Mitch McConnell PROMISES THE KOCH's That Republicans Can Do THEIR BIDDING With 51 Votes

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The heavily Koch gifted Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is pretty desperate to win the Senate for Republicans. He’s got a lot on the agenda. A lot he can’t tell you about. Republicans have to keep their real agendas secret, or no one would vote for them. So it is that Mitch McConnell found himself prostrate before his masters, the Koch Brothers, promising anything to get that ring during a secret strategy meeting on June 15th, full of right-wing big money types. The Republican Senate Minority leader will give them anything if they will just keep giving him money. He will give them your jobs. Your minimum wage. Your consumer protections (what few Democrats have managed to carve out for you, that is). He will give them your healthcare. He will give them your access to affordable college loans.

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Transcript via The Undercurrent:

MALE SPEAKER: Uh, (inaudible) family from Arkansas. Following up on that, going on the offense. Uh, could you just name the top, uh, three to five key areas that you believe will be the significant advantage (inaudible)?

MITCH MCCONNELL: Good question. Remember, he’s still in the White House, and the (inaudible) game is still important. But at the least we can do the following things (inaudible). Number one, how do you set the agenda and (inaudible) Harry Reid? The principal advantage of the majority is to establish a caucus.
Number two, if we have a House and Senate that agree, we can have the votes. That can be done with 51 votes.
(Applause.)

MITCH MCCONNELL: Most things in the Senate require 60, but not the votes, and the President doesn’t sign the votes. So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill. And I assure you that in the spending bill, we will be pushing back against this bureaucracy by doing what’s called placing riders in the bill. No money can be spent to do this or to do that. We’re going to go after them on healthcare, on financial services, on the Environmental Protection Agency, across the board (inaudible). All across the Federal government, we’re going to go after it.

Now look, I don’t want to over promise here, but even still we (inaudible). But this is a battle, and we (inaudible). We are going to push back against this regulatory overreach. It’s the reason why this is so important (inaudible).

So I think that’s the single most important thing we can do that doesn’t require getting to 60 votes in the Senate (inaudible). But that we can do for sure, and we will. And we’re not going to be debating all these gosh darn proposals. That’s all we do in the Senate is vote on things like raising the minimum wage (inaudible) — cost the country 500,000 new jobs; extending unemployment — that’s a great message for retirees; uh, the student loan package the other day, that’s just going to make things worse, uh. These people believe in all the wrong things.

I’ll close with this (inaudible). If we want to get the country going again, we need to quit doing what we’ve been doing. Was it Einstein that said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? You know, quit the borrowing, the spending, the taxing, and the over regulation. If we would all develop an entrepreneurial approach, we’d be able to lift this country up and send us in a new direction, just like all of you have done.


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Mitch promised the room full of greedy and clueless Richie Rich activists that he won’t be raising that minimum wage because it kills jobs, but of course, that is not accurate. That has been shown to be untrue. He won’t be raising the minimum wage because it would cut into their profits and might empower the people to be able to afford food, and when people can afford food and shelter, they have time to focus on things like what Mitch McConnell is really doing in the Senate. Chaos and starvation keep the people down, where the GOP need them in order to serve the Kochs. It is a great talking point and excuse for the Republican failure to act for the people, though.




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1. This can't be posted enough, or too much.

And thanks for the earlier post. I'm trying to obtain better audio, there's an original source out there and I'd LOVE to hear the "inaudible" parts!

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2. Am I worried that Mitch may be pulling the wool

over the eyes of naive billionaire Republican donors? Not the least bit worried.

Besides, to give the devil his due, he did say, albeit in response to a question, that most things require sixty votes and the President can veto.

Finally, don't both parties always imply that giving them a simple majority--or helping them keep the one they have--will do wonders?

Instead of worrying about Republican donors, I am wondering when and how the hell we get the Senate to repeal its super majority rules.

Would that deprive BOTH major parties of power when they are in the minority? Yes. However, isn't the will of the majority of voters what we want? At least then, it will be the will of a majority of the people getting done, not the minority imposing its will on the majority. And, voters will finally know who was responsible for which vote and finally be able to hold elected officials accountable. Isn't that the premise behind the Constitution? That you can vote out the ones hurting you? Well, in order to do that, you have to be able to figure out who is hurting you. Cloture rules make that impossible.

Limit super majority requirements to the ones specified in the Constitution.

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5. "That you can vote out the ones hurting you?"

That's the thing about repugs, they're expert liars and blame their failures on Dems. And even crazier is that their constituents believe the lies and hate Dems for it.

And when there's a major victory the Dems accomplished, the repugs will lie and try to take the credit for it, and again their constituents believe the lie.

The repugs are so accomplished in the art of lying they could give college courses on it.
Lying, Cheating, and Manipulation the Republican Way 101.
Required Reading - Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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8. I agree that Republicans lie. However, I believe that super majority rules help

conceal the truth about both successes and failures.

For just one recent example, I think it is much easier to fool the public with a cloture vote than with a vote against Warren's concrete bill seeking to make student loans more affordable. I tried, but I could not even find the yeas and nays on that cloture vote.

Before 2010, when Democrats had the Oval Office and a majority in both Houses, it was easier for Republicans to claim that Dems did little those two years but ACA. (Lily Ledbetter had already passed, but Bush vetoed. Obama signed it Inauguration Day.)

Besides, think about what you are saying. We have a situation now where very little that we like gets done for he benefit of Americans and Republicans already lie to blame failures on Dems and take credit for whatever successes, if any, make it past the cloture rules.

You are saying it would be worse for Americans if good things actually do get done for Americans, like more affordable student loans, and Republicans continue lying, which they already do anyway? How would that be worse for Americans?

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9. I didn't say it would be

worse for Americans, and if it sounded like I did, then I apologize.

I'm just saying that no matter the circumstance, republicans will always shit on the average American punch bowl and then blame democrats for doing it, Faux Noose will repeat the lie, the right wing media will repeat the lie, religious conservatives will repeat the lie, conservative radio...etc. Right wing constituents will believe anything and everything they're told. They're millions of them that goose step to anything conservative.

As a matter of fact, I believe what you wrote, limit super majority requirements to the ones specified in the Constitution. It would greatly benefit the American public. But the repugs will fight tooth and nail to keep that from happening and that's why we need to keep them from taking the senate in the fall.

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13. No need to apologize. Miscommunication involves both the speaker and the listener, or, in

this case, both the poster and the reader. And miscommunication is easy on message boards.

I am glad we agree on limiting super majority requirements to those specified in the Constitution. Gridlock benefits conservatives most, their philosophy being the less change, the better.

And this is something voters can act on. We can make people running for the Senate, even the House, tell us whether they support changing the Senate rules or not.

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3. This had BETTER be the rest of the Republicans' "47%" moment.

I think Mitt Romney's "47%" leaked remarks were the nails in the coffin of his 2012 campaign.

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7. Just thinking similar thoughts, alp~

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4. But the DEMS can't do anything with less than 65.

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11. +1,000

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12. +1000

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6. Of course he.. little good for nothing else dipshit.. Busted like Mittload!

Mahalo, Segami~

[LloydS of New London]

10. FiliBUSTED

The GOP will eliminate that rule on Day One should they win the Senate.

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14. Time for a Mitchslap

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