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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell has just again blocked the Senate from voting to end the shutdown and reopen the gov
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spanone
(135,892 posts)SPREAD IT EVERYWHERE.....!!!!!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,468 posts)The gutless GOP could demand he step down, but they're gutless and complicit.
2020 is coming.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and needs to be reminded that he serves the people of America, not some russian-puppet potentate. We pay him. He works for us.
The Truth Is Here
(354 posts)He is obstructing the people's business, and all blame of the shutdown goes to Turnip and this guy.
I'm ready to file RICO charges against the administration, and ask the people of the U.S. to join me!
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)imanamerican63
(13,820 posts)global1
(25,278 posts)if he's not a Russian Asset himself.
McConnell and Trump have the ability to end this shutdown now.
If he and Trump really don't work for Putin and the Russians and they want to honor their oath of office - then they will end this shutdown.
If they let this shutdown continue - then the only conclusion we the American People can reach is that both of them are working for Putin and the Russians and they are traitors and should be run out of office.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)controllable support structure in the Republican Party and elsewhere, such as in the media, to try to put and keep him in office. And the Republicans are so dirty these days that "compromat" shouldn't have been hard to come by.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,125 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)why the GOP Senate began to support tRump. At the beginning the House kissed his ass but not the Senate, then they changed and became complicit like the House. The thing is, Putin had dirt on them before and now, that hasn't changed at all. If it didn't matter to them in the beginning of 2017 why does it now. It is the same evidence after all and it hasn't changed.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)nt
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)"I like being a senator" are also. We're seeing that hyperpartisans are able to justify all evils. We're always much worse than anything they could do.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)Bettie
(16,130 posts)because he's a soulless hypocrite.
mindem
(1,580 posts)Repukes hate the American people. Son of a mitch is a fascist little creep.
Bettie
(16,130 posts)and he has veto power over all legislation. How sick is that?
Baitball Blogger
(46,765 posts)Is he losing weight?
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)sleepless nights Mitch. You asshole.
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)Works every time.
sinkingfeeling
(51,478 posts)body " to a rubber stamp for whatever Dictator Don wants.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I wonder how much he gets paid for betraying America?
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)when dems take senate majority. GOP is experiencing their wet dreams coming true - elimination of large portion of federal government.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)This is Putin's and the GOP's wet dream.
The destruction of the American democratic government has always been their number one goal!
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)can you please look into how McConnell is holding the Government Workers hostage because he is watching his own ass.
Can't we tar and feather them now please?
He would rather say fuck the Government workers, and our country. He has to be pulled aside or fucking step down. He will not get re-elected if he continues to hold our government hostage.
dlk
(11,578 posts)He has his marching orders, too.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Id back them.
mnhtnbb
(31,408 posts)Of course, I don't have a trip planned until March and I'm not out of town at the moment, either.
I do think it would solve the shutdown, pronto.
When are people going to realize how much power we have?
bluescribbler
(2,123 posts)According to Doris Kearns Goodwin' book, Master of the Senate, before LBJ became Majority Leader, the position was a figurehead. The real power in the Senate was Richard Russel, chair of the Southern Caucus. By cozying up to Russel, and using his massive powers of persuasion, LBJ was able to transform that position into a position of power. The difference, of course, is that LBJ used his power to ENACT legislation, not to obstruct it.
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)Have on the turtle?
mnhtnbb
(31,408 posts)to make turtle soup out of that traitorous orange a$$ kisser.
ananda
(28,879 posts)Ick
socalsun
(10 posts)acting very much like someone who's seriously compromised.
AJT
(5,240 posts)Basically, to eliminate most of the federal government.
Botany
(70,594 posts)... Mitch McConnell would not let a vote go forward for Merrick Garland to be a justice on the Supreme Court?
I think Mitch is working for Putin too.
Vinca
(50,314 posts)is on the wife's side and they have Russian financial dealings. Vlad's probably underwriting the Turtle.
Botany
(70,594 posts)Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.
During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard "Len" Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent senators. Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.
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He also got $10,000 from the NRA which could have been Russian money too.
And I'm willing to bet that Putin who is from the KGB has some kompromat on Mitch too.
And never forget that Mitch blocked the American people from knowing about the Trump/Russia
connections in 2016.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)How can ONE person keep our government from governing?
Takket
(21,640 posts)the rules of the Senate really need to be change. it is absurd that the majority leader with a single vote can kill any bill.
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)will go down too. I wonder if Mueller and his team have got their sights on the Republican members of Congress.