McConnell: GOP not a party of 'no'

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WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- Republicans in the U.S. Senate are not going to cooperate with the Democratic majority just for the sake of cooperating, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

McConnell, R-Ky., said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday President Obama and the Democrats were bemoaning a seemingly uncooperative GOP minority that refused to rubber-stamp their agenda.

"The primary problem is the president would like for us to keep doing more of what he was able to do the first two years when he had total control of Congress," said McConnell. "The American people have looked at the results of that. It clearly has not worked."

McConnell denied there was an election-year Iron Curtain on Capitol Hill. He told CNN he meets regularly with Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and cited the recent passage of the Transportation Bill as an example of bipartisan cooperation.

"We were addressing an issue that we had broad agreement on, that transportation is important to our economy," McConnell said. "But, the way we are going to get the private sector going again is to change the way the government is treating the private sector."