McConnell knew. He said it was the achievement he was most proud of.

[wiggs]

Why would McConnell delay Obama's moderate scotus pick for a year when it was pretty clear Hillary could end up choosing someone more liberal? Or younger?

Because he knew the plans to funnel dark, foreign money to the gop nominee...and he knew that there were powerful global forces, including Russia, doing what they could behind the scenes. He certainly thought it worth the risk to wait. And don't forget that Kennedy's retirement and replacement was planned in advance as well...

[RKP5637]

3. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[RKP5637]

2. McConnell is an ever gross grotesque bag of shit! n/t

[mjvpi]

22. Very concise! When I start on McConell I find it hard to stop.

[Botany]

4. President Obama made sure that McConnell was briefed by the CIA & FBI about Russia's work ...

... in behave of Trump and McConnell worked to hid that information.

Paul Ryan, McCarthy, and Steve Scalise all knew about Trump and Russia too.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

[Bluethroughu]

5. Yes they did. Traitors.

[SheltieLover]

6. Lock. Them. Up.

[FakeNoose]

7. Oh yes, he's been a part of this scheme for a long time

Possibly his entire career, once he got to the Senate. He was seduced by the promise of power, what else could it have been? I'm not even sure how much Russia was involved, it's really the ultra-rich right-wing conspiracy in the US, including the Koch brothers and several others.

It sounds paranoid when we post about these conspiracies, but it's not paranoia when that's what really happened.
McConnell has been in on it all along.

[wiggs]

14. Remember Delay's prediction of a 100 year GOP reign? Almost there...nt

[jaxexpat]

19. I'd guess he totally turned during Clinton's impeachment hearing.

His wife weas already coaching him in the ways of the world, the long "Chinese" view of power. The possibilities for a person who, by nature, was both circumspect and imaginatively clever, were endless. The world laid out before him, an unkempt field to till, plant, tend and harvest. A viewer close to the spectacle of Clinton's harassment and the eventual charade of his impeachment could clearly see, it didn't take a genius, just how much destruction a few dedicated Christo-fascists could wreak when backed by dark money.

When he became majority leader, he wove those on the edges tightly into the fold. Those that weren't playing ball found themselves forced out of the Senate altogether and replaced with more reliable co-conspirators. Those who stood against him found, painfully, that every inch he ceded was gained with a costly loss of political capital. B. Obama can, does and will carry the scars of his contentions with Mitch's walls, moats and legislative oubliettes of obstruction.

Financing the takeover was/is accomplished with tax breaks and "special conditions" as compensation to any and all A-list supporters. Mitch had all he needed to completely control the government except for the unreliability of free elections which was successfully circumvented by a cooperative USSC when it attempted to rear up in 2000. Elector crime 2.1 worked even better. When brought out to install Trump, the second useful idiot, there wasn't even a serious discussion of the obvious fraud it all was. Nobody even talks about the unlikelihood of Trump being fairly elected in ANY possible iteration these days.
Presently, Mitch and his future embodiments, when he finally retires/inters to his daytime sleeping coffin, will have hardly any remaining details to wrap up, completing the total and perpetual single party control of the USA. The 2022 midterm election is the only element in play. It's just that simple.
They will fight right out in the open with no holds barred, to win the contest this time. It's unlikely the media, even if they were inclined to do so, can stop them without a massive, clear majority of voters for the Democrats.

[mjvpi]

24. Too bad he was seduced by the Dark Side.

Smart, capable and ruthless.
He is the consummate politician as opposed to a Statesman. I’d use President Johnson as a polar opposite. Both were/are defined by power and how they wield it, but Johnson saw a Great Society and McConnell sees the top 1%. I’m not a huge Star Wars fan, but the idea of powerfully gifted people being lured to the Dark Side is such a perfect spiritual picture of the difference between being a Statesman and a Politician I can’t not use it.

[jaxexpat]

26. I rather think he invented the "dark side". He saw a need and he filled it.

One guy's evil is another's fantasy.

[Snackshack]

8. Judges...

Is the entire reason the GOP foisted DT on the American people even though the GOP knew full well his close association with Russia, the sexual allegations, the charges of fraud and DT’s BFF Epstein. McConnell, Graham, Johnson…all of them knew all of this but getting judges and ultimately this decision and in the process the GOP destroyed the credibility of SCOTUS, allowed a criminal to fleece America, doubled the national debt and sacrificed over 1 MILLION American citizens…all to get Roe overturned.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Yep! And full knowledge that trump knew nothing about judges...

real judges, that is. From that we got a huge infestation of Heritage Faundation originalist troglodytes who think we should take the country back to the 19th Century.

[Snackshack]

15. Nope.

He didn’t know 💩 about judges. The names for Judgeships all came from the federalist society and a fair portion of the over 200 judges McConnell packed the judicial system with during DT reign of terror were deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association. Even justice kegger and justice handmaiden we’re both initially rated unqualified by ABA.

[HUAJIAO]

11. And it is probably not even about Roe, but creating a fascist theoracy,

to say nothing about bringing back segregation !

[Snackshack]

20. Agreed

…but Roe was the big one for them. Getting that decision and then weathering the fall out will be huge for them. The blowback from this decision must swift, wide ranging and serious. If the pushback is mediocre or half hearted then the religious right will be emboldened to go after the rest of the list that they have been salivating over that’s sends us back to the 1930’s. Going after gay marriage and contraception as traitor justice Thomas has written (there is no way Thomas did not know what his wife was doing). Also many of the social programs that FDR started have long been a target of the right SS, Medicare, welfare…everything is in jeopardy.

[wiggs]

13. I think McConnell's aim is more about deregulation and concentration of wealth

than Roe. And that's next. He used Roe to get the rest.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Yeah, that's the real goal...nt

[mjvpi]

25. Bingo. Gays, Guns and God are the cannon fodder of the Corporate Republican elite.

They back Trump because he controls the emotional fools in our country. It kills me that Trump is almost as effective as Governor Stacy Abrams (!) at bringing people to the poles.

[Wounded Bear]

9. He's a power hungry piece of shit...

who sold his soul - such as it is - to the dark side decades ago.

He's been in on the steal from the beginning.

[PatrickforB]

12. And don't forget the impeachment plans the GOP had set to begin the

very minute Clinton took office. She would have done her best, I know, but the GOP would have been constantly carping in the background, holding impeachment hearings, and obstructing every single effort she and the Dems made.

Because - truth - there IS a vast right-wing conspiracy. Check Lewis Powell's August 23, 1971 'memo' he mailed to the US Chamber of Commerce right before assuming a seat on the SCOTUS bench after his appointment by Tricky Dicky.

Then check the snake Reagan's pocket veto of the Fairness Doctrine that allowed the rise of hate-talk radio and Fox 'news.'

Seriously.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. They don't call him "Moscow Mitch" for nothing.

It takes cash.

How a McConnell-backed effort to lift Russian sanctions boosted a Kentucky project

By Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman
The Washington Post, August 14, 2019

In January, as the Senate debated whether to permit the Trump administration to lift sanctions on Russia’s largest aluminum producer, two men with millions of dollars riding on the outcome met for dinner at a restaurant in Zurich.

On one side of the table sat the head of sales for Rusal, the Russian aluminum producer that would benefit most immediately from a favorable Senate vote. The U.S. government had imposed sanctions on Rusal as part of a campaign to punish Russia for “malign activity around the globe,” including attempts to sway the 2016 presidential election.

On the other side sat Craig Bouchard, an American entrepreneur who had gained favor with officials in Kentucky, the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Bouchard was trying to build the first new aluminum-rolling mill in the United States in nearly four decades, in a corner of northeastern Kentucky ravaged by job losses and the opioid epidemic — a project that stood to benefit enormously if Rusal were able to get involved.

Snip…

But the timing of their meeting shows how much a major venture in McConnell’s home state had riding on the Democratic-backed effort in January to keep sanctions in place.
By the next day, McConnell had successfully blocked the bill, despite the defection of 11 Republicans.
Within weeks, the U.S. government had formally lifted sanctions on Rusal, citing a deal with the company that reduced the ownership interest of its Kremlin-linked founder, Oleg Deripaska. And three months later, Rusal announced plans for an extraordinary partnership with Bouchard’s company, providing $200 million in capital to buy a 40 percent stake in the new aluminum plant in Ashland, Ky. — a project Gov. Matt Bevin (R) boasted was “as significant as any economic deal ever made in the history of Kentucky.”

Continues…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-a-mcconnell-backed-effort-to-lift-russian-sanctions-boosted-a-kentucky-project/2019/08/13/72b26e00-b97c-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html

I call Mitch McConnell “Traitor.”

[nowforever]

18. Obama doesn't know how to fight

Obama is a very intelligent and compassionate man but he lacks a real courage. He should have fought like hell to get his nomination put forward, he should have fought the government shutdowns and called out the Republicans every day. He should have called out the teabaggers hypocrisy and everyday let the people know how the Republicans destroyed our economy in service of the rich. Obama played the nice guy who didn't want to be called an angry black man...what he feared the most. Guess what, some outrage and assertiveness is the most effective style...especially when backed by the truth. I wish Hillary had won in 2004, nevermind 2016.

[OMGWTF]

21. Moscow Mitch Broke America

[housecat]

23. Yes he prepared it for TFG