McConnell vows to stay on as GOP leader even if Republicans lose Senate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he planned to stay on as Republican leader regardless of whether he's relegated to the minority or keeps control of the Senate.

"I do," McConnell said when asked if he'll continue to seek the party leader role after the November elections. McConnell, 78, has had the job of GOP leader since 2007 and is the longest serving Republican leader of all time.

Polls show increasing peril for the GOP’s 53-seat Senate majority, with a half-dozen seats truly competitive and the potential for more races to be in the mix. At the same time, there is a path for McConnell to hang on to the Senate, particularly if President Donald Trump's performance rebounds in states like North Carolina, Iowa, Maine and Arizona.

McConnell is up for reelection himself this year in deep red Kentucky and is likely to face either Amy McGrath, who is supported by most Senate Democrats, or insurgent liberal candidate Charles Booker. McConnell is favored heavily for reelection, but his opposition is well-funded.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcconnell-vows-stay-gop-leader-152105736.html

[sunonmars]

1. Who say the shit is going to be re-elected.

[marble falls]

5. Pretty good chance he won't.

[empedocles]

13. Wonder why Moscow mitch put this out here now?

[marble falls]

17. Brave front? At least he tacitly understands he won't be in the majority.

[empedocles]

19. Cover story? Among other things, if trump and his polls keep going downward,

and it becomes every republicon for themselves - mitch would be a prime plus, flip candidate.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Exactly what I was going to say

[lagomorph777]

16. I don't think you can be Senate Majority (minority) Leader unless you are in the Senate.

And at this point, Turtle is on a path to much-belated retirement. Or jail.

[lastlib]

21. Recent polls say it isn't going to be the year of the turdle.

So, Mitch, you'd better see what Vladdy-Daddy has for you for Plan B, becuz your Senate life is TOAST! Maybe he can let you run that factory he gave you to bribe the state with.

IOW, Fuck you turdle--with hot barbed wire.



May this be the rest of your miserable pathetic life.

[Maxheader]

2. Time to go home and spend time

with the little turtles..


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3. A very good reason to trash the filibuster altogether if we win the senate

There's zero doubt, he would use every tool at his disposal to block what's in the best interests of the vast majority of Americans.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Indeed! nt

[marble falls]

6. The filibuster has helped Democrats, too. The problem is the filibuster itself has been altered.

[unblock]

12. The value of the filibuster lies in how it's used or not used -- or abused

The filibuster worked well for many decades before mcturtle cane along and basically abused it to hell.

If it's used rarely and for very important things, about which a minority in the senate feels very strongly, it has a role.

If it's used to delay anything and everything just to slow down or derail the majority party, then no, it's a bad thing.


But the real reason it has to go is because we can't trust republicans any more. If they ever get the chance to impose one-party rule, they'll take it.

Why should we fight with one hand tied behind our back if they're going to use both hands, kick, and bribe the officials and scorekeepers?

[Maven]

23. Yup. The Senate is anti-majoritarian enough as it is.

Time to get rid of that ridiculous rule that makes it impossible to pass any meaningful legislation.

[leftieNanner]

7. I do hope he loses in November

But if he doesn't, wouldn't it be interesting if the Republicans in the Senate voted for a different leader?

That would fry his butt, wouldn't it?

[mucifer]

9. They won't. he got wayyyy to much evil done in 3.5 years. It's insane. they owe him

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Hey Mitch! Which Dems do you have incriminating photographs of?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. Wish we could execute

Him for being a traitor and his crimes against the American people.

Mitch needs to be out of power,forever.

[MarcA]

14. I would settle for Life in Prison at Hard Labor.

At least that way he would have to pay back for some of the evil he has done.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

20. Execution would shut up

His ability to screw with others minds so they turn magat.

Taking these people and ending thier lives ends the manipulation,lies,bullying and sociopathy of these fuckers permantly and puts any sociopath like them back under the rocks they scuttled out of.

Eventually we will have to do something to get rid of the sociopathy and sociopaths among us.
They cannot be cured.
They never learn thier lesson and they do not change.
But 1 sociopath causes an amazing amount of suffering and abuse in thier wake.

And yes I hate thier "veiwpoints" because well the sociopathy.

I hate all narcissists, sociopaths and authoritarians because of who they are and what they believe.

[Firestorm49]

11. I could care less. Every other one is just as bad.

Don’t trust Romney!

[redstatebluegirl]

18. I want him and his wife in orange jumpsuits.

[NNadir]

22. Doesn't he need to be a Senator to do that?

In a just world he won't be a Senator much longer.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. It's His Decision?

That leadership position is voted on by the members.
If he wins in November, but dems take control of the Senate, nobody is going to want to change from the leader who was in charge when they LOST power?
Ask Gingrich about that! I'm sure he still wanted to be the leader.
They ran him out of DC on a rail.