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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 10:31 AM Mar 2020

Thoughts and prayers time...members of McConnell's Republican caucus are "angered."

According to a report from the LA Times, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was taken out of the loop during round-the-clock negotiations to cobble together a desperately needed multi-trillion dollar stimulus bill designed to save the U.S. economy from collapsing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

That, in turn, angered members of his Republican caucus after he promised them they would have more say in a later version.

According to the Times, “With his mastery of rules and tactics and control over his caucus, McConnell has developed a reputation as one of the Senate’s most powerful majority leaders. But in the talks to shape the massive bailout bill, he was effectively sidelined for much of the final days as Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin and Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer of New York negotiated.”
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The report goes on to note that it was McConnell who opened the door to the White House working directly — in the beginning — with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) only to see himself sidelined by Mnuchin who took a larger role than usual because the preside t wanted a quick turnaround due to his growing panic as the pandemic crisis rocked the economy.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-white-house-cut-mcconnell-out-of-pandemic-stimulus-bill-negotiations-in-order-to-speed-them-up-report/
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Thoughts and prayers time...members of McConnell's Republican caucus are "angered." (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2020 OP
fuck. them. all. thoughts and prayers NRaleighLiberal Mar 2020 #1
Aww, too bad for the turtle. fleur-de-lisa Mar 2020 #2
I really don't care, do you? Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #3
Important in a post Trump world judeling Mar 2020 #4
Oh, please, please, please, grumpyduck Mar 2020 #5

judeling

(1,086 posts)
4. Important in a post Trump world
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 11:28 AM
Mar 2020

Mitch built his myth in opposition. Blocking was much easier then legislating. He could use Trump to increase the myth as again he could block ad only release stuff most didn't care about.

But the deep fissures are building and in the scramble to Dump Trump post election they will turn into chasms. There will be a lot of room to maneuver for Biden if he doesn't send the Republicans into immediate full opposition.

grumpyduck

(6,198 posts)
5. Oh, please, please, please,
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 11:29 AM
Mar 2020

O Great God of Karma, get McMinion and his flunkies so angry that they stop enabling that thing in the Oval Office.

PLEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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