Mitch McConnell Caved? The Wily Kentucky Senator Has Another Move

Newsweek via msn ^ | 08 October 2021 | Bill Powell

[Carriage Hill]

I trust none of them, anymore. They’re just “Assistant demonKKKrats”.

[DoughtyOne]

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[DoughtyOne]

With all due respect, Mitch is an abomination.

He has done immeasurable harm to our cause.

[af_vet_1981]

With all due respect, Mitch is an abomination.
He has done immeasurable harm to our cause.

Irrational nonsense, spiritually and politically;
President Trump got three nominees confirmed to the Supreme Court because Majority Leader McConnell shepherded them through the gauntlet, and now we are on the cusp of turning back the real abomination, Roe vs. Wade, and all this attitude of perpetual doom and losing on FR is getting tiresome.

[DoughtyOne]

Please remind me what major legislation McConnell and Ryan
ushered in during Trump’s first two years of a clear
majority.

We had waited decades for that opportunity. We all had
lists of things we wanted to see, every bit of it to
roll back Leftist encroachment.

We got one bill. ONE!

It was for major tax reform. It sunsets in 2024.

At that point, nothing major will remain of McConnell/Ryan
in terms of legislative repair. NOTHING!

It may be 12 to 30 years before we get a clear majority
again, if ever. Now sing Mitch’s praises...

Mitch didn’t like Trump, and that was his major contribution
to Conservatism from during those first two years.

Mitch sat on his hands. He and Ryan screwed us over as
much as was humanly possible.

That’s your hero.

Irrational? What a great word. IMO < you’ve just called
attention to yourself, not me.

As for Mitch scooting Trump’s nominees through, isn’t that
his job? You think it makes a guy some kind of hero
because he executes one aspect of his job in accordance
with his duties? That’s funny.

BTW: It remains to be seen just how Conservative those
justices he pushed through truly are. The verdict is out
on that.

[af_vet_1981]

We got one bill. ONE! It was for major tax reform. It sunsets in 2024.

It was wonderful, still feels good.
Conservatives stymied legislation in the House to repeal ACA because it wasn't perfect, but eventually Speaker Ryan got something passed but barely. The Senate had a 52-48 Republican majority, but three of those Senators voted with the Democrats to reject it, the most egregious being McCain since he campaigned on repealing ACA and broke that promise.

ML McConnell shepherded through the Supreme Court nominees with slim majorities

Barrett, Amy Coney replacing Ginsburg nominated on Sep 29, 2020	52‑48 
Kavanaugh, Brett replacing Kennedy nominted on Jul 10, 2018	50‑48
Gorsuch, Neil M	replacing Scalia nominted on Feb 1, 2017	54‑45 

It was masterfully done and so sweet to replace Ginsburg with a much younger conservative woman.

This is President Trump's and ML McConnell's legacy, and more important than any other legislation that had a chance to make it to the POTUS during those 4 years.

Remember the Filibuster argument ? McConnell was correct about that too, as the Democrat majority is dealing with that issue now.

[DoughtyOne]

So what you are saying, is that we should never try to get
the majority again. Why it means nothing!

Good to know.

We shall see about those justices. We have already seen
warning signs. We may not have the clear majority we had
hoped to get.

If we do, I will be very thankful to Trump. Mitch did
part of his job. Big whoop...

He had the majority. Remind me what great thing he did to
get those people installed. NOTHING was required of him.

[itsahoot]

He delivered 3 Supreme Court nominees more likely to overturn Roe vs. Wade than any court in memory

I fear you will soon be very disappointed in the new "Conservative" justices, when the punt on Roe.

[Political Junkie Too]

despite what he’s done for our side.

Here is some of what he's done:

1. Democrats spent a decade honing their party discipline while McConnell, Corker, and the rest created one internal conflict after another, losing crucial seats along the way.
   • They let Adam Schiff run roughshod over Devin Nunes in 2017 despite Nunes running the committee.
   • They let Dianne Feinstein run all over Chuck Grassley during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings despite running that committee, too.
2. Democrats always back the candidates their states put up, but not McConnell. Because he feared a growing Tea Party presence in the Senate, look how McConnell treated:
   • Christine O'Donnell in Delaware who knocked off favored Mike Castle in 2010 for the seat vacated by Joe Biden;
   • Look how McConnell ran away from 11-year Missouri state House Representative and 12-year Missouri Congressman Todd Akin (who died last week, BTW) in 2012 over a fixable gaffe;
   • Look how McConnell ran away from seven year Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock over a similar gaffe in 2014 (likely because he had the audacity to defeat McConnell pal Dick Lugar in the primary);
   • Look how McConnell treated six-year Mississippi state senator Chris McDaniel in both the 2014 election against senile Thad Cochran (running racist ads against McDaniel and soliciting illegal Democrat run-off votes) and again in the 2018 special election for the same seat;
   • Look at how McConnell refused to support three-time Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore in 2017 (or even Mo Brooks) against the nastiest of Democrat dirty tricks, which emboldened Democrats to repeat the tactic against Brett Kavanaugh a year later for SCOTUS.
3. We might have been saved from the likes of Chris Coons (who got Jeff Flake to turn against Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing), Claire McCaskill, Joe Donnelly, and Doug Jones if McConnell showed some nerve and backed their opponents at critical times instead of putting his own power first.
4. In 2015, McConnell voted to oppose defunding Planned Parenthood. He chose to block Rand Paul's defunding amendment to the highway bill that would only have needed 51 votes to pass, in exchange for a standalone bill that needed 60 votes to pass. McConnell did that to protect his back-room deal for the Ex-Im bank, because Obama would have vetoed the bill with defunding in it. It was all for nothing because the House refused to take up McConnell's highway bill and recessed for August, leaving McConnell on the record as protecting Planned Parenthood.

-PJ

[af_vet_1981]

So what you are saying, is that we should never try to get the majority again.

No, never wrote that; whatever gave you that idea ?

[blueplum]

I caught the hands-in-the-face clip, but I didn’t know he walked out, too. Thanks for mentioning that.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Wyle E. McConnell - Stupor Jeananus!

[DoughtyOne]

You seem very happy Mitch and Paul did nothing during that
two years.

If so, why bother getting the majority?

They didn’t take advantage of it. They just sat on their
hands, and you don’t seem to care at all.

[af_vet_1981]

You seem very happy Mitch and Paul did nothing during that two years.

Silly, irrational attempts at mind reading;

The facts:
1. Extremely happy ML McConneld shepherded through three Supreme Court nominees to successful confirmation. Very happy Sen. McConnell brought the repeal of ACA to a vote, despite the wobbly trio of Republicans who voted it down; very unhappy John McCain did not keep his word and that he was the Republican nominee in 2008.
2. Every unhappy that Speaker Ryan abandoned his post and ceded the 2018 election to Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat takeover spiked any attempts at more legislation during President Trump's term.

[DoughtyOne]

Silly irrational attempt at mind reading?

You spelled it out for me. I didn’t need to assume anything.

You told me what you liked about Mitch, and I called you on
the fact he did very little with the majority he had.

I will be extremely happy, about Mitch sheparding through
Supreme Court nominees, when they prove to me they are
actually people who share our values. So far, that is not
a given.

I won’t willfully jump up and down until they prove I should.

You and I share the same views on McCain. I really loathe
the guy, and I really don’t like to come to that conclusion
about anyone. He proved it was deserved time and time
again.

As for the ACA, Mitch knew what the vote would be prior to
lofting it for consideration. This is an old trick that is
old as the hills. You support something you know doesn’t
stand a chance, because a lot of people will see it as
a valiant effort. I don’t see it as one. He was ducking
for cover.

I agree about Ryan, but that isn’t the 0nly reason. He
knew he was toast. He chose not to run.

Ryan’s heart just wasn’t into winning for our cause.
He was a GOPe type of guy, and didn’t buy into our
agenda at all.

Let’s say what you supported about Mitch was totally on
the up and up, as far as legitimacy goes, not judging
you but Mitch.

In two years, he did about two months worth of work.

He was MIA for 22 months. It was 22 months we had waited
for, for decades.

There’s no explaining away inactivity on so many issues.

He could have introduced a limitation on abortion that
would have cut the ability to six to eight weeks. He
didn’t bother.

He didn’t bother on so many things.

Look, you and I have the same views on what needed to
take place during that two year window. I know we do.

It just didn’t happen.