Posted on 08/14/2023 6:06:36 PM PDT by RandFan
From the Senate floor and Washington fundraisers to awards banquets and congressional delegation trips overseas, Addison Mitchell McConnell is on what could be his final political mission. And the results may illuminate what has become of his party.
After a relatively harmonious first half of this year, House and Senate Republicans are on a collision course this fall over four issues, three of which pertain to McConnell’s quest: spending, supporting the Ukrainians and Trump’s candidacy. (The fourth is impeaching President Joe Biden, which is intended as retribution for Trump’s impeachment over, well, spending and Ukraine.)
This confluence of issues will test who has the upper hand in the GOP, at least in the halls of Congress. Is it the McConnell-led Senate, which largely wants to spend more on defense, deliver additional aid to Ukraine and is not exactly enthused about Trump’s resurrection? Or is it the House, where Speaker Kevin McCarthy is handcuffed to his party’s hardliners on spending and has little appetite to imperil his job by pushing through a supplemental package for Ukraine that Trump is sure to decry and perhaps pressure rank-and-file lawmakers to oppose amid demands that they, and McCarthy, endorse him?
Of all the ways Trump has reshaped the Republican Party, it’s clear that McConnell sees the drift toward isolationism as the most pernicious — particularly at a moment when the fate of Ukraine and perhaps even NATO countries could be determined by the resolve of the Republican Party.
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Remember that McConnell, as head of the Senate, had silent control over all of Trump’s key picks.
Its especially why the DOJ remained Trump’s enemy for his entire administration.
I despise this guy nearly as much as I despise Munt Romney and his ilk
Trump’s China policy must have hit Mitch’s pocketbook pretty hard.
+1000000 !
Ditch is a reptile.
So do most of the people in his state, if the videos from last week are to be believed.
The guy even looks like a d!ck- 81YO and he dyes his hair blonde. Give it up already
I love the derogatory “isolationist” comment from a radical warfare interventionist like McTurtle.
McConnell is on borrowed time and borrowed money, which means the current global arrangement is unpredictable for both MAGA & the Globalist status quo.
Exactly right. And McConnell allowed only appointments that would work with him to destroy Trump.
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That pic explains a lot. His buddy ex-Ohio senator Rob Portman in his opus to the senate bragged about being in Ukraine 10 times since 2014. The j6’ers were pikers, lol.
The Republicans turning on Trump think their new hero will be immune to what happened to Trump. McConnell will make sure outside Republican President #2 gets a backstabbing and mediocre Attorney General and appointees the same.
I despise this guy nearly as much as I despise Munt Romney and his ilk
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Despicable people, unprincipled and dishonest TO THE BONE. Personally I’ll rejoice when I’m able to read their obituaries!
“Remember that McConnell, as head of the Senate, had silent control over all of Trump’s key picks.”
Every one of them that required confirmation.
Trump’s Cabinet was a McConnell construct. All of it.
May he drop dead as soon as possible.
“ McConnell is worse than a Democrat.”
Needs to be repeated over and over again.
You’re either with us, which Trump is, or you’re with the enemy, which McTurtle is. The fact that he’s shaking hands with that puppet that our government installed in Ukraine in 2014 says all.
McCain and Lindsey Grahamnesty both take the same side, and that side is not th eside of the US constitution nor the citizens of this country.
Where has Mithc’s girlfriend, Linda Grahm, been?
Linda is now where to be found. I bet she’s helping the other side type indictments or doing somthing that sounds like indict.
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