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Mitch McConnell is wondering why Jon Stewart is "all bent out of shape" over the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
"It sounds to me like he is looking for some way to take offense."
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It sounds to me like he is looking for some way to take offense, the senator added.
Justin Baragona
Updated 06.17.19 10:14AM ET / Published 06.17.19 10:09AM ET
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-wonders-why-jon-stewart-is-all-bent-out-of-shape-over-911-victim-compensation-fund/
Appearing Monday on Fox & Friends, McConnell was asked to react to Stewarts comments. The Kentucky lawmaker essentially shrugged and said this is just how Congress works.
Well, many things in Congress happen at the last minute, he responded. Weve never failed to address this issue and we will address it again. I dont know why he is all bent out of shape but we will take care of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund.
Co-host Steve Doocy noted that Stewart appeared to be upset during his House testimony that many members of the subcommittee didnt show up that day, prompting McConnell to claim that members of Congress tend to have a lot of things going on at the same time.
It sounds to me like he is looking for some way to take offense, the senator added.
irisblue
(32,982 posts)True Blue American
(17,986 posts)No, Mitch you are thecockroach in the Senate, along wih his eablors. See one, you can bet there are a hundred.
Do you think Mitch enjoys tearing his Country apart, refusing to do his job, becoming the worst AH ever to be a Senate Leader?
Pardon my French it is getting worse every day and I thought I was long past that stage.
BeyondGeography
(39,375 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)never address the substance of your opponent's argument. ad hominem them; insinuate that their motives are insincere.
mcconnell is fantastic at this technique. never say anything of substance, but dismiss anyone who does out of hand.
it works, and it's been working for the GOP for decades. americans want the easy answer, the binary rejection. president asshole is the proof of it.
we're decades away from this situation changing; millions of old white people need to die off.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,415 posts)They can dismiss anything else they have to say and don't have to do anything.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)the press aren't stupid people; they know they're getting blown off by this technique. yet they report these dismissals as if they're actual policy responses.
I remember seeing a group of reporters get president asshole in a back-on-forth on the white house driveway, and by backing each other up, repeating the question, asking follow-up questions, they got him to fold like a cheap tent.
more of that, and they risk what? getting banned from non-existent press briefings?
trev
(1,480 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)No, really, drop dead.
snowybirdie
(5,230 posts)He is responsible for the inaction of our Congress!
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)his pockets are bottomless. as are many places that vote for Repukes, KY is filled with ignorance, magical thinking, and non-voters.
at 79, he's definitely vulnerable, but I don't know if that state's got it in them.
look who holds statewide office there:
Mitch McConnell
Rand Paul
Matt Bevins
Beshear and Grimes are the only Dem statewide office holders; one of them has to take him on.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)McConnell ignores Kentucky
Thanks to reporter Lesley Clark for so ably documenting how little Sen. Mitch McConnell has done for Kentucky. Abandonment of Kentuckians and the rest of the nation comes first to my mind as McConnells legacy while in his position of power in the U.S. Senate.
He has enabled and assisted his GOP comrades in sabotaging and weakening health care for the middle income and working poor among us by trashing the ACA. The disturbing irony is that the early implementation of the ACA by a Democratic governor was a raging success in his own state of Kentucky. It is now under grave threat by the current Kentucky Republican governor.
He refuses to check Trumps disastrous 1930s-style trade war that threatens our currently strong economy. The Senate has the power to stop this now.
Its clear that McConnell is only intent on governing for Republicans and his wealthy campaign donors and not for all of the American people. In a recent poll by Morning Consult McConnell garnered a rating of 34 percent approval and 52 percent disapproval lowest of all 100 senators.
Kenneth Cooley
Cadiz
https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article214226584.html
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,415 posts)I'm surprised that the Senate is even that busy, given that no House bills are being considered. *What* are they doing (other than confirming Judges)?
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,415 posts)McConnell (and most Republicans) can't, of course, imagine that anybody actually gets "legitimately offended" about anything......ever.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I mean, what do those people want? Some kind of assurance that the rug won't be pulled out from under them because Congress arbitrarily decides that playing politics with their health and lives is more important than their health and lives? They should be bowing and scraping before Lord Mitch, thankful for any largesse that drops off the feasting table. They think they're so entitled just because they were the first ones on the scene of this horrific attack while President Bush was hop-scotching around the country, running like a scared rabbit. You're just looking to take offense because your lives are being used as a political football by your betters.
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)Jon Stewart is smarter than 20 Mitch McConnells and able to talk rings around even the smarter R's. Go ahead Mitch, pick a fight with Jon Stewart. It will help us get rid of you.