... to fix the economy. LOL!! http://www.vox.com/2015/1/7/7508129...nate-republicans-traveled-back-in-time-to-fix
Another completely fabricated headline from a liberal rag. Kunty's panties get wet thinking those made up headlines are real.
McConnell has taken over Boehner's place as Obama's biggest ass-kisser. Roll-on 2016. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mitch McConnell Pledges Fast Action For Secretive Trade Deals. WASHINGTON -- New Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pledged Wednesday to move full speed ahead to give President Barack Obama so-called fast track authority to cut massive new trade deals with little oversight. The last grant of fast track authority, formally known as Trade Promotion Authority, expired in 2007. It allowed the president to negotiate trade deals without consulting Congress and to sign the agreements on his own. Congress' role was reduced to voting yes or no on the resulting deal, with no amendments and none of the procedural hurdles that lawmakers can typically employ when they don't like something. "I’m happy the president has now become a born-again free trader. It’s high time," McConnell said. "He’s only got two years left, and we think this is an area where we can make progress and you can look for us to act on TPA." The negotiations over and proposed contents of the two huge deals that TPA would facilitate are secret, except for leaks about the deals that have sparked alarm from labor and environmental advocates, among others. But McConnell said giving Obama the power to proceed would be an example of Republicans coming together with Democrats to accomplish the goals of the American people. McConnell would need only 60 votes to pass the fast track authority, and then trade deals would require just 51 votes to pass. Americans would not see the text of the deals until they were completed by the administration, and Congress would be unable to amend the agreements.
About the same number calling him a Fascist. Or Nazi. Or Muslim terrorist. Or Commie. Righties are equal opportunity when exercising their prejudices..
Mitch McConnell: It's Funny How The Economy Improved When The GOP Took Over Congress. WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appears to be touting the accomplishments of the new GOP-controlled Congress even before its members have gotten the chance to hammer out any legislation. In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, the newly elected majority leader suggested that the growing signs of an economic recovery -- 5 percent GDP growth, 320,000 additional jobs in November, all-time highs in the markets on Wall Street and plunging gas prices, to name a few -- just might have something to do with the election of a Republican Congress. "After so many years of sluggish growth, we're finally seeing some economic data that can provide a glimmer of hope," said McConnell. "The uptick appears to coincide with the biggest political change of the Obama administration's long tenure in Washington: the expectation of a new Republican Congress." This, he added, "is precisely the time to advance a positive pro-growth agenda" that includes tax cuts, the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans have generally been hesitant to acknowledge any good news in the economy, saying only that President Barack Obama's policies have stunted the recovery. But as the 2016 campaign for the White House begins in earnest, McConnell's observation that the economy is improving as the GOP assumes control of Congress will likely be repeated by at least a few of his Republican colleagues -- even though, as The Washington Post notes, many of those positive economic trends date back to well before the November midterms. In December, prominent anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist encouraged Republicans to take more credit for the economic recovery, arguing that conservatives have missed several opportunities to link the improving economy with the continuation of the Bush tax cuts and with spending cuts ushered in by sequestration. McConnell's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether he was directly attributing the good economic news to the Republican takeover of Congress. But Democrats criticized McConnell for suggesting so in a statement shortly following his remarks. “That Mitch McConnell is one funny guy," said Mo Elleithee, communications director for the Democratic National Committee. "He likes to remind people all the time that he’s not a scientist. Now we know he’s not a mathematician or an economist either." "All Republicans have given us is a government shutdown that cost the economy $24 billion," Elleithee went on. "I get why he wants to take credit for the economic recovery. But maybe he should first do something to help contribute to it." Obama is expected to tout the good economic news as part of a pre-State of the Union tour this week, when he will lay out some of his message and policies in separate visits to Tennessee, Arizona and Michigan ahead of his Jan. 20 address to Congress.