Posted on 05/27/2022 10:39:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky went on a big media tour to praise President Biden’s foreign policy, to take credit for a massive additional spending package for Ukraine, and to virulently attack the 11 Republican senators and 57 Republican members of Congress who voted against it.
“McConnell Casts Ukraine Vote as Victory Over Republican Party’s Isolationist Wing,” touted the Wall Street Journal, using a derogatory and inaccurate term to describe the growing coalition that opposes Biden’s non-strategic foreign policy that appears untethered to any long-term national security interest.
McConnell wants to be associated with the Democrats’ bill, and he should be remembered as having helped its passage. In fact, he worked with Democrats to expand the bill from President Biden’s initial request of $33 billion and to smooth legislative hurdles for easy passage. The passage of the bill brings the total U.S. funding for Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia to more than $50 billion.
McConnell’s victory tour was lapped up by a D.C. media establishment that shares his goal of returning the Republican Party to its Bush-era foreign policy, and to disparage any voices supportive of former President Donald Trump, who had expressed concern about the costs and national security risks of escalating the war in Russia.
“Why are we giving more than $40 billion to Ukraine while Europe, by comparison, is giving very little, and they are greatly more impacted by a Russian invasion, obviously, than the U.S.,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri tweeted, “Spending $40 billion on Ukraine aid – more than three times what all of Europe has spent combined – is not in America’s interests. It neglects priorities at home (the border), allows Europe to freeload, short changes critical interests abroad and comes w/ no meaningful oversight. That’s...
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Yet Turtlehead will be Majority leader after the midterms. Anyone betting against that? Who challenges him?
Ill advised, perhaps. Surprising? Not at all.
Ukraine is a Deep State satellite.
McConnell is an agent of the Chinese government.
#ConnectTheDots
McConnell likes nothing more than blocking conservatives. There’s a message in that, if you care to think about it.
His wife is a chinese national.
That alone should be self explanitory
Assistant Democrats exist to assist the Democrats.
Stop electing them.
Pathetic.
-PJ
I’m not voting in November.
I don't like either of them, but facts matter.
Like that matters.
McConnell is Deep State.
“Obviously she is now a US citizen and has been one for decades. Like that matters.”
So are DemocRATs. And our only enemy worse than them are their friends, the Chinese.
Yes they do.
China still hated america decades ago.
I assume she is and always has been a spy, regerdless of what her status is on paper
I’m still voting, but yeah, I’ve reached the stage where my ballot has plenty of no vote blank lines.
I’ll bet against that, at most he’ll be Minority Leader and his own efforts are the main distinction between the two.
Really beginning to hate this guy. What’s the matter with Kentucky that they can’t get rid of him?
“Why are we giving more than $40 billion to Ukraine while Europe, by comparison, is giving very little, and they are greatly more impacted by a Russian invasion, obviously, than the U.S.,” Trump wrote on Truth Social
Someday, when this country is finally destroyed, who do the Europeans think is gonna help them with foreign aide?
GOOD LUCK, Europe, and all the other countries we’ve been propping up over the years…
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