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Title: Sen. McConnell: Stopping Obama’s Re-Election Still ‘Single Most Important’ Goal
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RAWSTORY
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/ ... ll-single-most-important-goal/
Published: Jul 10, 2011
Author: DAVID EDWARDS
Post Date: 2011-07-10 13:50:06 by Brian S
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Views: 3141
Comments: 5
Even with the country on the brink of default, the Senate's highest ranking Republican says his "single most important" goal is to make Barack Obama a one-term president. "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told National Journal's Major Garrett in October. Fox News' Bret Baier asked McConnell Sunday if that was still his major objective. "Well, that is true," McConnell replied. "That's my single most important political goal, along with every active Republican in the country." "But that is in 2012," he added. "Our biggest goal for this year is get this country straightened out and we can't get this country straightened out if we don't do something about spending, about deficit, about debt and get the economy moving again. So our goal is to have a robust vibrant economy to benefit all Americans." McConnell told Baier that a "Grand Bargain," where Republicans agree to tax hikes in exchange for cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits, was likely off the table. "I think it is. Everything they told me and the Speaker is to get a big package would require big tax increases in the middle of the economic situation that is extraordinarily difficult with 9.2% unemployment. We think it's a terrible idea. It's a job-killer." "Nobody is talk about not raising the debt ceiling," McConnell later insisted. Taking a break from debt limit talk, the Senate's top Republican also said that it was time to send more terrorism suspects to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. "They are going the try a couple of foreign terrorists in Kentucky, my state, whose fingerprints were found on IED's in Iraq. These foreign terrorists are enemy combatants. They should be taken to Guantanamo. They should be tried in military commissions." Watch this video from Fox's Fox News Sunday, broadcast July 10, 2011.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
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As a foreign enemy combatant hObama should be in front of a Gitmo firing squad. McConnel can be tried for treason and hung in the US.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Even with..... the country near default.... the unemployment rate at 9% plus..... a pointless "nation-building" transfer of wealth - WAR continuing to waste about a trillion US dollars a year......... Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid growing at an unsustainable pace...... this great nation on it's knees at the mercy of OPEC and China for our most basic needs...... The gop offers political posturing instead of solutions, the democrats offer political posturing instead of solutions..... forget republicans and democrats - this administration is the 3rd term of gw bush..........there has been no change... something has got to give.
I'd be bit careful posting that kind of stuff online without adding some good 'qualifiers'. Just saying...
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
Just saying... Hondo knows his employer will get him off.
McConnell is 100% correct.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
Even with the country on the brink of default, the Senate's highest ranking Republican says his "single most important" goal is to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
#3. To: hondo68 (#1)
As a foreign enemy combatant hObama should be in front of a Gitmo firing squad.
#4. To: Brian S, hondo68 (#3)
I'd be bit careful posting that kind of stuff online without adding some good 'qualifiers'.
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
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