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Mitch McConnell’s Media Tour To Brag About Defeating GOP Opponents Of Biden’s Foreign Policy Was Remarkably Ill-Advised
The Federalist ^ | MAY 27, 2022 | MOLLIE HEMINGWAY

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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1 posted on 05/27/2022 10:39:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yet Turtlehead will be Majority leader after the midterms. Anyone betting against that? Who challenges him?


2 posted on 05/27/2022 10:41:56 AM PDT by georgecorgi
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ill advised, perhaps. Surprising? Not at all.


3 posted on 05/27/2022 10:42:22 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
McConnell backs Ukraine.

Ukraine is a Deep State satellite.

McConnell is an agent of the Chinese government.

#ConnectTheDots


4 posted on 05/27/2022 10:43:29 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

McConnell likes nothing more than blocking conservatives. There’s a message in that, if you care to think about it.


5 posted on 05/27/2022 10:44:30 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: bagster

His wife is a chinese national.

That alone should be self explanitory


6 posted on 05/27/2022 10:44:33 AM PDT by SPDSHDW (Buy JHP ammo, Level 3/4 armor and rifles. Won’t be able to for much longer, and we’re gonna need em)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Assistant Democrats exist to assist the Democrats.

Stop electing them.


7 posted on 05/27/2022 10:44:47 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Republican leaders giving a win to the same Democrats who refused to acknowledge anything that President Trump did?

Pathetic.

-PJ

8 posted on 05/27/2022 10:44:55 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I wonder what cut of the $50 Billion Turtle received from Zelensky when he visited Ukraine a few weeks back?
Turtle is getting more pathetic by the minute.
9 posted on 05/27/2022 10:45:54 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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I’m not voting in November.


10 posted on 05/27/2022 10:49:06 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: SPDSHDW
Obviously she is now a US citizen and has been one for decades.

I don't like either of them, but facts matter.

11 posted on 05/27/2022 10:52:26 AM PDT by x
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Obviously she is now a US citizen and has been one for decades.

Like that matters.


12 posted on 05/27/2022 10:54:33 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

McConnell is Deep State.


13 posted on 05/27/2022 10:56:54 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Todays conspiracy theory is tomorrows spoiler alert." )
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To: bagster

“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.


14 posted on 05/27/2022 10:58:28 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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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


15 posted on 05/27/2022 11:15:53 AM PDT by SPDSHDW (Buy JHP ammo, Level 3/4 armor and rifles. Won’t be able to for much longer, and we’re gonna need em)
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To: TakebackGOP

I’m still voting, but yeah, I’ve reached the stage where my ballot has plenty of no vote blank lines.


16 posted on 05/27/2022 11:18:22 AM PDT by teevolt
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To: georgecorgi

I’ll bet against that, at most he’ll be Minority Leader and his own efforts are the main distinction between the two.


17 posted on 05/27/2022 11:30:35 AM PDT by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Really beginning to hate this guy. What’s the matter with Kentucky that they can’t get rid of him?


18 posted on 05/27/2022 11:46:46 AM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what you get when gullible children run a 'news' channel.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“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…


19 posted on 05/27/2022 11:52:44 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Stating the obvious, but McConnell is a corruptocrat, as are many R's in the Senate. The GOP isn't our party, it's their party.
20 posted on 05/27/2022 11:56:41 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Antifa/BLM = Azov Battalion.)
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