The faux conservative war in Kentucky (Bevin-McConnell)

communities.washingtontimes.com ^ | 12/2/13 | Judson Phillips

[cotton1706]

WASHINGTON. December 2, 2013 — In the Bluegrass state, there is a war being waged by two faux conservatives.

One is Mitch McConnell. He is the Senate Minority Leaders and the incumbent in Kentucky. The other is Matt Bevin, who is his challenger.

Bevin is a businessman, originally from Maine, who moved to Kentucky in 1999. McConnell is now regarded as the Godfather of Kentucky politics.

Neither is a conservative.

McConnell is symptomatic of what is wrong in Washington. He has been there since 1985. He is known around Washington as a deal maker, and that is the huge problem with Mitch McConnell.

Last year, when the fiscal cliff negotiations hit an impasse, McConnell reached out to Joe Biden and the two hammered out an agreement. That agreement resulted in higher taxes and higher tax rates. It did nothing to cut spending.

It was a massive accomplishment — for liberals.

Since 2011, when Republicans took back the Senate, the Tea Party has been asking, pleading and begging Republicans to stand up and fight. McConnell’s answer is always to promise to fight — next time. The next fight will be the right fight with the right timing.

The problem is that for McConnell, the right time never comes.

When Ted Cruz stood and fought, he stood at the last minute. Either Obamacare would be defunded from the budget or it would become another permanent government program.

Despite all of McConnell’s protestations that he wanted Obamacare defunded and repealed, he whipped votes to break the filibuster and stabbed Ted Cruz in the back.

In the process of ending the government shutdown, McConnell scored a $3 billion kickback, or in the language of Washington politicians, an earmark for a dam in Kentucky.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Forget it, he’s rollin’.