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Mitch gonna Mitch:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed rising federal deficits and debt on a bipartisan unwillingness to contain spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and said he sees little chance of a major deficit reduction deal while Republicans control Congress and the White House.

“It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem,” McConnell said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg News when asked about the rising deficits and debt. “It’s a bipartisan problem: unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future.”

McConnell’s remarks came a day after the Treasury Department said the U.S. budget deficit grew to $779 billion in Donald Trump’s first full fiscal year as president, the result of the GOP’s tax cuts, bipartisan spending increases and rising interest payments on the national debt. That’s a 77 percent increase from the $439 billion deficit in fiscal 2015, when McConnell became majority leader.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

That last line thought ... wins the Internet.

 

I missed this on the first pass through, spot on.

 

Beat me to it

 

He died doing what he liked the most?

 

She was telling the truth, however. Saying she wasn't is moving the goalposts.

 

1. Cut taxes for the rich.

2. Watch deficit soar.

3. Employ crushing deficit as excuse to cut programs for the middle class and poor.

4. Die neck-fat and happy.

5. Leave the rest of America to spin into a sewer.

GOP! GOP! GOP!

Anyone making less than $200,000 a year who votes for these animals is a fucking idiot. But they will, because of racism ("patriotism"), sexism ("pro-life"), and guns ("freedom").

America, you are fucked.

 

@Smallpotatoes, I know she's telling the truth but that doesn't matter in 2018.

 

Fox News has way too much influence.

 

Thinking her timing might have been bad too, just before midterms. If she wanted to clear the deck for a potential run at the White House, why not wait?

 

What does her issue with Trump have to do with the midterms? And with the news cycle spins these days, this will be old news by then. I really don't get the complaints.

 

1. Warren is running for re-election in Massachusetts this year. She didn't think it'd hurt HER in the midterms. 2. Do you really think voters in Georgia, Washington state or Minnesota are going to vote one way or the other in elections between two totally different people because of what Warren did? Beyond unlikely. Anybody it pissed off was already voting Republican and anybody who thought "she sure showed Trump" was already going to vote Democratic.