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mcConnell is no better than TFG (Original Post) spanone Oct 2021 OP
Yep Mad_Machine76 Oct 2021 #1
Agree 100% UCmeNdc Oct 2021 #2
He's worse, actually. GoCubsGo Oct 2021 #3
In this case "they are all the same". But Ertle McTurtle is much worse. 45 needed Ertle ... marble falls Oct 2021 #4
The problem is that McConnell is a much "better" politician... Wounded Bear Oct 2021 #5
Today's GQP is a two-headed monster. Vogon_Glory Oct 2021 #6
Just as petty and vengeful. But on a much larger scale Walleye Oct 2021 #7
Yes, a hundred times yes. He is just quieter than Trump but just as lethal. BeckyDem Oct 2021 #8

Mad_Machine76

(24,412 posts)
1. Yep
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 10:02 AM
Oct 2021

Another major stain on this country that we just can't seem to get rid of him. He is either going to have to get too sick to keep going or die before we'll be rid of him, unfortunately. We have to really figure out a way to neutralize him so that he can't keep pulling these destructive stunts and preventing Democrats from being allowed to govern while in office.

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
3. He's worse, actually.
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 10:11 AM
Oct 2021

His actions are informed and calculated, while a lot of Trump's awfulness arose from his stupidity and incompetence. May he be remembered in history in the same way Hitler, Stalin, bin Laden, and all the other despots are remembered. Hope he also dies broke and in prison...

marble falls

(57,081 posts)
4. In this case "they are all the same". But Ertle McTurtle is much worse. 45 needed Ertle ...
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 10:27 AM
Oct 2021

45 made things easier for Ertle, but Ertle did not need 45.

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
6. Today's GQP is a two-headed monster.
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 10:30 AM
Oct 2021

We need to get the message out. One head was The Former Guy, and the other is McConnell.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
8. Yes, a hundred times yes. He is just quieter than Trump but just as lethal.
Wed Oct 6, 2021, 11:03 AM
Oct 2021

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise;
unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/

Thomas E. Mann and Norman Ornstein Friday, April 27, 2012

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