No shit. All bribes are off now that Trump is not president.

Russian company 'suspending its investments' in Kentucky project pushed by McConnell: report


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https://www.rawstory.com/mcconnell-kentucky/

 

Mitch McConnell's secret weakness is now exposed — and he can't stop what's coming


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https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-filibuster-2651140079/

 

McConnell Inadvertently Makes Dem Rep’s Argument Against Filibuster

UNITED STATES - MARCH 17: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., conducts a Fox News interview in Russell Building on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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President Trump: We need better leadership than Mitch McConnell

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UPDATED 12:54 PM PT – Monday, March 22, 2021
According to President Trump, there would be “irreparable damage” to the GOP if Senate Democrats end the filibuster.

In an interview with media personality Lisa Boothe Monday, the 45th president said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been weak on leadership and has not fought hard enough to reign his party when defending the filibuster.

“We need better than Mitch McConnell and this is big stuff…now they’re going to knock out the filibuster…its going to be a big problem,” stated President Trump. “And if they do that, it’s going to be a free-for-all.

His comments follow earlier criticisms in which he suggested McConnell isn’t good for the Republican Party.

President Trump also linked McConnell’s weak approach to his handling the 2020 presidential election.

 

Mitch McConnell destroyed after insisting filibuster ‘has no racial history at all’


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Adam Jentleson

@AJentleson
The filibuster is not racist, argues Senator McConnell on the Senate floor today. Take it from him.

9:00 AM · Mar 23, 2021

Lawrence O'Donnell
@Lawrence
·
Mar 23, 2021
"no racial history at all" 24 hours 18 minutes is the filibuster record set by South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond in a failed attempt to block the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

The Recount
@therecount
Replying to @sahilkapur
Mitch McConnell: The filibuster has "no racial history at all. None. There's no dispute among historians." (This is exceedingly untrue.)


Michael Rapoport
@rapoportmike
McConnell is a student of history in general and Senate history in particular. He surely knows the racial history of the filibuster full well.

https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-filibuster-racist-history/

 

Mitch McConnell keeps getting caught telling lies


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https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-lies/

 

The Democrats really have nothing to lose and everything to gain by ending the filibuster and doing the things the majority of Americans want them to do. They really should invoke majority rule instead of allowing Moscow Mitch and the minority of conservative/Republicans dictate to them.

Ex-GOP counsel hands Democrats a tip on how to deal with Mitch McConnell's threats


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Appearing on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show," the former Republican Party counsel to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee had some advice for Democrats who are on the receiving end of threats from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

They have nothing to fear from him and should go about doing what they need to do to get legislation passed, she explained.

Asked about McConnell's comments that the filibuster is not racist and should be left intact, former Republican Sophia Nelson scoffed at McConnell's threats.

"Sophia, I'm going to be talking about this in my byline so I don't mean to give it away," host Jonathan Capehart prompted. "But I want to ask you this question: what do you make of this choice that's out there, that Democrats have to make, that if you blow up the filibuster, Mitch McConnell says, 'oh, watch out. all hell is going to break loose.' On the other hand, if you don't do anything with the filibuster, President Biden's agenda isn't going anywhere. When it comes to that, which choice do you make?"

"They can use the reconciliation process as you know, but here's the thing," Nelson replied. "Here's my advice to Democrats, as someone who was a Republican for 25-plus years: stop being afraid of Mitch McConnell, he's not afraid of you."

"You need to do what you need to do in order to get this president's agenda through, to get infrastructure bills, health care reform, any type of other things we need to do," she added. " I don't think you ought to get rid of the filibuster, Jonathan, but you have to radically reform it and civil rights and voting rights are going to be drastically impacted if we don't do something about it."

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Oh?
And what is it the "majority of Americans" want the despicables to do, exactly?
Pass more pig bills?
Double the debt?
Increase taxes (on the rich)?
Allow mixed sex restrooms, sports, and public showers?
Open borders?

Care to tell us, you know, what it is we want?

 

Now if Trump and the conservative/Republicans weren't running a trillion dollar deficit before anyone ever heard of COVID 19 they might have a point about the deficit and debt. But since they were running a trillion budget deficit in a time of prosperity they don't and are simply raving RatLicking lying, phony, traitors to the United States of America and everything it stood for for more than 230 years. No one should even tolerate let alone listen to the conservative/Republicans that dug a hole where the United States of America used to be and then took a shit on it. i.e. Shit hole country.

Mitch McConnell once talked about the filibuster’s ‘racial history’ that he now supports


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So, since the Trump administration ran
a deficit, that justifies the biden/harris administration running a deficit, and a hell of a lot bigger one, is that your "thought process" stumbler?

Huh.

 

Here again conservative/Republicans are saying we must suspend all disbelief and believe the CEO's and corporations should not be involved in politics even though corporations and CEO's have been buying conservative/Republican politicians for decades. Hey Moscow Mitch what ever happened to corporations are people too?

McConnell’s Shameless Hypocrisy Over Corporate Role In Politics Laid Bare On Twitter


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at a press conference at the US Capitol on September 22, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)


Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on Tuesday that recent comments made by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (RKY) urging corporations stay out of politics projected “a whiff of desperation.”


Sheldon Whitehouse
@SenWhitehouse
Looks like I’m not alone detecting in Mitch a whiff of desperation — “barking scared”!

Mitch McConnell Is Barking Scared Now That Corporate Power Is Against Him
We should all be concerned at how much power these firms wield. But the Senate Minority Leader is only concerned because he and his allies do not believe they can win elections if citizens are...
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7:44 AM · Apr 6, 2021


The comments calling out McConnell’s shameless desperation amid the corporate protest over a restrictive new voting law in Georgia, come after the Kentucky Republican offered an about-face on Monday regarding the role of corporations in politics.

“I found it completely discouraging to find a bunch of corporate CEOs getting in the middle of politics,” McConnell said during a press conference in his home state on Monday. “My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics. Don’t pick sides in these big fights.”

The assertion comes after McConnell has routinely leveraged corporate power for political gain. McConnell’s campaign has for years lined its coffers with corporate donations and even outpaced other candidates in 2020’s election cycle for donations from CEOs of companies on the S&P Index, according to MarketWatch.

The posture from the Kentucky lawmaker also comes after years of fiercely defending the funneling of corporate cash into politics, insisting that businesses have both rights to free speech and a right to boost preferred candidates to influence elections.

McConnell was the plaintiff in a landmark case against the Federal Elections Commission in 2003 challenging campaign finance reform that went to the U.S. Supreme Court and was an outspoken supporter of the 2010 ruling that ultimately defended corporate spending in politics.

Political analysts on Twitter were also quick to point out the hypocrisy:

@troycoverdale
@troycoverdale
Unless they're named Koch, Mercer, Adelson...

Eugene Scott
@Eugene_Scott
McConnell: “I found it completely discouraging to find a bunch of corporate CEOs getting in the middle of politics. My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics. Don’t pick sides in these big fights.” https://apple.news/AkOLyF4UZQhGfYNYpfPCfBQ
6:50 AM · Apr 6, 2021 from Kansas, USA

Robert Maguire
@RobertMaguire_
In 2020, Mitch McConnell's allied super PAC raised more than any other super PAC in existence -- $475 million -- from corporate CEOs and even corporations themselves, like Chevron, Mountaire Corp, and Koch Industries

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
@stltoday
‘Stay out of politics,’ Republican leader McConnell tells U.S. CEOs, warns of ‘consequences’ https://buff.ly/3rMcZGs

8:52 PM · Apr 5, 2021

Robert Maguire
@RobertMaguire_
In 2020, Mitch McConnell's allied super PAC raised more than any other super PAC in existence -- $475 million -- from corporate CEOs and even corporations themselves, like Chevron, Mountaire Corp, and Koch Industries

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
@stltoday
‘Stay out of politics,’ Republican leader McConnell tells U.S. CEOs, warns of ‘consequences’ https://buff.ly/3rMcZGs

8:52 PM · Apr 5, 2021


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‘Farcical and despicable’: McConnell ignites furious backlash after he ‘lets the mask slip’ on corporate donations

This Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spoke to reporters and warned corporations to stay out of politics, but he made sure to clarify that he doesn't want them to stop donating money.

"I'm not talking about political contributions," he clarified. "Most [corporations] contribute to both sides … that's fine, it's legal and appropriate, I support that. I'm talking about taking a position on a highly incendiary issue like this and punishing a community or state because you don't like a particular law. I just think it's stupid."

The Recount
@therecount
Replying to @therecount
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on hypocrisy of telling corporations to "stay out of politics": "I'm not talking about political contributions ... I'm talking about taking a position on a highly incendiary issue like this and punishing a community or a state."

10:53 AM · Apr 6, 2021

Zach Everson
@Z_Everson
Replying to @Z_Everson
Sounds like McConnell will not be refunding CEO’s the $217 million they’ve donated to his campaign and PAC after all.

Nancy Ognanovich
@NOgnanovich
NEWS: #McConnell in Kentucky calls actions of #MLB, #Coke, and #Delta in opposition of Georgia voting law ‘stupid.’ ‘My warning to corporate America is to stay out of politics,’ he says. ‘I’m not talking about political contributions, he adds.

11:45 AM · Apr 6, 2021

David Corn
@DavidCornDC
It’s amazing what you can say as a politician, once you don’t give a damn about looking ridiculous.

Nancy Ognanovich
@NOgnanovich
NEWS: #McConnell in Kentucky calls actions of #MLB, #Coke, and #Delta in opposition of Georgia voting law ‘stupid.’ ‘My warning to corporate America is to stay out of politics,’ he says. ‘I’m not talking about political contributions, he adds.

11:42 AM · Apr 6, 2021

https://www.rawstory.com/mcconnell-donations-backlash/

 

‘Pounding on His Little Shell’: Rachel Maddow Laughs at Mitch McConnell for Warning Companies to ‘Stay Out of Politics’



MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow gleefully mocked Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for warning companies to “stay out of politics” following Major League Baseball’s decision to move this year’s All-Star game from Atlanta.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced last Friday, in response to new voting legislation in Georgia, that he “decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB Draft.” He added, “We proudly used our platform to encourage baseball fans and communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. Fair access to voting continues to have our game’s unwavering support.”

McConnell later condemned the MLB and other companies weighing in on politics while speaking at a news conference in Louisville on Tuesday, saying, “My warning, if you will, to corporate America, is to stay out of politics.”

“Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell pounding his little shell and telling corporate America to stay out of politics. Warning them,” Maddow reacted. “My warning is to stay out of politics, at least on this. At least stay out of being in favor of voting rights.”

“There is literally no one in American politics who has done more as an individual to ensure that companies stay in politics, to ensure massive unrestricted corporate involvement in U.S. politics,” Maddow laughed. “There’s literally nobody who has done more for that cause than Mitch McConnell. It’s the one thing he’s been devoted to more than anything else in his own career. His own power, and making sure that corporations can flood as much money into politics as they want, with absolutely no accountability for it.”

To Maddow’s point, McConnell later clarified in his comments that he was not talking about “political contributions” from corporations, which he has no problem with.

Watch above, via MSNBC.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/poundin...or-warning-companies-to-stay-out-of-politics/

 

I'll bet he did. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.




McConnell Walks Back His Warning to Corporations to Stay Out of Politics, Except for Campaign Donations: ‘I Didn’t Say That Very Artfully’

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Getting pretty close to posting spam there, stumbler.

 

Pelosi rips McConnell in new book: He's an 'enabler of some of the worst stuff'

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tears into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a new book, calling him an "enabler of some of the worst stuff" in Congress.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...connell-as-enabler-of-some-of-the-worst-stuff

 

Pelosi is, in Shooters opinion one of the most corrupt members of co gress.

 

Actually...that's some damn good news in my mind.

If McConnell is is enabling such stuff, that means that he's not lock-stepped in the direction that Pelosi is locked into and wont be participating and supporting the direction that Pelosi wants to take this Nation in.

As this will also confirm that message.

McConnell says focus is on 'stopping' Biden agenda

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday he is "100 percent" focused "on stopping" President Joe Biden's administration.

Speaking to reporters in his home state of Kentucky, McConnell was asked about the House GOP leadership feud that reached a boiling point this week after Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the third-ranking Republican, again rebutted former President Donald Trump's stolen election lie. McConnell was also asked whether he was concerned about the direction of the party.

"One-hundred percent of our focus is on stopping this new administration," McConnell said, adding, "We're confronted with severe challenges from a new administration, and a narrow majority of Democrats in the House and a 50-50 Senate to turn America into a socialist country, and that's 100 percent of my focus."

McConnell's comments came after Trump and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana publicly backed Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York to replace Cheney as chair of the House Republican Conference.

A motion to remove Cheney from her leadership position could be filed as early as May 12 when the House is back in session. Moves to oust Cheney burst into public view Monday after she responded to a Trump statement by saying anyone claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen is "poisoning our democratic system."

McConnell previously condemned Trump's conduct around the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — though he did not vote to convict Trump in his impeachment trial — and has said Biden rightfully won last fall's presidential election.

He was asked Wednesday if it is concerning that a significant number of GOP voters don't believe Biden won.

"One-hundred percent of my focus is on standing up to this administration," he responded, reiterating his earlier comments. "What we have in the United States Senate is totally unity from Susan Collins to Ted Cruz in opposition to what the new Biden administration is trying to do to this country."

McConnell's comments drew comparisons to remarks he made about then-President Barack Obama to the National Journal just prior to the 2010 midterms.

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," McConnell said then, noting elsewhere in the interview that Republicans were open to some compromise and adding, "I don't want the president to fail; I want him to change."

 

Wonder if Pelosi's new book includes recipes for chocolate ice cream.
Or how to take advantage of insider stock information and not go to jail for it.
Or how to get your hair done during a pandemic without bad publicity.
Or how to kneel with dignity.

 

Jim Clyburn rains hell on 'miserable failure' Mitch McConnell during CNN interview

Tom Boggioni
May 09, 2021



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Speaking with "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper on Sunday morning, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) ridiculed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) -- saying the GOP leader is overseeing a party that has lost its way.

With CNN host noting McConnell has admitted he will do everything he can to obstruct President Joe Biden, Clyburn jumped all over the Senate Republican's remarks.

"What's your take on that comment? Does that mean there's no hope for bipartisanship in the Senate?" Tapper asked.

"No," Clyburn shot back. "I think the Republicans are going to remember that it was Mitch McConnell who told them that his number one priority was to make sure that Barack Obama was a one-term president. Last time I checked, he was a miserable failure in 2012 and Barack Obama was a two-term president and a very successful one at that."

"I think they are going to get the same thing here," he continued. "Mitch McConnell has some personal animus towards Democrats that ought not to be. We are one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all -- let's operate like that. This Republican Party is losing its way on all fronts, and Mitch McConnell is contributing to that in a big way."

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