McConnell: 'We could do with a little less drama from the White House'
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 05/16/17 09:49 AM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he and his GOP colleagues on Capitol Hill could use a break from the near constant stream of controversy emerging from the White House as they continue to push forward with an aggressive package of conservative legislation.
“I think we could do with a little less drama from the White House on a lot of things so that we can focus on our agenda, which is deregulations, tax reform and repealing and replacing Obamacare,” McConnell (R-Ky.) said in an interview Tuesday morning with Bloomberg TV.
His comments came in response to reporting from the Washington Post, which published a story Monday evening alleging that President Donald Trump had disclosed highly sensitive intelligence to two top Russian diplomats during an Oval Office meeting last week. White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster disputed the story with a statement delivered to reporters Monday evening that McConnell said “tends to refute the story, rebut the story.”
News of Trump’s alleged sharing of classified information with Russian officials closely followed another Russia-related controversy that the president kicked off last week with his surprise firing of FBI Director James Comey, who was at the time overseeing the bureau’s investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
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McConnell: Senate 'can't take forever' on health care
By MADELINE CONWAY 05/16/17 09:57 AM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday declined to put a timeline on passing health care legislation, but said the Senate “can’t take forever” on it.
“We can’t take forever,” McConnell told Bloomberg TV, citing instability in the individual insurance market. “I don’t think we have forever to address this, but I’m not going to put a strict timeline on it.”
House Republicans passed a revised version of their proposal to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act earlier this month, after a failed attempt in late March. That bill is likely too conservative to pass the Senate, and lawmakers in the upper chamber have since been working on their own version of the legislation.
McConnell told Bloomberg that Republican senators are currently in “intense” meetings on health care three days a week.
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So could we! Why doesn't he and his fellow GOP goon squad go and pick up the little man-baby orange turd and get the hell out of politics and leave it to the adults to step in and try to undo all the shit they left in their wake!!!
So sick of these people and tRump!! They have got to go!! 
"... focus on our agenda, which is deregulations, tax reform and repealing and replacing Obamacare"
So... If Trump keeps up the drama Dems might buy enough time to build up more support and win enough seats in '18 to stop the 'Cons from finishing their job of destroying this country's economy, poor, veterans, seniors, disabled, middle-class, etc to line the pockets of the rich... that might work... 
Unfortunately the way he's going WWIII seems like a good possibility too if he keeps up the 'drama'. 
Nevertheless Mitch persisted.
Forget the conservative legislation. By all means, let the orange drama continue! 
Which would be the orange thing with all his red roots starting to show. 45 is synonymous with "drama." McCon is implying that Bloomberg and the rest of the media is whamboozling us with "fake" news, so the Repugs keep getting distracted from their marvelous plan to deprive 24 million Americans of their healthcare. The actual real fake news is that the GOP couldn't give a damn - either about the country or the people. Their healthcare plan is designed to cause suffering for millions, and they want to sneak it through ASAP before the CBO has a chance to study it.
