Posted on 12/17/2024 9:34:55 AM PST by Kazan
McConnell has spent his career selling America’s domestic interests down the river in favor of funding foreign conflict.
Mitch McConnell wrote an ode to foreign governments on Monday, calling for Donald Trump to reject an America First foreign policy in favor of funding forever wars, doubling down on “free trade,” and lying prostrate before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
McConnell, in an op-ed for Foreign Affairs magazine, criticized what he described as “right-wing flirtation with isolation and decline,” calling on the incoming government to “restore American hard power.”
“America will not be made great again by those who simply want to manage its decline,” McConnell wrote, making the same tired argument of many hawkish Republicans in eras past. He appears to be enamored by the possibility of spending U.S. tax dollars on any other country except his own, leaving struggling American people in the dust.
“The administration will face calls from within the Republican Party to give up on American primacy,” McConnell added. “It must reject them. To pretend that the United States can focus on just one threat at a time, that its credibility is divisible, or that it can afford to shrug off faraway chaos as irrelevant is to ignore its global interests and its adversaries’ global designs.”
McConnell, however, has been in the Senate for nearly 40 years and has overseen the wholesale liquidation of America’s domestic fortitude and power abroad.
As The Federalist CEO Sean Davis pointed out, “McConnell has overseen the destruction of America’s manufacturing base, the destruction of our military to the point we haven’t [won] a war since 1991, the 20x increase in the federal debt, the rise of China in to a nuclear and economic superpower, and the leftist takeover of every major institution in America.”
Perhaps the lone positive in McConnell’s dismal track record is his role in blocking now-Attorney General Merrick Garland’s bid for the Supreme Court and facilitating Trump’s appointments to that same body. That said, McConnell supported Garland for the Department of Justice, and he subsequently ran roughshod over the American people for four years. McConnell is also reportedly one of four Republicans to hold up the nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., for attorney general.
McConnell has displayed a deep love of Ukraine, pledging to fight Republicans who do not fall in line with his worldview and even touting the procurement of endless cash for the country as one of his top career achievements.
In 2022, when McConnell worked to usher through a $1.75 trillion Democrat spending bill, which gave Ukraine $45 billion, he laid his ideological cards on the table, saying, “I’m pretty proud of the fact that with a Democratic president, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate, we were able to achieve through this omnibus spending bill essentially all of our priorities.”
Funding the war in Ukraine runs contrary to what many Americans want and what most Americans voted for in delivering Trump a legislative and electoral mandate. It also ignores domestic crises — particularly ones that ravage his home state of Kentucky, which continues to see the scourge of fentanyl kill its people. This issue is exacerbated by the border crisis, which consistently lands atop the list of concerns for Americans.
As Christopher Bedford wrote in these pages, McConnell defined his tenure as Republican leader during the years of President George W. Bush by working toward amnesty for illegals, bailing out Wall Street, and continuing to support yet another forever war in Iraq. He tried to push through even more amnesty again earlier this year with the much-maligned “bipartisan” border bill and then turned around and blamed Trump for tanking it.
Meanwhile, in standard neocon fashion, he sold cultural issues like protecting marriage down the river. Amid other domestic crises like a failing economy, far-left grooming of children, and threats from a rising China, McConnell dutifully reminded the American people that, by far, “defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now.”
He has also advanced far-left gun control measures, advocated increased spending at the Federal Bureau of Investigations and DOJ — even after its many abuses under Garland (including the Mar-a-Lago raid) — tanked the campaigns of more conservative candidates, and offered a full-throated endorsement of FISA.
Though there are too many to name, McConnell’s betrayals go even further, including tacit endorsement of Trump’s impeachment, stabbing pro-life Americans in the back by opposing Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., in his blockade of military promotions, and getting “rich on China,” as The Federalist’s Tristan Justice wrote.
Senate Republicans do not seem prepared to change their tune after McConnell stepped down from leadership. Last month, they gave McConnell the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, allowing him to continue to advocate for Ukraine and other foreign spending.
Republicans also coronated the next-in-line carbon copy of McConnell in Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., to be the majority leader.
Nope, Joe Bidog and Nancy Piglousey
Actually, it is the personification of the wussification and corruption of the Republican party.
The Republican senators are the ones who appointed him to his position or could remove his traitorous punk ass.
Trump needs to make Mitch and his wife co-ambassadors to Mongolia.
Mitch McConnell is the personification of why we should have term limits.
Dude, don’t inflict them on my relatives.
I propose making them ambassadors to Easter Island instead. :P
What did Mongolia do to deserve that?
How many terms would you limit senators? Representatives?
Too bad he turned down his SIL’s offer of a ride home a few months back.
Two and three, respectively.
Two terms for senators, and four or five terms for representatives, would be plenty.
It should be an up-or-out policy for reps, much like the military. Either you move up to a Senator while you are still reasonably cogent and not totally immersed in corruption, or you’re out. Three terms should be enough and would constantly let new blood in. Four or five is just too much.
Our duty is to ensure their departure from public policy life and from our Treasury. The next duty is to better manage our elected representatives. In the end, it is our responsibility and outcome at stake.
Let's not take this duty lightly. Let's see it thru to a successful, self sustainable conclusion.
Mitch McConnell like MOST congressional leaders of both wings of the Uniparty is a PRODUCT of a CLOSED primary system.
The CLOSED primary is the ELEPHANT in the room.
It FAVORS the ELITES of the UNIPARTY.
I am sick of clowns like this pontificating about the decline of America.
It’s in decline, but it’s only hope is the guy who BEAT the RIGGED primary system in 2016.
The ELITES will react to ditching the CLOSED primary like a vampire who is shown the iron cross.
They will claim that Open primaries lead to strategic voting.
Exactly and strategic voting would weaken the entrenchment of incumbents.
The answer is for EVERY incumbent to expect and WELCOME a healthy primary challenge EVERY election.
It is as if the country would fall apart without EXPERIENCED political hacks spending a lifetime in public office all the while accruing a net worth of millions of dollars.
I look at the debt.
I look at the inefficiency, incompetence and corruption of the federal government and ask “Isn’t the country already fallen apart?”
We no longer are looking to elected officials to fix things but the likes of Elon and Vivek.
The CLOSED primary NEEDS to end.
There are unintended consequence for imposing term limits on representatives, not always positive.
It introduces new dynamics into the motivations and behaviors of such politicians that weren’t there before. When a politician is termed out and in their final term in office, they behave MUCH differently than if they are trying to get re-elected again. When here is nothing to lose, ulterior motivations can easily take over.
Just food for thought.
Then introduce a fast recall mechanism at the same time. Problem solved.
Alternately, it could be pointed out that they might be on their best behavior in their final term in one office in the hopes of getting elected to the next. Except for the final couple months of the lame duck period, which is already a problem anyway.
It should be mentioned that we already have that problem *now* when politicians don’t think they’ll be held responsible by their constituents. See: Murkowski and company’s latest complaints about having to do what their electorate wants or be primaried. So in what way would it be worse than what we already have?
A LONG TIME PAST HIS “SELL BY” DATE.
in decline?
if you can keep it
we just did
well spoken
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