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August 13, 2017 9:06 pm  #1


Expectations??

Of course he had expectations.  We ALL had expectations because we were promised change, were we not?

In 2010, Republicans told America to vote them control of the House so they could repeal Obamacare, cut wasteful spending, and implement a conservative agenda.  Done.  Republicans then told America the House couldn't do anything alone; they needed the Senate, too. Delivered in 2014.  Obamacare repeal bills were passed, multiple times, and sent to the president's desk for the expected veto. 

Congress next told America Republicans needed the White House to avoid Obama's veto pen.  This too was delivered, although not the president most in Congress would have preferred, but the clear choice of the voters.  Great expectations met.  Republican control of Congress and the White House.  An electoral majority not seen in nearly a century.  Time to deliver.

Now, seven months into the Trump presidency, Congress has delivered little other than Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.  What happened to the great expectations?

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell certainly gave America reason for high hopes.  Last December, basking in the glow of another banner election for Republicans, McConnell promised that Obamacare repeal was "the first item up in the new year."  

He doubled down on expectations, saying, "We have an obligation to the American people to change it and to do a better job."  We took him at his word. How did that work out?  The Senate waited six months to get to Obamacare, certainly not the "first item up" on their legislative agenda.  When they got to it, did they repeal it?  Revise it?  Skinny repeal?  Nope.  So much for "doing a better job."

After failing to deliver on myriad promises, Senator McConnell, like a true Senate milquetoast, turned around and blamed President Trump over his expectations.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/mitch_mcconnell_great_expectations_or_great_ineptitude.html


A government which robs Peter to
pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
 

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