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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on July 28, 2017, 01:18:06 PM
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by Jeff Poor28 Jul 2017
GOP Rep Mo Brooks: McConnell Should Step Down as Majority Leader If Obamacare Isn’t Repealed
Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, suggested it might be time for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to step down from his leadership position if he is unable to repeal Obamacare.
Brooks explained that if were unable to accomplish that repeal, then he may be unable to fulfill other parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda.
“Unquestionably the leadership at the top is responsible,” Brooks said. “The buck stops there, that’s why you take on that kind of responsibility,” Brooks said. “And if Mitch McConnell cannot get the job done on this, how is he going to get the job done on the rest of President Trump’s agenda over the next three-and-a-half years? As I see it right now, this is a killer … It’s not necessarily anything bad about Mitch McConnell himself personally. But he’s got a job to do, and if he can’t do it then, as ‘The Apprentice’ would say, ‘you’re fired,’ get somebody who can.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/07/28/gop-rep-mo-brooks-mcconnell-step-majority-leader-obamacare-isnt-repealed/
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The problem with that statement about "fulfilling Trump's agenda" is that's not the role of Congress - to fulfill *any* president's "agenda."
I might be mistaken, but I think COTUS provides for a separation of powers, which essentially means that Congress has its role (purse and ratification of treaties, officers, etc.), the President has his role as Chief Executive, and the Justice System has its role.
That said, McConnell is a snake oil salesman and should step down, for the simple fact he's a RINO and part of the GOP elite class, which sneers at conservatism in general and embraces big government.