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elleng

(130,974 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 02:21 AM Feb 2017

Mitch McConnell Sees High Level of Satisfaction With Trump Administration.

'Although there is plenty of anxiety in Washington about the shaky early performance of the Trump administration, don’t count Senator Mitch McConnell among the hand wringers.

Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican and the majority leader, says he and his Senate Republican colleagues are quite satisfied with the Trump team so far. In fact, he said, they are reassured by signs that President Trump is going to hew to a conservative agenda after early fears that the president — a relatively unknown quantity to most elected Republicans — might not really be one of them.

“The country doesn’t need saving,” Mr. McConnell said when asked during an interview in his Capitol office if there was any cause for a senior-level congressional intervention given early chaos in the evolving West Wing.

“I think there is a high level of satisfaction with the new administration,” he said, dismissing concerns about dissonant eruptions from the new president and some of his top staff members. “Our members are not obsessed with the daily tweets, but are looking at the results.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-republicans.html?

Sorry. See y'all pendant le deluge.

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Mitch McConnell Sees High Level of Satisfaction With Trump Administration. (Original Post) elleng Feb 2017 OP
I'm sure the fact that his wife is on the cabinet had nothing to do with his opinion! Docreed2003 Feb 2017 #1
Of course it did. elleng Feb 2017 #2
We can only pray it will... Docreed2003 Feb 2017 #3
and that Dems get a loud VOICE, elleng Feb 2017 #4
He is a despicable man. madaboutharry Feb 2017 #5
I'm looking forward to his obituary. Solly Mack Feb 2017 #6
+1 dalton99a Feb 2017 #8
Was just thinking today samplegirl Feb 2017 #7

elleng

(130,974 posts)
2. Of course it did.
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 02:28 AM
Feb 2017

'“Sooner or later we will get around to things that will require some level of cooperation,” Mr. McConnell said. “Hopefully there will be a kind of dysfunction fatigue. I think it will set in way before then.”

His point raises a question: Will that same passage of time produce a kind of Trump fatigue among the now-satisfied congressional Republicans?'

Docreed2003

(16,863 posts)
3. We can only pray it will...
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 02:33 AM
Feb 2017

McConnell and his wife have made careers out of scamming the average American. We can only pray that Trump fatigue sets in sooner rather than later!

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
5. He is a despicable man.
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 02:38 AM
Feb 2017

What result does he want? A dystopian society? The Mitch McConnells of the world do nothing but cause misery. It is selfish hateful people like him and his stupid wife, who when she was Labor Secretary during the Bush administration didn't know the amount of the minimum wage, who do real damage to the country. They laugh at the people they trick into voting for them.

samplegirl

(11,480 posts)
7. Was just thinking today
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 04:22 AM
Feb 2017

With all his money why don't he retire and go spend some of it? Worthless piece of shit!

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