Pic Of The Moment: Nice Try, Mitch

[EarlG]

McConnell struggles to defend voting record on women's issues

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[NYC_SKP]

1. Hoping that the success of ACA in his state will mean the end of his political career. nt

[JustAnotherGen]

2. +1000

[oldandhappy]

3. but but, they taught him all of that

in the t-pub school of how to vote!!!!

Time to retire, Mitch. I take off my hat to your retirement.

[Botany]

4. A.L.G. is calling Mitch out on his B.S.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/alison-lundergan-grimes-fair-pay_n_4344656.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

Alison Lundergan Grimes Calls Out Mitch McConnell On Fair Pay Claims

"As Kentucky's first woman Senator, Alison Lundergan Grimes will continue being a staunch advocate for women and their families," Grimes spokeswoman Charly Norton wrote in the memo. "She will seek common ground and work across the aisle for solutions that put Kentucky and our country back on the right track. The contrast with Mitch McConnell could not be starker."

Also on Tuesday, Lilly Ledbetter, the namesake of the fair pay legislation McConnell voted against, announced her support for Grimes in the 2014 race.

"After my lengthy battle with pay inequity, I was honored and humbled to lend my name to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act—landmark legislation that makes it easier for women to file pay discrimination lawsuits," she wrote in a fundraising email for the Grimes campaign. "But this is only an important first step in closing the gender wage gap. Yet, Senator McConnell voted against it. Time and again, McConnell has made clear where he stands on issues important to women and their families: in the wrong."

[Blue Owl]

5. Mitch can fog a mirror, but is he really alive?

[AAO]

24. Have you actually given him the mirror test? I'm thinking not!

[Democrat 4 Ever]

44. I don't think he would cast an image in a mirror, world's first turtle vampire is my guess.

And not one of the good vampires in all the movies now days, he's a throw back to evil personified. I have lived my entire life in Kentucky until I moved eight months ago to southern Indiana to be closer to my work. It is breaking my heart that I can't vote against the a$$wipe one more time. I voted against him when he ran the ugliest campaign ever against Dee Huddleston and he hasn't missed a day of nasty since he entered the hallowed halls of the Senate.

[avaistheone1]

6. What a jerk!

[yuiyoshida]

41. THIS....

Would go so far as to say a ROYAL JERK

[rhett o rick]

7. k&r thanks for posting. nm

[Sheepshank]

8. Look at the dates...a majority of those votes made during Obama's tenure

In his mad hatred of, and to block everything Obama, he's screwn himself royally.

[NewJeffCT]

9. what an asshole

he's the father of 3 daughters and he had the "guts" to vote against the violence against women act once for each daughter?

[AAO]

25. Pure evil greed. n/t

[Initech]

10. Why does Kentucky always elect such batshit crazy senators?

[AAO]

27. Let's hope things are about to change in KY.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. I feel sorry for his daughters.

Wonder if they see what a puke they have for a father. Sad.

[Thor_MN]

22. I know of (kinda 5th handish) one of his daughters

The impression I got was that she is not at all close to him as she is progressive. I imagine it must be tough to watch one of your parents publicly shovel such blatant bullshit.

[AAO]

28. Can we get an interview?

[Thor_MN]

29. I know someone who knows someone who went to school with her, so... No.

She wouldn't know me at all. If I disagreed at such a fundamental level with one of my parents, I still don't think I would publicly throw them under the bus. One gets to pick their friends, but not their family.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

31. I would think so, definitely.

How could you have any respect for him---it would be embarrassing to be associated with him.

[DallasNE]

12. What's Disgusting Is McConnell Uses Allison Moore

To put out this propaganda. And that raises the question, why do women allow themselves to be used in this manner. It is like a woman that keeps getting the crap beaten out of her and still she stays in the failed relationship. Fortunately, most women are not like this -- just look at the gap Republicans suffer with women -- but far too many still put up with the abuse.

[tridim]

13. Maybe she's one of the women in the GOP's "Binder's full of women"?

[CTyankee]

19. Is she still a young woman? I ask because I thought the same thing when I saw her name and

figured she was a new staffer, needs the job, and will learn fast (if she's not idealogically in tune with him).
Give her time. If she's smart she'll use him as a stepping stone to make contacts and get the hell out.

[DallasNE]

26. Here Is Her Twitter Page

I would say she looks to be only about 30.

https://twitter.com/MAllison_Moore

[CTyankee]

30. thanks. hard to say if she is an opportunist (which is a natural for republicans) or just

immature...we'll see, I guess...

[tofuandbeer]

14. Looks like someone is running scared. :D

[merrily]

15. Ditch Mitch!

[Voice for Peace]

16. perfect expression on his face

as if he just heard about Obamacare working
so well in Kentucky heh

[CTyankee]

20. I hope that crushes his soul (or whatever is left of a soul in him).

[Major Hogwash]

17. McConnell is a great example of a Senator to the Republican party.

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McConnell is the greatest Republican they have in the Senate.

He lies out one side of his mouth, and then lies out of the other side of his mouth, and then claims that he didn't lie.

He is such a great example of what Republicans think a Senator should be, they even made him their minority leader in the Senate.

Now he has led them all the way to become an even smaller minority in the Senate.

Good job, Brownie . . I mean, McConnell.

[Voice for Peace]

32. Truly, the combination of McConnell and Boehner as inept leaders of the gop congress

is likely historic. It's as if a virus was downloaded into
their brains when Obama was elected. Or maybe they
have always been this way.

[bearssoapbox]

34. I believe they have always been that way.

But with the election of President Obama and the initial success of the Tea Party, it was like the clicking on a link that has a virus in it, and most of the republican and right wing conservatives opened the link and were infected.

As more Teabaggers and far right-wing-nuts (both politicians and lay-people) vented their racist bullshit (thinly disguised as 'politics as usual' and 'constitutional rights') the pols that had been keeping their racism under control started to let it slip out more and more.

If President Obama was for it, it had to be wrong, became the thought process and mantra of most of the republicans(read tea) party) and broadened out to include women's rights, gay rights, voters rights, etc.

And they're afraid. As well they should be.

They are finally being called out on their despicable actions.

Although quite a few still don't see the light yet and continue to act like clueless idiots.

That could be good news for us in the coming years though.

[Voice for Peace]

35. The Almighty Internet is making it hard for stupidity to thrive.

[bearssoapbox]

36. That's right.

But there are those morans that seem to delight in being willfully ignorant.

[Voice for Peace]

37. they are like the dwarves at the end of the chronicles of Narnia

The dwarfs are there and are as unfriendly as ever, as Lucy points out. However, they acted strangely, sitting in a tight circle, not looking around or noticing anyone around them. As it turns out, they believe they are in a dark stable and act accordingly. After many attempts to show the dwarfs that they were, in fact, in the great outdoors with flowers and grass and birds had failed. Without warning, Aslan suddenly appears before them. Lucy begs Aslan to do something about the dwarfs, but even Aslan is unable to bring their vision to them. He says that their prison is in their own minds and that their fear of being "taken in" keeps them from being taken out.

http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_Battle

[bearssoapbox]

39. Yup.

That's them.

It would be funny if their actions didn't affect anyone but themselves.

A sad, sick, it's what they deserve kind of funny...

But funny.

[Voice for Peace]

43. I thought this was a wise observation from Aslan:

their fear of being "taken in" keeps them from being taken out.

(The "taken out" refers to being taken out of their dark
little hut and miserable angry state of mind, into what
basically was the new kingdom of heaven.)

Fear of being taken in.
Afraid of being fooled and cheated, they become perfect
marks for charlatans, whether it's Glenn Beck and Alex
Jones or the Kochs, or..

[bearssoapbox]

45. Of the people that I know that are like that,

none are independently wealthy and easily half of them are dependent on some sort of social program.

Yet they support and defend the policies of the right no matter how detrimental it is to them.

And when I try to ask why, or try to get a reason, it ends up with them angry and calling me names.

I can't wrap my mind around it.

[Voice for Peace]

46. yup

just keep asking.. rather than arguing.

let them argue with themselves.

I always believe people can evolve, once they
take the locks off their own brains and hearts.

[Major Hogwash]

40. Yes, I think it is historic.

It's the first time TweedleDee and TweedleDum have been in charge of their parties in separate houses of Congress at the same time.



McConnell didn't turn in to a fire breathing hole in the ground until the Republicans tried to impeach President Clinton in 1999.
After that happened McConnell just became a total menace to society and he has been wreaking havoc ever since.

Boehnor has always been a bunghole, from Day One.
He lives for it.
He thrives on it.
He's full of it.

[Voice for Peace]

42. Well said.. Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber.

And then of course, there are all the Tweedledumbasses.

[pacalo]

18. Well done!

Might as well refer to them as the GOH party: Grandstanding Old Hypocrites.

[Cha]

21. And, how does "Alison Moore" feel .. as a woman; having to lie her head

off for mitch mcconnell about treating women fairly? Like a tool?

Thanks EarlG

[AAO]

23. Thanks, EG, for a nice thin slice of teabag. n/t

[liberal N proud]

33. I bet he expected his daughters to get married and have babies never working outside of the home.

[mdbl]

38. Yertle the Turtle!

Sorry, had to say it. That's as dignified as I think McConnell deserves.

[seabeyond]

47. kr