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(50,349 posts)n/t
RockRaven
(14,958 posts)that he consistently and persistently enables a person with terrible powers who HE BELIEVES is "nuts"
niyad
(113,257 posts)Fingers crossed for Amy.
lastlib
(23,208 posts)If I could go work for Amy, I'd do it in a heartbeat!
dweller
(23,628 posts)n/t
✌🏼
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)is yesterday too soon?
OAITW r.2.0
(24,452 posts)He's in a position to check Trump, but he won't without exposing his own crimes. What is a a Senate Majority Leader to do?
tanyev
(42,550 posts)GFY.
qwlauren35
(6,147 posts)Two-faced, ass-licking, desperate, power-hungry Republican ass-hole.
I hope Amy McGrath wipes the floor with him.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Takket
(21,558 posts)i have seen what he says about him, on the record, when it matters, during impeachment. the rest is just noise.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Won't we all be impressed with how Mitch stood up to Donald behind his back?
Dan
(3,548 posts)Is so that he could get a better angle to kiss his prostrate.
crickets
(25,962 posts)UTUSN
(70,681 posts)Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)Tiger8
(432 posts)calimary
(81,210 posts)Wouldn't surprise me. At this point I'm sure Putin or his minions own most of the republi-CON party.
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)It will open your eyes.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)I don't believe he'd say that about Trump if he thought he could get re-elected. Yep, he's jumping ship. He'll probably try to claim he just can't support Trump anymore and retire.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... seriously trying to tear away from Trump.
NO ONE is going to believe McConnell is a check force now
orleans
(34,049 posts)ancianita
(36,023 posts)His black heart plans revenge. A delicious prospect.
MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)TheReckoning
(15 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)can be rid of
All with one vote
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,321 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Trump freaks
but yes room for gop congress creeps too
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,321 posts)The Grotesque Orange Pustule is a comic strip gang boss -- devious, vicious, cunning but ignorant.
Demovictory9
(32,448 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)DenverJared
(457 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)Its all about fake feuds, continually shifting alliances, bizarre behavior, on and on, always playing to the camera for the gullible rubes who can never get enough of it.
DeminPennswoods
(15,278 posts)but Trump's a useful idiot in achieving McConnell's lifelong goal of reshaping the federal courts.
IcyPeas
(21,857 posts)Exactly.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,589 posts)IcyPeas
(21,857 posts)How many right wing conservatives have been put in life time judge roles?
That's mcconnels mission. He won't leave one vacancy. He'd put the devil himself in a judges seat instead of a democrat.
While everyone is watching the Trump clown show he is busy in the background.
diva77
(7,639 posts)dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)Mcconnell may think Trump is dogshit stupid, but in the end he'll work with him in order to destroy the Democratic Party.
DFW
(54,341 posts)As long as Trump could be manipulated into promoting Mitchie's agenda, Moscow Mitch couldn't care less that Trump was pond scum. "At least he's OUR pond scum."
kacekwl
(7,016 posts)He's had many chances to rid the world of this curse but chose not to. Shameful person, worse than trump IMO.
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Funny how he won't come out publicly and say it. It's because he wants to ride Trump's coattails. This goes to show all of the Republicans are cowards. None of them have any courage
area51
(11,905 posts)Moscow Mitch can always quit, and get a pension & health care for the rest of his life.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)John David Dyche, a lawyer in Louisville and until recently a conservative columnist, enjoyed unmatched access to McConnell and his papers, and published an admiring biography of him in 2009. In March, though, Dyche posted a Twitter thread that caused a lot of talk in the states political circles. He wrote that McConnell of course realizes that Trump is a hideous human being & utterly unfit to be president, and that, in standing by Trump anyway, he has shown that he has no ideology except his own political power. Dyche declined to comment for this article, but, after the coronavirus shut down most of America, he announced that he was contributing to McConnells opponent, Amy McGrath, and tweeted, Those who stick with the hideous, incompetent demagogue endanger the country & will be remembered in history as shameful cowards.
McConnell also appears to have lost the political support of his three daughters. The youngest, Porter, is a progressive activist who is the campaign director for Take On Wall Street, a coalition of labor unions and nonprofit groups which advocates against the predatory economic power of banks and billionaires. One of its targets has been Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman and C.E.O. of the Blackstone Group, who, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, has, since 2016, donated nearly thirty million dollars to campaigns and super pacs aligned with McConnell. Last year, Take On Wall Street condemned Blackstones detrimental behavior and argued that the companys campaign donations cast a pall on candidates ethics.
Porter McConnell has also publicly criticized the Senates confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh, which her father considers one of his greatest achievements. On Twitter, she accused Kavanaughs supporters of misogyny, and retweeted a post from StandWithBlaseyFord, a Web site supporting Christine Blasey Ford, one of Kavanaughs accusers. The husband of McConnells middle daughter, Claire, has also criticized Kavanaugh online, and McConnells eldest daughter, Eleanor, is a registered Democrat.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Placing $$$ money over lives is sure clear here
Today is revealing individual's actual character and goals
You may have been able to have some pleasing illusions about the wealthy before. No longer---they show every day who they are!