McConnell says Obama agenda is `over'
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared Saturday that President Barack Obama's legislative agenda is "over," but said GOP lawmakers are willing to work with the White House to do what they "think is right for America."
In a speech Saturday night to a GOP crowd in his hometown, the Kentucky Republican derided Obama for performing "Clintonian back flips" to portray himself as a moderate, but said it's yet to be seen whether the new tone is "rhetoric or reality."
McConnell, who in the past has touted his ability to bring federal spending to Kentucky, took a hard line on cutting federal spending. He said the Democratic president's credentials on spending and debt "are horrible, and he earned it."
But McConnell said that congressional Republicans — who took control of the House and increased their numbers in the Senate following last year's election — are "prepared to do business" with Obama.
"And to the extent that the president wants to do what we think is right for America, we won't say 'no' simply because there's an election coming along," said McConnell.
There may be those who think John Boehner is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the reality is this, he is only the best thing since Nancy Pelosi. And that is the point where it begins and end in my opinion.
Boehner is not the forceful leader that the party needs right now in the house, no more than Mitch McConnell is the counterbalance to liberal lunacy in the senate. Neither of these two republican leaders projects the type of leadership required to pull this country out of the quagmire that Bush led us into by ignoring the enemies within and the democrats further exacerbated for the past four years under Pelosi and Obama.
For the record, we don't need partisanship, regardless of how loud the banshees on the other side of the isle wail about it. They certainly weren't interested in bipartisanship while they held the reins of power in the house and senate and I for one remember what their version of bipartisanship was when Bush was in office. Thanks but no thanks Mitch, but we don't need to see what they have to say. We already know what they will have to say and I for one pass.
Right now if there is ever going to be any hope of rescuing this country, there needs to be a complete break from the revisionist belief that America's greatness was achieved by cooperation between the parties. It wasn't. America was great when we had great leaders. Those with vision and the tenacity to drive it home and make it happen, regardless of what the naysayers had to say about it.
In my lifetime Jack Kennedy was the last great president that the democrats had and Ronald Reagan was the last great president that the republicans had. Before, since and in between, we have suffered from mediocrity and malaise and out right socialist determination to wreck the entire thing. The time has come for a reversal, or else we are doomed in my opinion.
Sadly, I don't presently see anyone on the horizon that fits the bill. Short of Newt Gingrich, who will literally 'play hell' getting the nomination from the entrenched neocon thinking presently in the main body of the republican party. The party's only hope lies with the Tea Party movement in my opinion and they are presently to blinded and enamored with the false prophets of Palin to allow the party to grow and flourish as it could .
Either the hardliners in the party wake up and smell the coffee, or the people of America will be further split and weakened by the creation of a third party where nothing ever gets accomplished. For those paying attention, we have seen the results of such idiocy in the UK for generations. Their body politic is so weak and neutered by the numerous parties that have flourished there, that nothing sensible or creative ever gets passed as law or policy. Only more and more of the stifling malaise of socialism that continues to creep ever forward in the absence of statesmanship and leadership.
If anything, their weakness of party politics has led to the rise of multiculturalist lethargy and the continued deterioration of their culture as a whole across the board in the UK. (and we are due for the same fate in America) It reminds me of the scene in Braveheart where the nobles are bickering and Wallace walks out in the midst of it. He recognizes that nothing will ever be accomplished as long as the bickering continues and as long as there remains a void of continuity in leadership and purpose.
I believe the same is true for us here in America today. Either a champion rises and we the people get behind him and once again march toward that shining city on the hill, or we will continue to spiral into the oblivion of collapse as all great democracies have done in the past.
The lessons are there in the history for the understanding, but America and her people are blinded and oblivious because the secular humanist and the multiculturalist have worked diligently to see that America remains dumbed down and mired in the illusion of fairness and in the absence of personal responsibility in lieu of government subsidized illusions.
Sadly, I don't see any of this changing until the catalyst of a catastrophic crisis occurs to meld the people into a consensus of desire to save themselves. America is a great country, but our greatness never rises until there is great threat and peril and those agents of change haven't happened again for this generation. At least not yet.
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