Posted on 12/20/2016 12:06:11 PM PST by xzins
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was surprised on election night: He didn’t see President-elect Donald Trump winning or the Senate staying in Republican hands.
“I honestly thought we wouldn’t hold the U.S. Senate,” the Kentucky Republican told Kentucky Educational Television’s ... “I thought we’d come up short, and I didn’t think President Trump had a chance of winning.”
The Senate victories were “really something,” McConnell said, “but it never occurred to me he (Trump) might be able to win as well.” ...
“It was a lot of feeling among just ordinary people...that the current administration didn’t care about them,” he said, “and Trump was able to convey, ...a message from a billionaire who lives in Manhattan a genuine concern (to those) who feel kind of left out.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
I have no idea why Linseed is a Republican. Or why he is voted back in. Please, SC, get rid of him.
McConnell doesn’t like being Majority Leader.
He’d rather be Minority Leader. Lots less work, fewer responsibilities. Less demand for excuses.
If George Washington had the vision and guts of Mitch McConnell, we would still be singing “God Save the Queen!”.
McConnell did not want to fight obama. They were both playing for the same team. Unless you want a knife in it, never turn your back to Mitch McConnell and never accept a drink or plate of food from his hand.
I once wrote Rep Graham a very long letter carefully reasoning out why he should vote for impeachment. As I recall the times, he publically agonized over what was the proper coarse. Further as I recall, he voted for impeachment.
How ever as a South Carolina Senator his junior is the better man
Gee, no kidding.
“Mitch is a coward with his head up his a$$.”
AND a very well paid prostitute. Maybe no longer.
McConnell is the second coming of Trent Lott.
He talks like he’s a bystander, watching out of curiosity.
The 2 Repub senators that lost, ran against Trump, yet McConnell doesn’t see a connection ? And he’s the leader ?
He thinks!
“Someone who doesn’t believe his team will win has no business being its leader.”
Enough with the nancy-boy GOPe leaders.
It’s about time the fat cats in DC and elsewhere stand in an unemployment line like a lot of folks have had to do, over these last eight years.
You echo Rush’s scare quotes around “media.” I have a different perspective. It’s not as if “the media” were some exalted title of respect. “Media” was invented to be criticized, as in “bias in the media.” But that is a confusion which weakens the deserved critique which “the media” has been getting.“The media” originally referred not only to journalism but also to (undoubtedly leftward-slanted) movies and TV drama. The trouble with critiquing “the media” in that sense is, of course, that no one thinks that fictional movies/TV should be eliminated, or could be censored or held to any objective standard. The only thing that “the media” now seems to refer to is “nonfiction” journalism.
. . . and that is precisely what should be critiqued. If you can’t say the word “journalism” perjoratively in response when journalism is libeling you, you are in a very weak position. Thus, my mission on FR - and before - has been to sort out how to critique journalism. I have learned that:
IMHO journalism is cynical about society and naive about government. Which, coincidentally, is a perfect description of “liberalism."
- Journalism - newspaper reporting - started out very different from what we have always known.
- Newspapers were relatively small, local, and infrequent. Most were weeklies, some had no deadline at all and just printed when the printer was good and ready.
- Newspapers were fractiously independent, and wore their printers’ viewpoints on their sleeves. None were regarded as “objective.”
- Newspapers were always engaged in an official news sharing system. The Post Office officially abetted this by charging a preferential rate for mailing newspapers.
- Moorse demonstrated his Baltimore-Washington telegraph in 1844, and in just a few years the Associated Press was in business as an aggressive monopoly.
- The AP was such an obvious concentration of propaganda power that it had to defend itself from charges of taking over the news business. The AP responded that its members had widely varied perspectives - and that the AP itself was “objective.”
- The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed in 1890, long after the AP was entrenched. In 1945 the AP was found by SCOTUS to be in violation of Sherman.
- Bad news sells, so journalism rules for commercial success include “If it bleeds, it leads” and “‘Man Bites Dog,’ not ‘Dog Bites Man’” (which is negative in its own way, considering that most of the time most people can trust most people).
- Journalism which knowingly is negative and yet claims to be objective can only be called cynical.
“Mitch McConnell is the other half, and frankly, his winning gamble of holding off the Obama nominee will prove one of the most profoundly influential choices of all history.”
Hmm.. lf McConell really thought we would lose the Presidency and the Senate that means he had to know we would end up with a absolute radical to Replace Scalia right? I believe Obama put someone up who was almost palatable in the hopes they would get confirmed. Thank God it worked out the way it did but again if McConell really expected what he said if makes me wonder.
The people in the beltway listen to their own spin.
The people in the beltway listen to cnn and msnbc.
He’s lying. He wanted Trump to lose. Ryan too. Now he’s pretending he’s just stupid, not treasonous.
Its the mentality that has permeated the GOP for years now.
They are so used to losing that they don’t even care anymore. The don’t fight, they don’t work the extra hours, they just happily swallow everything the Dummycrats throw at them.
Of course, DJT abhors such thinking!
[ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was surprised on election night: He didn’t see President-elect Donald Trump winning or the Senate staying in Republican hands. ]
That’s because you’re a GOP Establishment whore Mitch, who has been tone-deaf to suffering Americans under this Fraud’s regime.
Gee, was that too harsh?
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