The Final Shaming of Mitch McConnell

[Raster]

When he silenced Elizabeth Warren for criticizing Jeff Sessions, the majority leader disgraced himself and the “Party of Lincoln.”

By John Nichols

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell began his exceptionally long Capitol Hill career as an intern for one of the lions of the Senate: Kentucky Senator John Sherman Cooper. It happened that McConnell worked with Cooper, an old-school “Party of Lincoln” liberal Republican, during the remarkable era when the senator championed enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

McConnell has spoken and written at great length about how he was inspired by Cooper’s steady support of civil-rights legislation in the 1960s: “despite the considerable opposition from back home, Senator Cooper never wavered.” In his own memoir, McConnell hailed Senator Cooper’s long and courageous record of advancing “racial equality for every American citizen.”

Cooper did, indeed, act as a “profile-in-courage” senator when he rallied fellow Republicans to support civil-rights legislation, with the argument that it was their historic and moral duty as members of the “Party of Lincoln.” History well records that the courageous Kentuckian played a critical role in organizing most of his party’s caucus to vote with liberal Democrats to avert the stalling tactics of segregationist Democrats, and their conservative Republican allies, so that the Senate could finally speak on behalf of civil rights.

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Yet, when a fellow senator invoked the memory of struggles on behalf of racial equality by reading the words of Coretta Scott King on Tuesday night, McConnell and the members of his majority caucus shut her down.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/the-final-shaming-of-mitch-mcconnell/

[The Wizard]

1. It's about time

Addison Mitch McConnell's closet was open to the light of day.

[BigDemVoter]

2. How nauseating that reptile is. . .

Turtle McFuckLips is a rancid piece of shit. There is NO "nice" word I can find that would adequately describe that pig.

[Raster]

3. I heartily concur... His pledge to ensure President Obama "was a one-term President"...

...told me all I needed to know about the shitheel. His blatant attempt to hide tRump*s Russia connection further sealed the deal. I refer to him as "Comrade" whenever possible. I firmly believe HE IS NOT SERVING THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE US.