How Mitch McConnell Stole the 2016 Congressional Elections

American Thinker ^ | July 30,2018 | Michael Bargo, Jr.

[Hojczyk]

But McConnell and those before him found a way to work around this: to allow everyone to vote on election day; pretend the votes are counted; allow the drama and excitement of the national election to play out on national TV; and then, by not allowing the Senate to vote on the complete spending bill passed by the House, to shut down the will of the people completely. In this way, most of the House votes taken on November 8, 2016 were nullified.

McConnell's scheme is clandestine, far more shrewd and effective. His method was to allow everyone to vote, then cut off the input voters have on congressional bills at the Senate level. If the House passes 768 bills and Senate Leader McConnell ties up 569 in the Senate, then 74% of those House bills may as well not exist. And 74% of those who voted on election day may as well have stayed home.

Now came step two. Senate leader McConnell, needing to pass a federal budget, met with the other members of Congress – House speaker Paul Ryan, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer – and wrote their own bill of appropriations, an "omnibus" bill. Since the 569 bills passed by the House were never voted on by the Senate, they were not part of the omnibus bill.

The omnibus bill was written by the Washington oligarchy: the four leaders who practiced their two-step process of nullifying the House and Senate and writing their own bill. Only when the four oligarchs had written the omnibus bill were the House and Senate allowed to have a vote. Then, threatened with a government shutdown, the president gave in and signed it.

[Hojczyk]

This is worth reading...

Looks like nothing gets done unless we get a Trump leader in the Senate..

Even if we get a vote proof senate with Mitch there nothing will get done

[hal ogen]

Establishment RINOS despise Freedom ,Free America and Free Americans .

[Slyfox]

[BeauBo]

This article is over the top blaming everything on McConnell.

“All the hopes and dreams American voters had to see programs of their choice realized through the House and Senate were quashed by one person.”

Clearly, it took the leadership of both Parties in both Chambers to craft a budget (4 people), and they in turn could not do so without the support of a majority of their members.

“What McConnell did violates the constitution in the most direct way possible.”

Straight out BS hyerbole. He followed the constitutional process, same as every one of the bloated Omnibus packages in the past. It is a bad practice that we should avoid, but making McConnell out to be an omnipotent evil genius who has overthrown the Constitution (and totally exonerating Ryan and the Democrats) is ridiculous.

[rwa265]

Not to absolve McConnell of any blame, but Democrat obstructionism has a lot to do with backlog.

[lee martell]

Cocaine Mitch, still busy as a beaver.