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https://notthebee.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-was-just-asked-about-the-fbi-raid-on-trumps-home-and-declined-to-comment
What?
Democrats Andrew Cuomo and Andrew Yang both object to the obvious breakdown of justice in the US, and McConnell won't?
The money spent on Republican campaigns for the Senate is McConnell’s insurance policy to remain in power. If you wonder why previously conservative senators go wobbly, this is it. Oppose McConnell and end up with a primary opponent whom Mitch supports. In conservative states, the risk of a Republican loss is low, and Mitch can still increase his Senate support.
Mitch McConnell Math is an almost evenly matched Senate, limiting the number of senators that might oppose McConnell, and control of campaign money.
We can beat the McConnell math. We must send as many Republicans as possible to the Senate. There is a disturbing trend that I see in comments. Some conservatives say that, because all Republicans are bad, it’s a waste of time to vote, and that we might as well just stay home. Mitch McConnell wants exactly that. The way to take power from McConnell is to elect enough Republican senators so that McConnell cannot control the caucus. We need more Republican senators for that to happen.
Former President Donald Trump accused Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY) of helping his “crazy” wife Elaine Chao “get rich on China.”
In a post to his social media site TruthSocial, the former president said Mitch McConnell should spend more time helping Republicans get elected instead of helping his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, profit from Communist China.
“Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate,” Trump wrote. “This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!”
The preferred political position for Mitch McConnell is where he has between 45 and 49 republican Senators, and the Democrats hold the Majority with around 55. Of course with Senator Harry Reid’s retirement, this would now imply Majority leader Chuck Schumer holding office.
Why does McConnell prefer the minority position?
The answer is where you have had to actually follow Mitch McConnell closely to see how he works. When the Majority has around 52 to 55 seats, they need McConnell to give them 8 to 9 votes to overcome the three-fifths (60 vote) threshold for their legislative needs. It is in the process of trade and payment for those 8 to 9 votes where McConnell makes more money, and holds more power, than as a sitting Majority Leader.
FRANKFORT, Ky. – In what may be the largest political contribution ever given to a political party in Kentucky, the drug maker Pfizer Inc. gave $1 million last month to the building fund of the Republican Party of Kentucky.
A report filed by Republican Party of Kentucky Building Fund last week with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance listed the $1 million from Pfizer along with five other big corporation contributions in the final quarter of 2022 totalling $1.65 million.
That is an extraordinarily large haul for the fund which had raised only $6,000 during the first three quarters of 2022. ...
Fueled by sales of its COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer’s revenue doubled to $81.3 billion from 2020 to 2021. The company ranks 43rd on the Fortune 500 list.
For the first three quarters of 2022, Pfizer reported $76 billion in revenues. ...
A sign identifies the party headquarters as the Mitch McConnell Building, in honor of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3891458-mcconnell-hospitalized-after-fall-in-dc/
The sooner McConnell is out of the Senate, the better. He is no friend of Americans.
Patrick says
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3891458-mcconnell-hospitalized-after-fall-in-dc/
The sooner McConnell is out of the Senate, the better. He is no friend of Americans.
Agreed. I heard he survived Polio as a kid, people always think that those people will become do gooders since they escaped death/crippling, but most often it's the opposite. They will only look out for themselves and wreck others and the country because of that adverse event. Fuck yertle
Eisenhower was the lone exception...it seems.
Eisenhower was complicated. He intentionally starved Germans at the end of WWII, he also fired on veterans of WWI - the Bonus Army.
richwicks says
Eisenhower was complicated. He intentionally starved Germans at the end of WWII, he also fired on veterans of WWI - the Bonus Army.
I think that was McCarther who fired on the veteran bonus army.
we've never had a moral population.
What does that mean and is a "moral population" even possible?
I would settle for a moral government.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Poor lil' guy! According to sources, Senator Mitch McConnell became so spooked today by the release of unedited Jan 6 footage that he withdrew his head into his shell and is refusing to come out.
"Oh no! He's scared! It's ok buddy! You can come out now!" said one of his aides, attempting to coax him out with a handful of seaweed pellets. "Shhh--no one's gonna hurt you! The buffalo man is gone! Come on, it's ok!"
Eyewitnesses say the elderly Senator slowly emerged, his big eyes darting to and fro, scanning for danger. Aides were frustrated, however, when McConnell's eyes caught a glimpse of a red baseball cap out of the corner of his eye, which caused him to panic and flip over on his back and kick his legs helplessly in the air.
At publishing time, sources had confirmed Nancy Pelosi was so unsettled by the footage that she shed her skin twice.
USA Today ran a ubiquitous story yesterday afternoon headlined “Mitch McConnell to consult doctor after freezing, struggling to speak for second time this summer.”
It was ugly.
Before I show you the video, which is bad enough, what was even worse was how Establishment Media broadcast the story on all channels within minutes of McConnell’s mini-stroke, or whatever it was. Compare this coverage to all the coverage of, say, Fetterman struggling to speak, or Biden wandering aimlessly off stages, enthusiastically shaking hands with invisible friends, or suddenly tumbling off stationary bicycles onto prepubescent girls.
Sorry. I mean, compare it to the non-coverage of Fetterman, Biden, or even Diane Feinstein, for that matter.
Here are just the first of dozens of stories that all popped up within the two hours after McConnell’s brief illness...
It’s nice the democrat party has an Establishment Media. The Republicans should think about getting one, too.
It’s de rigueur to roundly criticize McConnell these days, but I feel compelled to point out three important facts. First, without Mitch McConnell, Merrick Garland would be sitting fat and happy on the Supreme Court, and we would not have any of the great decisions that have come down in the last two years. As bad as Garland is at DOJ, a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court would have been infinitely worse, a prospect literally 1,000 times more horrifying than Gremlins multiplied by Sharknado.
Second, McConnell approved a record number of Trump appointments to federal judgeships, and Trump appointees made nearly all the decisions that eeked us out of the pandemic with our Constitutional skins mostly intact.
Finally, while lots of regular Republicans complain, with good reason, about McConnell’s lack of effective legislative action, and his somehow becoming fantastically wealthy on a Senator’s salary, democrats are grotesquely celebrating what — without some kind of miracle — will probably be the end of the Senate Minority Leader’s career.
In other words, democrats don’t see McConnell as ineffective.
Anyway, here’s the clip, if you haven’t seen it. Ironically, the humiliating and painful-to-watch freeze-up happened right after McConnell was asked about his running for re-election. ...
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1696940292954628555
McConnell does not look well. More than anything, even more than what it evidences about an obvious jab injury (thanks Pfizer!), this public medical catastrophe highlights America’s geriatric, brain-damaged leadership. It is a particularly bad time in world history to have a weak, ailing minority leader.
Despite appearances, he still sounds compos mentis. Earlier in the day, a frail-looking McConnell spoke fluently about a possible government shutdown and a possible short-term spending deal. USA Today reported the Senate minority leader will be “consulting a physician prior to his next event,” according to an anonymous McConnell aide.
We pray that Mitch will receive effective medical treatment and be relieved of the stress of his current office.
At publishing time, it was revealed Mitch McConnell had not actually retired. He just wanted to send even more money to Ukraine.
https://babylonbee.com/news/mitch-mcconnel-blinks-twice-to-signal-his-resignation
At publishing time, it was revealed Mitch McConnell had not actually retired. He just wanted to send even more money to Ukraine.
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