Mitch McConnell during the debate over the payroll tax extension: "Washington is getting richer"

glennmagusharvey

You're either stupid or lying out of your ass, Mitch.  There's a big ass deficit and it ain't getting smaller anytime soon.

Gelzo

What if he's referring to the politicians themselves?

From the sound of your post, I guess not.

glennmagusharvey

He was talking about his proposal to cut federal government expenditures to pay for the payroll tax.  He says that will reduce the Washington bureaucracy or whatever.  So he's basically saying or implying that there are lazy bureaucrats who are unfairly pocketing taxpayer money.

Here's the full transcript of his remarks.  He then goes off on a tangent on the Keystone XL turtle fence pipeline.

glennmagusharvey

This is probably a more informative piece, since I'm not having much luck finding this quote itself on the web.  (There are like two sources; the article I linked earlier and the Senate Republicans' own page with a transcript.)

Warning: Opinion piece.  Then again, you're in a politics thread; this should not need a warning.