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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnell has lost the legitimacy to lead.
He has become a walking contradiction.
He goes to the floor of the Senate and declares that Donald Trump was responsible for the attack upon our Capitol. He then votes against impeachment. He refuses to hold his Leader accountable.
There is a vote to create a bi-partisan Commission, as agreed to by both Parties, and he declares that he is against it? He understands that our Capitol was attacked and who was responsible but he refuses to do anything about it.
He says the law and the Congress have the authority to handle it. We do not need any Commission to tell us what we already know. Who is he protecting? Himself?
Perhaps the Democrats will have no choice but to handle the investigations in Congress and let the Department of Justice handle the legal matters? Is that what Mitch McConnell is recommending?
Nobody knows what he stands for anymore. He has lost the ability to lead his Party during a dangerous and critical time for our nation.
NewHendoLib
(61,857 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Theres nothing new here.
True Blue American
(18,579 posts)Would be a blessing in disguise because if it fails she is free to set up a commission just like Republicans did on Benghazi. Heavily weighted to Republicans she can set up one weighted to Democrats!
Hoisted on their own Petard! This is delicious!
kentuck
(115,406 posts)You can bet the farm on that.
True Blue American
(18,579 posts)John Thune was whining it would go into the next election!
Well, duh!
hatrack
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kentuck
(115,406 posts)I think it is possible.
hatrack
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kentuck
(115,406 posts)...that the reason so many Repub House members voted for the Commission was to protect their chances of winning back the House.
They were assured that no matter how they voted, it would not pass the Senate. A naked political maneuver.
bronxiteforever
(11,212 posts)Harker
(17,784 posts)sedition is twenty minutes.
Escurumbele
(4,094 posts)so they are running scared.
Graham changed his tune after 18 holes of golf, McCarthy changed his after he was called to Mar-A-Lago, Moscow Mitch must have had a call from the buffoon...they are all wearing diapers, they are so scared...
Chakaconcarne
(2,787 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,662 posts)re-election tomorrow.
INdemo
(7,024 posts)It was the Vote Tally..
One doesnt have a 23% Approval rating and win an election..the same for the 2014 election..I believe there were Russian vote counters in that one.
True Blue American
(18,579 posts)Wonder when they are going to investigate Mitch winning all Democratic Disytricts?
malaise
(296,098 posts)That is all
bottomofthehill
(9,390 posts)The Republicans know where the money came from to fund the attack on the capitol, their donor base. They are protecting the money men
LymphocyteLover
(9,847 posts)lastlib
(28,261 posts)all for his corporatist allies.
In his decades in office, has the basturd EVER voted for anything that has helped working people over corporations and billionaires? I see NO evidence that he has.
ananda
(35,143 posts)???
Celerity
(54,407 posts)world wide wally
(21,836 posts)kentuck
(115,406 posts)His only reality is who controls political power. Everything else in his life is secondary.
FakeNoose
(41,631 posts)
gab13by13
(32,318 posts)Don't just take the vote. Make them stand on the floor of the Senate and explain why we shouldn't investigate an attack on our democracy.
Schumer needs to do it, Speaker Pelosi would.
Duppers
(28,469 posts)raccoon
(32,390 posts)live love laugh
(16,383 posts)He stands for treason and the assault of democracy.