McConnell Sent A Warning To The American People: He Plans To Block Everything If Donald Trump Loses

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

We always knew Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was a craven, disgusting coward who would do anything to gain and maintain power, and beyond that, we’re fully aware of McConnell’s history as an obstructionist. He got plenty of practice during the Obama years when he famously said that his primary objective in the Senate would be to ensure that Obama was a one-term President — and after he failed at that, obstructing by way of robbing Obama of the Supreme Court appointment vote to which he was entitled.

Now McConnell’s gross negligence of his duty as an American lawmaker is in even more stark contrast as he has been weighing the possibility that Donald Trump — the best thing ever to happen to Mitch — may not win the 2020 election. The Majority Leader has vowed that if Trump doesn’t win, but Republicans keep the Senate and he retains his own seat as the head of the upper chamber, that no matter who wins, if it isn’t Trump, he will thwart everything they want to accomplish.

Discussing progressive policy proposals during a meeting of political leaders in Owensboro, Kentucky, McConnell tore into the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and free college as total non-starters if he retains control of the Senate in 2020:

If I’m still the majority leader in the Senate … None of that stuff is going to pass. I guarantee you that if I’m the last man standing and I’m still the majority leader, it ain’t happening. I can promise you.”

https://politicaltribune.org/mcconnell-sent-a-warning-to-the-american-people-he-plans-to-block-everything-if-donald-trump-loses-in-2020/

And if you're not majority leader which is likely to be the case?

[LakeArenal]

1. Just waiting til Nov then SNAP!!!

We’re burying them all.

[Skittles]

2. this is why they ALL need to go

STAMP THEM OUT LIKE A FUCKING VIRUS

[AJT]

3. Lesson learned from 45......you don't need the legislative branch

just do executive for whatever you want.

[Blue Owl]

4. Time for Mitch to go reap himself

Send that piece of shit to hell where he can bask in the lake of fire

[Binkie The Clown]

5. So just vote the SOB out. nt

[NBachers]

6. Just donated to Amy McGrath again - Sorry, I haven't figured out how to to do it through DU.

This is how we torpedo the Turtle Tramp Steamer - and you can use whatever interpretation of Steamer that's appropriate.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/amy-mcgrath-1

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Thanks for the link....when I'm sober, I will throw in a few for Amy. I want Moscow Mitch out

of the US Senate. Some call him Turtle, I call him Snake.

[Rural_Progressive]

28. We've been donating $25 a week (we're retired) to different candidates and groups

for the past 6 months

This weeks lucky recipient is.....wait for it.....Amy McGrath!! I may have to talk my dear wife into doubling that amount in response to the chinless turtle,

[smirkymonkey]

7. I hope the Grim Reaper comes for him!

He is the most evil man in this country. And if he should live, we need to take the Senate back and make him pay for the hell he has caused us for the past 12 years - tenfold. I hate that man with the fire of a thousand suns.

[Nevilledog]

13. [phone]

[soothsayer]

20. +1

[lastlib]

47. Jesse Helms redux!

The two most evil creatures (I cannot bring myself to call them men) ever to hold seats in the Senate. I want MoscowMitch thoroughly BEATEN, crushed, humiliated in November almost as badly as I do the Cockwomble. And then I want him to die in ignominious shame, and be buried so I can piss on his grave.

[Laelth]

8. You know you're going to lose, Turtle.

You might as well retire now. It will be embarrassing to have to retire when you’re reduced to Senate Minority Leader and have absolutely no power.

-Laelth

[RussBLib]

9. Mitch McConnell: single-handedly stopping progress since 2010

Even if he keeps his seat, we have to take the Senate back so we can shove him into a tiny little hole.

[milestogo]

11. How is that going to be any different than what he does now?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

12. Even If He Doesn't Lose, I Think His Days As Majority Leader Are Numbered

The math doesn't seem to add up for him. We need to flip 3 Senate seats, and a 4th (to compensate for losing Doug Jones) to retake the Senate. The polls are looking very good. I think we pick up a seat in Arizona, Maine, Colorado, and North Carolina, and I'm really hopeful in booting Miss Lyndsay out in South Carolina as well (I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting at this moment too). That would mean whether or not McTurtle wins, his days of blocking every bill are over.

[Laelth]

15. Oh, yes.

The way things are going, the Turtle, even if he wins his own election, will be Minority Leader, at best, and if our party wisely decides to eliminate the filibuster, Moscow Mitch will find himself utterly powerless.

I am looking forward to it.

-Laelth

[Rural_Progressive]

29. Are you sure we're going to lose Jones?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

31. Not Certain, But We're Talking About Alabama......

.......and let's face it, Alabama would elect a ham sandwich if it had an R after its name. And I heard a poll on the radio say that Tuberville was something like 12% ahead in the first poll since he became the official challenger.

However, I rule nothing out. I won't concede that seat. Doug Jones is a good man and a formidable opponent. But again, we're talking about Alabama here.

[Takket]

14. if the Dems take the Senate and mitch is still there.......

one of the first things the new Senate has to do is vote to censure him. He has betrayed his country, his oath and abused his position for too long and he needs to be shamed and held accountable.

[roamer65]

16. Nuke the filibuster.

[Celerity]

42. We would need to have at least 58 seats, probably more, as Sinema, Bennet, Manchin, Durbin, King,

Booker, Coons, and Feinstein are not going to vote to kill it. Probably 3 or four others too.

[jrandom421]

17. Kinda hard to do

If you get replaced by Amy McGrath.

Even if he wins, not much he can do as Minority Leader with no filibuster!

[33taw]

18. Executive order to eliminate the two most recent Justices. Then add five in.

[Dan]

33. Not how the system works...

[33taw]

50. I know. But Trump would$ do it without resistance.

[still_one]

19. If we also win the Senate, get rid of the filibuster, and McConnell loses,

what will he do then?

[colsohlibgal]

21. What A Disgusting Person

We need to take back the Senate and hopefully Mitch loses too. If he wins and we win the Senate he can take a freaking back seat.....as we hopefully censure him.

Trump is despicable and McConnell is as well.

[benld74]

22. Hello? Karma?,,,,,

[Rural_Progressive]

30. Hello? Pride?

[backscatter712]

23. We need to make sure we take the Senate, then nuke the filibuster.

It's been a long time coming. So don't talk to me about the virtues of the filibuster - they seem to do everything for Republicans, but when Democrats try to stop Moscow Mitch with a filibuster, then he nukes it.

So fuck it. Majority rules, the objective needs to be to strip Moscow Mitch of his veto points so Biden can actually do something. I'm done with allowing the GOP to cockblock when they don't have a majority.

[Celerity]

43. the votes are not remotely there

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13773886

[Thekaspervote]

24. So what has changed? The house has sent them 100s of bills that mcturtle won't even consider!

Most forecasters are saying the Dems will end up with 51-54 seats. Let’s hope

[blakstoneranger]

25. YOU KNOW HOW TO STOP THIS GOOD-FOR-NOTHING WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY?

VOTE HIS TURTLE FACED, CABBAGE PATCH DOLL LOOKING AZZZ OUT OF OFFICE.


VOTE BLUE THRU AND THRU!!

[Dan]

34. And then, investigate him and his wife...

I’m sure that between the two of them, we can put one of them in jail.

[Celerity]

45. Elaine Chao and her fam are mobbed up gangsters

Elaine Chao's Family Fortune Shrouded in Offshore Tax Haven

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/05/mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao-offshore-paradise-papers/


Rachel Maddow details shocking allegations of corruption involving Elaine Chao and Mitch McConnell

https://www.salon.com/2019/06/11/rachel-maddow-details-shocking-allegations-of-corruption-involving-elaine-chao-and-mitch-mcconnell_partner/



Trump Just Removed the IG Investigating Elaine Chao. Chao's Husband, Mitch McConnell, Already Vetted the Replacement

https://www.citizensforethics.org/trump-removed-watchdog-investigating-elaine-chao-mcconnell-vetted-replacement/

[notinkansas]

44. Kentucky!

Help save this country. Vote him out. Please!

[C Moon]

26. That's a call to Putin.

[Jeebo]

27. I just donated $25 to Amy McGrath.

Four years ago, when the turtle was ignoring Merrick Garland and claiming that we should "let the American people decide" who was going to replace Scalia, we the people just simply should not have tolerated that. We should have raised such a holy hell of a stink about that that that turtle just would not have been able to get away with it. And that's the first time in my life that I have used the word "that" three times consecutively in a sentence. That's the second time in this election cycle that I have donated to Amy McGrath's campaign, but I'm sure it won't be the last time.

-- Ron

[ffr]

32. That's not "news." He's never done anything different.

Fuck him!

[struggle4progress]

35. "Putin before Patriotism! and Party before Principles!"

[Cha]

36. Wouldn't that be Fucked Desserts for turtle brain if we WON

the Senate & he Gets Kicked OUT on his Slimy ASS.

[Moostache]

37. THIS is exactly why I want retribution in January 2021...

In 2009, we let Bush and company off the hook too easy in an effort to "move forward"...FUCK THAT...we got the ass end of that stick and we are STILL paying for it.

I want trials for Barr, McConnell, McCarthy, Nunes, and every single "Trump" that served in any capacity.
I do not even care if they are show trials and a complete mockery...these scumbag Republicans deserve NOTHING but scorn and prison terms...

I want Gorsuch and Kavanaugh either removed or neutralized via court expansion.
If they stay, expand the court to 11. If they go, just replace them and name Garland to one seat immediately to right a fundamental wrong from the Obama administration... and I also want Barack Obama nominated to the court!

I want programs to establish income based levels for taxation that INCLUDE wealth accumulated from capital as equal to wealth accumulated from labor and any deductions to favor middle and low income families and small businesses at the expense of estates, corporations and hedge fund managers.

I want military bases and imperial overseas actions stopped, rolled back and the money and jobs transformed into civilian engineering projects and infrastructure improvements - rail, roads, bridges, and air re-imagined and improved for the (still) new millennium. It is NOT that we are broke...its that we fund wealth and protect corporations instead of investing in our own people and the future of all. It is way past time to invest in what helps the many and accept the costs that means to the few (who have spent 40+ years living high on the hog off of the rest of us...really since Reagan).

I want environmental PLANS and HARD ACTIONS immediately to move from fossil fuels to blended energy to eventual renewables and sustainable designs. Project 2100, featuring the . A comprehensive plan to stop AND reverse the damage done to the environment to ensure a future for the species...included in the effort is also a global effort to identify, control and combat emerging diseases unleashed from economic slums and squalor anywhere in the world. These things impact EVERYONE...these things need to be addressed or this current mess just goes on and on and on...

I want prison terms to be served by the guilty, I want all investigations thwarted by Trump finished and brought to full disclosures. I DEMAND an end to private prisons and DEMAND an audit of all private prison records, inmates, sentences, and financial audits of every prosecutor and judge who brought the cases and provided inmates for kick backs or profits.

I DEMAND an end to illegal police forces and an iron clad law requiring any LWO to display, name, unit and jurisdiction on their uniforms, which are to NEVER include any type of camouflage, EVER.

I want pay back for 2010-2020 and without a filibuster, or the House or the Senate or the White House...I want to watch those motherfuckers cry, wail and flagellate themselves. I want sack cloth and ashes...I want Hannity and Ingraham's bitter tears.

In short?
Elections are GOING to have consequences this time, and those consequences are going to fucking hurt the enemies of progress and humane society, period.

[dustyscamp]

38. If he is still the last man standing I hope that he'll live in fear

Maybe a Patriot out there will deal with him or he'll choke on a pretzel

[Crunchy Frog]

39. The people of Kentucky must really hate America.

[Initech]

40. Let's send him packing too!

Worst Senate Majority Leader ever! It's time to fire Mitch!

[DSandra]

41. Moscow Mitch be gone! Traitor!

[no_hypocrisy]

46. I figured out in 2009 that Mitch's obstruction wasn't b/c Obama was a black man in the WH.

It was simply b/c Obama was a Democrat. Oh, Mitch let the impression go out that he was fighting "the black man" on behalf of the republican racists. But I knew if Democrats nominated a white man or woman, Mitch and/or other Republicans would obstruct any legislation proposed.

As the filibuster has been now systematically corrupted, it really is of no use anymore and should be retired as a legislative device. And yes, I know, I know. When a republican president and a republican Senate is seated, Democrats will want to obstruct themselves.

Honestly, I don't know what it's going to take to return bipartisanship to the House and to the Senate.

[Stuart G]

48. K and R...Thank You for posting..