“If you wanted the Senate to be a more conservative body you wouldn’t want to replace a Senator with a career ACU rating of above 90 (over 30 years, mind you; it’s been even higher the past few years)”
Aahh. The ACU Lifetime rating falsehood, where politicans can use their votes from twenty years ago to give them cover for last year or the before that. Here are McConnell’s ratings from other agencies and his average. It’s not above 90%, it’s 83%. And if you leave out the ACU (which protects incumbents), his average is 78%.
As I’ve said many times, if McConnell was a back-bencher with his voting record, I would support him. But his insidious and scheming actions over the past several years show that he should be thrown out of office. His Debt Ceiling scheme alone disqualifies him for another term. He ceded the borrowing power from the legislative to the executive, his plan saying that the debt ceiling would go up automatically unless the congress by two-thirds vote disallowed it, which the executive veto. This is just one of the many government-protecting “deals” he has come up with. I want us to be rid of him.
McConnell (KY) - - 83% (Average) - 80% (Heritage) - 87% (CFG) - 92% (ACU) - 73% (FreedomWorks)
Exactly. These Bushites hate facts.
Plus, one could have a 90% conservative rating and vote for Amnesty.
I don’t have the time ir the inclination to dissect each of those vote ratings and their methodology, but it suffices to say that Grimey’s scores would be in single digits by every single group you mentioned. That is why none of those conservative groups want Grimey to be elected. The ones who want Grimey elected are the ADA, the LCV, AFSCME, the ACLU, and you.