dontgomovement.com - 1/29/2009
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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
redstate.com - 1/29/2009
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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
blogs.abcnews.com - 2/4/2009
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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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Senate Conservatives Propose $3.1 Trillion ‘Stimulus Plan,’ Three Times More Costly Than Obama’s Plan
Wonk Room —
In a press conference this morning, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) discussed his objections to President Obama’s stimulus package currently before the Senate. McConnell expressed his concerns over the long term cost of the plan, because “we are already looking at, before we even do this, at over a trillion dollar deficit for this year”:
Most of my members believe that we could pass a very robust stimulus for less than the amount currently before us. We have been throwing figures around like it was paper money. We are already looking at, before we even do this, at over a trillion dollar deficit for this ...
Senate GOP’s ’stimulus plan’ costs 3.5 times as much as Obama’s.
Think Progress —
This morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that President Obama’s recovery package, priced at roughly $819 billion, is too expensive. GOP “members” believe that they can pass a “very robust” stimulus at a cheaper price, he said:
Most of my members believe that we could pass a very robust stimulus for less than the amount currently before us. We have been throwing figures around like it was paper money. We are already looking at, before we even do this, at over a trillion dollar deficit for this year. We all agree that we need to do something, ...
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