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Sen. Mitch McConnell Talks Bipartisanship: ‘There Are Actually Things We Agree On’

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On Meet the Press today, David Gregory asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell if Republicans working with Democrats in the newly-created “super committee” will be open to compromise solutions to stabilize the economy in the coming months.

Gregory played a clip of Speaker John Boehner taking the GOP hardline on tax increases. McConnell did not directly address that particular issue, but acknowledged that despite the media depiction of the caustic DC culture, “there are actually things we agree on.” He touted a budget control act passed by both parties, and recent Congressional action on FAA funding, a contentious issue for legislators in the past few months.

Of course, Gregory asked his initial question again about any possibility of a budget compromise where Republicans could actually agree to some tax increases. McConnell said he was in favor of tax reform, and suggested a complete review of the tax code is in order for this Congress. Gregory still wasn’t satisfied with the answer, and framed it through a more political lens, wondering if Republicans would really want to compromise with a president whose ousting McConnell once described as “my single most important political goal along with every active Republican in the country.”

McConnell argued Congress could still get a lot done before the election next year, and cited historical partnerships Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton made with their opposition to bring about significant financial reforms. McConnell also remained hopeful that whatever ends up passing the Senate will ultimately be signed by the president.

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  • Jmpwawoo

    I agree that Mitch Mc Connel is a scheming , lying , un American sack of poo that puts party before country and is intent on destroying middle class America.

  • Michelle

    The Repubs are trying to cooperate, but the Regime insists there will be NO compromise.  Let’s be honest about who is obstructing. 

  • Jmpwawoo

    What funhouse mirror do you view the world through? 

  • Anonymous

    Obama is a scheming, low class , bird flipping Chicago street punk who calls the opposition “the enemy ” ,allows his union thug criminal base to call the Tea Party ” sons of bitches ” , and accuses Republicans of being unpatriotic ( “putting party before country”).

    And then he complains that they don’t want to work with him ( do what he says ) .

    A lot of Dems are balking at Obama’s political gamesmanship . Did Gregory bring that up ?

  • Michelle

    You appear to be the uninformed one.  Repubs have been out talking about the parts of the plan they agree with and the regimes answer was the it’s an all or nothing thing.  It’s not an Ala Carte menu.  Educate yourself and get back to me. 

  • caconservative

    No room for compromise?

  • caconservative

    I think you spelled the name wrong, it’s spelled = O B A M A. Although, you are right about him being a sack of poo.

  • Dono

    Laughable comment

  • Anonymous

    Poor Mitch. Being an honest man he still wants to believe Obama is actually interested in doing what’s best for the ” real ” American people and libs, when in fact B is only interested in a race/class warfare rift further deviding this country in the hopes that doing so will get his lazy ass minorities out to vote.

    It’ll never happen, but he is a devider not a uniter so this is the only way this sorry excuss for a human being knows he’s so pathetic. 

    I liken Barack Hussein Obama ll the terroist to his equally terroristic Palastinian brothers. 

    He, like they is undertaking a futile campaign of evil ( them ) against good ( United States of America and Israel ) simply because they can.

  • Anonymous

    Obama wants a fight . He would like to bite McConnell’s ear off to show that he’s tough , but he’s got to do the placecards and make his famous onion dip for tonight’s “Housewives of New Jersey” viewing party .

  • Michelle

    And yet it’s true.  You really should start doing your research before spouting off.  It would save you a lot of embarrassment. 

  • Guest

    Why didn’t Meet the Press address the Solyndra scandal?  Mitch McConnell brought it up but David was afraid to talk about it-why?

  • Michelle
  • Michelle

    (The Hill)
    — The Senate likely will not take up President Obama’s plan to create
    jobs until next month following a planned recess period, the No. 2
    Democrat in the chamber said Sunday.Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
    said the Senate would focus on a number of “related issues” to the $400
    billion job-creation legislation this week. But he quickly noted on CNN
    that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has placed the massive
    jobs bill “on the calendar.”If things are as dire and we are told, why are the DEMS procrastinating?

  • Anonymous

    Haughty Leftist media hacks like Gregory (et al) know that OBAMO is a disaster. They’ll use anything to suggest that people aren’t really seeing what they’re seeing, because the blood for this disaster is on their hands, too. The media BJ’d OBAMO into the White House. The tough, critical, snarling questions they ask of Republicans they never asked of OBAMO.

  • Linda

    This person who just said the President is interested in a race/class warfare must be a complete idiot.  White bread America (includes Mitch) cannot stand that there is a black man who is president. It doesn’t matter that it is Mr. Obama. It would be the same thing for any black man or woman. No I am not black. When is the US going to admit that the richest companies and or individuals are white and controlling the economy are racist?
    They ultimately believe they are better than the black race and cannot offer them any respect because of that.

  • you’re welcome

    John Boehner: “I got 98% of what I wanted.”

  • Anonymous

    Have someone take the thorn out of your paw .

    Most Republicans would vote for Allen West or Herman Cain over Obama in an unsalted , unbuttered , smoke-free New York minute ..

  • Anonymous

    The funniest question from Gregory was this one: “Senator, WHY can’t you suck OBAMO’s D_ck like I do?”

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    That Republican is a nut case.  

  • Staci Luvs The Foreskin

    I like nuts .

  • Michelle

    Confuse a liberal, use logic and facts.

  • Anonymous

    RACIST !!!

    *drink*

  • Jmpwawoo

    McConnell got his start in politics as a response to Federal Court ordered integration and has mastered the code of disguising his bias by being against “big government” at the same time being a total socialist in getting Federal money for his Kentucky pet projects. He and Hal Rodgers make quite the pair,.
     

  • Roedy Green

    The rich in America have been sitting on their money.  They have not been using it to hire people.  They tell us they have no intentions of hiring anyone any time soon.  They just don’t have the sales to justify the hires.  So it seems to me, taxing the rich at the same rates as everyone else will give the government some of that money they are sitting on to hire people to do things like repair bridges, roads and schools, which have to be fixed sometime.  Repairs are nearly always cheaper now than later.  Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, tries to pretend giving the rich even more money to sit on is what will create jobs.  What BS!

  • Anonymous

    Are you hard of hearing or aren’t able to read?  Sounds like it.  Maybe you are just in denial.  Whatever the case, you better see a doctor about it  because you don’t seem to be able to grip the truth of the matter here.  Senator McConnell did NOT come back to congress and say “our  #1 goal is JOBS”.  Instead, McConnell came back and said “Our #1 goal is to get rid of this president”.  And, he figured that if the republicans held the unemployment checks hostage, they could get an extension of the Bush tax cuts.  Well, that worked, so he decided to up the ante and held the debt ceiling hostage knowing full well that our country would be in default and he didn’t even care that millions of seniors wouldn’t be getting their social security checks.  Ye,s McConnelll and t
    he republicans hate the poor people and don’t give a rats ass if they don’t have any money for food. They care only about corporations – I guess that is where all their campaign donations come from. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PQDPRVANEVVRNO4KVJ4DLQFLGI ALLYCATRED

    you are right, the rep. are not going to TRY AND GET ALONG WITH OUR BLACK PRESIDENT. They hate him and they will,take us all down with them. We have to get some thing done and rep. dont want to do any thing, BUT FIGHT AND NOT GET ANY THING DONE.

  • http://smallthoughtsfromasmallmind.wordpress.com/ Small Thoughts

    The rino McConnell needs to be replaced.

  • Anonymous

    I bet when Mitch
    McConnell said “Bipartisanships” he sound like the Fonz on the TV
    series “HAPPY DAYS”, Oh well, that is expected, they are both Actors.

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