http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/14/1344851/-McConnell-brings-Republican-hypocrisy-to-a-new-low-and-that-s-saying-something?detail=email
In 2008 the American people elected, to paraphrase McConnell's remarks
from yesterday, "united government." They elected Democrats to huge
majorities in the House and the Senate, and gave Barack Obama an
electoral college landslide. Furthermore, just over 57 percent of
eligible voters actually turned out to vote, the highest level in four decades.
Did Republicans in the House and Senate "recognize the reality of the
government" they had in 2009, Senator McConnell? Or did they all, to a
person, reject every compromise offered on healthcare reform and vote
against it? And did they all, with only three exceptions (one of whom
became a Democrat shortly thereafter), reject every compromise offered
on the stimulus and vote against it? More broadly, did you, yourself,
tell your fellow Republican senators even before the inauguration that
they, in the words of one of them, "can't let [Obama] succeed in anything."
But now Republicans have done an about face. After midterm elections that saw the lowest voter turnout
since 1942 at barely 36 percent, and with a Senate map fought almost
completely in the relatively small number of states that voted for Mitt
Romney, the GOP thinks that's the mandate that matters. Now, according
to McConnell, is the time to listen to the American people. After 2008?
Not so much.
We're going to need a new word to characterize this level of hypocrisy, folks.
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