Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized Senate Democrats on Friday for kowtowing to progressive activists and trying to block the Senate’s work in order to fight back against President Trump’s election.
“As you can imagine, the Democrats weren’t too happy about that,” McConnell said at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington about Trump’s victory. “Actually, they haven’t been happy about much of anything these days. They’ve got a rabid left-wing base that still — believe it or not — still, almost six months later, can’t get over the results of the election.”
“It continues to push them in all kinds of wild directions,” McConnell said. “Remember when Democrats used to complain about obstruction? That sound familiar to you? It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago, because it wasn’t that long ago.
The highest ranking Senate Republican said Democratic opposition will not “let up anytime soon,” but added that Republicans in Congress won’t either.
“These days though, Democrats are bowing to the far-left demand for complete and total opposition,” he said. “They’re doing everything they can to tie the Senate in knots. They’re forcing procedural hurdles on just about everything. They’re even gumming up works for non-controversial nominees for no other reason than to delay for it’s own sake. It’s what I call blind obstruction. In other words, pointless. It doesn’t change the outcome. I don’t think it’s going to let up anytime soon. But neither are we, I assure you.”
Multiple times, McConnell mentioned Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court in early April as proof Republicans won’t give up the fight, and said that there could be more Supreme Court nominations to come down the road, which he expects Democrats to oppose simply because of their anti-Trump stance.
“The left’s total opposition to Neil Gorsuch shows how determined it is to oppose any Supreme Court nominee, and we could have others,” McConnell said, repeating “we could have others. I think they will oppose any nominee of this president no matter what. No matter what the credentials, the temperament, anything.”
