{"id":1782306,"date":"2022-12-21T07:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782306"},"modified":"2022-12-21T07:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:17:37","slug":"gop-cant-be-successful-until-mitch-mcconnell-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-cant-be-successful-until-mitch-mcconnell-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Can\u2019t Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-cant-be-successful-until-mitch-mcconnell-is-gone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Comments Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made on Tuesday show why he has become the single biggest obstacle to GOP success.<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky Republican claimed giving more money to Ukraine is \u201cthe No. 1 priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans.\u201d The new $1.7 trillion Democrat spending bill he enthusiastically supports would give Ukraine another roughly $45 billion in assistance, bringing the total over the past eight months to more than $100 billion, a staggering figure even if it weren\u2019t happening during a time of inflation, looming recession, and other serious domestic problems.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">McConnell: &#8220;Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans. That&#8217;s how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NPmzWRzoz1\">pic.twitter.com\/NPmzWRzoz1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1605301253952589824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The comment about Republican priorities is so false as to be completely delusional. Among the many concerns Republican voters have with Washington, D.C., a failure to give even more money to Ukraine simply does not rank.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/cv4a.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ukraine-Aid-CoalitionLetterFinalUpdatedv2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">large coalition of conservative groups<\/a>, including the Heritage Foundation and the Conservative Partnership Institute, publicly opposed ramming through more Ukraine support during the lame-duck session before Republicans take over control of the House on Jan. 3, 2023. Strong pluralities and majorities of Republicans have told pollsters they want <a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2022\/11\/29\/united-states-foreign-policy-expectations-democrats-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decreases, not increases, in foreign spending and global military involvement<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Many Republican voters support helping Ukraine fight Russia\u2019s unjust invasion, but it is absolutely nowhere near their top issue, contrary to McConnell\u2019s false claim. It ranked higher as a priority before American taxpayers gave Ukraine more than was given to their war effort by nearly every other country in the world combined. But even at the height of support for the effort, before it turned into a massive proxy war with an unclear relationship to the U.S. national interest, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not the top issue for Republicans<\/a>, coming behind the economy and the U.S. border. <\/p>\n<p>A majority of Americans polled a few months ago said more money should be given to Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/09\/15\/most-americans-say-the-us-should-only-continue-to-spend-money-ukraine-under-certain-conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only after wealthy European countries match<\/a> what Americans have already sent \u2014 something nowhere near happening.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2022\/09\/08\/republicans-and-democrats-have-different-top-priorities-for-u-s-immigration-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">care deeply about borders<\/a> and national sovereignty, but they rank the protection of their own open border far above the protection of the borders of other countries. It is worth remembering that the longest government shutdown in U.S. history occurred in 2019 over a fight between Congress and President Donald Trump over whether to commit a relatively paltry $5 billion to protect our country\u2019s southern border, which Congress had refused to fund.<\/p>\n<p> About that $1.7 Trillion Spending Package <\/p>\n<p>Another comment from McConnell also shocked Republicans. Of the $1.7 trillion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/12\/20\/18-absurdities-of-the-mcconnell-schumer-omnibus-spending-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left-wing spending spree<\/a> McConnell is working so hard to help Democrats pass, he said, unbelievably, that he was \u201cpretty proud of the fact that with a Democratic president, Democratic House, and Democratic Senate, we were able to achieve through this omnibus spending bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican voters are desperately concerned about the country and are looking for bold and persuasive leadership instead of comfort with a few small, intermittent successes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":1782309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3680,6919,6203,5194,5277,9313],"class_list":["post-1782306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-cant","tag-federalist","tag-gop","tag-mcconnell","tag-mitch","tag-successful"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}