Newly elected House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday the Senate, rather than President Barack Obama, is to blame for gridlock in Washington.
"I believe you can work with anybody," the California Republican said on "Fox News Sunday," when asked about his approach to doing business with the president. "The challenge has been Harry Reid."
McCarthy charged that on the watch of Reid, the Senate majority leader, the upper chamber has "not moved anything."
"How do you even negotiate with the president if he doesn't have a bill on his desk?" McCarthy asked.
Meanwhile, House Republicans refuse to take up immigration reform, jobs legislation, food safety legislation, student loan improvements, gun safety legislation, net neutrality legislation , transportation bills, and more, all passed by the Senate.
But the problem is Harry Reid.
Sure. By the way, the person solely responsible for setting the schedule of votes in the House? Kevin McCarthy.
New tag as Cantor's out and McCarthy's in: Kevin "Aptly Named" McCarthy.
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Not directly related, but I read in Science magazine that the Goopers have sponsored a bill to gut the National Science Foundation and replaced the highly successful peer review process for grant applications with direct political oversight - the kind of system that forced Lysenkoism and mass starvation on the Soviet Union. Democratic representatives have it bottled up in committee for now, and it will never pass the Senate, but we now have a written program of what these jokers want for the country: abdication of our role as the world leader in Science.
One can see their point - when is the last time that Harry Reid and the Democrats meekly acceded to the Republican Party's desired agenda, and rubber-stamped whatever came out of the Tea Party's dream list? Instead, Harry Reid is taking the wildly irresponsible position that the Republicans should in exchange make some concessions to the Democrats - thus obstructing the Republican agenda.
I don't suppose anyone in the media asked about the Tea Party's position that any Republican with a negotiating strategy of anything other than demanding the unconditional surrender of the Democrats on all issues is a traitor to the party.
""How do you even negotiate with the president if he doesn't have a bill on his desk?" McCarthy asked."
If he's got the bill on his desk, all negotiations are over, numb-nuts.
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