McConnell's tough sell: Brighter days ahead don't belong to Democrats

[DonViejo]

BY DAVID CATANESE

MARCH 30, 2021 12:04 PM, UPDATED 41 MINUTES AGO

Mitch McConnell can see the future — and knows it’s likely to place Republicans in a pickle.

He sees a rapidly recovering economy, an increasingly vaccinated population and general optimism budding across the country like bluegrass at the start of springtime. And he’s realized the GOP needs an explanation for the shower of good news coming in the opening months of a new Democratic administration.

McConnell’s response, sprinkled in a drumbeat of speeches and media appearances during the month of March, is that the past is prologue. President Joe Biden and Democrats shouldn’t get the credit for all of this, he says, when it was the Republican-led work during former President Donald Trump’s final year in office that set the stage for this moment to begin to emerge from the pandemic.

“Because of last year’s bipartisan work, our economy was already poised for an historic comeback,” McConnell said on the Senate floor last week before the chamber adjourned for a two-week recess. “So I’ll be joining Kentuckians to celebrate what’s gone well, thanks to our bipartisan work last year.”

It’s a message he’s been carrying ever since Democrats were on the cusp of passing their $1.9 trillion Covid rescue plan earlier this month with zero Republican votes — and a message that he’s been plugging with more urgency now that Americans are receiving their stimulus checks and Biden is receiving the preponderance of the credit.

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[CentralMass]

1. I look forward to his retirement.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. I look forward to his demise

When his heart stops or he strokes out

Blue lips and rotting hands does not look too healthy if ya know what I mean.

[SoonerPride]

4. I want him to go ahead and die.

Retirement is too good for him.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. No one is going to believe Satan if he tries to take credit for Sunny skies, and cool breezes.

But you have to expect that he'll try.

[yonder]

5. Drugs - drugs of power, drugs of greed, whatever his bender, he's on it.

[gratuitous]

6. A comeback from what, Mitch?

Weren't you and Needy Amin crowing for four years about unprecedented economic prosperity, record low unemployment numbers, and all the other accoutrements of a booming economy? What's this year's comeback a comeback from? All that Republican prosperity that looked a lot like a recession? Are you lying now about a comeback or were you lying then when you claimed Republinomics were enriching the country?