Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday said House Speaker John Boehner was right to focus attention on a possible hike in the nation’s debt ceiling, saying it was a “perfect time” to address the nation’s fiscal health, but placing the burden for moving forward with President Obama.
“At some point here, this president needs to become the adult, because the Speaker and I have been the adults in the room, arguing that we need to do something about the nation’s most serious long-term problem,” said McConnell on CBS’s Face the Nation.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) restarted the debate over a possible debt-ceiling hike last week when he called for dollar-for-dollar cuts in exchange for any raise in the limit. Boehner said he feared that without early negotiations on a long-term fiscal plan, lawmakers post-election would only have a few weeks to avoid what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has called a “fiscal cliff” with looming cuts to spending and expiring Bush-era tax rates.
[The Hill]
No, no race baiting implied. Just taking McConnell's words at face value. If he says a grown man is not an adult, then he's saying that individual is a boy. 🙂 I agree with everything else you said though.
I didn't hear anything that Mc'Connell said that implied Obama was a boy. Both parties claim to be the "adults" they've been saying this to each other for months. A bit of race baiting going on here. As for McConnell… he and the rest of the GOP are in the republican version of Bizzaro World. It's truly amazing. When did they do all this work? On those every other week work week? Mitch standing there will the balls to say "no one is working with us", what work? you guys don't work. You really must take us as idiots. Talking such nonsense as if we didn't know better. Yea right mitch, you have a face we can trust.