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McConnell: If Moore wins, he'll "immediately" face Ethics Committee
Axios ^ | 11/14/2017 | Erica Pandy

Posted on 11/14/2017 8:48:43 PM PST by advance_copy

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that if Alabama's Senate candidate Roy Moore wins, he'll face an ethics investigation immediately after he's sworn into office. "It would be a rather unusual beginning," McConnell said, speaking at a Wall Street Journal event.

"I'd like to save the seat, and it's a heck of a dilemma when you've got a completely unacceptable candidate bearing the label of your party within a month of the election," he added.

McConnell is one of several Republicans who have called for Moore to step aside. He has also spoken with President Trump and Vice President Pence about the allegations against the candidate, but Trump has yet to take a public stance on the issue.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama; US: Kentucky; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: alabama; mcconnell; minnesota; mitchmcconnell; roymoore; southcarolina
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To: House Atreides

Whose? BJ Clinton?


21 posted on 11/14/2017 9:02:45 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

No, the Turtleman. See post 4 & visualize.


22 posted on 11/14/2017 9:05:16 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENT)
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To: advance_copy

No Mitch its you who is under the microscope from those who matter and you are about to find out. I knew power corrupts I didn’t know it made you clueless


23 posted on 11/14/2017 9:05:24 PM PST by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: advance_copy

If only the voters in Kentucky would quit putting this jerk back in. The only thing good I can say about Mitch McConnell is that the highways in Kentucky are very nice, and I’m sure that’s due to McConnell bringing home the money.


24 posted on 11/14/2017 9:05:26 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: rdcbn

An ethics investigation would need to have some current accusations and it appears there are none but these 40 year old + Gloria Allred smear. Which puts truth to the lie that is implicit in the Democrat / Media / GOPe manufactured “outrage”. Bob Menendez is accused and still being tried for things that are happening TODAY ... crickets!


25 posted on 11/14/2017 9:05:36 PM PST by Steven W.
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To: ConservativeMind
Was it an ape-suit for the Sasquatch from the Jack-Links commercials? LOL

if it was the latter, that is an interesting, if disturbing mental image. LOL

26 posted on 11/14/2017 9:06:13 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: advance_copy

What I don’t understand is why Judge Moore isn’t receiving a pass on this. He was a “Democrat” at the time all this “groping” and “harassment” supposedly occurred. He didn’t jump over to the GOP until 1992. Up until 1992, he was a “Democrat”.


27 posted on 11/14/2017 9:06:43 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
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To: txnativegop

for = or oops


28 posted on 11/14/2017 9:06:50 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: advance_copy

What’s next, Midge?

A nastily worded letter?

You corrupt SOB.

You let Obama run wild for eight years, but a good man from AL is worth the full efforts of your useless cuckolded GOP Senators?


29 posted on 11/14/2017 9:07:17 PM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: advance_copy

We need a serious well- funded and organized campaign to retire McConnell ASAP!


30 posted on 11/14/2017 9:08:19 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: advance_copy

How about McConnell resign if Moore wins? Ridiculous to open ethics hearing about new senator. How about investigating current members first?! Start with McConnell, Lyn’ Ted, Menendez, Pelosi, and so many others.


31 posted on 11/14/2017 9:08:22 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I heard he used a dodgy medical issue to cut short his military service and that’s not fake news. Some needs to dig up the facts, pronto.


32 posted on 11/14/2017 9:09:21 PM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Heck, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.


33 posted on 11/14/2017 9:09:29 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: ConservativeMind

“I’ve heard equally valid rumors that Mitch had sex with roadkill deer while wearing a Bigfoot outfit. “

I hope that McConnell’s “short” military service is fully exposed. He got out in a matter of a couple of months using a then Senator to spring him for what amounted to a “hangnail.”
It’s time for scorched earth for the GOPe. Let’s look up every one of their “skirts” and see what’s there, apart from the fact they we won’t find any testicles.


34 posted on 11/14/2017 9:10:06 PM PST by vette6387
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To: House Atreides
This isn't about Moore. This is about stalling and stopping Trump's agenda.

Do you see Obamacare repealed? Where are the tax and spending cuts?

It doesn't matter if Moore wins or not. McConnell will use his power to conduct baseless investigations into him. Meaning that Trump's agenda will continue to lay on the backburner.

Face it folks - Donald Trump is a stop-gap. He is providing cover fire for conservatives and patriots who can regroup and prepare for the worst when the Dems take over next year, which they may. So anyone screaming about primarying RINOs next year are delusional. Washington is corrupt, they hate white taxpaying Christian citizens who just want to live their lives, and all grassroot conservative Republicans running next year will be destroyed.

35 posted on 11/14/2017 9:11:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
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To: rolling_stone
??? couldn't find a constitutional definition of disorderly behavior. My guess is it's whatever the senate or house says it is.
Article 1, § 5, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member
36 posted on 11/14/2017 9:11:50 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever.)
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To: advance_copy
He has shown himself to be a man of low integrity and little honor.

How about NO integrity and NO honor. Is that better?

37 posted on 11/14/2017 9:17:01 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Electric Graffiti
It really is stunning the amount of damage that bloated drunken POS, Ted Kennedy, did to this country. He needs to be removed from Arlington and air-dropped in the mexican desert where he belongs

Ted Kennedy: The Senator of Sleaze who was a drunk sexual bully... and left a young woman to die [Daily mail 8/27/2009]

38 posted on 11/14/2017 9:18:09 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Jane Long

Yep, McConnell and Larry Craig. Add to this over the years, others like Dennis Hastert, you have to wonder what really is the Republican Club on Capital Hill?


39 posted on 11/14/2017 9:18:36 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: advance_copy

Looks to me like the usual liberal dirty-tricks, pay somebody who rubbed shoulders with him 40 years ago to start spinning all kinds of stories. Somebody saw how Hollywood moguls who invincible 6 months ago being burned to the ground before even being granted a hearing and they decided that this is the way to take out Roy Moore. They’re trying to do a Clarence Thomas on him.

40 years of silence but suddenly 4 women waited until this month to say something. Considering what Bill Klinton is KNOWN to have done going back over 25 years, anybody that voted for any Klinton in any race is disqualified from having any credibility on this.


40 posted on 11/14/2017 9:19:39 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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