Posted on 02/09/2022 4:09:57 AM PST by RandFan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday waved off former President Trump’s preferred nickname for the Kentucky Republican — "Old Crow" — saying, “It’s my favorite bourbon.”
“Aren’t we using Old Crow as my moniker now? It was Henry Clay’s favorite bourbon,” McConnell said to a member of his staff during an interview with the Washington Examiner. He was referring to a spirit distilled by Beam Suntory of the same name.
Trump has frequently derided McConnell as "Old Crow Mitch" in statements issued through his Save America PAC.
The former president expressed his frustration when the Senate GOP leader worked with Democrats and other Republicans to pass the bipartisan infrastructure law and accused McConnell in October of “folding” to Democrats over raising the debt ceiling.
In a deal negotiated by McConnell, 14 Republican senators helped all 50 Senate Democrats in December overcome a procedural hurdle in ultimately allowing Democrats to raise the debt ceiling on their own despite some blowback he received from members of his caucus.
In his interview with the Examiner, he argued that an alternative scenario would have been made for Republicans.
“The only people who could have been hurt by making the debt ceiling impossible would have been us. My guiding principle is: Don’t do things that are stupid and that take the subject off of what we want it to be on,” McConnell told the news outlet.
“The two things we could have done [in 2021] to take the attention off [the Democrats] and put it on us would be to shut down the government or threaten to default on the national debt. You can’t do that to the country either,” the Senate GOP leader noted. “If it’s bad for the country and bad for Republicans, I’m against it.”
The Hill has reached out to McConnell’s office for further comment.
Old Crow?
What happened to Cocaine Mitch or Wu Gui?
Laugh while you can, monkey boy
Sen. Yertle (GOPe-KY), master of Senate rules, ignoramus about everything else.
That should be pelosi’s nickname. Mitch will always be Mumbles or Yertil.
China Mitch, all 36 million bribed bucks of him, reminds me in this report of him laughing at the “Old Crow” moniker of all the women in my life. Namely, when they are losing the days argument, they start laughing.
Are you really a woman Mitch?
The so-called leader of senate republicans does not have the wisdom to understand the facts about January 6th. Either that or he’s just a dishonest liar.
How can this man be the leader of the ‘republicans’ in the senate? Don’t the other 49 have any cajones? For him to deride the RNC while overlooking the organized chaos that the democrats, with assistance from the capital police and FBI, caused on Jan 6 is simply unbelievable. Why won’t he, and other, GOP senators stand up to insure the rights of those arrested for participation in 1/6? This man is no republican and he should not be the leader.
Perhaps both were wrong
Good comment.
Mitch is not building the Republican Party, he is ripping it apart.
What if its bad for Mitch? After all its all about Mitch. Can anyone point out how allowing Joe Biden to steal the election has been good for America? It’s not good for America. It may help Republicans win elections (if they even matter any more) and therefore helps Mitch retain his position of power, maybe that is the reason. Its good for Mitch.
Because the other 49 'Republicans' are more afraid of McConnell than they are of Trump.
“..he who laughs last, laugh best.”
This communist UniParty hack might want to remember that in the coming days.
““The two things we could have done [in 2021] to take the attention off [the Democrats] and put it on us would be to shut down the government or threaten to default on the national debt. You can’t do that to the country either,” the Senate GOP leader noted. “If it’s bad for the country and bad for Republicans, I’m against it.””
And how many big lobbyist/insider bills did you push through to continue to increase the debt monstrosity, Old Crow?
Trump is right on the issues but shooting himself in the foot with his name calling. He would have won bigger without it during his first term in office.
There’s a Method to Trump’s madness.
Realize that there is literally a Civil War going on in the GOP right now. We must flush out the RINOs before we can ever hope to make progress.
Mitch == married to CCP
The only thing “shutting down the government” does is keep 95% of them working and the other 5% get a free paid vacation.
As Reagan once said “Let’s shut it down, and see if anyone notices”
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