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Pic Of The Moment: Mitch McConnell Could Really Use Some More Practice At Making Threats (Original Post) EarlG Mar 2021 OP
Damn! That's the best pic of the moment yet! N/t NNadir Mar 2021 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author NNadir Mar 2021 #2
Mitch, "to a completely scorched earth Senate." Botany Mar 2021 #3
Sit down, Mitch. SHut up. Gohome Claire Oh Nette Mar 2021 #4
Darn! You didn't include Mitch's "If...IF" with his finger threateningly extended... Frustratedlady Mar 2021 #5
Exactly. Fuck him and any other apologist who wants to save the filibuster. (n/m) BradAllison Mar 2021 #6
Oh, I love those pics of Biden! PatSeg Mar 2021 #7
There is a very practical reason to tread lightly on the Filibuster Thunderbeast Mar 2021 #8
What a gigantic POS this POS is. BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #9
bazinga! ZonkerHarris Mar 2021 #10
The guy's like Groucho Marx sandensea Mar 2021 #11
ROFL ananda Mar 2021 #12
K&R LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #13
To which the response should be... Grins Mar 2021 #14
Harry Truman successfully attacked the "do-nothing congress" DBoon Mar 2021 #15

Response to EarlG (Original post)

Botany

(70,516 posts)
3. Mitch, "to a completely scorched earth Senate."
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 10:55 AM
Mar 2021

Like you did with Obama Mitch? When you tried to block everything he was doing in order to make the
American people suffer so President Obama would be a one term President.

Or like your helping to hide that Russia was installing Trump 2016?

Or your ramming through Amy Coney Island Barrett?

Or the phony ass "investigation" into Brett Kavanaugh sexual assaults?

How many right wing assholes did you pack the Federal Courts with Mitch?

Merrick Garland ring a bell?

Or blocking any election/cyber security measures?

Or changing KY law so when your dying ass leaves the senate the seat will stay in GOP hands?

Or your hiring that young asshole who bothered that Native American?

Or your laughing about being a dick to the democrats?

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
4. Sit down, Mitch. SHut up. Gohome
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 10:57 AM
Mar 2021

"Does anyone really believe the American people were voting for an entirely new system of government by electing Joe Biden to the White House and a 50-50 senate? This is a 50-50 Senate. There was no mandate to completely transform America by the American people on November 3."

Well, Mitch, 81 million people did vote for change. Your 50 GOP senators represent 15 million fewer Americans than do the 50 Democratic Senators.

But do continue....

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
5. Darn! You didn't include Mitch's "If...IF" with his finger threateningly extended...
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 11:05 AM
Mar 2021

That instantly caused me to shudder in fear.

Thunderbeast

(3,417 posts)
8. There is a very practical reason to tread lightly on the Filibuster
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 11:52 AM
Mar 2021

The confidence that Dems will hold the Senate is misplaced. Control depends on the health of a handful of older Democratic Senators from states where a Republican governor will appoint a replacement from their own party. Just one member dying in office changes EVERYTHING!

Another reason for Justice Bryer to step down NOW! No liberal judge will be advanced unless Dems control the White House AND the Senate. McConnel has made that clear.

https://www.axios.com/senate-control-flip-ce1ee299-a6d7-4c63-940a-e5ca4335dcd6.html

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
9. What a gigantic POS this POS is.
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 12:00 PM
Mar 2021

How I wish the electorate had seen fit to smash his vicious little empire to bits.

Grins

(7,218 posts)
14. To which the response should be...
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 06:00 PM
Mar 2021

“Go for it, you fucker! Don’t wait. Do it now! And EVERY DAMN DAY I will use the bully pulpit and point out to the entire country what a do-nothing obstructionist fraud you and your entire party ARE! Burn the damn lifeboats!”

But that’s just me...

DBoon

(22,367 posts)
15. Harry Truman successfully attacked the "do-nothing congress"
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 10:46 PM
Mar 2021
As one would expect, this Republican congress opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal bills, but Truman turned this into an advantage during his 1948 campaign. He appealed directly to the people and accused the 80th congress of being a "Do Nothing Congress". Despite the fact that they had passed a total of 906 bills, the nickname stuck. And, despite conventional wisdom at the time, Truman won his 1948 reelection win over his Republican rival Dewey, and the Democrats gained back 9 Senate seats and 73 seats in the house. So today, when you hear the nickname "Do Nothing Congress", remember Truman and the 1946 election. For, it was in January of 1947, that Harry S. Truman began his re-election campaign.


http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/10/1947-harry-s-truman-do-nothing-congress.html

What was true in 1947 is still true in 2021
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