{"id":47948,"date":"2021-05-08T00:37:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T00:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47948"},"modified":"2021-05-08T00:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T00:37:59","slug":"mcconnell-who-needs-to-govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47948","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: who needs to govern?"},"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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mcconnellmitch_061218gn_lead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30355\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mcconnellmitch_061218gn_lead-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mcconnellmitch_061218gn_lead-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mcconnellmitch_061218gn_lead.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has made a startling admission.<\/p>\n<p>He has acknowledged, in effect, that he has no interest in governance. He said that &#8220;100 percent of my focus is to block&#8221; everything that President Biden wants to do.<\/p>\n<p>There. You got that?<\/p>\n<p>This is the same guy who in 2010 declared that his sole focus was to make Barack H. Obama &#8220;a one-term president.&#8221; Well, that mission went down in flames, as President Obama was re-elected two years later.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Kentucky Republican has in effect doubled down on his earlier mission statement by saying that he is focused solely on blocking Joe Biden&#8217;s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>What, I dare ponder, is Mitch McConnell&#8217;s agenda &#8230; if he has one.<\/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>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has made a startling admission. He has acknowledged, in effect, that he has no interest in governance. He said that &#8220;100 percent of my focus is to block&#8221; everything that President Biden wants to do. There. You got that? This is the same guy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McConnell: who needs to govern?<\/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":[540,2505,3099,7084],"class_list":["post-47948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-joe-biden","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-obstructionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47948","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=47948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47949,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47948\/revisions\/47949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}