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McConnell: Failure to pass Ukraine aid ‘strategic and moral malpractice’
The Hill ^ | 04/10/24 11:51 AM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 04/11/2024 10:14:32 PM PDT by RandFan

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is stepping up his pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put the Senate-passed foreign aid bill up for a vote in the House, warning Wednesday that “starving” Ukraine of military support is “strategic and moral malpractice.”

McConnell told a radio host in Louisville recently that despite plans to retire from Senate leadership, he intends to stay in the Senate through the end of his term in 2027 in order to fight back “against the isolationist movement in my own party.”

On Wednesday, he did that by taking shots at President Biden for not providing military support to Ukraine more quickly and at members of the Republican Party who are now holding up $60 billion in aid for Ukraine.

“Starving Ukraine of needed capabilities wasn’t a smart way for the Biden administration to avoid escalation, and neither is it a political master stroke by some of the administration’s Republican opponents. It is strategic and moral malpractice. It risks condemning Ukraine and undermining our own national interest,” McConnell said on the Senate floor.

McConnell has repeatedly called on Johnson to bring the Senate-passed $95 billion aid package up for a vote. The Senate passed the bill Feb. 13, almost two months ago.

The Senate bill also includes military aid for Israel and security assistance to the Indo-Pacific to deter growing Chinese aggression.

The Senate GOP leader recently warned that House Republican plans to turn aid for Ukraine into a loan program or to authorize the seizure of Russian assets to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine could delay the aid package for weeks longer.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: bidenrepublicans; idiotmitch; killkillkillforpeace; mic; mitchhatesamerica; morebs; senate; ukraine
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To: MeanWestTexan

bttt


21 posted on 04/11/2024 11:28:21 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: RandFan

Why do you want to piss away so much of our money on a lost cause, Mitch? I’m so sick of the establishment GOP I could puke.


22 posted on 04/11/2024 11:29:29 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: RandFan

To the last Ukrainian, inbred NeoCons and their agents (like Mitch) say. They are just Slavs. Not needed.


23 posted on 04/11/2024 11:30:04 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Freest Republican
It will be immensely disappointing if another one of these idiots becomes majority leader.

Like mini-Mitch John Thune?

24 posted on 04/11/2024 11:31:12 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: DesertRhino

Ukraine as a failed state died in 2014. The only question is how many Ukrainians will survive US/EU/NATO “aid”.

Given that they will now draft all 18-60 year old males, the answer is, not many.


25 posted on 04/11/2024 11:32:14 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: RandFan

Immorality, thy name is McConnell.


26 posted on 04/12/2024 12:07:18 AM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: RandFan

Uniparty gonna uniparty


27 posted on 04/12/2024 12:11:35 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: RandFan

Mitch, your corrupt deals with Ukraine are not a security issue for the rest of us.


28 posted on 04/12/2024 1:08:26 AM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: kiryandil

How is he any different than the corrupt joe biden


29 posted on 04/12/2024 2:14:08 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Paladin2

Simple, Russia pulls out of Ukraine, martial law is removed, and elections happen


30 posted on 04/12/2024 2:50:56 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Theo

I too feel sorry for Ukraine, the idea that 60 billion spread out over years can’t be accomplished is just plain false

As in much of past aid, much of tue “costs” are not really costs. Surplus equipment, and expired or expiring munitions are not new expenditures.

As to size of Russia and it’s inevitable victory, by that reasoning the war should have been over two years ago.


31 posted on 04/12/2024 2:57:51 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: RandFan

What does he propose cutting and diverting to Ukraine? We are $34trillion in debt.


32 posted on 04/12/2024 3:29:47 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: RandFan

Failure to pass USA border security is an even bigger “strategic and moral malpractice” but I don’t see Cocaine Mitch give a shit about the destruction of America.

How the hell can any true American put more precedence on a filthy corrupt Ukraine than the USA?

It just shows you were their priorities are. /spit


33 posted on 04/12/2024 4:00:02 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: RandFan

Screw McConnell. not another dime.


34 posted on 04/12/2024 4:19:49 AM PDT by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION. STAGNATION)
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To: RandFan; All

Comments BUMP!


35 posted on 04/12/2024 4:45:15 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: RandFan

It appears we can’t walk (have an intact border) and chew gum (support Ukraine) at the same time, so we’ve chosen to be a gum-chewing paraplegic.


36 posted on 04/12/2024 4:52:29 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: RandFan

McConnell told a radio host in Louisville recently that despite plans to retire from Senate leadership, he intends to stay in the Senate through the end of his term in 2027 in order to fight back “against the isolationist movement in my own party.”

We will all be better off if this treacherous POS is pushing up daisies well before 2027.


37 posted on 04/12/2024 5:07:43 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Theo

Yep
Zelensky used the same election cheat as Obiden.
He’s not the real leader, and has decimated his people to hide his crimes.


38 posted on 04/12/2024 5:12:43 AM PDT by TStro (God made all men equal Sam Colt made them polite.)
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To: RandFan
McConnell: Failure to pass Ukraine aid strict border law is ‘strategic and moral malpractice’

Fixed it for you there, Mitch.
39 posted on 04/12/2024 5:14:29 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: RandFan

The Old Crow must have a lot of money riding on another huge transfer of money from the American taxpayers to the Zelensky gang and the big defense contractors.


40 posted on 04/12/2024 5:48:48 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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