Posted on 09/01/2015 9:40:06 AM PDT by xzins
Before the battle to withdraw federal funds from baby body parts trafficker Planned Parenthood has even begun the Senate’s Republican Majority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, has already surrendered.
In an interview with Lexington, Kentucky TV station WYMT McConnell announced “that funding the government Mitch McConnellis the top challenge facing him when he returns to the Capitol next week” and he would work with the White House to come up with budget levels to keep the government open past Sept. 30 without a rider defunding baby body parts trafficker Planned Parenthood.
“The Senate Democrats have a big enough number to prevent us from doing things. They prevented us from doing any of the bills that appropriate money for the government, thereby forcing a negotiation when we go back in after Labor Day, which I’ll be engaged in with the administration and others to try to sort out how much we’re going to spend and where we’re going to spend it,” McConnell told WYMT.
Now here’s the most amazing item of hypocrisy in the McConnell – WYMT interview; Mitch McConnell claims he “led” on the issue of stopping Planned Parenthood from dismembering babies and selling their body parts.
“We just don’t have the votes to get the outcome that we’d like,” McConnell responded when asked about defunding Planned Parenthood. “I would remind all of your viewers: The way you make a law in this country, the Congress has to pass it and the president has to sign it. The president has made it very clear he’s not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood, so that’s another issue that awaits a new president hopefully with a different point of view about Planned Parenthood.”
We are reminded that when we endorsed Mitch McConnell’s opponent in the Republican primary a McConnell supporter wrote us to extol Senator McConnell’s great pro-life record.
We’re wondering what that nice lady thinks of Senator McConnell’s “commitment to life” now.
Now here’s another interesting item buried in the McConnell – WYMT interview and ferreted out by Roll Call’s Niels Lesniewski: McConnell said that in order to really make the changes he envisions on regulations, Republicans need a nominee at the top of the ticket who can win purple states — rattling off a list of places where he also needs Republicans to win Senate contests to continue as majority leader in 2017.
“Whoever our nominee is is going to have to appeal in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Florida, Colorado, Nevada — those states that tend to go back and forth,” McConnell said. “Looking at the polling data in those key states, I think people are ready to go in a different direction. We just have to nominate somebody that they find appealing.”
Translation – McConnell plans to back a content-free establishment Republican presidential candidate like Jeb Bush or John Kasich and replay the dirty tricks campaign he used to thwart conservative senate candidates.
To paraphrase our friends at The Madison Project: If there is one individual who represents the face of the stale, tone-deaf, timid, moss-covered and obtuse leadership of the GOP establishment, it is Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell emblematizes the rudderless leadership, vacuous core, and duplicitous tendencies of the powers that be within the Republican Party.
Simple. For years we were told to vote for the “lesser evil”. It’s now ALL evil. The night McConnell won, I was almost as depressed as the night Obama won. Since November, Obama has gotten 100% of everything he wanted. 100%.
Eventually if they had veto proof majorettes, the presidency and 9 votes on the Supreme Joke, I mean court they still wouldn’t act because these people are socialist/liberals and they are not going to turn on their own.
I anxiously await the arrival of all the Freeper Republican Party boot-lickers to arrive and try and explain away their masters continue betrayals. They are so close minded and locked into their mind numbing insanity of doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for change. I used to pity them, now I hold them as responsible for the destruction they have caused this country with their blinding loyalty to their vichy masters in the GOP.
I have no reason at all to vote for any Republican in the House or Senate at this point in my state, there maybe one House representative outside my district worth a damn, the rest are Party line liberal, vichy traitors.
Obama has video of Boner and McTurtle in bed with little boys.
Or do you have a better explanation for their behavior?
“Obama has video of Boner and McTurtle in bed with little boys.” -add- Or dead little girls.
I’m sure the blackmail folders are large and full of interesting info/dirt.
jmho
McConnell will never win another election.
Damn you people of Kentucky!
“I can’t see going with any of the GOP-E.” ... or Rand Paul, for endorsing McConnell over Matt Bevin in last years primary season.
All I can say is, Mitch, The Almighty knows your heart better than I.
He will deal with you as He sees fit, and that will last far longer than any inadequate thing mere humans could dish out.
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