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Matt Lewis: Rightosphere Turning on Mitch McConnell?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... Posted by: Matt Lewis at 9:34 AM In a post subtitled, "When will conservatives decide they are tired of getting screwed by Mitch McConnell?" -- Erick Erickson of RedState pulls no punches in his aggressive criticism of the Senate Minority Leader... ...

Progressive Breakfast: Huge Job Loss Adds To Urgency
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... caucus is calling the plan, such as it is, 'not only ineffective, but nonsensical.'" GOP's #2 in the House Eric Cantor uses fuzzy math on CNN: "The president- elect has said that out of that trillion dollars, we'll see over three million jobs created. At that rate, it's almost $330,000 per job..." (Of course, Obama has yet to final cost figure on the plan, and not all of the money, such as tax cuts and aid for state governments, will be slated for job creation.) RedState: "Mitch McConnell Lost His Testicles and Now Infects the Senate GOP With a ...

1/9: Selling The Stimulus
Blogometer — ... past six decades, policymakers have used some tactics from the Great Depression to quell recessions -- such as spending on roads and bridges to create jobs, transferring payments to raise consumer demand, and infusing money into the credit system. But these stopgap measures, which are at the heart of Obama's recovery program, may prove inadequate." OBAMA II: The Rightroots Revolt Conservative bloggers are urging GOPers in Congress to oppose Obama's economic stimulus bill: Meanwhile, RedState 's Erick Erickson unloads on McConnell in a post entitled, "Mitch McConnell Lost ...

Expel The Heretics!
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Erick Erickson hates, hates, hates Mitch McConnell: The idea that Mitch McConnell is protecting us from the Democrats is bullcrap.  We should collectively rip off his jaw and shovel the crap back down his throat that he’s been serving us. ...

Conservative Bloggers Up In Arms Over GOP Cooperation With Obama
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... "You can sense a lot of frustration -- from listening to Rush Limbaugh to reading at RedState -- with Republican members of Congress being ready to fall all over themselves to help him," says Erick Erickson, editor of the conservative blog RedState. ...

Conservative Bloggers Up In Arms Over GOP Cooperation With Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... "You can sense a lot of frustration -- from listening to Rush Limbaugh to reading at RedState -- with Republican members of Congress being ready to fall all over themselves to help him," says Erick Erickson, editor of the conservative blog RedState. ...

McConnell Sets Republican Party Senate Priorities: Go After Eric Holder
DownWithTyranny! — ... and Erick Erickson-- we find that somehow it is serial obstructionist Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and not nuclear psycho-obstructionist Jim DeMint (R-SC) who leads the GOP Senate caucus as minority leader. And, as such, it's McConnell, not the lunatic fringe like Malkin or Erickson, who sets the right-wing's toxic agenda. ...

Is Harry Reid Really Trying to Push Tom Coburn Off the Judiciary Committee?
TPM Election Central — ... during previous public struggles of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will likely get a kick out of this post on the conservative blog Red State, in which Eric Erickson proves quasi-eloquently that the right has as many problems with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as the left has with Reid. ...

In Defense of Mitch McConnell
The Next Right — ... Red State is unhappy with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. (Note: I used to work in the Senate Republican Communications Center under Sen. McConnell.  Perhaps that biases me, or perhaps that gives me a unique viewpoint, but I'm trying to make an objective analysis of the landscape here) ...

Tom Coburn gets rolled with the "Tomnibus" bill
Crooks and Liars — ... Orton writes: While the Roland Burris fiasco has dominated early perception of the new Dem caucus, yesterday's work shouldn't be ignored. With Obama looking for as many votes as possible on the stimulus package, this early vote did more than warn Republicans of possible Sunday work - it provided a nice, concrete reminder of a new, expanded majority. Meanwhile, Red State's Erik Erickson throws a hissy fit at Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell Lost His Testicles and Now Infects the Senate GOP With a Cancer ...

Republicans Not Fighting
Nice Deb — ... We are so screwed Part 784: Republicans are rolling over like puppies for Obama/Reid/Pelosi. Redstate says Mitch McConnell is leading the retreat: The idea that Mitch McConnell is protecting us from the Democrats is bullcrap.  We should collectively rip off his jaw and shovel the crap back down his throat that he’s been serving us. Example 1: McConnell has today allowed Harry Reid to move forward with the Lands Bill despite Tom Coburn’s hold on it. Example 2: McConnell will not fight for ...