Posted on 10/19/2013 6:06:32 AM PDT by cotton1706
Anthony Weiner recently lamented that "if the internet didn't exist," he'd be the mayor of New York. In other words, if John Q. Public weren't so privy to the facts, and so readily able to investigate those facts and exchange opinions about them online, politicians could more easily manipulate their political images and determine the outcome of elections.
Likewise, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is now feeling the stinging disapproval of an informed public that he may not have felt twenty years ago. Like the grand reveal at the end a Scooby-Doo episode, McConnell the "fiscally conservative" Senate leader has been unmasked in the last month's proceedings and identified as what he really is -- a career politician who'd sell his constituents and American taxpayers down the river for a buck (or in this case, a couple billion bucks). And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for meddling Matt Drudge and the like.
In late September, Mitch McConnell used his lofty position in the Republican minority to stand against Senate conservatives like Ted Cruz and fellow Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. He made and underhanded effort to block a House bill which would fund the government and raise the debt ceiling in exchange for defunding ObamaCare. Knowing that the Senate would not have the 60 votes necessary to amend the House bill to fund ObamaCare, he and fellow collaborators voted in favor of a cloture vote which would allow Harry Reid and Senate Democrats to amend the bill with an easily attainable straight majority vote. Then, having cleared the Senate Democrats' path to funding ObamaCare, he cast a show vote against the amended spending bill, which included the funding of ObamaCare, hoping it would absolve him of any blame.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
An appropriate ending to this story that McConnell, the man who undercut Cruz, accepted a tasty little tidbit from his the “kind and gentle grandfatherly” Harry Reid that turned out to be a poison pill.
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I just got a solicitation from the Senate Republican Committee. I replied with “You are an embarrassment. I will donate to individuals. Take me off the list.”
Doubtless, I will continue to receive their pleas. Target McConnell in the Primary!
I just got a solicitation from the Senate Republican Committee. I replied with “You are an embarrassment. I will donate to individuals. Take me off the list.”
Doubtless, I will continue to receive their pleas. Target McConnell in the Primary!
Mitch McConnell is every bit the traitor to this country that Benedict Arnold was. No exaggeration.
Yesterday there was a comment that had a list of campaign donations but the thread got pulled. Is it illegal to tell who gave what to politicians? How does one find out who is supporting our elected thieves and traitors?
Let us not forget his accomplices, Dianne Frankenstein, and Lamar Alexander. The are just as guilty for participating is such a scam.
Yes, but he’s got a dam named after him.
As is McInsane
Oh, you mean the “Mitch McConnell Pork Dam?” That dam?
How are those book sales going, BTW?
Ann's in love with RINOs. Must be that big horn...
McConnell helped “save” the Obamacare disaster and got his $2 billion pork dam.
I give Cruz more credit than this article does for exposing McConnell and others in the GOP-E.
And yet John McBama voted for the pork while trashing Cruz and Paul. What a McWeenie.
This is why it is doubly important that we reject underhanded republican politicians from helping the looters and anarchists on the other side.
That’s the one.
He’ll never live it down, either.
He’s a Kentucky bribed chicken
You get a Gold Star for the day.
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