Has there ever in American history, been and U.S. Senator with less honor than Mitch McConnell

[CanonRay]

That is all.

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Not that I'm aware of.

Words like despicable, evil and reprehensible come to mind, but they are so very inadequate to describe Moscow Mitch.

[steve2470]

2. maybe Joe McCarthy ?

I do get your point, though. Moscow Mitch is really horrible and soulless, with no honor I can see.

[at140]

4. +10

[Brainstormy]

6. the only contender. n/t

[The Blue Flower]

3. And he doesn't care who knows it

"I'm a total a--hole with no integrity, values, or honor. And I say it with pride."

[Thekaspervote]

5. what is wrong with the KY voter??? I mean really. Silver lining: he comes back as minority leader

And has to sit back and watch as Dems pass the some 400 great bills the house passed, that now sit on his desk collecting dust. I hope that bastard has a stroke!!

[Golden Raisin]

7. Not only McConnell but Rand Paul too from Kentucky!

Repeatedly!

[Volaris]

13. Honestly, the first thing that should get passed in a kind of omnibus bill,

That re passes EVERYTHING from the last year, that he stuck on his chair and used as a pad for his decrepit rotting turtle-ass.

[world wide wally]

8. Maybe Trump?

[JanMichael]

9. There have been plenty. McCarthy already mentioned. The guy that hit people with a cane.

You can't just go back to post WWII.

He isn't a special ray of hate.

[steve2470]

10. hate to be a history nerd but he was in the House... was there another guy with a cane ?

Preston Brooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks

Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was an American politician and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina, serving from 1853 until his resignation in July 1856 and again from August 1856 until his death.

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Brooks, a Democrat, was a strong advocate of slavery and states' rights. He is most remembered for his May 22, 1856, attack upon abolitionist and Republican Senator Charles Sumner, whom he beat nearly to death; Brooks beat Sumner with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech in which Sumner verbally attacked Brooks's first cousin once removed

[JanMichael]

14. Went off memory not google. But yes he was in the house.

So since we are googling (No senate canes. There was a house caning):

15 February 1798

Federalist Congressman Roger Griswold of Connecticut attacked Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon with a hickory walking stick in the chambers of the United States House of Representatives. Griswold struck Lyon repeatedly about the head, shoulders and arms, while Lyon attempted to shield himself from the blows. Lyon then turned and ran to the fireplace, took up a pair of metal tongs, and having armed himself thus returned to the engagement. Griswold then tripped Lyon and struck him in the face while he lay on the ground, at which point the two were separated. After a break of several minutes, however, Lyon unexpectedly pursued Griswold again with the tongs, and the brawl was re-ignited.

The two men had a prior history of conflict. On 30 January of that year, Griswold had publicly insulted Lyon by calling him a coward, and Lyon had retaliated by spitting in Griswold's face. As a result of Lyon's actions in that case, he became the first Congressman to have charges filed against him with that body's ethics committee, although he escaped censure through a vote in the House.

Senate fight:

20 February 1902
During a debate on a bill dealing with the Philippine Islands, Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina accused Senator John L. McLaurin of South Carolina of "treachery" for siding with the Republicans in support of Philippine annexation, and alleged that McLaurin had been granted control of government patronage in South Carolina. Upon receiving word of this statement, McLaurin entered the Senate Chamber and denounced Tillman, upon which Tillman attacked him. During the fight, other senators were hit by the punches. As a result, the Senate went into closed session to debate the matter. Both senators apologized to the Senate, but almost came to blows immediately thereafter. On 28 February, the Senate voted 54 to 12, with 22 abstentions, to censure both Tillman and McLaurin. McLaurin did not seek reelection, while Tillman served in the Senate until 1918.

[steve2470]

15. wow, good research, thanks! nt

[TruckFump]

11. McCarthy IMO runs Moscow Mitch a close race on this prize. EOM

[moondust]

12. The Quintessential Power-Grabber?

Not in recent memory but there may have been some vile scoundrels during the Civil War or Jim Crow eras.

[Celerity]

16. James K. Vardaman - United States Senator from Mississippi 1913 - 1919

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Vardaman

Known as "The Great White Chief", Vardaman had gained electoral support for his advocacy of populism and white supremacy, saying: "If it is necessary every Negro in the state will be lynched; it will be done to maintain white supremacy."

Referring to the 1890 Mississippi state constitution, Vardaman said:

There is no use to equivocate or lie about the matter.... Mississippi's constitutional convention of 1890 was held for no other purpose than to eliminate the nigger from politics. Not the 'ignorant and vicious', as some of the apologists would have you believe, but the nigger.... Let the world know it just as it is.... In Mississippi we have in our constitution legislated against the racial peculiarities of the Negro.... When that device fails, we will resort to something else.

Vardaman was known for his provocative speeches and quotes and once called Theodore Roosevelt a "little, mean, coon-flavored miscegenationist."

In reference to the education of black children, he remarked, "The only effect of Negro education is to spoil a good field hand and make an insolent cook." "The knowledge of books does not seem to produce any good substantial result with the Negro, but serves to sharpen his cunning, breeds hopes that cannot be fulfilled, creates an inclination to avoid labor, promotes indolence, and in turn leads to crime."

After the president of Tuskegee University, Booker T. Washington, had dined with Roosevelt, Vardaman said that the White House was "so saturated with the odor of the nigger that the rats have taken refuge in the stable."

Referring to Washington's role in politics, Vardaman said: "I am opposed to the nigger’s voting, it matters not what his advertised moral and mental qualifications may be. I am just as much opposed to Booker Washington, with all his Anglo-Saxon reenforcement, voting, as I am to voting by the cocoanut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon, Andy Dotson, who blacks my shoes every morning. Neither one is fit to perform the supreme functions of citizenship."

[steve2470]

17. nasty piece of work, truly nt

[CanonRay]

18. You got me at this guy

however, he was honest in his racism.

[hardluck]

19. Calhoun (nt)

[BannonsLiver]

20. If I'm his family when he croaks I make sure the grave is on private property

Otherwise it’ll smell like a human cat box.