GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell obstructs Obama's stimulus package

The GOP Senators, led by Mitch McConnell, have enabled the Bush administration's domestic and international disasters for the past eight years. McConnell is trying to further destroy the already fragile U.S. economy by continuing the same obstructionist games:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voiced skepticism today about the emerging economic stimulus plan, applying a brake to Democratic plans to quickly pass up to $850 billion in spending and tax cuts soon after President-elect Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration.

"As of right now, Americans are left with more questions than answers about this unprecedented government spending, and I believe the taxpayers deserve to know a lot more about where it will be spent before we consider passing it," McConnell said in a statement, which will be publicly issued later today.

Obama's advisers and congressional Democrats have been huddling in the Capitol trying to craft a massive stimulus plan that could cost anywhere from $675 billion to $850 billion, while some economists are pushing for a total package worth more than $1 trillion.

McConnell -- the most powerful Republican in Washington, based on the filibuster-proof level of 41 GOP Senate seats -- called for many congressional hearings on the stimulus plan and some undetermined safeguards to assure the money is being spent wisely."

The Senate Republicans have been the most destructive political force in the country. They're not changing the way they do business. And, for some reason, despite the loss of 25% of the GOP Senate caucus over the past two years, McConnell thinks the same strategy will work now.

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Those SOBs.They don't give a damn what happens to the country. Obama better find a way to run over or around them. He better not trust them.

of the modern version -
GOP: "we plan to filibuster"
Dem Response: "OK we quit. We lose. We concede to the majo. . . to the all-powerful minority."

Seems like democracy is a little more durable than the Republicans were whining about all those years on the rare occasions when their most evil machinations were temporarily thwarted. But I'm sure the bulldogs of the Fourth Estate, who were so zealous in presenting Democrats as enemies of the people for stalling Republican schemes, will be equally vocal now that it's an even smaller minority of Republicans monkey-wrenching the process. Right?

{Crickets}

I said, "Right?"

{Crickets}

Oh. Right.

The Repukes don't want to work with Obama, they want to do things like this, they will do everything they can to show that the Democrats are still weak and unable to get the job done.

I think the "Kumbaya" moment that Obama was looking for was nothing more then a pipe dream.

Obama needs to destroy them utterly and the Democratics in the Congress need to help him in that destruction.

Just my humble opinion.

Better than having a rubber stamp congress.

we still have a few republicans who will do what is right for the American people-Specter, Snow, Collins...

The Republicans just want to feel important. Don't give them what they want.

to make a point about his regressive tax mantra.

If he can get Snowe, Collins and others on board and work it, then fine.
If not, he needs to get with Harry Reid and move his ass one way or another.
They better scour the rules of the Senate and work out a plan.

by name. He has the oratory skills to do it and a populace that is sick and tired of the right wing bullshit.
I'm an optimist today.
Check in tomorrow. Who knows what mood I will be in.

we can defeat the SOB. The ? is can we depend on all the democratic caucus?

and every couple of hours or so, send out a Dem to talk to the press to state the Repubs are holding things up and name names - i.e. mcconnell is being obstructionist and the rest of the repubs are being sheep

no recesses, no going home for the night - the repubs want to "fill-a-buster" then let them do it 24/7 - nothing else gets brought to the table, nothing else gets on the floor

where EVERYONE can see what's what.

In fact they killed it completely along with his National Health Care Bill. Democrats had a fairly substantial Majority at that time too. Republicans are just far better at getting their way on things..

all of whom had earned overwhelming defeats. :P

We need someone with balls running the Senate, not a pacifist. This is war on the American citizenry, and Harry better know his political life is on the line this time.

They answer to globalist masters (as do too many Democrats also).