McConnell Warns He Will 'Paralyze' the Senate

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McConnell Warns He Will ‘Paralyze’ the Senate

July 11, 2022 at 4:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/07/11/mcconnell-warns-he-will-paralyze-the-senate/

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed the reinvigorated Democratic push for social spending and climate change legislation and said moving forward with that bill would paralyze the chamber, Politico reports.

Said McConnell: “Democrats have already picked the American people’s pocket once. And now their solution is to pick your pockets a second time. First with inflation. And now with tax hikes… Now is a terrible, terrible time to paralyze the Senate by trying to tax us into recession on a partisan basis.”

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[QED]

1. What's new?

He's been doing that for years.

[SouthernDem4ever]

59. Exactly!

No surprise here - except the fact that Kentucky keeps putting his sorry ass back in the senate.

[NotHardly]

61. His threats to democracy appear to become more and more Fascist & Culpable of Insurrectionist ...

[Walleye]

2. Tired old man with tired old rhetoric

[H2O Man]

13. Best response possible.

[mitch96]

37. How does this asswipe have so much power? nt

[Celerity]

41. Coal and Curtsy

[hadEnuf]

52. This asshat is given wat too much power and credit by the media.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

It's about time he was treated like the Senate Minority Leader that he is.


Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is barely ever mentioned.

[PortTack]

38. Exactly! How is giving ppl a tax break, covid relief funds picking American pockets??!!

The answer is…he’s picking tax break money out of rich ppls pockets because obviously to turtle they’re the only true Americans

[Magoo48]

67. Perhaps this statement will be used against him at some point.

In the context of: If one “Tired old man with tired old rhetoric” can actually, or even thinks he can, paralyze the Senate then it’s a good time to revamp the rules.

[JohnSJ]

3. If we don't vote in large numbers it will happen

[Raven123]

4. Exactly.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Moscow Mitch has damaged KY, the Senate, and the country for decades.

He still deserves his moniker and contempt.

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/21/rachel-maddow-explains-origins-of-how-mcconnell-earned-his-moscow-mitch-moniker/

[Golden Raisin]

20. And yet the citizens of Kentucky continue to elect and

re-elect both McConnell and Rand Paul. Two of the absolute worst and most dangerous.

[Diamond_Dog]

6. But

It’s perfectly fine for Republicans to pick your pocket for THEIR agenda

[Lovie777]

7. Sounds like Putin . . .

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Where has he been the last four years?

Asleep?

[Hugin]

9. This is a change, how?

[bluestarone]

10. Fuck him and

ALL the rest of RETHUGLICONS like him!

[MagickMuffin]

11. Mitch you do NOTHING Moron. Unfortunately, the Americans you refer to are 1%ers

They are not low income, or middle income earners. It's also unfortunate that your base doesn't recognize the difference.

[allegorical oracle]

12. DOJ should've nailed McConnell when he pulled the Garland-blocking stunt. He kept the POTUS from

carrying out his Constitutional duty. Surely there is a federal statute that covers such an action. "The POTUS is a lame duck"
was BS and McConnell obviously knew it. BTW, where is Schumer? A Martian who just landed in DC would think McConnell is still in charge of the Senate.

[comradebillyboy]

25. The Constitution gives both the House and Senate freedom to

make their own rules. Neither the courts nor the President can tell the Senate how to conduct its business. Mitch didn't break the law.

[yorkster]

14. He is truly vicious and delights in it.

Crows about his Grim Reaper status and threatens to paralyze the Senate. Lovely timing, with Schumer and Blumenthal out with Covid and Leahy recovering from hip surgery. I hate to descend to hate, but that's what I feel towards McConnell.

[hedda_foil]

56. Schumer and Blumenthal should be back next week and Leahy would come on a stretcher if needed.

It wouldn't be the first time that a Senator was wheeled onto the floor in a hospital bed to vote on an important issue.

[yorkster]

58. I know that - just think the timing is typical McConnell. n/t

[dixiechiken1]

15. Same shit, different day...

[Bayard]

16. Is he talking about raising taxes on the wealthy?

What the hell tax increase is he talking about?

From the article:
McConnell singled out *West Virginia* as a state that would be harmed by some of the policies in the revamped package, just as Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-W.Va.) talks heat up with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the legislation.

[GoodRaisin]

63. He's lying.

Yes, on wealthy, but making like it’s everybody

[In It to Win It]

17. I'm shocked

[maxsolomon]

18. "If you try your Reconciliation Bill, I won't allow Judges to move through."

that's basically it.

He can't stop a Dem Reconciliation Bill, same as Dems couldn't stop the Repuke's Trump Tax Scam.

[Elessar Zappa]

62. He can't stop judges from moving through unless

he has Democratic co-conspirators. He can slow things down, that’s it.

[maxsolomon]

65. Don't judges still need "blue slips"

from their home-state Senators?

[Mr.Bill]

66. That went by the wayside during the Trump administration. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

19. "Will"????

He's already doing that, and has for years. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

[milestogo]

21. And how will we be able to discern the new paralysis?

[Thtwudbeme]

22. Well, that fucker has been constipating me for years

He's such an ass

[Marcuse]

23. "We absolutely refuse to promote the general welfare!"

[duckworth969]

24. Cardiac arrest

A lot of these old Repubs are just living too long.

Time to go, one way or the other.

[onecaliberal]

26. I can't say what I hope for this prick.

[sakabatou]

27. He's pulled this stunt how many times now?

[krispos42]

28. How would we be able to tell? n/t

[Bluethroughu]

29. Do it all and do it now! McConnell is a lost cause in Congress

He did nothing when a rotton orange fungus committed treason and tried to sell our Democracy to the lowest despot.

Who cares what McConnell says he runs nothing.

[Blue Owl]

30. Let's stick the turtle on a post

And let him flail uselessly…

[Celerity]

32. put that turtle up on the stumps in place of the bails and let a fast bowler loose

we can even glue some contact lights to his shell

[Blue Owl]

39. Bwah!

[lastlib]

31. Why can't that old turd just finish shriveling up and dying??

My bladder is getting awfully tight waiting to unload on his miserable corpse.

[Celerity]

34. solution

My bladder is getting awfully tight waiting to unload on his miserable corpse.

[lastlib]

44. Placing an order for 500 of those!

for the tip!

Having been with my mother in the hospital the past two weeks, I have a couple other ideas, now that you've tipped me!

[Kid Berwyn]

33. Democrats need to play hardball with Moscow Mitch.

Fucker works for Putin. Lock him up.

[Emile]

35. Same old bullshit lies he was saying 10 years ago!

Republicans are all about one thing and one thing only, tax cuts for tax evading billionaires.

[OrlandoDem2]

36. Just for that I hope this passes! Bring on the right wing hissy fit!

[BillTee]

40. OK....what have I missed? Turtleboy has ...

done nothing but paralyze the Senate. Nothing new there.

[niyad]

42. Do us all a favour and drop dead, asshole.

[Initech]

43. More than he already has?

Go away asshole. Your schtick is old and tired and people are pissed at you. Horse manure and dirty toilets have a higher approval than you do.

Look, Rush Limbaugh is dead. It's time for Limbaughism to die with him.

[riversedge]

45. Mitch M. has been a curse on the Senate for years now! damn him!!

[joanbarnes]

46. Hasn't he done this for 20 or so years? BIDEN'S FAULT!

[Firestorm49]

47. Just like his predecessor Boehner. Same old schtick.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

48. Quick, give him another anti-abortion judge! Then maybe he'll work with us!

[Eyeball_Kid]

49. BFD. McConnell has paralyzed the Senate for years. It's an empty threat. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

50. Why hasn't he croaked yet?

[spanone]

51. Eff Mitch

[fightforfreedom]

53. I'm so scared.

[Wahyee]

54. Loathesome /nt

[NullTuples]

57. I kinda wish a Dem would point out to the media that McConnell has been doing so since 2010

At the time, he literally promised to the American public that he and the GOP would be the party of obstruction for anything a Democratic President wanted to accomplish. And he has stayed true to his word for twelve years.

[dchill]

60. 'Paralyze' the Senate ...

PARALYZE THE SENATE?

You gotta be fucking kidding me, Moscow!

[malthaussen]

64. Someday, I hope this treasonous bastard gets what he deserves. n/t