Republicans Give McConnell Standing Ovation After Debt Ceiling Betrayal
Right after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted to give Barack Obama a
blank check to spend this nation into bankruptcy, Senators cheered him for
"taking one for the team," and it wasn't Democrats doing the cheering... it was
Republicans.
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(NRO) Before McConnell entered, several senators had told the crowd that they admired his willingness to take one for the team and make a politically fraught vote.
More than half a dozen senators were there, per one attendee, including Johnny Isakson, Roger Wicker, John Barrasso, Jim Risch, and Orrin Hatch. A source says Hatch, Isakson, Risch, and Wicker all made very favorable public comments about McConnell and his decision to vote for cloture. The source adds that Senator Ted Cruz was not in attendance.
A GOP Senate aide tells NRO that there’s “a very broad understanding” among upper-chamber Republicans that McConnell’s “yes” vote was necessary for the good of his colleagues and the Senate Republican conference. Now, that certainly isn’t a consensus among Hill Republicans. But for McConnell’s supporters there, it’s not up for debate.
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(NRO) Before McConnell entered, several senators had told the crowd that they admired his willingness to take one for the team and make a politically fraught vote.
More than half a dozen senators were there, per one attendee, including Johnny Isakson, Roger Wicker, John Barrasso, Jim Risch, and Orrin Hatch. A source says Hatch, Isakson, Risch, and Wicker all made very favorable public comments about McConnell and his decision to vote for cloture. The source adds that Senator Ted Cruz was not in attendance.
A GOP Senate aide tells NRO that there’s “a very broad understanding” among upper-chamber Republicans that McConnell’s “yes” vote was necessary for the good of his colleagues and the Senate Republican conference. Now, that certainly isn’t a consensus among Hill Republicans. But for McConnell’s supporters there, it’s not up for debate.
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