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Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the leader of his Republican caucus, said two things in the wake of the Senate\u2019s narrow vote early Saturday approving a budget resolution.<\/p>\n

He called the Senate debate and vote \u201cone of the Senate’s finest days in recent years.\u201d But then he described the budget as a \u201crehash of the extreme policies that continue to hobble the economy and crush the middle class,” <\/p>\n

I guess McConnell enjoyed the debate, but didn\u2019t like its outcome. <\/p>\n

Here is how The Hill reported the final vote:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/budget\/289989-senate-passes-first-budget-in-four-years<\/a><\/p>\n

The 50-49 vote goes to show that whatever good will President Obama has sought to build with both houses of Congress apparently isn\u2019t getting traction yet.<\/p>\n

From my perspective, the Democratic plan presents the kind of balance needed to help reduce the deficit and the debt. The alternative is too drastic and worrisome to too many in the middle class that McConnell said are being \u201chobbled\u201d by the economy.<\/p>\n

As for the \u201cextreme policies\u201d that McConnell said are so bad for the economy, I\u2019m still curious as to just what he\u2019s talking about. Those extremes have produced significant job growth in the past two years, although admittedly not as quickly as we would like to help bring down the jobless rate. <\/p>\n

But on the plus side \u2013 which McConnell and his GOP brethren won\u2019t acknowledge \u2013 the housing industry, the one of the economy\u2019s key drivers, has come back. McConnell ought to take a look here in Amarillo at all the home construction that\u2019s occurring. <\/p>\n

Come to my neighborhood, Mr. Republican Leader, and I\u2019ll show you how \u201cextreme policies\u201d are hobbling activity around here.<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans accuse the president of being in constant campaign mode. They might have a point. But they also ought to look at their own view of the world and wonder if they, too, aren\u2019t engaging in the same kind of politicking. And we wonder why we can\u2019t bridge the partisan divide on Capitol Hill?<\/p>\n\n

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Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the leader of his Republican caucus, said two things in the wake of the Senate\u2019s narrow vote early Saturday approving a budget resolution. He called the Senate debate and vote \u201cone of the Senate’s finest days in recent years.\u201d But then he described the budget as a \u201crehash of the … Continue reading Great Senate divide is getting wider<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","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=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}