Four weeks out.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?519094-1/senate-republican-leaders-hold-news-conference
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and leadership colleagues spoke to reporters following their weekly conference luncheon. Leader McConnell said any new COVID-19 relief “ought to be paid for.”
POints:
*Biden budget: 14% increase in domestic spending
*Ukraine: goal is victory/ Biden is weak, "Pulls his punches. " Something about Polish MIGS??
*Biden Budget: concerning. Inflation bad. Biden wants tax increases. IRS 18% increase. 4% increase in defense.
*Border Crisis: Biden ignoring it. DHS going it alone. End Title 42 bad. Repeal would create a massive humanitarian catastrophe.
*Crime in cities: Biden out of touch with American people and with reality. ha
*Energy/Climate (smart piecing that together like that) Biden marches to the tune of the Global Climate Elite of some such thing.
Europe getting oil from enemies. Biden is taxing American oil and energy
- Biden speech: I’ll help Europe, send LNG, doesn’t know where it will come from.
*Need to produce more oil, stop being obstructive/ allow constructions for terminals for LNG /stop vilifying people (sniff sniff donate donate) Big oil will lower your energy costs, especially in the western US ( wink wink nudge nudge)
*Ukraine: Putin weakened; generals killed, 10k troops killed, nearly what they lost in ten years in Afghanistan: “The mothers know" the real numbers. (Ouch. That’s a slash. )Need to give them what they when they neeed, stop being so picky (hawkish GOP returns? Not on Trump’s watch)
*Ukraine need lethal aid, and also an audit. (Who’s hogging the trough?) Biden should provide his strategy, what weapons etc. Sounds like an audit.) GOP wants to be helpful. Sher
*debt: 30 trillion. rising inflation. 2.5 trillion in tax increases; 16% increase in population. (Wow, that last one made me pause. WTF? 16% increase in population (census data is in) and the sign he was holding reads: spending (on what exactly) over last 20 years increased 310%. (Wow. That is shot with a cannonball across the bow) He’s talking “Budget” but that last one was “Border” top to bottom.
Then some Q&A at the end. Mitch hasn’t spoken to Biden since the inaugural. (That’s on Biden. 100%. The silent presidency.)
That’s about it. Read about this stuff in the news for the next four weeks I bet.
It’s interesting what did NOT come up.
*Hershel Walker. Abortion. Wokism. Gender-stuff. Hunter Biden. Trump or any talk of a return to Trumpian ways and means. Covid, save that Mitch wants all new free shots to be paid for. (At least be useful with your grift. I’m with Mitch on this one…) Shots are tangible and help and when they don’t help enough, stop handing them out.
Specifics are out. Ignore them if you want, but that’s the horse’s mouths rolling it out to you.
Insert horse’s arse joke.