump can get bent.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)trueblue2007
(17,242 posts)he is just horrible. no heart. hate us....
why does he hate us so much??
RainCaster
(10,930 posts)Feckin heartless bastid
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)bdamomma
(63,931 posts)that is your majority leader's fault he objected 4 times when a bill was presented. Stop this shutdown now,
Get people back to work, and the airline industry to fly again safely. How dare McConnell does something like this to hold the American people hostage.
You will pay dearly no one will vote for any repig again.
Demovictory9
(32,482 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)Response to Miles Archer (Original post)
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Nevermypresident
(781 posts)overridden conman's veto. Instead, you went MIA. Stop whining and playing the victim.
I despise this excuse of a man.
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)in the subsequent quotings of the same cliche.