politico.com - 1/30/2009
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McConnell said the GOP must regain lost supporters or risk becoming a permanent minority party.
redstate.com - 1/29/2009
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redstate.com —
Last night the House GOP stood together, moderates
and conservatives, and opposed Barack Obama's socialist stimulus scheme....
Today, Mitch McConnell is going to address the Republican National Committee's winter meeting. According to Roll Call, in his ...
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Mitch McConnell Needs Our Help
dontgomovement.com - 1/29/2009
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dontgomovement.com —
Grow a Pair…and it appears we’re going to
have to give him some help. Operation Send a...
Pair The DontGo Movement is teaming up with RedState to launch the new “Send a Pair” campaign. The campaign is in place to help Mitch McConnell obtain some much ...
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Mitch McConnell Needs Some Balls
blogs.abcnews.com - 2/4/2009
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blogs.abcnews.com —
On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
suggested he doesn't like the idea of limiting executive...
compensation. "What you have to do, it strikes me, is have some kind of parameters that don't have the government basically running the...
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Boehner V. McConnell on Executive Compensation
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Only five black RNC members — including the two running for chairman.
Think Progress —
... ; the three Cuban-Americans, one Vietnamese-American, and one Hispanic represent the caucus’ entire minority membership. No wonder Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned yesterday that the GOP was becoming “a regional party.“ ...
McConnell: GOP in Danger of Becoming “Regional” Party, Must Move Leftward
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Mitch McConnell has spent a decent amount of time in the last week speaking about “his path to a “post-partisan” era,” which involves, in his eyes, “both sides…reject[ing] their party’s extremes and govern[ing] from the middle.” Doing this will somehow, according to the Senate Minority Leader, reverse the GOP’s current course toward being “a regional party.” ...
I believe Erick said send balls, not Neuticles
No Runny Eggs —
... to a piece that ran on Politico yesterday that says that quotes McConnell as saying the Republicans need to become even more liberal than they have over the last 8 years. Let me put it this way; when there were GOP governors on both coasts, when Ronald Reagan won every state except Minnesota, the GOP was the party of both economic and social conservatism. Over the last 18 years, ever since George H.W. Bush busted his lips and raised taxes, the Republican Party has abandoned first economic conservatism and then social conservatism. The Democrats never really abandoned their ...
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McConnell painted a dismal picture of the state of his party.
(CNN) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell painted a downright dismal view of the state of his party Thursday afternoon, telling Republican National Committee members the GOP ...
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