In a speech before the Republican convention in Tampa, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell attacked political foes who believe Republicans have stymied economic recovery.
As we meet here tonight, America is suffering through an economic calamity of truly historic dimensions. Some are calling it the slowest recovery in our nation’s entire 236-year history.
To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.
This is not the result of forces beyond our control. It is not the result of some sinister political plot; as some of the more paranoid inhabitants of the left-wing fever swamps would have you believe.
In 2011, after Republicans took control of the House and made large gains in the Senate, McConnell came under fire for insisting multiple times that, “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
