Pierce: There Is No More Loathsome Creature Walking Our Political Landscape Than Mitch McConnell

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Yes, that includes the jumped-up real-estate crook in the White House.

By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 18, 2019

As its first act in the new Congress, the equally new Democratic majority passed something called House Resolution 1. It was a massive anti-corruption measure aimed at restoring the credibility of American elections and safeguarding the franchises for those whose right to vote had been assaulted by 30 years of conservative mischief, both in Washington and in the states. It advocated a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United. It proposed making federal Election Day a federal holiday, and it forbade both partisan gerrymandering and voter purges. It also mandated that the president and vice president reveal the previous ten years of tax returns. (Can't imagine what gave them that idea.) All in all, it was a clear declaration of support for the right of all eligible citizens to vote, and for their votes to have meaning.

On the op-ed page of the Washington Post—Jesus, Hiatt. Really?—Mitch McConnell called it "a power grab."

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There simply is no more loathsome creature walking the political landscape than the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. You have to go back to McCarthy or McCarran to find a Senate leader who did so much damage to democratic norms and principles than this yokel from Kentucky. Trump is bad enough, but he's just a jumped-up real-estate crook who's in over his head. McConnell is a career politician who knows full well what he's doing to democratic government and is doing it anyway because it gives him power, and it gives the rest of us a wingnut federal judiciary for the next 30 years. There is nothing that this president* can do that threatens McConnell's power as much as it threatens the survival of the republic, and that's where we are.

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He doesn't have the essential patriotism god gave a snail. He pledges allegiance to his donors, and they get what they want. He's selling out his country, and he's doing it in real-time and out in the open. This is worse than McCarthy or McCarran ever were. Mitch McConnell is the the thief of the nation's soul.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25956710/mitch-mcconnell-op-ed-voting-bill-democrats/
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Amen, Mr. Pierce. Amen.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. tell it, Charles!

Also, from today's 'toons post:

[malaise]

2. Off to the greatest page

Excellent

[Iliyah]

3. Yeah, McTurtle is pretty shity.

[tblue37]

4. K&R for visibility. nt

[Retrograde]

5. Only three or four years too late

McConnell's been selling out the country since he refused to hold hearings on Obama's judicial nominations. It's nice that Pierce has finally seen the light.

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8. Actually, he's been pretty consistent for years with his criticism of McConnell.

And McConnell really began selling out the country the second he said that his mission was to obstruct everything President Obama would try to do and to see to it that he was a one-term president on the night of President Obama's inauguration, January 20, 2009.

[blue neen]

11. Yep.

Exactly.

[dalton99a]

6. Cruel, corrupt, evil.

Just like his boss in the Oval Office

[kimbutgar]

7. I wish there is some way he can be taken down, neutered and destroyed

His evil is evident in his face.

[Scurrilous]

9. K&R

[shanti]

10. Dirty as the day is long is McTurtle.

Dirty Mitch, just like Dirty Don.

[mcar]

12. Pierce is correct

McConnell is the worst.