(POLITICO) Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he’s “perplexed” by President Barack Obama’s actions since the mid-term elections, arguing Obama seems in denial over the “butt-kicking” the Democratic Party experienced.
When asked about his relationship with the White House at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council event in Georgetown, McConnell boasted of his deal-making acumen when paired with Vice President Joe Biden, citing deals to extend the Bush tax cuts, approve the Budget Control Act and avoid the fiscal cliff in 2012 as examples that he can negotiate with the other side.
But the newly reelected Kentucky Republican had little praise for Obama’s actions in the month after Democrats’ devastating mid-term results, a list of presidential moves that include an emissions pact with China and executive action to shelter millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
