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Mitch McConnell Outsourcing Everything, Including His Job
conservativereview.com ^ | 7/1/15 | Daniel Horowitz

Posted on 07/02/2015 3:33:28 AM PDT by cotton1706

No, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) didn’t officially resign from the Senate. He will still engage in all legislative activities that advance Obama’s agenda, such as Obamatrade, the highway trust fund bailout, Export-Import Bank, and reauthorizing No Child Left Behind. But he did publicly outsource the last vestige of constitutional checks on the two unelected branches of government. So what is the purpose of serving in the legislative branch of government other than to enrich your friends with pay-for-play favors?

We already know that McConnell doesn’t believe in the congressional power of the purse under any circumstance – no matter how unlawful and harmful this Administration grows in its final two years. Now he is surrendering every remaining legislative check on the Judiciary as well, and worse, he is openly welcoming the extremists in the Judicial Branch to serve as judge, jury, and executioner over religious liberty.

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1 posted on 07/02/2015 3:33:28 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Alison Grimes was the lesser evil


3 posted on 07/02/2015 4:25:19 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: cotton1706
So what is the purpose of serving in the legislative branch of government other than to enrich your friends with pay-for-play favors?

To enrich their friends with pay-for-play favors.

4 posted on 07/02/2015 4:44:51 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

May as well have her in there now!!


5 posted on 07/02/2015 6:16:47 AM PDT by browniexyz
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To: cotton1706

6 posted on 07/02/2015 6:18:50 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
Here is a better pic of old Mitch

7 posted on 07/02/2015 12:47:42 PM PDT by poetbdk (resistance to tyranny)
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