Posted on 10/24/2024 11:16:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“The Price of Power,” by Michael Tackett, reveals a legislator for whom political survival has been a top priority — even when it means supporting a “sleazeball” for the presidency.
For months after the Jan. 6, 2021, rampage at the Capitol, the damaged window of Mitch McConnell’s office was left unrepaired, a graphic reminder of the moment when one of rioters bashed the fortified glass with a flagpole. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who was the Senate majority leader at the time, professed his disgust at what happened, calling it “further evidence of Donald Trump’s complete unfitness for office.”
According to “The Price of Power,” a new biography by Michael Tackett, McConnell already despised Trump, calling him “not very smart, irascible, nasty” and a “despicable human being.” But a month later, when presented with the opportunity to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial for what McConnell declared to be “as close to an impeachable offense as you can imagine,” he refused to take it. A conviction could have disqualified Trump from holding office again, but McConnell wasn’t ready to cast Trump into the political wilderness, at least not yet.
Nearly four years on, he still isn’t ready. McConnell says he will support Trump, whom he deems a “sleazeball,” in the 2024 election. As Tackett puts it, “He had no choice but to support the nominee.”
“No choice”: The phrase implies an unwavering sense of duty and commitment, when in fact it is more useful in revealing what McConnell’s actual priorities are. He seems to have decided that Trump is reprehensible, wholly unfit for office and even a menace to the Republic. “I just hope that he’ll have to pay a price for it,” he told Tackett, referring to Trump’s efforts to try to overturn the...
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So Trump may be a sleazeball, but he’s OUR sleazeball.
Everything Mitch McConnell hates translates into it’s a good thing for America.
Politicians like McConnell and Biden are worried about Trump’s impact on their ability to obtain massive amounts of money by selling out. Funny thing, all of their excess funds is doing little to help out their rapidly diminishing quality of life. The evil is so ingrained in them that even with one foot in the grave, they’re still selling out for more money. In the case of these two, the wives are likely part of that push.
Funny gif. Seeing that graphic, I am reminded how turtles are actually pretty cute. Mitch McConnell? Not so much. He is grotesque, inside and out... just like his Democrat comrades. I will never again compare him to a turtle. It’s insulting to turtles everywhere.
Further evidence that McConnell was unfit for office, because he let a corrupt fraudulent election happen and did not try to stop it.
I told Kentucky freepers to vote that piece of sh*t out of power, but did they listen? Noooooo!!!!
It would have been worth losing that one Senate seat to a Democrat just to get that bastard out of power.
Bingo, you nailed it.
McConnell is as treasonous as Benedict Arnold.
Protecting the graft, bribes, kickbacks and profit sharing from the Chinese ‘free trade’ slave state is all he cares about.
No different than the Southern Plantation owners of the mid 19th century, a real modern day Simon Legree.
He’s the gatekeeper for the Free Trade RINOs, and almost the only time he makes a statement is when Trump brings up the subject of tariffs on Chinese trade in an honest attempt to reclaim our manufacturing wealth.
That’s when you hear from ‘Mitch the Chinese Bitch’, telling us how stupid he thinks Trump is.
Just for the record, Trump made his money honestly in America, not by selling out his fellow countrymen to their number one adversary, taking bribes and kickbacks from Chinese Communists.
McConnell belongs in federal prison, not the US Senate.
I will give Mitch McConnell credit for one thing: He kept Merrick Garland from becoming a Supreme Court justice.
I bet he is also super good at freeze tag.
Hates Trump, loves power, sold his miserable soul. Nothing new here.
The NY Times Ho must be talking about Romney and McCain. Her Jan 6 propaganda is laughable. Only the dummies who still believe Russia gate believe Jan 6 was an insurrection. The vast majority of people know it was a lie made up by democrats and their Neocon stooges. A Trump victory will be so sweet. I can’t wait to see all these losers crying in their glasses of Chardonnay. Nobody deserves to be rejected more than they do. A sleazebag is a guy who forced his teenage daughter to shower with him. That’s a democrat so he gets a pass. They would rather make up a lie about Trump. People don’t care what the NY Times employees say about Trump. We already know who he is.
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