Mitch McConnell demanded that Barack Obama support this Deficit Reduction Commission. Obama turned around and reluctantly did support the Deficit Reduction Commission. And then McConnell filibustered the Deficit Reduction Commission, because he didn't want Obama to have a political victory.
Peter Beinart explains Mitch McConnell's actions to block President Obama's political victory regarding the Deficit Reduction Commission.
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When I first attended forty-two years ago, Fancy Farm was a pretty lonely place to be a Republican.
I’m still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders. Unfortunately, that means I won’t be able to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky…
On the advice of my doctors, I’ll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period.
But, my, how times have changed. Today, western Kentucky is a conservative Republican sea of red.
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