Their lips, your ears

When the majority is right, we will try to help them. We're not here to make them look bad.

-- Mitch McConnell,
Senate Republican leader,
August, 2007

[Republicans] say the Democratic Congress simply isn't getting anything done.

--Dana Bash,
CNN Congressional Correspondent,
July 23, 2007

The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail ... so far it's working for us. Democrats are the ones taking the blame for not getting anything done.

-- Trent Lott,
April 18, 2007

Senate Republicans have obstructed almost every bill in the Senate – even ones with wide bipartisan support.