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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnell Refused to Meet With Group That Funded His Polio Recovery
Say a charity group helps you recover from polio. Decades later, representatives from that same organization ask to have a word about your bill being drafted in secret that would reportedly gut healthcare for millions, including people with disabilities, while giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy. You might at least hear them out. Some people might even say that you owe them one.
Southern gentleman and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, though, apparently disagrees. As Death and Taxes recently pointed out, McConnell contracted polio as a two-year-old. As he described years later, on the 50th anniversary of the polio vaccine being introduced, polio is a virus that comes on like the flu, but can paralyze people for life. In McConnell's case, after he'd gotten over the initial illness, he had residual effects in his left quadriceps muscle.
McConnell was lucky enough that his family lived within driving distance of Warm Springs, Georgia, home to the first (and for many years, the only) hospital devoted solely to treating people with polio. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had himself been paralyzed by polio, created a charity called the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) to support the hospital and aid polio patients around the country. Comedian and radio personality Eddie Cantor called for Americans to send their spare change to President Roosevelt, in "a march of dimes to reach all the way to the White House."
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/a3zbmz/mitch-mcconnell-polio-refused-march-of-dimes-meeting-over-senate-health-bill
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,636 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)He is an evil scumbag
TNNurse
(6,927 posts)This people are making me say awful things.
Motownman78
(491 posts)Check it out on Snopes.com
PSPS
(13,601 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,034 posts)The meme it refutes is that McConnell received government help for his polio
http://www.snopes.com/mitch-mcconnell-polio-government-healthcare/
elleng
(130,974 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)the Warm Springs Institute that potentially saved him from being disabled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell
leftstreet
(36,109 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)He would consider the people that put time at the foundation liberal dog posers today, got for nothing in his view. It amazes me how people become hard and heartless.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)needs to provide PROOF of this, since I do not believe anything he spouts.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)they spit on the very kindness they received and deny others the same care. It really reduces them to the animal status.
paleotn
(17,931 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)haele
(12,660 posts)What he didn't get was actual government assistance - which was not really available to anyone when he was a young hatchling. But he certainly benefitted from the government interest that helped to set up the charity in the first place.
The "got money and help from the government when he was young hypocrite" is Paul Ryan.
The confusion comes from the fact that President FD Roosevelt was a strong supporter of the March of Dimes, due to his own illness and recovery in Warm Springs, GA.
Haele
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,005 posts)atreides1
(16,079 posts)And it isn't this story...
KT2000
(20,583 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)"The day they lay you away, what I'll do on your grave won't pass for flowers."
oasis
(49,389 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)which had the terrible side effect of turning his face into that of a turtle. It was jerked from the market and from then on only used as a "beak enhancer" on male turtles who were too shy to try and mate on the beach in front of crowds of people.
uhhh, sarcasm, just in case
calimary
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BamaRefugee
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TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)Damn that was funny. And apparently, it's what Rowan Atkinson was like. Playing the hapless, innocent Mr. Bean when the camera was running, and being an absolute shit to people when it was turned off.
Atkinson: "How DARE you improvise, you diminutive mediterranean moron! And as for you Daddy Long Legs, you're FIRED!"
Goldblum: "You CAN'T fire me, because I QUIT!"
Atkinson: "Good! Then you get no severance pay, and I sue your ass for breach of contract."
Goldblum: "You're a complete and total bastard. I hope all your children have very small dicks. And that includes the GIRLS!"
Comedy gold.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Except Addison "Mitch" is much homlier than any turtle I ever saw. He is every bit as "handsome" as tRump!!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)polio. Otherwise he'd be a drooling vegetable. The bastard has no soul and no conscious. I can't even say what I wish his fate to be.
lastlib
(23,247 posts)How is that different from how he is now??
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)To completely disassociate from your past? Identification w the perpetrator?
There is as group pathology of sadists here.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They must want to divorce themselves so much from their pasts. The very thought of accepting outside help brings up bad memories for them
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)However, it makes them want to torture and kill them. They are sociopaths.
George II
(67,782 posts)dhill926
(16,343 posts)Metro135
(359 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)His eyes gleam when he inflicts suffering.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)Chao-hound, or whatever she's called, staring up at that face, his hot, festering tortoise breath curling her fake eyelashes, and singeing what's left of her over-threaded eyebrows, as he heaves his ponderous turtle flesh again and again into her tortuga trap, all for the hope of becoming Secretary of SomeKindaCrap again someday.
Unthinkable. Ugh. But seriously, I don't think she has anything to do with him.
Just like Melania won't let Trump touch her.
He obeys because he can't afford the divorce, the secrets she'd tell etc.
Everything about them is fake.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Guess everyone has her price. To be his wife, never.
He is gross, like DT, but he's sadistic. DTs just vindictive, pathological , narcissist and not bright. Turtle isn't stupid, but otherwise, he overlaps w DT.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)Jeezus I thought I hated him; you're even mean to his wife.
You go Bama!!!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Addison Mitch McConnell was discharged from the army after 3 weeks, for misbehaving in the showers. Years later, he was brought to tears in front of the entire Senate, while talking about one of his male aides leaving. The aide took a job a few blocks away, so Addison would not see him daily. Poor Addison CRIED real tears. Another fake family values repub.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)You cannot play with a dog, or he'll lick you in the mouth.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)(I'm saying this as a cat person). Playing nice with Mitch McConnell is like playing nice with a wasp (the insect).
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)So true crazycatlady . My apologies to dogs EVERYWHERE.
I'd rather be licked in the mouth by a dog than by McConnell.
He's a disgusting, racist, a moral, nasty, filthy, piece of feces.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)The polio vaccine, it seems, can paralyze an entire government.
trof
(54,256 posts)How does a person get to be that way?
What happened to him to twist him so much?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)"The old fox never forgets the hillock where he was born;1 the white turtle repaid the kindness he had received from Mao Pao.2 If even lowly creatures know enough to do this, then how much more should human beings."
From Gautama Buddha, also known as Shakyamuni Buddha: "Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else."