Under a Democratic president, McConnell vows a return to total obstruction

[steve2470]

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/under-a-democratic-president-mcconnell-vows-a-return-to-total-obstruction

If a Democrat wins the presidential election in November, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already promised what he’ll do.

“If I’m still the majority leader in the Senate think of me as the Grim Reaper. None of that stuff is going to pass,” McConnell said while speaking to community leaders in Owensboro, Ky.

McConnell noted that if Republicans win back the House or President Trump wins reelection “that takes care of it.” But he pledged that even if Republicans lose the White House, he would use his position as majority leader to block progressive proposals…

“I guarantee you that if I’m the last man standing and I’m still the majority leader, it ain’t happening. I can promise you,” McConnell added.

Bastard, no surprise.

eta: my bad, this is not new, from https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/440041-mcconnell-pledges-to-be-grim-reaper-for-progressive-policies , 04/22/19

[madaboutharry]

1. McConnell is the worst person in the world

just about every day.

[jberryhill]

2. Has he scheduled some sort of Senate elimination death match tournament?

[Aussie105]

3. McConnell has a death wish?

Is he really that stupid?

Is he really saying, if a democratic president shows up, you'd have no choice but to shoot (*) me, because things just won't work while I'm around?

With that level of hate, he is totally disqualifying himself from the job anyway. He is not an immovable object, bigger men that him have crumbled and blown away as dust in the wind.

(*) Shoot or retire him to a non-significant role, either way, I don't care.

[Meadowoak]

4. McConnell is going to lose his Senate seat. We are working very hard here in KY to

Get Amy McGrath elected.

[MontanaMama]

5. I'll donate to her again.

It’s good to hear Amy has support in KY.

[Aussie105]

7. I hope that happens.

I really do!

[Golden Raisin]

15. Could you also start work on Rand Paul?

Two of the very worst.

[Amishman]

23. Rand Paul has random moments of non-fuckwit behavior

He has been decent at times on criminal justice reform.

The bar is really low, so I'd say he is better than half the Pubs in the Senate. Most of them are all awful all the time.

[Captain Zero]

19. I've told Indiana Dem Party we need to put together some buses to come down to KY and canvass

for McGrath some weekends this fall.

[Bettie]

26. Have you had the primary?

She's the one going up against him?

[yonder]

6. "it ain't happening" can be taken to the bank,

but not in the way the dried out, old Testudines thinks. It's way past time for him and his ilk to be gone.

[Aussie105]

8. The electorate giveth, the electorate taketh away.

Older politicians forget they are in power due to the will of the voters.

They firmly believe in their innate superiority, and their power is ordained by God, and immutable.

Joy if McConnell can be proven wrong on that last part.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. He'll see the truth when Amy McGrath beats him. The old bastard! n/t

[world wide wally]

10. We're on a mission from God

[kysrsoze]

11. What's the difference with what that fuck's doing right now? 400+ bills sitting.

[struggle4progress]

12. "I just plan to collect my salary while doing nothing productive"

[Grasswire2]

13. MUST FLIP THE SENATE nt

[smirkymonkey]

14. Fuck you, Moscow Mitch!

You are toast in November.

[beachbumbob]

16. like another captain obvious time and makes the outcome of Nov way more pressing

we NEED to end GOP control on every fricken level in this country

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Vote him out!

[CousinIT]

18. And that's different than his normal mode of operation...how?

Plus, who says he'll be Maj. Leader? Or be there at all?

All that said, McConnell has been the single most destructive element in Congress for decades. It's time for him to GO.

I suggest replacing him with HER: https://amymcgrath.com/

[BSdetect]

20. A clear violation of his oath of office?

[jmowreader]

21. You realize what would be the second-most-optimum thing?

THe most optimum thing would be for the good people of Kentucky to vote McConnell’s useless ass out of the Senate. But...let’s say we retake the majority in the Senate, keep the House and put a Democrat in the White House, and McConnell somehow gets reelected.

Step 1: Invoke the Nuclear Option so McConnell can’t interfere.
Step 2: In the first 30 days, re-file all the legislation McConnell killed during the Obama Administration. It gets passed by Congress and signed by President Biden.
Step 3: In the next 30 days, re-file all the legislation McConnell killed during this Congress. It gets passed by Congress and signed by President Biden.

We can easily do 12 years worth of congressional business in two months.

[Volaris]

22. Agreed, and it would have the added bonus of making MAGAt heads explode...

McConnell will go on faux nuwz and cry about how unfair it all is, that the Ebil Democrat Majority is sooooo partisan and just doesnt 'reach across the isle' for OUR input...

Whatever, Traitor.

'Yertle the Turtle King, HAD A GREAT FALL...' is the moral of the story.

Fuck Moscow Mitch.

These people have been with us since the failure of Reconstruction. C'mon, America, and let's SOLVE THAT PROBLEM,
once and for all.

[jmowreader]

24. You do know, of course...

...that it is not the Democrats' fault that THIS is the anthem of the Republican Party:

[Drahthaardogs]

25. McConnell better pay attention to stopping "the corona"

Because his age and health issues make him very vulerable.

[Bayard]

27. PPFFFTTTT!!

Like he's going to get re-elected!

Not happenin', ya bastid!



Go Amy!

[Me.]

28. Hope His Opponent Makes An Ad Of That

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. I guarantee you that if I'm the last man standing

You may well be,

[Baitball Blogger]

30. There is very little damage that McConnell can do when he'll be voted out and

will spend the rest of his disgraced life in a lazyboy with a remote control in one hand.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

31. So many good people who die every year.... but yet..... nt