What Does Mitch McConnell Want?

[applegrove]

What Does Mitch McConnell Want?

October 5, 2021 at 11:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 138 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/05/what-does-mitch-mcconnell-want/

"SNIP......

New York Times: “Mr. McConnell has long used the periodic need to raise the government’s borrowing limit as a moment of leverage to secure a policy win, as have leaders of both parties.”

“But two weeks before a potentially catastrophic default, Mr. McConnell has yet to reveal what he wants, telling President Biden in a letter on Monday, ‘We have no list of demands.'”

“Instead, he appears to want to sow political chaos for Democrats while insulating himself and other Republicans from an issue that has the potential to divide them.”

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[applegrove]

1. Republicans are allergic to stating policy since things can easily be scored.

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They either want rich people to get richer or middle class people to be poorer or poor people to be deader. None if those things score well or make them look anything but evil.

[BlueJac]

2. Power

Then money, in that order!

[mitch96]

12. That and "owning the libs"... This is what his corporate donors/owners want...nt

[kentuck]

3. He wants Chuck Schumer to die...

So he will be Majority Leader. They hate each other. They would let the country die before they would talk with each other.

[elleng]

4. Power

[PortTack]

5. JMHO he sees this a political ad come midterms. We didn't go along with their spending

He always has an agenda

[bluewater]

6. To quote the alien in the movie "Independence Day", Mitch wants us "to Die".

Metaphorically speaking, mostly.

[NewHendoLib]

7. everything to be about Mitch

[maxsolomon]

8. Minority Rule. Republican control of the Government

“A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.”
_WF Fuckley

[sanatanadharma]

9. Better to ask what McConnell does not want

While the answers may be many, I suspect he has one motivating idea above all others; he doesn't want to be served Russian tea.

[Mme. Defarge]

10. Is creating chaos following a ruinous default

his actual goal?

[Champp]

11. unAmerican Republican grifter

The Republicans will not do a damn thing for America.

It's gotta be all for them, or nothing. Republicans have turned their backs on America and American democracy in order to embrace the foul tenets of fascism. They are on their knees, smooching the butts of a contractor-cheating draft-dodging casino hustler from the Big Frikking City, and an Evil Empire of Russia Latter Day KGP Rasputin and his cadre of dark-ops digital trolls and bots which ceaselessly attack our American businesses and elections.

Republicans have jumped the freaking shark. With their weak wills and fogged capacity for discernment, they've fallen pathetically into the grip of freedom-denying, and soul-annihilating big-daddy patriarchal fugged-up fascism.

[Frustratedlady]

13. Moscow Mitch has a higher opinion of himself than the majority of us have. He is evil and ornery...

thinking he can control the government's activities with his orneriness. He doesn't want Biden to succeed and will do whatever it takes to block his way. He's gotten away with all kinds of shenanigans then stands back and watches people squirm.

Maybe we should all be asking what the hell happened to the hearing about his wife's activities during the Trump administration? That seems to have been hushed up.

Mitch is another who makes term limits attractive.

[Bettie]

14. He wants to crash the economy and

throw the US into a depression, which he will then, say only Republicans can fix.

[gratuitous]

15. Just what Johnny Rocco wanted in Key Largo

Two gangsters cut from the same cloth.

[Baked Potato]

16. Republicans will deny Democrats a Win at any cost.

The GOP knows that Americans all want basically the same things. Moscow Mitch knows that once the Democrats get rolling and improve all American lives it will doom his party.

[budkin]

17. To win at all costs, per the usual

He wants the Democrats to take the blame for pushing the nation into default.

[BlueTsunami2018]

18. "...as have leaders of both parties."

When have the Democrats ever held the debt ceiling hostage to secure any policy wins?

I don’t remember this ever happening.

[Xolodno]

19. For starters...

1. He's inventing an issue to be used during the midterms. That being the debt. He probably believes the voter restrictions might give him the Senate back. And with any luck, pick more seats in the House with gerrymandering.

2. He's never had an agenda other than pack the courts and tax breaks. He wants to keep his tax breaks and slow down the pace of Biden nominations if not all together stop them.

3. If anything tanks in the economy, he believes they can be successful blaming it on Democrats.

4. And of course, he won't stop if he believes he can make Biden a one term President.

[Midnight Writer]

20. The GOP is the Party of Stunts. It is all they have.

[electric_blue68]

21. This may sound stupid - but doesn't an economic meltdown affect ..

them (Mitch, and other Rethuglicans), too?

Not in the sense of their current general well off-ness but in their, say, stock holdings, maybe CDs, etc

Since they don't live in the highest levels of the extremely wealthy - they have more contact with other economic groups and the services that these other workers provide.
Wouldn't the distress from an economic meltdown that many of these workers would be under might result in more unpleasant interactions, or less than the best services provided? Thus affecting their day to day lives.

Why does Mitch & Repug Co think they live in such a super protective bubble?
Are they, compared to the highest stratospheric levels of wealth, not going to be affected making their lives less comfortable?

And am I off in thinking this? 🤔 Have I been cogent enough?
Opinions, please. 👍 🙂

[edhopper]

22. Some men...

[Xoan]

23. He wants Americans to be ....

too stupid to notice.