Mitch McConnell says he will fight really, really hard this time

redstate.com ^ | 3/11/15 | Streiff

[cotton1706]

Via National Journal and McConnell Puts Democrats in a Box (the title here alone is a clue that McConnell’s people have planted this story):

Sen. Mitch McConnell has caught Democrats between a rock and an abortion rider.

After weeks of Democrats questioning his unwillingness to schedule the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be attorney general, the Senate majority leader announced at a press conference Tuesday that the Senate will vote to confirm her next week. There’s just one catch: Members will have to get past legislation that includes a controversial abortion rider first.

First and foremost, given the answers provided by Loretta Lynch during her confirmation hearing, it is a travesty that she was voted out of committee. She is clearly not a big fan of the rule of law or the rights of Americans in general rather that enhanced rights for every racial/ethnic/sexual minority with an axe to grind. Every day she is not confirmed is a day that America is safer. That her vote should even be offered as a concession is just offensive.

There is precious little evidence that this drama, the children’s matinee at Failure Theater, is anything more than McConnell trying to show conservatives how super tough he is. If McConnell was really going to use the Lynch nomination as a bargaining chip he should have used it when it mattered: on the DHS bill. But he didn’t. He forfeited a chance to refuse to fund Obama’s amnesty, a position that had wide national support and he could have done so by inflicting a little temporary pain on a very unpopular and superfluous agency headquarters.

In fact, the whole story smells like something cooked up by Reid and McConnell to give McConnell a little breathing room to further betray conservatives:

[timestax]

[beelzepug]

I like him when he’s wearing his Saturno.

[SkyDancer]

It’s a campy but nice show. I like the guy.

[MasterGunner01]

Mitch McConnell wouldn't do anything remotely courageous if he wanted to do so. The man is amoral, gutless, clueless, spineless, and brain dead. A pet rock has more more courage and use — it can be used as a blunt object to beat someone. Beating anyone isn't in McConnell's vocabulary. He's just another craven RINO coward.

[itsahoot]

Anyone ever ask him what he thinks the landslide in 2014 meant?

He knows exactly what it meant. We fooled um again.

[exit82]

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