Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell isn’t sticking his neck out this time.
The Kentucky Republican has previously stepped in at the last minute to save House Republicans from themselves in desperate moments like this — during the 2011 debt limit near-crisis and the year-end debacle over extending the payroll tax cut. But now, with the fiscal cliff right around the corner, he’s laying low and steering clear of trouble, eager not to be seen as disrupting any progress but signaling no intention of swooping in to save the day again.“I say I’m a little frustrated because we’ve been asking the President and Democrats to work with us on a bipartisan agreement for months — months,” McConnell said Thursday late afternoon on the Senate floor, lamenting the lack of progress and accusing Democrats of sitting on their hands.
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