Top Republican says Obama
‘off to a good start’
Posted by Brad at 4:54am Saturday, November 22, 2008
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Capitol Hill yesterday that he believes “the new administration is off to a good start.”
“They’re saying, in my view, all the right things … that they want to govern in the middle and tackle big things.”
McConnell added a cautionary note: “It would not be a good idea for the new administration … to go down a laundry list of left-wing proposals and try to jam them through.”
“I don’t anticipate they’re going to do that. I’m hoping for the best,” McConnell said.
The GOP senator also said he was glad to see the current president get ready to leave.
“Our members, in one way, are kind of relieved by the departure of an administration that became unpopular and made it very difficult for us to compete.”
