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The Final Shaming of Mitch McConnell
When he silenced Elizabeth Warren for criticizing Jeff Sessions, the majority leader disgraced himself and the Party of Lincoln.By John Nichols
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell began his exceptionally long Capitol Hill career as an intern for one of the lions of the Senate: Kentucky Senator John Sherman Cooper. It happened that McConnell worked with Cooper, an old-school Party of Lincoln liberal Republican, during the remarkable era when the senator championed enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
McConnell has spoken and written at great length about how he was inspired by Coopers steady support of civil-rights legislation in the 1960s: despite the considerable opposition from back home, Senator Cooper never wavered. In his own memoir, McConnell hailed Senator Coopers long and courageous record of advancing racial equality for every American citizen.
Cooper did, indeed, act as a profile-in-courage senator when he rallied fellow Republicans to support civil-rights legislation, with the argument that it was their historic and moral duty as members of the Party of Lincoln. History well records that the courageous Kentuckian played a critical role in organizing most of his partys caucus to vote with liberal Democrats to avert the stalling tactics of segregationist Democrats, and their conservative Republican allies, so that the Senate could finally speak on behalf of civil rights.
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Yet, when a fellow senator invoked the memory of struggles on behalf of racial equality by reading the words of Coretta Scott King on Tuesday night, McConnell and the members of his majority caucus shut her down.
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The Final Shaming of Mitch McConnell (Original Post)
Raster
Feb 2017
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The Wizard
(12,547 posts)1. It's about time
Addison Mitch McConnell's closet was open to the light of day.
BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)2. How nauseating that reptile is. . .
Turtle McFuckLips is a rancid piece of shit. There is NO "nice" word I can find that would adequately describe that pig.
Raster
(20,998 posts)3. I heartily concur... His pledge to ensure President Obama "was a one-term President"...
...told me all I needed to know about the shitheel. His blatant attempt to hide tRump*s Russia connection further sealed the deal. I refer to him as "Comrade" whenever possible. I firmly believe HE IS NOT SERVING THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE US.