Talking Points Memo: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell- 'Elect More Republicans To Roll Back New Deal'

Source:Talking Points Memo- U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican, Kentucky)

"McConnell: Elect More Republicans To Roll Back New Deal" 

From Talking Points Memo

Actually, Mitch McConnell didn't say: "Elect more Republicans to roll back the New Deal." And even Talking Points Memo knows that. They're a partisan, left-wing, news operation, so I don't expect them to be accurate, let alone completely accurate.

I take Minority Leader McConnell's broader point to be correct, which is American elections have consequences. If American voters wanted the Republican Party to have supermajorities in Congress (House and Senate) giving the Democratic Party almost no ability to slow them down with Congressional rules, then they would've done that by now. 

When you lose elections like the Republican Party has done since 2006 when they lost Congress all together and you lose the presidency and now we're in 2012 and Senate Republicans still haven't won back the Senate and they not again this year thanks to some of the out-of-this-world candidates that they're running statewide in swing states like Indiana and Missouri, you don't get to do exactly what you want to do politically. 

At best depending on what your numbers are in Congress, can either slow down what the majority party is doing, or work with them to do something that neither side wants, but can live with. Which is where the Republican Party is today at the Federal level.