Capitol Hill Republicans: McConnell a bigger moron than we thought
Matt Gunterman July 1st, 2008
There is MUCH dissatisfaction with the leadership performance of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) these days within his caucus. The latest debacle of engineering steep cuts in Medicare payments to doctors has many a Republican scratching his or her head.
From today’s installment of Politico:
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The American Medical Association, a longtime Republican ally, is outraged and is scheduled to begin running television ads on the issue Tuesday. On Friday, the Texas Medical Association withdrew its endorsement of Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) as a direct result of his vote on the Medicare bill.
“We’re going to get killed, and we’ll have no help from the doctors,” lamented one Senate GOP aide, who called the leadership’s position on the bill “unfathomable.”
Having begun to hear from doctors back home, he asked, “Why the hell did we fight this as a party? You took a constituency that’s very friendly and just flushed it down the toilet.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) argued on the Senate floor that passing the bill as is was futile because President Bush had promised to veto it. Republicans accused Democrats of failing to work with them to achieve a compromise measure.
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Ooops.
Briefly, however, let’s take a look at the predicament of the national GOP (i.e., the party’s going to be set back so far come November that a child born today will likely never know a Republican-majority Congress before he or she’s old enough to vote) and make an observation:
Kentucky Republicans have been at the center of the downfall of the national Republican Party.
Item 1: Karl Rove led Pres. George W. Bush (R) down a disastrous political path that voters are prepared to punish the GOP for. Kentuckian J. Scott Jennings was Karl Rove’s assistant and right-hand man.
Item 2: Mitch McConnell builds up a faction of the Republican Party that is centered on pay-for-play politics, general money-grubbing, influence-mongering, and hyper-partisan. McConnell’s politics revolved around maintaining power and winning elections, and not the development of ideology. McConnell’s style of politics comes to dominate the national Republican Party, with Karl Rove being its ultimate manifestation (J. Scott Jennings leaves McConnell’s office to work for Karl Rove).
Item 3: Inez, Kentucky banker Mike Duncan takes over the Republican National Committee, and — as Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) recently noted — the Republican Party might face extinction.
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The Republican party keeps saying that George Bush is their leader. George Bush is a corrupt leader who does not care about the citizens of the United States. There is no law that says that I or anyone else must vote for the Republican party.
Mitch McConnell is corrupt and cares only for himself and his well being. There is no law saying that I must vote for Mitch McConnell.
I am sure that honest decent people will not vote for McCain or McConnell regardless of their party affiliation.
You know, McCain said yesterday that OBama could not be trusted. Perhaps we should ask Carol McCain about
the level of trust that we should put in John McCain. If you vote for decent people there is no other choice but
Senator OBama for President and Lunsford for Senate.
I was shocked to see that the Secretary of Labor is too arrogant and lazy to drive to a nail salon. Instead
Secretary Chao is driven there in TWO LARGE S.U.V.s. With gasoline prices over $4.00 per gallon I have
trouble buying gasoline for my Ford Escort and I don’t demand that the taxpayers afford me TWO LARGE S.U.V.s.
Hey Mitch why don’t you ever leave any comments here?
When McConnell was Senate Majority Leader, he marched in lock step with Bush, fully supporting an unnecessary war of choice. This war was pushed into being with lies, distortions, and half-truths. When this became clear, McConnell and the evil Republicans pushed the excuse of
an intelligence failure. Folks, there was no intelligence failure. It was a stunning LEADERSHIP failure, and McConnell was a big part of this leadership failure. Now, after 7 and 1/2 years of this evil, are you enjoying the decline in the value of your home?? Do you like the price of fuel?? How about the balance in your 401K/retirement accounts?? Like the way your stock portfolio is behaving??
Are you enjoying the “trickle” down economic boom from the tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires?? Oh, and by the way, are you happy with the current expenditures of over $800 BILLION for the unnecessary war in IRAQ?? What would that have done for AMERICANS in New Orleans, or the flooded MidWest?? McConnell has NO
concern for “average” citizens of Kentucky. He bases his reelection on being able to procure PORK!! Now, with the national debt being propelled from a little under $6 TRILLION to about $9.4 TRILLION by Bush and McConnell
and Hastert, do you think this nation can afford more
waste?? Wake UP, KY, and flush this turkey in Nov.