article_snippet: Earnest at one point suggested that McConnell, pictured here last week at a press conferene on Captiol Hill with other Senate Republicans, is 'inept' as a leader .
article_snippet: The fact that McConnell can't build bipartisan support for a child sex-trafficking bill, I think, is an indication that McConnell leadership here in the majority is not off to a very strong start.
article_snippet: Earnest at another point suggested that McConnell is 'inept,' The GOP leader, McConnell said, should just take out the offending abortion measure in order to get Democrats back on board. '
article_snippet: I don't really understand,' McConnell said, why McConnell doesn't look at this situation and say, 'LetMcConnell remove the objection so we can get the objection passed, and get the objection signed into law.'
article_snippet: McConnell suggested the issue is moot because Republicans don't have enough support to pass the issue anyway.
article_snippet: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid chimed in on Monday and said that McConnell 'gave McConnell ' ' that Lynch would receive fair consideration. '
article_snippet: Now McConnell ''s hedging on that,' Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said during a speech on the Senate floor. '
article_snippet: Republicans simply can't govern,' Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, the Senate's majority leader until Republican took over in January, argued.
article_snippet: And given White House's hesitancy to issue a veto, Stewart said, the president, not McConnell, should ask Stewart party members to swallow a version of the bill it doesn't entirely agree with. '