McCONNELL and MCCAIN SHOULD GET WITH THE PROGRAM, OR RETIRE. WHO NEEDS THEM.

THE KUHNS REPORT

LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

It's time for a number of Republicans holding office in Washington to retire, spend time with their families, go lay on a beach, or go fishing. Come on! These senators and lawmakers work maybe three or four days out of the month and take off three months out of the entire year. You and I couldn't get away with that out here in the real world.

Two Republicans that should leave, who stand out like a sore thumb are: First, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He's been a 33-year Senate hanger-on, and I guess wants to be carried out of the senate, in a box. Folks, the founders of our nation didn't mean for anyone to go to Washington and plant themselves there for 33 years, or more. This man should have been out of congress years ago.

He, like others in the Republican party, don't want change in Washington and continue to disrupt and throw roadblocks up to prevent president Trump from carrying out his agenda , the agenda the people put president Trump in office to perform.

McConnell had the gall to go home to Kentucky and tell his audience that the president had " not been in this line of work before, and I think had excessive expectations  about how quickly things happen in the democratic process." Are you kidding me? This politician, who has been playing in the "swamp" for 33 years, couldn't get members of his party to agree and work behind the president. The Republican party made promises for seven-and-a half years that they, (the Republican party ) had a plan ready to go to  repeal and replace Obamacare.  The president told McConnell and the party that  once he was elected to office, he would sign the bill as quickly as they put it on his desk. LIE! LIE! LIE! McConnell and his colleagues had no plan - - no bill whatsoever to put on the president's desk.

I believe McConnell, is one of the main obstructionists in Washington. He has show a disdain for president Trump and  has made the decision to drag his feet and delay president Trumps promises  to the American people.

My advice to president Trump --if McConnell cannot deliver on a tax plan; the infrastructure that president Trump ran on; health care; and things like the wall (which McConnell has fought against), for reasons only known to him and a few colleagues, he should be ousted.

The second obstructionist, fighting against the president is Senator John McCain. He takes every opportunity to find fault with president Trump's ideas, polices, and agenda. Like McConnell, he feels he is an entitled person, just due to the fact that he has been in Washington so long. He too, is a swamp monster, who has been in  Washington, too long. I would wonder how many terms in office he expects to have? Maybe like McConnell, he wants to sit in Washington for a lifetime entitlement.

McCain was elected to office years, and years ago, basically because he was a young man, and a war hero. And, that's fine. We should  honor our heroes. But I do not think our lawmakers in Congress should hold on to a job for a life time. McCain was the  man who single-handed, with his single vote brought down the health care bill a fee weeks ago. Now again, he's challenging  president Trump's foreign policy in Afghanistan.

McCain's rebuke of president Trump is what I believe to be sour grapes. McCain ran for president and lost. He can't stand to see a person like president Trump, a former successful businessman sitting in the oval office. I tend to think that McCain, like McConnell, feels that president Trump is not one of  "them," a Washington, entrenched politician. And they openly flaunt the attitude that they are better than president Trump, a man they believe should not be president.

Through the years McCain worked his way into the position of chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and as such now thinks he knows how to run  the wars around the world. What a joke. This guy, was never a General. He has no experience of commanding military bases, never had hundreds of thousands of men under his  command, nor ever commanded an entire military theater of operations. Yet, he thinks he can tell our commander-in-chief, who has  numerous generals at his beckoned call, that he knows more than them.

McCain's military mindset is decades old. He is still living in the past, generations behind the times. His military strategies are obsolete. For years, and years, he, like Senator  Lindsey  Graham were "war mongers." McCain's answer to most any military crisis has been  "let's go to war." Remember when he was running for president, "YEARS AGO?"  He said, "Bomb, Bomb,  Bomb,-- Bomb, Bomb Iran." He couldn't wait to go to war. This guy is still stuck in World War II era thinking.

McCain's ideas and way of thinking are very outdated. McCain and McConnell are tired, over the hill,old men, dreaming  of what they had, and don't want to give up. They feel comfortable in their old ways and still want to be relevant. Their way to do that is to disagree with the president of the United States at every juncture. They want to be seen and heard but are frustrated that they are being left behind. Neither man has the smarts to catch up to the 21st century way of approaching problems and situations. They don't like that, so they strike out by bringing down the Republican party. These two Washington beltway colleagues choose to use obstruction, delaying tactics, slow-walk legislative goals, use verbal barbs against the administration,  and find fault with president Trump's attitude, personality and his way of doing things. They refuse to cooperate and embrace unity. They relish in the fact that they are not team players Voters, if there is a poster child for  term limits, these two party misfits qualify, above and beyond.

My view, if these two lawmakers do not get on board with the administrations goals in a short period of time ( a few weeks),  I would suggest that president Trump take away McCain's chairmanship, and dump McConnell as Majority Leader. -- And, that's  my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

BRADLEY W. KUHNS, P:h.D., O.M.D.
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