NR Daily: Senate Majority Leader McConnell Should . . . Lead the Senate Majority

Mitch McConnell spent the July 4 congressional recess committing malpractice as Senate majority leader. As Republican senators back home coped with hostile town-hall meetings and furious protests over GOP efforts to scrap Obamacare, McConnell hurled his entire conference beneath the bus by speculating that Obamacare repeal could fail. "Unfortunately, this health-care issue has been a very divisive and partisan issue," McConnell told the Paducah (Ky.) Rotary Club last Thursday. "If my side is unable to agree on an adequate replacement, then some kind of action with regard to private health-insurance markets must occur ...

July 10 2017

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Senate Majority Leader McConnell Should . . . Lead the Senate Majority

Deroy Murdock

Mitch McConnell spent the July 4 congressional recess committing malpractice as Senate majority leader. As Republican senators back home coped with hostile town-hall meetings and furious protests over GOP efforts to scrap Obamacare, McConnell hurled his entire conference beneath the bus by speculating that Obamacare repeal...

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