McConnell disappointed by Obama partisanship

Using budget reconciliation to push through the budget would signal the Obama administration is “purely” partisan, the Senate’s Republican leader said Sunday.

“I’m disappointed after two months,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday on CNN. “The president has not governed from the middle as I’d hoped he would.”

McConnell said that should Obama and congressional Democrats push for budget reconciliation to shut out Republicans, it would “make clear they intend to carry out their plans on a purely partisan basis.”

“This administration is going to be the furthest to the left of certainly any administration in my lifetime,” the Kentucky Republican added.

He also reiterated that Senate Republicans would seek to pick off centrist Democrats in their effort to stall and revamp the budget.