McConnell (r-KY) warned Obama not to issue his
immigration executive order, “I’ve been very disturbed about the way the
president has proceeded in the wake of the election… I had maybe
naively hoped the president would look at the results of the election
and decide to come to the political center and do some business with us.
I still hope he does at some point, but the early signs are not good.”
President Obama spent the last six years of his
presidency in the center waiting for Republicans to join him. They
repeatedly refused to compromise. McConnell doesn’t want the president
to meet him in the middle. He wants Obama to move to the right and give
the congressional repugicans what they want.
McConnell’s comments are a sign that President Obama
is doing the right thing for the country by not doing what the repugicans want. After a sobering Election Night, the president
appears to be taking his party back and leading them into the future.
Mitch McConnell isn’t only going to have deal with President Obama, but
also a feisty and more liberal Democratic Senate minority.
McConnell salted the earth with his constant
obstruction, so he should not be surprised at the inability to grow
crops now that he is in charge of planting the seeds. The shoe is on the
other foot, and Democrats aren’t going to give Mitch McConnell
anything.
Obama is making all the right moves, and ever so
slowly it is starting to dawn on repugicans that their control of
Congress is going to be nothing like they expected. Mitch McConnell is
disturbed today. If Democrats do their jobs correctly, he will be
discouraged soon, and displaced in 2016.
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