Posted on 07/25/2015 8:19:32 AM PDT by conservativejoy
mitch HAS GOT TO GO!!!!!!
During election season 2014, around the time of the Matt Bevin/Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 59% primary, I emphatically said here that there was no point to having mitch as the Majority Leader because he would be just as bad as Harry. I was totally right, and events have proven this to be the case. So far, this Congress, with Republicans in control of BOTH houses, has done NOTHING to roll back the disaster that is President Obama.
And now we understand a little bit of what goes on in the Senate. Apparently mitch lied to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% and assured Ted that there was NO DEAL with the Democrats to bring back the Ex-Im Bank. Subsequent events have demonstrated that there is, in-fact a deal with the Democrats to bring back the Ex-Im Bank.
How much more disgusting can it get?
Once again I implore my many fellow Conservatives here: We have got to STOP supporting the failed Republican Party. We have got to stand up and say loudly and clearly that we will NOT support RINOs, EVEN IF this leads to Dems winning a race now and then. At some point we have to realize that pragmatism will NEVER get us to where we need to be.
Ted Cruz would make a terrific Majority Leader, and I am confident that he could do that AND run for President at the same time.
Let’s DUMP mitch. He is completely undeserving of our support. Eventually we are going to have to clean out the barn. We could have started during last year’s elections, but that was largely squandered on the promise that Obama would be rolled back if we got a Republican Senate. How’s that working out for us>
I seem to remember some mention of the equivalent of $4.3B booty/largess/port for his home state back in the recent budget days.
To get rid of him, we have to call out his state on what they are.
In this one race, I supported NOT voting for Mitch and I was criticized for it.
I was right.
Its called, “I got mine, how’s yours?”
Alison Grimes was the lesser evil
Mitch is the only scarecrow who scares the crops but not the crows.
You mean these people? Somehow, I don’t think they fear God or God-fearing constituents.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/state-forbids-pastors-calling-homosexuality-sinful/
You would be hard-pressed to find a stronger supporter of free-market capitalism than your writer. History proves that it is the system that has provided more wealth, freedom and well-being to more humans for longer than any system before it. It’s helpful to be clear that the classic definition of “capital” is the means of production, the ownership of same and the activities surrounding that production.
I have never forgotten what Dr. James Dobson of Focus on The Family once told me during a radio interview: “Without an underlying FAITH system (in his and my case and most of the West, that would be Christianity or Judeo-Christianity), capitalism is just a HUNTING LICENSE”.
As I’m sure you know, who or what OWNS the capital is critical. If you think about it, you’ll see that socialism or it’s evil big brother, communism, is a form of capitalism in which, in varying degrees, the STATE owns and controls the capital. Communism is simply MONOPOLISTIC capitalism.
Someone once asked David Rockefeller why he and others with great wealth (produced under the free market system they clearly seek to deny others) had formed multiple allegedly “humanitarian” organizations, the sub rosa goals of which seek to bring about a socialist or communist system here. His response? “If YOU’RE the state, it’s a pretty good deal”.
Which brings us to OLIGARCHY, the system in which a small group of wealthy and powerful individuals run the state. The citizens have little or no input.
And that’s just about where America is now.
For true free-market capitalism to function as envisioned by Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others, those who, by their hard work and enterprise, find themselves in control of the capital (again, the means of production), are cautioned by classical economists to do so based on ENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST! For the system to produce benefits for all parties, it is in the capitalist’s interest to play by the generally accepted rules, honor contracts* and treat those with whom he has dealings with respect and not abuse the blessings our unique system allow them to experience. (* The Constitution is the most important man drawn contract in America.)
Let me cut to the chase.
America today is at a very dangerous place. Too many of our capitalists, politicians and others in positions of power are more concerned about JUST their bottom line or maintaining and increasing their power over those around them and are on the verge of destroying the very system that brought them and so many others liberty and prosperity. Too many of them are operating on the basis of UNENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST. They remind me of some of the numerous viruses that infect other organisms only to kill it at which time, stupid, unthinking, UNENLIGHTENED CREATURE THAT IT IS, IT ALSO PERISHES!
If OUR capitalists and poliicians persist in this increasingly unenlightened behavior, some of us who understand what that has ALWAYS brought upon us will find ourselves uttering the final lines in the final scene of the classic film at the link below. Not one of my favorites but nonetheless prophetic.
My great fear is that that day will come sooner than later. MUCH sooner!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuM3DjvYf0
Dick Bachert 7 24 2015
Can somebody – ANYBODY – tell me WHEN these two TRAITORS are going to stand up to their fellow TRAITOR down Pennsylvania Avenue? ANYBODY??
(CUE THE CRICKETS)
And there lies the problem, it will never happen!
Our system of elections is specifically designed to prevent the cleaning out of the barn.
The solution to Mitch Mcconnell is to repeal the 17th amendment.
Time to purge McCommie!
What has been the point in giving the Republican’s control of the Senate and the House?????
I am so frustrated that I barely can tune into the news anymore.
Mitch must go. Please, voters of this clown’s state, primary him out!
Republican’s in the Senate. If you want to protect your own jobs, get this clown out of the majority seat.
Well, it was a legitimate question and the answer to why they didn’t vote him out.
This has been one of my biggest arguments for term limits. The opponents say, voting is term limits, but reality says, many voters aren’t dumb, the longer your guy is there, the more you get.
We need Kentucky to stand up and do what is right. Get rid of the turtle.
We also need real term limits. Make it a constitutional amendment along with either limiting Supreme Court Justice time or making it easier to impeach or remove them. Confidence votes every 8 years?
I agree he has to go, but I wonder why the ‘spineless sissies’ in the Senate voted for him in the first place.....Oh yeah, they didn’t know at the time that Trump was going to run for presidential candidate and now they are afraid Trump is going to ‘out of the closet’ them and they don’t want him around...
maybe Mitch has a big mouth and he will tell all of what he knows, oh I see how it works now....
"Ha Ha. I may be Democrat Party lickspittle but I'm in the ruling class and you're not."
It defies all logic that these sitting Senators can’t see what a failure McConnell is. He is a major liability to the country.
Has McConnell responded to Cruz’s remarks? I can’t find anything. Probably hasn’t crawled out from under his rock.
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