GOP Majority Leader Cuts Off Keystone XL Debate So GOP Reps Can Meet With The Kochs

Senate Democrats are angry because Mitch McConnell ended debate on the Keystone XL bill so that Republicans could attend a weekend conference with the Koch brothers. The open amendment filled Senate process that Mitch McConnell promised when he became Majority Leader evaporated as soon as the Koch brothers came calling. What McConnell doesn’t want to admit is that the Democratic strategy to turn Keystone XL into a real jobs/climate change bill was working. Senate Democrats were going to keep holding Republican feet to the fire, and they didn’t like it. There is no way that McConnell was about let anything get in the way of the Republican Party’s real duty of serving the… Read more…