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McConnell has just again blocked the Senate from voting to end the shutdown and reopen the gov (Original Post) catbyte Jan 2019 OP
Dear America, the Senate Majority Leader, McConnell just blocked another opportunity to end shutdown spanone Jan 2019 #1
Lock him up! Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #4
He's a KGOP republican Buttplug Achilleaze Jan 2019 #36
Is there any way around that fuckhole? The Truth Is Here Jan 2019 #2
Spam deleted by MIR Team merryberry Jan 2019 #30
My prediction... Dems will win the Senate and the WH SummerSnow Jan 2019 #3
It might be to late? imanamerican63 Jan 2019 #16
He's Aiding And Abetting A Suspected Russian Asset..... global1 Jan 2019 #5
Trump won't be their only one. They would have tried to build a Hortensis Jan 2019 #19
He has KGB dirt on him, he has been ordered by rump and putin to do as he is told or ELSE Eliot Rosewater Jan 2019 #6
What I don't get is BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #7
Two words: federal judgeships DeminPennswoods Jan 2019 #10
Those are good words. But "We have to defeat the Democrats" and Hortensis Jan 2019 #20
He needs to be impeached and removed from office. Joe941 Jan 2019 #8
Well, of course he did Bettie Jan 2019 #9
And an unpatriotic pig mindem Jan 2019 #13
Yes, he is Bettie Jan 2019 #24
If that is a current picture, he doesn't look well. Baitball Blogger Jan 2019 #11
I would think so bdamomma Jan 2019 #23
Whiskey and cigarette diet PeeJ52 Jan 2019 #28
The US Senate has been reduced from the "greatest deliberative sinkingfeeling Jan 2019 #12
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2019 #14
Moscow Mitch. Power 2 the People Jan 2019 #15
Turtle is a submissive loyal lap dog for Putin workinclasszero Jan 2019 #17
the shutdown wont be over until 2021 AlexSFCA Jan 2019 #18
I agree workinclasszero Jan 2019 #21
Oh Mr. Mueller bdamomma Jan 2019 #22
McConnell is Up to His Eyeballs in the Russia Scandal dlk Jan 2019 #25
+1 orangecrush Jan 2019 #32
The TSA and air traffic controllers need to shut down all of the airports YessirAtsaFact Jan 2019 #26
Agreed. mnhtnbb Jan 2019 #29
It's all LBJ's fault. bluescribbler Jan 2019 #27
What does Putin orangecrush Jan 2019 #31
It might be time mnhtnbb Jan 2019 #33
Just another Russian asset at work. ananda Jan 2019 #34
Yertle the turtle is socalsun Jan 2019 #35
He wants the workers to quit, and not replace them. AJT Jan 2019 #37
Does anybody remember when President Obama shut down the Federal Government because ... Botany Jan 2019 #38
I would love to have someone like Michael Schmidt explore that. Apparently the family fortune Vinca Jan 2019 #39
Mitch got a lot of Russian money in 2016 Botany Jan 2019 #40
And I ask ONCE AGAIN!!! Ferrets are Cool Jan 2019 #41
i know... this bothers the hell out of me.......... Takket Jan 2019 #43
Amen! nt Duppers Jan 2019 #44
McConnell bdamomma Jan 2019 #46
Fucking hell! sakabatou Jan 2019 #42
+1000 !! Duppers Jan 2019 #45

spanone

(135,892 posts)
1. Dear America, the Senate Majority Leader, McConnell just blocked another opportunity to end shutdown
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:32 PM
Jan 2019

SPREAD IT EVERYWHERE.....!!!!!

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,468 posts)
4. Lock him up!
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:36 PM
Jan 2019

The gutless GOP could demand he step down, but they're gutless and complicit.

2020 is coming.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
36. He's a KGOP republican Buttplug
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:39 PM
Jan 2019

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)
2. Is there any way around that fuckhole?
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:33 PM
Jan 2019

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!

Response to The Truth Is Here (Reply #2)

global1

(25,278 posts)
5. He's Aiding And Abetting A Suspected Russian Asset.....
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:41 PM
Jan 2019

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)
19. Trump won't be their only one. They would have tried to build a
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:40 PM
Jan 2019

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.

BigmanPigman

(51,638 posts)
7. What I don't get is
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:51 PM
Jan 2019

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.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
20. Those are good words. But "We have to defeat the Democrats" and
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:43 PM
Jan 2019

"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.

mindem

(1,580 posts)
13. And an unpatriotic pig
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:06 PM
Jan 2019

Repukes hate the American people. Son of a mitch is a fascist little creep.

sinkingfeeling

(51,478 posts)
12. The US Senate has been reduced from the "greatest deliberative
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:06 PM
Jan 2019

body " to a rubber stamp for whatever Dictator Don wants.

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)
18. the shutdown wont be over until 2021
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:40 PM
Jan 2019

when dems take senate majority. GOP is experiencing their wet dreams coming true - elimination of large portion of federal government.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
21. I agree
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:43 PM
Jan 2019

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)
22. Oh Mr. Mueller
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 03:47 PM
Jan 2019

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.

mnhtnbb

(31,408 posts)
29. Agreed.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:18 PM
Jan 2019

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)
27. It's all LBJ's fault.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:14 PM
Jan 2019

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.

AJT

(5,240 posts)
37. He wants the workers to quit, and not replace them.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:49 PM
Jan 2019

Basically, to eliminate most of the federal government.

Botany

(70,594 posts)
38. Does anybody remember when President Obama shut down the Federal Government because ...
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:57 PM
Jan 2019

... 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)
39. I would love to have someone like Michael Schmidt explore that. Apparently the family fortune
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 06:36 PM
Jan 2019

is on the wife's side and they have Russian financial dealings. Vlad's probably underwriting the Turtle.

Botany

(70,594 posts)
40. Mitch got a lot of Russian money in 2016
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 06:42 PM
Jan 2019
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns

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.

Takket

(21,640 posts)
43. i know... this bothers the hell out of me..........
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 08:24 PM
Jan 2019

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)
46. McConnell
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 10:26 PM
Jan 2019

will go down too. I wonder if Mueller and his team have got their sights on the Republican members of Congress.

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