This may have been the one time that conservatives were hoping that President Trump would actually lash out and smack Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) down. Instead, this is the one time that President Trump actually responded in a “politically” correct manner.
Instead, this is the one time that President Trump actually responded in a “politically” correct manner.
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Which is not a good thing for the GOP or the nation.
On Tuesday evening McConnell could be heard whining about the amount of pressure that President Trump was putting on the GOP leadership in their efforts to repeal Obamacare.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell vents about Pres. Trump's 'excessive expectations' regarding legislation. https://t.co/fbG5bZcJXW pic.twitter.com/GUM41oQMFZ
— ABC News (@ABC) August 8, 2017
Here’s what ABC reported about McConnell’s comments:
Speaking at a Rotary Club gathering in Kentucky on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vented about how President Donald Trump‘s lack of political experience has led to him setting “excessive expectations” for legislative priorities.
McConnell, R-Ky., told the group in Florence that he found it “extremely irritating” that Congress has earned the reputation of not accomplishing anything.
“Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,” said McConnell, a Republican and the state’s senior senator…
“Our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before. And I think he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process,” McConnell told the group.
“So part of the reason I think people feel we’re underperforming is because too many artificial deadlines — unrelated to the reality of the complexity of legislating — may not have been fully understood.”
President Trump’s chief defender on Fox News, Sean Hannity, had a terse response for McConnell’s complaints.
https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/895215738906173442
Sadly, President Trump didn’t feel the need to attack McConnell for his comments. Instead, the President decided to give McConnell an unnecessary show of support.
In a decision that I believe the President will come to regret, Trump finally decided to endorse a candidate in the Alabama Republican Senate primary.
There has been an ongoing battle brewing in Alabama between the Establishment (led by McConnell) and conservatives. The Establishment wants Luther Strange to be the next Senator from Alabama, while conservatives would rather Judge Roy Moore (or Rep. Mo Brooks).
Moore has a wide lead over Strange who is barely ahead of Brooks in the most recent polls… but all of this math may be about to change.
Why?
Because President Trump has stepped in and done McConnell and the establishment a favor by endorsing Luther Strange.
Senator Luther Strange has done a great job representing the people of the Great State of Alabama. He has my complete and total endorsement!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2017
The Conservative Review is not impressed with this endorsement:
Let’s put aside the fact that Luther Strange has been embraced by every lobbyist, special interest cartel, Mitch McConnell, and Karl Rove.
This man has already been in office for six months and has quietly gone along with every last morsel of McConnell’s agenda.
When Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz were fighting to repeal Obamacare, Strange was never anywhere close to the fight.
Indeed, he’s been in the witness protection program on every issue.
Which is just the way McConnell likes it.
This is a major misstep by President Trump.
Luther Strange is an establishment tool, but Judge Moore would be a strong ally of the President in Congress.
By endorsing Strange, the President is tacitly giving his endorsement of McConnell’s failed leadership and he is helping the D.C. Swamp survive.
Please, Mr. President, reverse your decision to endorse Strange and call for new blood in the Senate.
Article posted with permission from Constitution.com
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