Mitch McConnell’s ‘Excessive Expectations’ Comment Draws Trump’s Ire
August 10, 2017 by admin
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Mr. McConnell’s office declined to confirm the call or address questions about it.
His message echoed the criticisms in recent days from many conservative news media figures and activists, who blame Mr. McConnell for failing to corral the necessary 51 votes to keep the repeal effort alive.
Yet by antagonizing Mr. McConnell, the president’s often inscrutable Senate partner in conservative policy making, Mr. Trump risks upending an already charged relationship with lawmakers who have joined him in this shotgun marriage of unified Republican government.
Mr. McConnell’s team sought to play down any animosity, noting that he also hopes to proceed on a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, despite the setbacks.
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“The leader has spoken repeatedly about the path forward regarding Obamacare repeal on the Senate floor, at media availabilities multiple times and in Kentucky,” his spokeswoman, Antonia Ferrier, said in an email. “If he has any new statements, I’ll be sure to pass them along.”
Mr. McConnell’s initial remarks were pointed, but hardly scorching. Speaking at a gathering this week in Kentucky, Mr. McConnell mounted a defense of the chamber’s work, arguing that complicated legislation takes time.
“Part of the reason I think that the story line is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,” the senator said. “Our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before. And I think he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process.”
Though he has generally been a loyal steward of the president’s agenda, Mr. McConnell has tweaked him at times this year, including several pointed dismissals of Mr. Trump’s calls to do away with the legislative filibuster.
Mr. McConnell has also repeatedly encouraged the president to tweet less.
On Wednesday, Republicans in Washington were reminded why, particularly as the party seeks to confront tax policy, a debt ceiling deadline and perhaps a revived health care repeal push when lawmakers return next month.
“Attacking the Senate majority leader of your own party is utterly incomprehensible and completely wrongheaded,” said Michael Steel, a Republican strategist who was an aide to the former House speaker John A. Boehner and to Jeb Bush, a Republican presidential candidate in 2016. “There is no positive result for the president or his agenda in these attacks.”
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It is unclear how Mr. McConnell’s remarks, made Monday at a Rotary Club event, hit the president’s radar. As recently as Tuesday evening, Mr. Trump was deploying his Twitter account for a cause Mr. McConnell cherishes, endorsing Senator Luther Strange, Republican of Alabama, a week before his Republican primary in a special election. Mr. McConnell has been seeking to boost Mr. Strange, who took office after Mr. Trump named Jeff Sessions as his attorney general.
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Tropical Storm Franklin Weakening After Landfall as a Hurricane in Eastern Mexico; Major Inland Flood Threat Looms
August 10, 2017 by admin
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Franklin made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane around midnight Thursday morning.
Franklin is now a tropical storm and will dissipate by late Thursday or early Friday morning over southern Mexico.
Damaging winds, storm surge, flooding rainfall and landslides are all likely impacts.
Tropical Storm Franklin made landfall as a hurricane in eastern Mexico overnight Wednesday night and, despite weakening rapidly, will pose a dangerous flood threat for some inland locations into Friday.
After becoming the Atlantic Basin’s first hurricane of 2017 over the Bay of Campeche, Franklin made landfall around midnight CDT Thursday in the Mexican state of Veracruz as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum estimated winds of 85 mph.
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La Vigueta in the state of Veracruz has reported a wind gust of 45 mph, while hurricane hunters reported wind gusts as high as 90 mph a few hundred miles off the coast mid-Wednesday evening.
Franklin has now weakened to a tropical storm and will continue to drive inland roughly between Veracruz and Mexico City, weakening quickly as the low-level circulation is shredded by the area’s mountains.
Tropical storm-force winds are expected to wind down along the coast later Thursday morning, particularly in Veracruz state.
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A storm surge of 4 to 6 feet was expected around the time of landfall near and north of the center along the eastern Mexican Bay of Campeche coast. Those elevated water levels should subside quickly this morning.
Perhaps the most serious threat, however, may be from rainfall flooding.
Up to 15 inches of rain may fall in eastern Mexico through Thursday associated with Franklin’s final move inland. Flash flooding and mudslides are likely to be major concerns as Franklin grinds across this region’s mountainous terrain.
Although Franklin’s circulation may fall apart over Mexico, it will bring moisture with it across the continent. An additional 3 to 9 inches of rainfall is possible across southwestern Mexico from whatever is left of Franklin when it reaches the Pacific.
A year ago, eastern Mexico was ravaged by flooding and mudslides from Tropical Storm Earl which claimed the lives of 81 people.
High surf, rip currents, and minor coastal flooding should affect southern Texas into Thursday. The National Weather Service in Brownsville, Texas, posted a high surf advisory for the South Texas coast through Thursday night.
After dissipating over Mexico, remnant energy from Franklin may help spawn another tropical depression or tropical storm in the eastern Pacific in the days ahead.
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Franklin’s First Landfall
Franklin made its first landfall as a tropical storm just before 11 p.m. CDT Monday night near Pulticub, Mexico, about 180 miles south-southwest of Cozumel.
Significant flash flooding occurred in the city of Campeche as Franklin moved through Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday.