blogs.tnr.com - 7/20/2009
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Ah, there's nothing like a Mitch McConnell interview to put everything into perspective. The Senate Minority Leader appeared on "Meet the Press" Sunday to discuss health reform. And he professed great concern for what President Obama and the Democrats had in mind.“If you're going ...
mcconnell.senate.gov - 7/17/2009
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McCONNELL TO OPPOSE SOTOMAYOR NOMINATION from the Office
of Senator Mitch McConnell Friday, July 17, 2009 -...
Senate Republican Leader will deliver remarks on the Senate floor Monday outlining his opposition to Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme ...
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Senator Mitch McConnell - Press Releases
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Fiscal hypocrisy
Political Animal —
FISCAL HYPOCRISY.... Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the costs of health care reform. "If you're going to do something as comprehensive as the president wants to do," the Kentucky Republican said, "you ought to pay for it." Jonathan Cohn agrees , but finds McConnell sudden interest in fiscal responsibility interesting. ...It's important that reform pay for itself. Still, I don't recall McConnell being quite so insistent about fiscal responsibility when he voted for the Bush tax cuts. Nor do I recall him agitating for tax increases to pay for the war ...
Another Reason I Could Never Belong to the Republican Party: Mitch McConnell
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Mitch McConnell Makes the Dems Look Good: Ah, there's nothing like a Mitch McConnell interview to put everything into perspective. The Senate Minority Leader appeared on "Meet the Press" Sunday to discuss health reform. And he professed great concern for what President Obama and the Democrats had in mind.“If you're going to do something as comprehensive as the president wants to do,” McConnell said, “you ought to pay for it.”... ...
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