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marmar

(76,976 posts)
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 08:58 PM Dec 2020

Mitch McConnell's dark pivot: Wreck the economy -- and sabotage Biden's presidency


(Salon) Donald Trump is still pretending he'll be able to successfully steal himself a second term as president, probably because it's such a lucrative lie. Mitch McConnell, however, appears to be moving on to his next mission: kneecapping Joe Biden.

The Senate majority leader is doing what everyone who actually learns from history predicted he would, and deliberately sabotaging the American economy, in a belief that voters will blame the incoming Democratic president for the disaster and not the Republican senators who are actually responsible.

On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of congressional leaders proposed a compromise coronavirus relief bill, worth about $900 billion. The bill is meant to rescue the economy from what is likely to be a disastrous winter, as lockdowns tighten and people stay home in the face of rising cases of COVID-19. It falls far short of the $3 trillion relief package that the Democratic-controlled House passed in May — a bill that was ignored by the Senate — but is substantially better than anything McConnell has proposed. It's also better than nothing, which is what McConnell's actions so far have amounted to.

Unsurprisingly, however, McConnell's reaction to this carefully drafted and dramatically announced bill was to blow a big, fat raspberry, refusing to even look at it. ...........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/02/mitch-mcconnells-campaign-to-sabotage-bidens-presidency-begins-in-earnest/




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Mitch McConnell's dark pivot: Wreck the economy -- and sabotage Biden's presidency (Original Post) marmar Dec 2020 OP
I wonder if the FBI could ask Mitch some awkward questions? nt fleabiscuit Dec 2020 #1
In other words, repeat what he did to Obama. JHB Dec 2020 #2
Then Donald claimed that the stock market would go down if Biden was elected. keithbvadu2 Dec 2020 #3
Mitch McConnell bdamomma Dec 2020 #4

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
3. Then Donald claimed that the stock market would go down if Biden was elected.
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 11:05 PM
Dec 2020

Pay attention when Trump claims the economy is going down the drain if he is not reelected.

He is telling us what condition he is going to leave the country in.

Then Donald claimed that the stock market would go down if Biden was elected.

Trump still has time to sabotage America with his comrade, Moscow Mitch.

bdamomma

(63,650 posts)
4. Mitch McConnell
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 11:09 PM
Dec 2020

needs to lose his seat. He cried for a Senator but has not said nothing about Americans dying from COVID.

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