Dear McConnell haters, let’s discuss McConnell’s Senate and Judicial scorecards.
There is nonstop anger on X over McConnell and secret votes for the next Senate Majority Leader.
Much of this McConnell blasting is lingering anger over what many see as McConnell abandoning Trump in 2020.
Get over it already. McConnell did more for Republican causes than anyone else for a long time.
McConnell Drove Republicans’ Senate Wins
The Wall Street Journal reports Secret Meetings, Big Money Drove Republicans’ Senate Wins.
That’s a free link and I encourage you to read it all. My inline comments are in braces, and emphasis is also mine.
Two years ago, Mitch McConnell undertook a covert mission to West Virginia to meet a portly English bulldog.
The Senate Republican leader hoped to recruit Babydog’s owner, Republican Gov. Jim Justice, to run for U.S. Senate in 2024. He told only one senior aide and traveled solo so as not to risk embarrassment to Justice or to himself, should the pitch fail. To McConnell’s surprise, the governor wasn’t just receptive to a Senate bid, but positive.
A photo snapped during the high-stakes October 2022 visit shows McConnell—not a dog person, those close to him say—awkwardly patting Babydog, a social-media sensation who would star as Justice’s furry sidekick on the campaign trail.
It was the opening gambit in a multiyear strategy that finally paid off Tuesday night, when Republicans recaptured the majority in the Senate, starting with Justice easily flipping the West Virginia seat from blue to red. A rapprochement with Donald Trump proved pivotal, as did the deep pockets of GOP megadonors, in ensuring Republicans didn’t blow another opportunity.
“The number of victories in the Senate was absolutely incredible,” Trump crowed at his victory speech early Wednesday.
McConnell’s secret trip to West Virginia came as he was bracing for disappointing 2022 midterm results. He had publicly warned Republicans about poor “candidate quality”—a reference to GOP challengers who won primaries but proved too extreme to win a general election.
The Kentucky Republican’s prediction proved accurate: Republicans suffered a net loss of one seat in 2022, despite entering the election cycle in a strong position. Among the most painful Republican defeats were Trump-endorsed celebrities Herschel Walker in Georgia and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania.
McConnell was determined not to fall short again in 2024, and recruiting Justice, he felt, would be a game changer.
McConnell also believed that Republicans needed to avoid divisive primaries, and that Senate leadership should get directly involved to ensure their preferred candidates made it to the general election.
That meant getting on the same page as Trump.
A trip to Mar-a-Lago
McConnell’s relationship with Trump had deteriorated following the 2020 election, when the Senate Republican leader blamed the president’s “wild falsehoods” about the outcome for the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol. So McConnell turned to the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, to ensure Senate GOP leaders and Trump backed the same candidates.
In a meeting with Trump and one of his campaign managers, Susie Wiles, Daines said the most important thing he could give Trump for his second term was a Republican Senate majority. A Democratic-controlled chamber, Daines told Trump, would block his nominees and thwart his priorities.
Jason Thielman, a top Daines aide and the NRSC’s executive director, was also in the meeting. He said Trump was in full agreement and the group discussed potential challengers for vulnerable Democrats: Sen. Jon Tester in Montana and Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia. Trump had won Montana by 16 percentage points in 2020, and West Virginia by nearly 40.
Daines and Thielman warned that without “dramatic and aggressive intervention,” Republicans were headed for costly primaries in both states.
Trump eventually ended up endorsing all of Daines’s preferred candidates.
When Pennsylvania Republican Doug Mastriano floated a Senate run after a failed gubernatorial bid, Daines came out swinging: “We need somebody who can win a primary and a general election,” he said. Daines’s favored candidate, former hedge-fund manager David McCormick, ended up ousting three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, the Associated Press projected. [Barely]
In Daines’s home state, the blowback was particularly intense after he handpicked Tim Sheehy, a wealthy entrepreneur and former Navy SEAL, over the objections of Rep. Matt Rosendale, who had lost to Tester in 2018, and other Montana Republicans. [Yet another close WIN]
When Rosendale entered the race in February 2024, Daines called Trump to ask him, again, to endorse Sheehy, making the case that it was “absolutely mission critical,” Thielman said. Within hours, Trump did. Rosendale dropped out a week later.[Trump had the right ears this time]
Since 2018, Democratic candidates regularly outraised their Republican counterparts. Republicans have tried to address this disparity by recruiting wealthy self-funders like Sheehy and McCormick who can help fund their own campaigns.
A Trump skeptic opens his wallet
Ken Griffin, a hedge-fund billionaire and philanthropist who is one of the nation’s top Republican donors, watched election results trickle in Tuesday evening at a friend’s home in Miami. He had contributed tens of millions of dollars to GOP candidates and was eager to receive updates from his political advisers, who were using spreadsheets to track county-level results on multiple races. [Griffin was the top Republican donor. Clueless Republicans vilify Griffin as well.]
Megadonors such as Griffin stepped up their investments this election cycle. Griffin contributed $67 million—$30 million in primaries and $37 million in general elections—to help Republicans win the Senate, a person familiar with his donations said.
His biggest general election recipient was the McConnell-linked Senate Leadership Fund at $30 million, followed by $6 million to a super PAC backing McCormick.
The day after the election, a beaming McConnell held a press conference on Capitol Hill to celebrate the majority he had won, but would no longer lead. He is stepping down from leadership at the end of this year.
“As I said to some criticism, candidate quality is absolutely essential,” he said. “It was a hell of a good day.”
Someone Who Gets It
I invite you to read the Tweet Thread of Justin Hart, below. This is a snip.
I get why some of you don’t like Mitch. And 100% -> Trump deserves a new Senate leader who is on board with his agenda. But let’s review how the Trump-McConnell alliance changed the face of our judiciary and another STRONG alliance could do the same. The fact is – McConnell was a dutiful supporter of President Trump’s during his entire presidency and helped seal his place in history. That’s irrefutable.
Some of you sound ridiculous diminishing McConnell’s successes – especially his unprecedented impact on the judiciary. For the record, here is HIS record: – Supreme Court Judges Confirmed: 3 (Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett) – Circuit Court Judges Confirmed: 53 – District Court Judges Confirmed: 143 – U.S. Court of International Trade Judges Confirmed: 2 – Total Judges Confirmed: 200 – 30% of Circuit Judges were nominated during Trump’s term and confirmed by Mitch, marking a significant reshaping of the judiciary. – 53 Circuit Court Judges confirmed, the highest since Ronald Reagan’s presidency. – First Time in at Least 40 Years: No vacancies on the nation’s appeals courts, a testament to the strategic focus on filling judicial positions.
Mitch streamlined the confirmation process and limited debate time maximizing the number of judges to clear the Senate. You all owe Mitch a thank you
It’s a long Tweet, but 100% spot on.
My Reply to Hart
Some people are annoyed McConnel did not waste money on causes that did not need help.
Kari Lake did need help. Perhaps McConnell thought it was hopeless. I thought so too. But Trump nearly pulled he over the finish line.
A better candidate in AZ would have one easily. Who’s to blame here?
Disastrous Choices
Going back to 2020, disastrous choices cost Republicans two Senate seats in Georgia, one in Pennsylvania, and like it or not, another one in Arizona this year.
Republicans should never have nominated Lake, so don’t blame McConnell.
Stop the steal candidate went down in flames again, and again, and again.
Decision 2022 McConnell Delivered J.D. Vance
Flashback August 18, 2022: McConnell allies launch ad blitz to prop up J.D. Vance’s Senate campaign in Ohio
The $28 million commitment comes as other Republican Senate candidates struggle in battleground states that ordinarily would be more competitive than Ohio.
A group aligned with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is buying $28 million worth of airtime to boost Senate hopeful J.D. Vance in Ohio — the latest spending spree for Vance, the “Hillbilly Elegy” author, amid concerns about his strength in a GOP-leaning state.
Meanwhile, other Republican Senate candidates in battleground states that ordinarily would be more competitive than Ohio — Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker in Georgia — have struggled, raising questions about how thin the party’s resources might be spread this fall.
“Every dollar spent on his race is a dollar not spent in a more competitive state,” a national Republican operative with deep Ohio experience said recently, referring to plans by outside spending groups to prop up Vance, which began surfacing this month. The operative requested anonymity to speak candidly about intraparty frustrations.
“There’s no amount of money in this world that will convince voters here that Vance is anything but an out-of-touch phony who already sold out Ohioans once for his own gain and would do it again in a heartbeat,” Ryan spokesperson Izzi Levy said. “Even Republicans admit Vance is a terrible candidate running a terrible race, and McConnell’s multimillion-dollar bailout isn’t going to change that.”
McConnell Delivered J.D. Vance for Ohio
Read that again, and again, and again until that sinks in. But it should only take once.
Had McConnell not pulled that off, J.D. Vance would not have won and certainly would not be Vice President right now.
Yet vilification of McConnell is rampant.
Secret Ballot
Many are incensed about the secret ballot to replace McConnell as Senate majority leader. Those complaints rang true to me, initially.
But the more I thought about this, the more it makes sense. McConnell does not want a media circus and massive infighting on open display as we saw in Republican fiascos in electing a Speaker of the House.
Besides, someone will disclose the final totals anyway.
Many Republicans want someone who will worship Trump. Period. It’s that scorched earth attitude that has cost Republicans at least four Senate seats.
Tucker on Kevin McCarthy
Does anyone care to discuss how that operation turned out?
In case you are wondering, I called it in advance.
September 24, 2023: House Republicans Make a Huge Mess, for What? Replace McCarthy with Whom?
We are headed for another government shutdown debacle that will end with Republicans making fools of themselves again.
October 3, 2023: McCarthy Ousted, House Essentially Frozen, There Is No Path Forward, For What?
Four percent toppled the 96 percent. But the four percent have no plan and the GOP is weaker.
November 11, 2023: No Surprise, House Speaker Johnson Proposes Same Plan as McCarthy
There are likely big surprises elsewhere, but there is no surprise in this corner regarding Johnson’s plans to keep the government running.
January 18 2024: Mike Johnson Is the New (But Not Improved) Kevin McCarthy
The House just passed Mike Johnson’s bipartisan continuing resolution punt. Dear Republicans, please wave the white flag and surrender before doing more damage, because more damage is on the table just today.
Mishtalk Flashback January 4, 2023
Please note the year January 2023: A Terrible Start for the Dysfunctional GOP, Who Will Be House Speaker?
Refusing to Take Yes For An Answer
Despite the fact that McCarthy gave in to the rebel’s demands and their hero does not even want the job, they will not back McCarthy.
Questions For GOP Rebels
Hello GOP rebels, do you understand how the system even works?
Democrats hold the Senate. Democrats hold the White House.
What the hell is the point of insisting on a balanced budget bill and “term limits for members of Congress when it’s doubtful those would pass even if Republicans held the Senate.
Of course, Biden would veto the bills, so why bother? Is symbolism all you’ve got?
Why if you wanted these things didn’t you pass legislation in the first two years of the Trump Administration when you held the Senate, House, and the White House?
And why, if you wanted a balance budget did you pass the Trump tax cuts and keep voting for insane levels of military spending?
The fact is, you are all a bunch of damn hypocrites who only want balanced budgets when the Democrats hold the White House.
Vote For Mish
I have the solution. Vote for Mish as Speaker of the House. My pledge is to pass nothing at all other than mandatory budget items and for no more than necessary.
Nothing would be a spectacular achievement compared to what we are suffering through.
How did my prophesy turn out?
By the way, the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of the House. I was eligible.
March 21, 2024: Republican Humiliation Enshrined in Huge 1,000-Page $1.2 Trillion Bill
Let’s discuss the humiliating details of the swamp omnibus bill including funding for transgender clothes, the WHO, and gender identity help.
Fact Checks
- Republicans said no more omnibus massive bills: Failure
- Republicans demanded budget cutbacks: Failure
- Republicans said they would restore order: Failure
- Republicans said they would pass bills without Democrats: Failure
- Republicans said no more continuing resolutions: 3 Failures
That was much worse than anything McCarthy would have delivered.
Dare I suggest that I had the right idea: Pick your battles, pass the bare minimum, and move on.
Important New Math Lessons for Republicans
- 50 is a disaster.
- 53 ≠ 60
Scorched earth approaches will cause Senate filibusters.
One does not have to agree with everything someone does to work together. McConnell understood that.
Many Republicans preferred nothing to something, and still do. Does that at all remind you of why Democrats flamed out and why Republicans are not ahead in the Senate 57-33?
Thank You Mitch McConnell
Few recognize the time to move on. Look no further than Biden.
I suggest it’s time to thank McConnell for his service. And it’s also time for McConnell to move on. And he has.
So, Mitch McConnell, on behalf of those of us who do not hold pointless grudges, thank you for your efforts in delivering numerous conservative justices and a Senate majority that Trump can work with.
By the way, let’s review my January 4, 2023 statement “The fact is, you are all a bunch of damn hypocrites who only want balanced budgets when the Democrats hold the White House.“
Watch these tea-party hypocrites all throw in the towel now that they are in power.
Anyone care to disagree?
Addendum
Some of us (very few it seems) are willing to praise actions we like, and pan actions we don’t.
Others (sadly the majority) trash people instead of ideas and will vilify (as the Democrats are doing now) everyone who is not totally on board.
Look no further than Trump and some of his appointments now.
Some of us (very few it seems) are willing to praise actions we like, and pan actions we don’t.
Others (sadly the majority) trash people instead of ideas and will vilify (as the Democrats are doing now) everyone who is not totally on board.
Look no further than Trump and some of his glowing appointments now.
Does reposting the same post an hour later make it more true?
Here’s an idea: support your party’s candidates in close races. Great idea, just not McConnell’s.
Here’s an idea: support RINOs in your DC backyard cesspool. Stupid idea, but McConnell’s all the way.
Recruiting and supporting Larry Hogan tells you all you need to know about CCP McConnell and his two children.
A lot of political topics on MT are being filed under the heading of economics. Since republican 2025 to 2028 defining fiscal policy will likely resemble that of the Hoover era ( declining deficit spending/GDP ratios in recessionary periods), that may be appropriate.
EVERYTHING that THEY DO is concocted, and nothing is particularly clever.
The OBVIOUS goal of all of these open and otherwise secret (995% OF THE PRESS RELEASES ARE COORDINATE BETWEEN THE PARTIES, WHICH IS OF COURSE A UNI-PARTY).
Is anyone else sick to death of the secret meetings that are then celebrated as 3-D chess when in fact these deals are cut with ease.
What is NOT debated ARE THE CUTS. I am sure that the splits are even-stephen between the party leadership.
ALL of them agreed to the endless “war” funding – – esp the proxy ones, UKRAINE and PALESTINE.
All that is left are WHEN Taiwan and Iran “wars” will be fought by someone else and billed to US.
Wrong again Mish. We hate Mitch because he supported the non border bill, and is a war hawk that keeps sending money to Ukraine. Looking at the sweeping red wave, I’d assume an idiot could have won the Senate for Republicans. Its even possible Mitch lost us some seats. Also, I could care less about Lake. I think most people outside of Arizona feel the same way (and maybe inside of Arizona).
Some of us (very few it seems) are willing to praise actions we like, and pan actions we don’t.
Others (sadly the majority) trash people instead of idea and will vilify (as the Democrats are doing now) everyone who is not totally on board.
Look no further than Trump and some of his glowing appointments now.
I’m willing to praise actions I like, and forgive people on mistakes. What I’m not willing to do is support a politician who sells the U.S. down the river to support wars and killing in a different country that has no real effect on us (I know we can argue the effect of Russian aggression). Especially because the polls showed he was going against the wishes of the Republican party voters. Though I can’t prove it, I’m sure he was making money off of it. I believe that is evil and I cannot overlook that. So we want to praise his actions of supposedly winning the Senate for the Republicans? We can’t really prove his actions actually had an effect. I’m also for transparency. He clearly is afraid of the new Trump Republicans so he’s looking for a secret vote. What about Transparency? We should be able to see exactly the way each Republican votes for the Senate Leadership, so they can be held accountable for that vote. He’s trying to hold on to the old Republican Guard. I can’t believe you would be supportive of this guy Mish. He stands against everything I would think you stand for.
“..What I’m not willing to do is support a politician who sells the U.S. down the river to support wars and killing in a different country that has no real effect on us..”
But that’s exactly what many of those criticizing McConnell are willing to….
The not-sell-the-US-down-the-river faction, hasn’t had meaningful representation in the GOP since Ron Paul ran. And have hardly even had any in the Libertarian Party.
Paul aside, both Democrats and Republicans haven’t had any other policy than having The Fed steal what’s left of America from those who built it, and then hand it to them and theirs. Such that they can then take all that loot and sell bit it, and the country which was once capable of producing it, down the river. It’s what those parties, and all those they are made up of do.
And, given that doing so is their job, it at least appear McConnell has been well above competent at performing it.
“..I’d assume an idiot could have won the Senate for Republicans.”
53 of them just did….
It does appear McConnell is pretty darned good at the tactical aspects of his job, though. It is far from a given that whatever ragtag bunch shouted loudest for Trump in the primaries, would be able to also carry the general. McConnell does see to have had a significant influence as a curator of the Trumublicans.
Of course he does work in a country where “both” parties’ sole aspirations ultimately do not extend beyond ever more desperate and contrived ways of convincing, and forcing, an ever less literate electorate to accept that 2+2 is indeed 5, just because a privileged class of Fed welfare recipients insist it is. So it will never be hard for his detractors to find arguments against him. But judged on performance within the framework he does operate in, he does seem to have been pretty darned effective/good at it.
Under Harris/Biden : between 2020 and 2025 the expected rent of existing leases might rise 50%/60% (if 2025 rent will rise 10%), along with house prices. Pickup trucks are up 50%. Trump supporters who drive to walmart with $60K/$80K trucks are struggling to pay their monthly bills. Ford and GM sucked Trump’s supporters to finance Biden’s EV. That’s the real inflation, not the cpi.
You are spreading misinformation. Inflation is an increase in the money supply relative to what the money can be exchanged for. Think of a balloon inflating. Inflation is not rising prices, and it is not companies overcharging consumers to generate the capital to comply with a government mandate. Lament for us again how it was unfortunate that there was no Fed prior to 1913 to prevent booms and busts (aka the business cycle).
No one gives a shit about WHAT causes PRICE INFLATION, which is what he talking about.
YOU knew that, RIGHT? PRICE INFLATION IS STICKY.
Now, we all adjust our expectations for STEAKS to COST $120 eaten out and $85 for a family of four at home.
Eggs are up 400% in four years.
STICKY!
Nice comeback, DH!
Home prices in most of the US are pretty darn sticky given how high mortgage rates are. So are property taxes & insurance rates.
Legit!
Sticky prices was not part of neither The Garden of Eden nor The Big Bang.
Prices are sticky, and increasing, BECAUSE and ONLY BECAUSE increasing amounts of money is being printed up. There is NOTHING natural about it. It is NOT an economic “law”. Just as The Philips Curve is not. Both those; as well as ALL the rest of “empirical” so-called “economics”, is NOTHING other than entirely arbitrary, made up pap.
No Fed, $20/oz: And I can absolutely guarantee you that steaks eaten out will not cost 6 ounces, Nor will pickup trucks cost 3000-4000 ounces.
And neither will America have neither a deficit nor much in the way of debt. Nor will it be wasting trillions of Americans’ hard earned dollars building bomb craters all around the world for no other reason than enriching and empowering idiots too dumb and useless to hack it on their own.
IOW: The solution to the supposed “sticky prices” problem, is exactly the same as the solution to the “America is now nothing but a sh!thole” problem: End The Fed, $20/oz.
Money supply up/ tariffs reduces money supply flow. The globalist are worse than communists. Both want one system to dominate the world. The globalist invade sovereign nations rights, tell them what to do, prevent loans if they disobey. The globalists tell nations to put their walls down/build a bridge for the IMF and the Chinese fangis…
AND: they are fighting tooth and nail to retain power.
I’ve never understood the utter lack of gratitude by conservatives and libertarians for having single-handedly blocked Obama from having made any court appointments for most of his last year in office, which paved the way for Trump to select many more originalist/constitutionalists during his first year than would have been possible without McConnell’s brilliant move. Oh, and an extra spot on the Supreme Court, too.
While I’ve had issues with him, compromise is essential. Only children and those who think like children do not understand this.
LET’S be clear: most voters are ADULTS in age and CHILDREN in mental development.
He’s bad news and has screwed over conservatives his entire career with the neocon agenda. We get the worst speakers who cave on every issue. Dems never do that. He also primaries real conservatives with a neocon. Glad to see him go.
I am not going to lick his balls such as what some people have done. That old fuck is salty in more than one day. McConnell is a criminal.
So is everyone else. So pick the crimminal that will do the least damage and be quiet.
Yes, I will shut up. Thanks for the reminder.
I am not a fan of the Turtle. He did do well on judicial appts under Trump but I am really PO’d for his failure in AZ to support Lake. There is a huge amount of corruption here and her opponent is a 100% voter with Biden as well as being the son of a convicted cartel lawyer. I guess the turtle is OK with Gallego winning in a state that Trump won.
Mish still does not consider WSJ as a disinformation journal that has been blatantly anti-Musk and anti-Trump
I doubt that MISH IS THAT naive. Well, maybe?
Wow…I came by here to humble brag about bitcoin, I bought more this weekend and it’s already up 8% but I read through the comments and there’s a civil war brewing between MAGA and not-MAGA-enough already and trump’s not even in office yet. Lol! With these kind of friends who needs enemies?
Anyway the blackrock bitcoin ETF surpassed their gold one in value and bitcoin is now worth more than all the silver in the world. Thanks, Trump.
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“Many Republicans want someone who will worship Trump. Period. It’s that scorched earth attitude that has cost Republicans at least four Senate seats.”
I could not disagree more. What voters want is a unified GOP. Cornyn is a turtle clone & Thune is a snake. Both will work overtime to undermine Trump. We want bold & decisive action with regards to MAGA. What Trump needs to do is go very public with a Scott endorsement with a scorched earth speech. He needs to remind these nimrods that he’s the one who got almost 75M votes. He needs to remind them that the turtles & the snakes of the world are on the way out.
Jump on the train or expect to be replaced. Now is not the time to play nice. Trump needs to set the stage within the party, and again be very public about it making sure the public notices. GOP Senators who work against MAGA need to be punished at the ballot box. He needs to draw a line in the sand and remind them that this is the moment in time that the GOP pivots and bends the knee to the electorate.
McConnell was not all that different from Newt Gingrich. Both were polarizing characters who pushed through pro-Republican change, Gingrich on a “Contract With America” basis and McConnell behind the scenes. The Republican Party does not honor its elder statesmen very well, including the dismissal of Karl Rove, George W. Bush’s political strategist.
In fact, the only Republican who seems to be honored is Ronald Reagan. Reagan’s massive budget deficits have been all but forgotten, and he takes credit for the collapse of the Soviet empire — a wholly internal collapse that was unrelated to the outer world, regardless of Republican posturing. (The Soviets wanted OUT of their system for decades, but were trapped in it. It took a reformer General Secretary to unleash the pent-up demands for change, which may have been what the Soviets were banking on when they selected him.)
Reagan, who has an airport named after him, was jovial and charming, and apparently those two traits are enough to get you historical cred on the Right. When the space shuttle exploded, he approached the situation with an actor’s gravitas and somberness. McConnell lacks Reagan’s personal characteristics and suffers accordingly.
You can read more of my writings by going to: dark-dot-sport-dot-blog where -dot- represents a period .
Utter horseshit. And stop pimping your dead blog on here
Are you one of the “writers” who lost their job at the rag they call The Washington Post?
The people who elected Trump don’t want that old GOP horseshit – whether it’s trying to police the planet, or Chamber of Commerce “free” trade without any fairness or reciprocity. It’s not just about relative tariffs – although that’s a factor. It’s the kind of non-tariff trade barriers that make selling US cars in Japan a virtual impossibility. If GOP elders are pieces of shit like Dick Cheney or his vile daughter, why should they be honored? McConnell did a few things right – some of them important, but if hopes to continue to block what the people want, he can go f*** himself.
Between 1985 and 1986 CL (oil) plunged. The USSR was infected by a Dutch disease and collapsed. To pay bills they liquidate their czar gold bars. Mitch supported Brutus, preached morality to Trump.
Kari Lake was a bad candidate?!? A bad candidate was Larry Hogan. McConnell and his two sycophants, Thune and Cornyn, gave gobs of money to that loser and none to Lake. Hogan lost by over 9%. McConnell and his kids are the definition of RINOs.
Yep! I looked them up. They’re right there in the Urban dictionary ; )
UNI-PARTY! COME ON, MAN. WAKE UP.
Get over it already.
not hardly – long memory about all spending and debt increases
not to mention perpetual war funding for terrorists in ukraine, etc.
Time to join joey biden for long nap
good riddence
McConnell will go down in history as a deep state operative and traitor to his country.
McConnel slow walked all of Trumps appointments. McConnell refused to ever put the Senate in recess for 4 years. There are more than 1000 appointments that need confirmation. Dems can slow walk it. McConnels GOP assisted in the slow walk. Zero times on recess in 4 years.
CIA. FBI. DOD etc. etc. all have to be confirmed. You can’t begin deconstruction without getting appts confirmed.
While nothing really changed by ousting McCarthy, i always considered him to be rather lackluster. Johnson is energetic and does well in interviews. I do think the change was positive in that regard.
I look forward to him getting his first bank account.
If McConnell weren’t crooked as a dog’s hind leg with a communist wife and relatives to match then I would agree.
the kids know
jut let them implode
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/08/2024/a-very-simple-prescription-for-democrats-just-wait
Try and offer a cogent thought now and again Rob and not just links showing you lack introspection. Be useful
C’mon man. You are totally missing the point. I don’t agree with you, but even if I did…why should Mitch get to groom and choose his replacement? Both of the leading candidates hate Trump.
How about another post where you publish the things Thune and Cronyn have said and tweeted about Trump in the past 8 years?
Mitch is taking the heat, deserved or not. But that is because the base is disgusted with his refusal to support certain candidates (and it wasn’t just AZ, look at MI and WI) but also because he wants to choose his own successor. In secret. And neither candidate supports Trump.
Mitch needs to take his Cocaine habit and his ill gotten millions and his CCP controlled wife and crawl into his KY safe space.
Hakeem the regime change ousted McCarthy. He might oust Mike Johnson. PA might flip to senator Casey after a recount by Nov 26. JD Vance is Trump’s baby. Great article about the value of compromise by LBD Mitch McConnell.
I disagree.
Too much whitewashing of McConnell as he waited far too long to get onboard a very obvious Train that had a future.
Trump worked with candidates he had to work with.
Even if that meant Lake, Mastriano, OZ and Walker.
That GOP “leadership” failed at assessing their future was a primary reason that MAGA took so long to become mainstream. End result is the past Four Years worth of Biden Harris.
Even going into the 2024 election grand finale McConnell was unable to get Bush and his wing to support Trump who instead supported Harris.
The man who did get it right was Newt Gingrich. He deserves a very Large Thank You for getting on board and never shirking duty.
Turtle can now retreat back into his shell by retiring and disappear.
It was Donald Trump who dragged most of the GOP kicking and screaming over the finish line.
Same GOP who almost allowed the United States to become a one party Nation.
Newt Gingrich saved Billie and Hillary Clinton. That’s isn’t his job.
Gingrich is a Patriot, not a partisan Hack.
After the exhibition done by wicked Witch of the West Pelosi and her crew, Gingrich can be forgiven for not wanting to drag the country down that very Ugly road.
When he went to the Mat over Budget that was a battle still getting fought over today. That was about US future, not a falsely generated Hoax.
Like most things some good some bad
McConnell kept the freakshow Marrick Garland off the court and got a lot of judges on the bench, though we could do without Amy Coney Barrett
But he is wildly pro-Ukraine. So on balance he is pure evil
Oh yeah and he threatened to convict Trump ont he second bullshit impeachment if he pardoned Julian Assange
No I could not disagree more. McConnell is pure evil
And he want Cornyn to replace him. Also pure evil
Pure garbage.
McConnell is/was ALWAYS part of the problem, not the solution.
McConnell ALWAYS refused to govern (i.e. solve problems legislatively). McConnell ALWAYS wasted GOP majorities, preferring instead to do the bare minimum & slide back into his comfort zone – “leader” of a powerless minority in the Senate.
I don’t want to hear about SCOTUS justice nominations – an INTERN can do that job.
FFS… McConnell??? DIE ALREADY.
That man has been holding his nose and kissing trump’s posterior for years now. He’s a simp just like the rest here. No honor among simps, I guess…
THIS NEEDS WIDE DISTRIBUTION. PLEASE.
A MUST SEE video on the CIA as the truly most evil empire.
It is a bit over an hour long and really important.
Former CIA Officer Exposes The Shadow Government | Candace Ep 100
Watch these tea-party hypocrites all throw in the towel now that they are in power. Anyone care to disagree?
NNNNNNo. Can’t disagree with that.
But Mitch is still a creepy turtle.
Freezes more than my rural wifi. He takes the money and the honey pot wife.
Well, if Kari Lake lost because she was a bad candidate, there were Senate races in other swing states that also lost despite Trump winning in all of them–WI, NV, MI, WI, and AZ(Lake). Only PA seems to have pushed Trump and the Republican Senator across the finish line. Using the same logic they were all bad candidates. I would argue those states are as close to 50/50 as it gets, it’s been that way, and many voters came out only to vote for Trump/against Harris at the top of the ticket but didn’t translate to the statewide downballot Senate race.
Once I learned that the decision was made by the upcoming Senate majority members the rest is up to them to hash out. Generally I trust senators like Rand Paul so if he sides with Rick Scott, that’s where I would go. You’d think large population states would have an large number of majority and minority leaders but history says that’s not true — Chuck Schumer being a notable exception in recent few decades.
Whoever can get the new agenda through…or successfully shepherd a number of those initiatives through. You can bet the party that wanted to end the filibuster will be deploying it.
I’m betting they (Congress) continue to earn their single-digit approval ratings and underwhelm us at every turn.
My view of McConnell is that he was excellent on Defense but lacking on Offense. I think the R’s spent so much time in the minority they almost didn’t know what to do when they had a majority. Took a while to get back in shape. Agree about Trump’s picks of OZ and Walker. Trump is a celebrity and attracted to other celebrities. Credit for the Judiciary and for finding better, non celebrity candidates. The pity is it took Trump so long to learn it. Someone made the comment that working with R’s was like herding cats. The D’s may disagree but when push comes to shove they vote in lockstep. R’s are more if I don’t get my way on everything I’ll take my ball, go home and pout in the corner. The good part is the crazies which use to all be R’s are now showing up on the D side as well. Lets hope the lessons learned are remembered
They know what to do: Lie and grift. It’s all they know, and they’re good at it. Look at the vast army of outraged mouth breathers they’ve assembled.
Mitch got one thing extremely wrong…
“He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger,” McConnell said of Trump in the hours after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. The quote, from the book “This Will Not Pass” …made plain that McConnell thought Trump was done — and that establishment Republicans like himself did not need to do anything more to facilitate the process. “The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us.”
Yes they tried to kill him twice in last 4 months.
I don’t agree or disagree. What I know is that the only thing that can stop the runaway deficit spending is the bond vigilantes. When inflation increases enough again, there will come a time that the government will have difficulty selling Treasuries at low interest rates. Maybe soon, maybe 5 years from now.
But, I’d rather have the Trump agenda on illegal immigration, education, etc. than the Democrats more of the same.
Regarding the Senate leadership, have you read or listened to the comments by Cornyn and Thune regarding Trump over the past few years? Or Thune telling Trump to stay out of the leadership election? Both are disqualified in my book. I don’t care what Mitch has done, that’s history. I believe that the incoming Senate should be the ones voting, not the current crowd of RINO’s.
McConnell has done good things – notably refusing to let Merrick Garland get a vote after Scalia, um, met his demise. Boy, did we dodge a bullet there (Garland). McConnell and Paul Ryan (piss be upon him) hoodwinked naive Trump by not funding (and passing enabling legislation) for the wall during the first two years of Trump’s term. He also refused to allow Trump to make recess appointments. We’ll see if he’ll allow non-interventionists to get confirmed for cabinet positions. He’s said continuing to fund the Ukraine proxy war against Russia is his top priority. Elbridge Colby would make a great national security advisor, for example.
Cocaine Mitch had his moments. His time has passed.
I’m guessing this is satire.
I agree. I have never understood the anti-McConnell sentiment, especially after he pushed through a Supreme Court nominee in record time. Unfortunately, thee are some wackos in the Republican party.
McConnell was good on judicial picks but terrible on budget and budget policy. He was a big spender who pretended otherwise. He came to the Senate with federal debt at under $2 trillion and when he departs it will likely be over $37 trillion, and he has been the longest serving Republican leader. So, he can’t shift the blame on the spending as a majority and minority leader – both.