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Without Bush 'millstone,' GOP can mount comeback, leader says
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Mar 27, 2009 05:56pm |
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| News Date | Friday, March 27, 2009 11:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite crushing defeats in the last two elections, Senate Republicans have new "energy and enthusiasm" for winning back the majority, according to their leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
A top GOP leader says George W. Bush, politically, was a "millstone" around the GOP's neck.
"President Bush had become extremely unpopular, and politically he was sort of a millstone around our necks in both '06 and '08," McConnell told reporters Friday. "We now have the opportunity to be on offense, offer our own ideas and we will win some."
Many of those ideas get presented as amendments to Democratic bills, and even though they're usually defeated, they can draw attention to GOP policy alternatives and force Democrats to take difficult votes.
"They become the way you chart the course for a comeback, which, in this country, always happens at some point," McConnell said. "The pendulum swings."
McConnell said many of the ideas for amendments come from conservative think tanks and other Republican thinkers off Capitol Hill.
"Newt Gingrich, for example, has an idea a minute. Many of those are quite good. Many of those become amendments," he said.
McConnell also said he doesn't mind the "party of no" label Congressional Democrats and the White House give Republicans.
"I don't feel anyone should be apologetic for opposing a bad idea," McConnell said. "I'm not fearful of an effort to demonize dissent."
After being labeled by Democrats the "party of no" for criticizing the budget without offering solutions, House Republicans said Thursday that they have come up with a plan B -- though were later criticized for a lack of details. |
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