Mitch McConnell isn't a 'stable genius,' either (Ouch!)

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By
Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
April 26, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. EDT

There is a tendency in the mainstream media to attribute nearly unlimited political prowess to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Certainly, his hard-line gamesmanship has worked to fill the courts (and two slots on the Supreme Court) with conservative judges. Beyond that? He failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and he routinely gets boxed about the ears by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), as she did again in achieving — with a strong assist from Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer — many (but not all) of Democrats’ aims in the coronavirus relief package passed last week. McConnell’s hard line collapsed, and then he really made a mess of things.

In rejecting the plea of governors and mayors for additional funding to make up for huge expenditures and revenue shortfalls stemming from the coronavirus, McConnell made himself a target. Suggesting states go bankrupt instead only added fuel to the fire of governors. In this case, the outrage over McConnell is bipartisan, which was entirely predictable given that senators are desperate to fund fire, police and other essential services back home. (Seriously, what could McConnell have been thinking?)

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Predictably, McConnell’s intention to stiff state and local workers (who are at risk of getting laid off) and essential services did not go down well with his own members. CNN reports: “A number of Senate Republicans are publicly and privately expressing an openness toward a new round of funding to cash-strapped state and local governments, even as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell floated the possibility of states declaring bankruptcy rather than receive more federal aid.” These include rock-ribbed Republicans such as Sens. Mike Braun (Ind.) and Bill Cassidy (La.), further proof that deficit hawks never object to spending on things they like.

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McConnell has tied himself to Trump’s mast, but on this one the president may not even agree with him. Trump apparently is open to helping the states. (Cuomo’s visit to the White House last week apparently paid off.) In any event, McConnell can read the polls — Trump is sinking, his Senate majority is at risk and he has a well-financed challenger in Amy McGrath.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/26/mitch-mcconnell-isnt-stable-genius-either/

[True Blue American]

1. I hope this sinks that

19th century politician and those tired old men and woman!

[cayugafalls]

2. Someone needs to leave a trail of lettuce leading off the nearest cliff...

I hear turtles love lettuce...

[SWBTATTReg]

4. I got a bunch of lettuce I'll donate!

[Newest Reality]

3. The King of the Welfare States

It is one thing that they take much, much more out of our collective pot than the providing states, but to try and deflect from that is biting the hand that feeds you.

McConnell is becoming more like a snapping turtle and he now has a crown: King of the Welfare States. He deserves an honorary, pink Cadillac with Ronald Reagan license plates delivered to his door.

I guess that's part of the GOP formula. Manipulate your state and funding for the betterment of your vested interests, (corporations and the wealthy) and help them exploit your people to the point that you need a yearly handout from our collective stash. Then, make sure they hate the liberals/democrats or ANYTHING or ANYBODY that is actually benefiting them by using lies, deflection and projection in order to make yourself look like a benefactor in their eyes.

It is amazing how completely rooked the Red State voters are. It is a complex situation as far as their motivations for that go, but I think part of it is an old fashioned, "take a man for his word" trust in con men as we see with the GOP's utracrepidarian Orange Kuwpie Doll, figurehead and bloated, bloviating mascot, Trump who has no bounds when it comes to those tactics and for whom corruption is simply a way of life.

GOP? Corruption 'R' Us(tm).

[comradebillyboy]

5. I like The Rube a lot more since she became a never Trumper.