Raw Story: Mitch McConnell raises red flag in his state about coming Trump damage

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - Mitch McConnell raises red flag in his state about coming Trump damage

Tom Boggioni
February 13, 2025 7:31AM ET

Hours before he became the lone Republican senator to vote against the confirmation of ex-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to be Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the pages of a major Kentucky paper to bash the president.

In a column for the Courier-Journal. McConnell launched a full-scale attack on the president's plan to use tariffs to solve America's economic woes, with the longtime GOP leader claiming they will have the exact opposite effect.

As McConnell bluntly put it: "No matter our best intentions, tariffs are bad policy."

"Broad-based tariffs could have long-term consequences right in our backyard. Consider our state’s 75,000 family farms that sell their crops around the globe, or the hardworking Kentuckians who craft 95% of the world’s bourbon, or our auto industry that relies on global supply chains to support the livelihoods of thousands of workers in the commonwealth," he wrote before adding, "One estimate suggests the president’s tariffs could cost the average Kentuckian up to $1,200 each year."

McConnell noted that Kentucky's economy is close tied to international trade, explaining, "In Kentucky, over 60% of all counties are home to at least one international business. These are industrial suppliers, auto manufacturers and makers of consumer goods from across the world that support roughly 100,000 jobs in the commonwealth."

/snip

Too late for you to do anything, Mitch. Asscarrot...

[Lovie777]

1. Too late................

you could have stopped it.

[GreenWave]

2. And your SCROTUS failed at allow his prosecutors to do their job.

Jailed felon no more. Infinite power. All on you Mitch.

[Norrrm]

3. Moscow Mitch is obviously a RINO, not kissing Dotard's ass like the rest of the cult.

He is doing ok, having made may mliion$ from his time in office.

[malaise]

4. Impeach him now you dumbass fucker

That is all

[kerouac2]

5. Almost as if Biden and Harris said that about tarrifs...

Actual information and good policies promoted by Dems with positive messages plus reality checks about what trump and p25 were going to do.

Harris laid out the cost of tarrifs, among many other things, that a trump admin would bring.

They nurtured a mass of misinformed sheeple and racists and the worst people possible are leading and controlling them.

Too late Mitch. Everything that happens to your state is on you.

[Americanme]

6. Too little, too late

Mitch could have gotten trump convicted in the Senate. Mitch is the one who let this all happen. Mitch f*cked up.

[hatrack]

7. Attention Leopards: Slightly droopy but tasty bourbon-flavored face now available for your dining pleasure!!

[claudette]

8. Boo boo

As if I care. He supported him so he gets what he deserves

[BoRaGard]

9. "Eat shit and die, you wrinkly codger." - Felon 47 (R-Defender of G.O.P. morals and ethics)

[appmanga]

10. The previous most successful authoritarian in U.S. history...

...now has problems with his successor. If only he could have done something to stop him. If only he knew the origin story of SpiderMan.

[Walleye]

11. But they now are able to persecute transgenders and keep tampons out of the boys bathrooms in high school

Certainly that is worth giving up thousands of jobs in your state right Mitch

[OnDoutside]

12. Lol....FAFO

Here in Europe there's a suggestion that when the previous Red State 25% tariffs come up for renewal in the EU on March 1, they may renew them but bring it up to 50%

[harumph]

13. A pathetic wretch he is.

[Prairie Gates]

14. If only you had twisted some arms to get the impeached, insurrectionist EX-President

convicted in the Senate.

Dumbass.

[Tom_Foolery]

15. Too late, Dr. Frankenstein...

You spent 40 years building your monster. Now it's alive. And the rest of us have to live with it.

[Greybnk48]

16. A little late. Mitch McConnell has the blood of Kentuckians on his hands too.

He went along to get along right up until...right now?

NOW he doesn't like Trump because of Kentucky jobs?

Not because Trump's a known rapist, probable pedophile, convicted felon, pathological liar, cloddish bully, slob who shits his pants in public, and a low IQ trust fund baby with no talent who got ahead with his granddaddy's whorehouse money? All this, and the mountains of things I didn't list, were A-OK? You were right with him. But OH! NO! Not the bourbon!
Fuck you, Mitch!

And thank you Dennis Donovan for the term "asscarrot." Love it.

[MurrayDelph]

17. Hey, Mitch, as Liz Cheney said to Jim Jordan

You fucking did this!
You could have supported the impeachments, you withheld judicial nominations from Obama and them pushed through nominations for the Supreme Court who then declared Republican presidents are kings, and Aileen Cannon who said crimes aren't crimes when they're committed by Trump.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

18. Keep in mind he did "fall" down the stairs at the Capitol TWICE in one day...

hmmm...