Stella got her groove back on a trip to Jamaica. Republicans got theirs, apparently, by filibustering everything in sight. In a speech today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is set to tell a group of young Republicans that the GOP “got our groove back” this year by, essentially, slowing the legislative process to a halt.
“Republicans in Washington — the ones who were supposed to be beaten down, demoralized, and despondent — well, we were listening,” McConnell says in the prepared version of the speech, according to Politico. “We shared your frustration. And we girded for the fight, confident that we had supporters behind us. We broke out of the Washington echo chamber and fought the government-driven solutions that Democrats were proposing. We got our groove back.”
The Washington Post has this take on that particular line of reasoning:
Poll after poll suggests that voters are far from sold on the Republican brand and that the rise of GOP fortunes is directly tied to an erosion of confidence in Obama and the Democratic party not any Republican renaissance.
According to the Post, McConnell’s speech before the Young Republican National Federation today is “a preview of the Republican message heading into the fall campaign.”
Here’s what that looks like, according to the prepared remarks:
McConnell also is expected to present the idea of the need for checks and balances in Washington, telling the crowd that the midterm election is about “reversing the damage Democrats have done”.
Evan McMorris-Santoro
Evan McMorris-Santoro has covered politics for TPM since 2009. Before that, he was a reporter at National Journal’s Hotline covering election 2008. He started his career covering local politics at newspapers in TN and his native NC.
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