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rker told Politico last week. In late May, Mitch McConnell, an architect of the G.O.P. strategy of non- coop

of holding their cards, because we realize that it's not game time yet," the Tennessee Republican Bob Corker told Politico last week. In late May, Mitch McConnell, an architect of the G.O.P. strategy of non- cooperation since 2009, also told Politico, "I think we have plenty of members in the Senate on both si

ence of recent incumbents offered no guidance. No President since Dwight D. Eisenhower had served two full terms. John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Lyndon Johnson, overwhelmed by the war in Vietnam, had declined to run for reelection in 1968. Richard Nixon resigned less than seventeen months into his second

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about any semblance of cooperation." On its website, Fox News (1/24, Fordham, 23.99M) reports that during a news conference Sunday, Schumer said, "Mitch McConnell will not dictate to the Senate what we should do and how we should proceed. ... McConnell is no longer the majority leader, and in every Senate in

c rules of operation." The Times says Biden "enters with a deeper understanding of the legislative process and politicians than any president since Lyndon Johnson, a former Senate majority leader," but the question is whether his "legislative prowess is, well, a little bit sepia toned. When Mr. Biden talks abo

. BILL MOYERS: Anything that... NORMAN ORNSTEIN: ...blocked it. BILL MOYERS: ...passed in the Senate. NORMAN ORNSTEIN: So he went for a deal with Mitch McConnell which makes it easier, if the two leaders want to do something, to overcome individual rogue senators, like a Ted Cruz or a Rand Paul. But it didn'

NORMAN ORNSTEIN: So he went for a deal with Mitch McConnell which makes it easier, if the two leaders want t

shouldn't have access to guns have to go through a process to make it happen. So it's not only that, this meme in the press: "Why can't he be like Lyndon Johnson or like Bill Clinton?" As if all the schmoozing that Bill Clinton did got him a single Republican vote for his economic plan. And it took seven mont

mocratic leadership found the time to come. Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and three other Republicans decli

zed a screening at the White House of Steven Spielberg's film "Lincoln." Spielberg, the cast, and the Democratic leadership found the time to come. Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and three other Republicans declined their invitations, pleading the press of congressional business. In the current climate, a Repu

n party, the G.O.P.— couldn't fail to summon a contrasting portrait. The biographer Robert Caro has also been a guest. Caro's ongoing volumes about Lyndon Johnson portray a President who used everything from the promise of appointment to bald-faced political threats to win passage of the legislative agenda th