{"id":33594,"date":"2018-11-17T02:41:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T02:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33594"},"modified":"2018-11-17T02:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T02:41:55","slug":"what-happened-to-bipartisanship-mr-majority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33594","title":{"rendered":"What happened to bipartisanship, Mr. Majority Leader?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/14-mitch-mcconnell.w700.h467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33595\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/14-mitch-mcconnell.w700.h467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/14-mitch-mcconnell.w700.h467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/14-mitch-mcconnell.w700.h467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, hold on a minute. Maybe for two or three.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged to work toward a more &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; atmosphere in the Senate. So, what does Mr. Bipartisan do? He blocked a &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; bill that seeks to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from the whims and foolish acts of a president under siege.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2018\/11\/mitch-mcconnell-blocks-bipartisan-bill-to-protect-mueller-probe-jeff-flake-judges.html?fbclid=IwAR0PQ9N6-6EKxP4AYTbYSgI6npxPtPbLlRObpontDgMHGGb5RYHocHSqi6Q\">McConnell said the bill<\/a> is not necessary. Why? Because he takes Donald Trump at his word that the president won&#8217;t fire Mueller, who&#8217;s up to his eyeballs investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian operatives who attacked our electoral system in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, McConnell believes the president. He takes him at his word. He says that, by golly, if the president pledges something that he&#8217;s true to his word.<\/p>\n<p>Is the majority leader serious? Has he swilled one mouthful too many of the Trump Kool-Aid?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears that not all GOP senators are on board. Lame-duck Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona has promised to block every judicial appointment that comes to the Senate for as long as he continues to serve in that congressional chamber.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s pledge to seek a more bipartisan approach &#8212; which seemed hollow when he made it &#8212; now has been exposed as just another political platitude.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, hold on a minute. Maybe for two or three. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged to work toward a more &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; atmosphere in the Senate. So, what does Mr. Bipartisan do? He blocked a &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; bill that seeks to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from the whims and foolish acts of a president &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What happened to bipartisanship, Mr. Majority Leader?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[74,7131,1424,3099,3983,7093,4215],"class_list":["post-33594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-collusion","tag-donald-trump","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-senate-majority-leader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33596,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33594\/revisions\/33596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}