Shutdown won’t happen again, says McConnell

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who acted as the leader of the Republican conference in the Senate, was critic on GOP tactics which caused a 2-week partial government shutdown and pledged it wouldn’t happen again.

“Shutting down the government in my view is not conservative policy. A number of us were saying in back in July that this strategy could not and would not work, and of course it didn’t. So there will not be another government shutdown. You can count on that” said McConnell, cited by Brent Kendall from the WSJ.

A couple more quotes cited by the WSJ are worth highlighting:

Sen. McConnell rejected allegations he’s not conservative enough for voters back home, saying that his conservative opponents “are going to have a hard time convincing Kentucky primary voters that Mitch McConnell is some kind of liberal", adding that "I think that’s a pretty hard sell and it’s almost certainly going to fail."

“I think at the end of the day he has done a good job of being the leader of the Republican conference in the Senate, and I think that’s not an easy job to do,” Sen. Rubio said on Fox News Sunday.