Mike McCurry Quotes
The Speaker the last time I checked, is probably one institution in American political life less popular than the IRS.
of the House, Newt Gingrich
Michael D. McCurry, White House Press Secretary (Democrat), Quoted in The Atlantic Monthly, June 1998
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A senate visitor asked the chaplain if he prayed for the senators.
The House of Representatives trying to adjust to Tea Party members voted against anything Democrats were for even if Republicans had created the legislation and previously supported it. The Congress the previous year had been the least productive in American history and it was mired in hyper-partisan gridlock, and the American public was fed up with Congress.
In 2012, the Republican party had shifted to the right and was split between two factions. None of the 4 leading candidates had the support of a majority of the activist Republicans who vote in Primary elections. The then started to vie with each other for the most conservative elements of the party and did so by attacking the other candidates, making moral pronouncements and attacking President Obama. None of them offered any positive programs or solutions to the problems they claimed existed, and the attacks on the others were always that they were “really not conservative” and “could not get elected.” The result was that all the candidates negatives rose.
After 34 years of serving as one of the most effective Senators, he had just been defeated in his primary election by a hyper partisan Republican conservative extremist who attacked Lugar for his comity and bipartisanship.
She had not been able to get some of questions answered about the then current policy of holding suspected undocumented immigrants with a criminal record in detention until deportation. The Immigration and Naturalization Service, in response to the Sequester law was reducing costs by using other forms of monitoring for suspects with minor criminal records. Instead of writing the Secretary—an Arizona ex Governor herself—or the President—and waiting a reasonable time for a response, she reached this strange conclusion the following day. An immigration basher, she rarely passed up an opportunity to make a public dramatic statement bashing the immigration policies and practices of America.
Michael Demaree McCurry is best known for having served in Bill Clinton's administration as the nation's 18th White House Press Secretary. He is a Washington-based communications consultant and is associated with the firm Public Strategies Washington, Inc. He is also active within the administration of the United Methodist Church, serving as a lay delegate to the Church General Conference and on various denominational boards. He currently co-chairs the Commission on Presidential Debates. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he was educated at Princeton University and Georgetown University.
