This column by Sen. Mitch McConnell appeared in today's Courier-Journal.
I've always known David Hawpe and The Courier-Journal's editorial board considered themselves smarter than the average bear, but I never knew you considered yourselves clairvoyant. How else to explain your power to know the outcome of a vote that hasn't even happened yet on a bill that hasn't even reached the Senate floor?
In Saturday's editorial ("Back of his hand"), you claimed I "blocked" the "Senate Democrats' stimulus package, preferring instead a cheaper, less humane House-passed plan." But there's a real problem with that charge: The Senate won't vote on the partisan bill you prefer until at least Wednesday.
And the bipartisan bill you deride as "less humane" and cheap was co-authored by the liberal Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the Republican House leader. And at roughly $150 billion, I don't think that meets anyone's definition of "cheap."
The true point of your editorial was clear by the third paragraph, when you argued for a partisan bill written by "the Senate Democrats" instead of the bipartisan bill. An editorial board that so often demands bipartisanship recoiled at a bipartisan bill that passed the House by a vote of 385-35.
If we are to have an impact on the economy before it slows any further, the time to do it is now. There is simply no time for the type of partisan wrangling your editorial called for.
Every Democratic congressman in the Kentucky and Indiana delegations voted for the bill you call "less humane." I guess you'll attack them next.
