Mitch should be doing what the Dems did to Trump, calling for Biden’s impeachment, not his own party’s President. The guy needs to be removed from leadership for this.
Maybe it’s consistent with what McConnell promised the Deep State, China and the rest of the Commucrats.
What did they expect from these deepstaters?
Concerning those like the turtle,
Its best to be thought of as a fool, than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.
You got the candidate of your choice cocain mitch. You own it!
The sun is setting on this thoroughly corrupt fossil.
“Karma is coming to Mitch McConnell for what he did to President Trump.”
Mitch has been paid many times over. He doesn’t care.
this clown turned on Trump faster than Judas turned on Jesus. Didn’t even wait for one whole night to do it..
“But Mitch didn’t care.:
Mitch still doesn’t care. The little people in Kentucky put him in office for another six years. He will do what he damn well pleases.
I think he thinks that this is his last term so he can do whatever he wants. He may have a rude awakening.
McConnel doesn’t care. He’ll be 85 when his term ends and wants to keep all the money he made over his many decades in politics.
I hope the RATS go after MCConnell but he’s on their side now so probably won’t happen.
I read somewhere that there is a challenger looming in the wings for when he comes up again. However, I also vaguely recall seeing somewhere that he was going to retire at the end of his current term.
Anybody know?
Shocking. Swamp creature lied to us to get reelected.
Just like Graham, Burr, Manchin, etc etc etc.
>>McConnell hasn’t said how he will vote in the second impeachment trial of President Trump, but has said it’s a “vote of conscience” and will be based on facts.<<
If a-hole McConnell paid the least bit of attention to the “FACTS,” there would be no doubt that Trump was not responsible for the actions of the trouble-makers that day. Mitch needs to go!
Will the mcconjobs move to China now?
I just sent this email to McConnell:
You have betrayed the people of Kentucky and President Trump. Your declaration that Trump incited the riot at the U.S. Capitol was an outright lie and you know it. Your pathetic lack of support for the man that Kentuckians overwhelmingly elected is appalling. Your implied support to convict President Trump in the senate after this latest impeachment sham is utterly disgraceful. You, sir, should be impeached for your scurrilous actions. You and your wife’s entanglement with China and the CCP borders on treasonous. You are the poster child of why the 17th Amendment is bad and should be removed from the Constitution and you are a compelling example of why we need term limits for senators and representatives. You better be planning your retirement now because you won’t be reelected after your current term expires. Enjoy your time in the swamp and consider staying there with your ilk after you’re put out to pasture.
Mitch is like the Honey Badger, He don’t give a f.
He will never run again as he is getting filthy rich and will retire with better health and retirement bennies than you or I.
He is a deep swamp creature and he is simply a get along go along gub mint turd.
Makes no difference unless they cut him off from all party resources.
Posted on January 19, 2021 by Sundance
If there has been one politician on these pages we have WARNED ABOUT over the years it is Senator Mitch McConnell. The Senate Majority Leader is the most conniving, cunning and Machiavellian member of the Republican party.
With his positions solidifying CTH warnings for well over a decade, his actions over the past several weeks now highlight the dark background of his politics. Today, McConnell took the final stab at the people’s president as Donald Trump prepares to depart the White House. The bloom is off the ruse:
JUST IN: McConnell says mob was "provoked by the President"
The institution of the modern UniParty senate chamber requires a voter to understand the shell game. The pea is never where you think it is. The Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same vulture.
Defenders of the Decepticon schemes rely on our inability to understand a hidden agenda; a secret agenda… However, with more eyes now open this outline will start to make sense.
First, McConnell doesn’t care about holding a majority position in the Senate. Whether he is a majority leader or a minority leader doesn’t matter to McConnell. In fact McConnell’s political skill-set does better in the minority than the majority.
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.
The 60 vote threshold, and McConnell’s incredible skillset in the minority, is where he shines. Each of the needed votes to achieve sixty is worth buckets of indulgence to the minority leader and those on K-Street who need the Senate to support their legislative constructs. The votes to get to sixty are worth a lot of money.
This institutional dynamic is the currency of affluence and influence in the Senate; this is why Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell never changed the Senate rules for legislative passage. This is why the filibuster was retained and why the 60 vote threshold was always beneficial to both parties. The color of the flag atop the spire matters not.
Except for budget passage (reconciliation); and McConnell being forced by intransigence in the era of Trump resistance to change the judicial vote threshold to 51; McConnell would never consider changing the legislative threshold (60 votes) to a simple majority (51 votes) because it would be removing his favored position.
A simple majority vote is adverse to the institutional interests. That is why McConnell retained it during his reign as majority leader; as did Harry Reid before him.
The process of selling votes to the 60-vote threshold in the Senate is where the UniParty operates; and where the status of maximum financial benefit for the minority exists.
As a majority leader with 52 GOP senators, McConnell needed to purchase eight or nine votes for each legislative priority.
Mitch McConnell doesn’t like being the purchaser, he prefers being the vote seller where his skill-set as a broker really shines.
McConnell is much better at extracting terms for his vote sales, than being the purchaser for the votes of an intransigent minority wing. This is why the current Senate doesn’t pass many bills.
With Democrats in the majority, and McConnell as minority leader, we will see much more legislation pass because Chuck Schumer is a more well financed buyer (K-Street) and McConnell is a much better seller. Whenever we have this republican minority dynamic it always leaves people confused because few really watch what McConnell is doing.
McConnell takes his favorite 18 controlled GOP senators (Decepticons) and he brokers their votes on an ‘as needed’ basis. The eight to ten senators he selects each time get compensated in the process. McConnell rotates the financial beneficiaries on a bill-by-bill basis. As a consequence each of the 18 or so McConnell senators get quite wealthy over time, and McConnell gains additional power and influence.
McConnell decides who takes committee positions, those committee positions are worth money to K-Street purchasers of legislation. That’s one aspect to his power.
McConnell also hand-selects which senators will provide the votes to the majority to reach the 60 vote threshold. He uses a formula of favoritism, loyalty and studies the election cycles to determine who in his tribe will sell their votes and gain. That is the second aspect to his power.
If any of the republican Senators attempt to disrupt this UniParty business model McConnell excommunicates them from the legislative process; the best reference for the ‘excommunicado’ approach is former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC).
Additional references for how McConnell operates this scheme as the Minority Leader can be found in the Corker-Cardin amendment which allowed the Iran nuclear deal/payments under Obama; and/or the “fast track” Trade Promotion Authority deal for TPP passage, again for President Obama’s maximum benefit.
In these two examples McConnell worked with Harry Reid to flip the vote threshold from two-thirds (super-majority) need to approve, to two-thirds (super-majority) needed to deny. They flipped the dynamic in order to give Obama the tools he needed for the Iran deal and the Trans-Pacific-Partnership trade agreement (TPP).
[SIDEBAR – Within TPP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was again working on the priorities of U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue. McConnell and Donohue have been working together on UniParty trade and domestic legislative issues for around twenty years. It is well established that Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has one major career alliance that has been unbroken and unchanged for well over two decades. That alliance is with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and specifically with CoC President Tom Donohue.
CoC President Tom Donohue represents Wall Street interests and supports: all multinational trade deals, open-border immigration policies, amnesty legislative constructs, and all of the issues that have generally irked common-sense GOP voters for the same period of time.
Tom Donohue is the biggest lobbyist spender in DC every year, by a mile.
To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles:
CNN Part I and CNN Part II both showcase how McConnell works.
Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE] – END SIDEBAR].
Hopefully, now you can see how the business model within the senate is lucrative from a financial standpoint. Selling votes from the minority position is worth a lot of money. Additionally, the power dynamic is essentially even within this process. The majority holds political and financial power… and the minority holds enough political power to keep the majority in check (as well as mutually beneficial financial power).
For those who understand the dynamic the next obvious point is: what happens when Schumer takes the majority, eliminates the filibuster and takes legislative passage to a simple majority (51-votes)? This is, after all, what the far-left has promised to do.
From McConnell’s position if the Democrats are the party that changes the precedent for Senate legislative passage, he feels it will provide him ammunition to retake control in the 2022 mid-term; and he wouldn’t be the historic figure to have changed the rules.
McConnell counts on the GOPe machinery (RNC), the purchased and allied Wall Street media, and his K-street backers to assist him in getting back in power. The righteous donation requests from the political and financial class are always enhanced by the extremes and outrage. If Schumer kills the filibuster and takes the senate to a simple majority McConnell will weaponize the maneuver against his “friend across the aisle”.
That’s the way the Machiavellian processes work…. they GOPe do not care what your opinion is about it.
