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grantcart

(53,061 posts) Thu Oct 3, 2013, 12:22 PM Oct 2013

McConnell on hot mic tells Rand, "What the Pres said in private same as public, no negotiations"

http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/home/ticker/Live-mic-catches-Senators-McConnell-and-Paul-talking-strategy-226238531.html

Here is the transcript

WPSD-TV caught Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talked strategy around the government shutdown.

Paul: "Do you have a second?"

McConnell: "I'm all wired up here, um."

Paul: "I just did CNN and I just go over and over again 'We're willing to compromise. 'We're willing to negotiate.' I think... I don't think they poll tested we won't negotiate. I think it's awful for them to say that over and over again."

McConnell: "Yeah, I do too and I, and I just came back from that two hour meeting with them and that, and that was basically the same view privately as it was publically."

Paul: "I think if we keep saying 'We wanted to defund it. We fought for that and that we're willing to compromise on this', I think they can't, we're gonna, I think... well I know we don't want to be here, but we're gonna win this I think."

Ironically by repeating it on a hot mic McConnell has made it even more difficult for the President to walk back from that position (note: I don't think the Pres has any intention of walking back, just that McConnell is such a dope for undermining his own sides position).

God Rand Paul sounds smarmy.