Comments on: Mitch McConnell is seriously off his game http://www.DitchMitchKY.com/1700/mitch-mcconnell-is-seriously-off-his-game/ A Commonwealth United to Defeat Mitch McConnell Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:53:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chuck Dupree http://www.DitchMitchKY.com/1700/mitch-mcconnell-is-seriously-off-his-game/#comment-8166 Chuck Dupree Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:53:04 +0000 http://www.DitchMitchKY.com/?p=1700#comment-8166 Personally I consider McConnell the worst person in the Senate. Not in every way; Joe Lieberman is more hypocritical, for example. McConnell is openly in the pockets of the super-rich and the big corporations and he makes no bones about it. No hypocrisy there, you gotta give him his due. But he's promoted the worst, and opposed the best, that the Senate has tried to do. He's engaged full time in the class war that dominates American life, and quite clearly on the wrong side. We need to dump his ass, and November is looking better all the time. As a Kentucky kid (Ashland) who moved around a lot and ended up in San Francisco, I've shifted so far left that I rarely vote for Democrats. But I think Lunsford is setting an example with his ad about McConnell's involvement in creating the financial crisis, an example that Democrats nationwide should be watching carefully. I blogged about it ( http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/2008/10/how_much_is_it.html ), riffing on the Herald-Leader article ( http://www.kentucky.com/210/v-print/story/548724.html ), in case anyone happens to be interested. The problem for many Democrats, however, is that unlike Lunsford they have various connections to the mortgage crisis, having enabled the whole unregulated market that created the various fancy debt instruments that threaten world markets. As an aside, we long ago blogrolled Ditch Mitch in a special place — Politics in Action — at Bad Attitudes. Our founder is a former White House speechwriter under Carter who worked with Hendrik Hertzberg and for James Fallows, and now writes detective novels and blogs. He handed me the editing functions a year or two back so he could concentrate on his book about snakes. We and our friends are rooting for Lunsford. The dream is enough Democratic Senators to shove Lieberman out the door and still break filibusters. Personally I consider McConnell the worst person in the Senate. Not in every way; Joe Lieberman is more hypocritical, for example. McConnell is openly in the pockets of the super-rich and the big corporations and he makes no bones about it. No hypocrisy there, you gotta give him his due.

But he’s promoted the worst, and opposed the best, that the Senate has tried to do. He’s engaged full time in the class war that dominates American life, and quite clearly on the wrong side.

We need to dump his ass, and November is looking better all the time.

As a Kentucky kid (Ashland) who moved around a lot and ended up in San Francisco, I’ve shifted so far left that I rarely vote for Democrats. But I think Lunsford is setting an example with his ad about McConnell’s involvement in creating the financial crisis, an example that Democrats nationwide should be watching carefully. I blogged about it (
http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/2008/10/how_much_is_it.html ), riffing on the Herald-Leader article ( http://www.kentucky.com/210/v-print/story/548724.html ), in case anyone happens to be interested.

The problem for many Democrats, however, is that unlike Lunsford they have various connections to the mortgage crisis, having enabled the whole unregulated market that created the various fancy debt instruments that threaten world markets.

As an aside, we long ago blogrolled Ditch Mitch in a special place — Politics in Action — at Bad Attitudes. Our founder is a former White House speechwriter under Carter who worked with Hendrik Hertzberg and for James Fallows, and now writes detective novels and blogs. He handed me the editing functions a year or two back so he could concentrate on his book about snakes.

We and our friends are rooting for Lunsford. The dream is enough Democratic Senators to shove Lieberman out the door and still break filibusters.

]]> By: Max Fennig http://www.DitchMitchKY.com/1700/mitch-mcconnell-is-seriously-off-his-game/#comment-8165 Max Fennig Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:46:05 +0000 http://www.DitchMitchKY.com/?p=1700#comment-8165 This idiot voted against the EXTENSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR 800,000 VOTERS AND STOPPED THE BILL FROM GETTING PASSED IN THE SENATE; HE DOESNT CARE AT ALL ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS AND HE NEEDS TO GO BADLY!!! This idiot voted against the EXTENSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR 800,000 VOTERS AND STOPPED THE BILL FROM GETTING PASSED IN THE SENATE; HE DOESNT CARE AT ALL ABOUT THE MIDDLE CLASS AND HE NEEDS TO GO BADLY!!!

]]> By: charles http://www.DitchMitchKY.com/1700/mitch-mcconnell-is-seriously-off-his-game/#comment-8164 charles Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:58:40 +0000 http://www.DitchMitchKY.com/?p=1700#comment-8164 I believe that if you check Mitch McConnell voted FOR Senate bill S2611 in 2006 which would have given immediate residency status for millions of people who had entered this country illegally (Illegal Aliens). Mitch did vote against amnesty in 2007 on bills S1348 and S1639 but at first in 2006 Mitch McConnell DID vote for amnesty for Illegal Aliens. Come on Mitch, tell the ENTIRE truth. I believe that if you check Mitch McConnell voted FOR Senate bill S2611 in 2006 which would have given immediate residency status for millions of people who had entered this country illegally (Illegal Aliens). Mitch did vote against amnesty in 2007 on bills S1348 and S1639 but at first in 2006 Mitch McConnell DID vote for amnesty for Illegal Aliens. Come on Mitch, tell the ENTIRE truth.

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