Posted on 10/17/2013 10:29:34 AM PDT by jimbo123
The Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF) criticized U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Wednesday for allowing a $2 billion Kentucky earmark to be added to the debt deal he negotiated with U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). SCF Executive Director Matt Hoskins made the following statement:
"Americans are familiar with the 'Cornhusker Kickback' that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson was given in exchange for his vote on Obamacare. Well now Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has an Obamacare earmark of his own.
"The McConnell-Reid deal not only funds Obamacare and suspends the debt limit, it also includes a provision in Section 123 that increases funding for the Olmsted Locks and Dam in Kentucky from $775 million to $2.9 billion.
"In exchange for funding Obamacare and raising the debt limit, Mitch McConnell secured a $2 billion Kentucky kickback.
"This is an insult to Kentucky families who don't want to pay for Obamacare and who don't want to shoulder any more debt.
"Mitch McConnell is trying to blame others for this abuse, but everyone knows he negotiated this deal and everyone knows he wrote the bill. If he didn't want the earmark included, he could have kept it out.
"Also, this isn't the first time he has supported funds for this project. He also requested $100 million for it in 2010.
"This is what's wrong with Washington and it's what's wrong with Mitch McConnell."
(Excerpt) Read more at senateconservatives.com ...
>>Saw this on Fox this morning. I don’t know why, but I was surprised, shocked and felt betrayed all at the same time.<<
I know what you mean. I am the most cynical person around concerning politicians.
But as cynical as I am, there are still depths that these walking pieces of human sewage go to that still disgusts and disappoints me.
May this traitor become a pariah, a marked man for the rest of his days.
Then may his name rot.
He’s going to get primaried so he thinks that bringing home the bacon will help eventually load his campaign war chest. Just like what the government Unions do. They take money from taxpayer dollars and them exchange them to the dems,
Thanks for the posting
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Well done, 1876
You said you’d never compromise
With Dingy Harry, but now you realize
He’s not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?
Washington is a sewer.
According to Juan MeCain this is how Washington works and how things get done.
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If McConnell wins the primary I will vote for Alison Grimes, at least I know what she will do.
McConnell was running negative ads against Matt Bevin until he was called out because the accusations he was making were untrue. Then he ran ads touting that he was leading the fight to defund Obamacare. Now I guess he and Harry Reid will be appearing together as buddies.
One must have a chin to have a countenance. Just sayin.
Also saw that Dick “ the turbine” Durbin benefits from this.
A double whammy for McConnell.
I guess they think no one is watching this version of the Lousiana purchase take place.i
Been there a few times. Loved the Cathedral.
*You said you’d never compromise
With Dingy Harry, but now you realize
He’s not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?*
Good one, newheart!
Mitch can campaign now on the slogan
“I opened the government and brought the pork home.”
Now I understand why they constantly lose. They have no strategic bone in them. Bunch of idiots that rely on people’s fear of liberals and rats to get elected (their only real strategy) and not using their little brains.
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