How does Mitch McConnell escape with so little criticism?

[kentuck]

Without his complicity and support, Donald Trump could not continue to threaten our nation and every person in it, including those misguided sheep that follow him.

It was Mitch McConnell that dismissed the impeachment trial in the Senate, without a witness. He stabbed our system of checks and balances in the back and the House of Representatives, led by Speaker Pelosi, was left holding the bag and realizing they were only one-half of one-third of the three branches of government.

Mitch McConnell made Donald Trump possible. He also made two Supreme Court Justices possible. He rationalizes and justifies that it was worth it. That is how he wanted history to remember him.

But, not unlike a turtle, he crawls into his shell and hides from everyone. Out of sight, out of mind, I suppose? So far, it seems to have worked for him?

[Le Roi de Pot]

1. He just withdraws inside his shell whenever he feel threatened

Flying below the radar is his speciality

[Dios Mio]

18. Exactly.

Trump hasn’t the skill to do that. With Stephen Millers help he keeps walking into walls.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. Trump and his ego keep him from withdrawing into a shell

He would not know how to do that in any way shape or form,

[Dios Mio]

25. Yeah, that's more to the point.

[Ferrets are Cool]

21. That was my first thought. nt

[doc03]

2. That is what the people of Kentucky want a Mitch McConnell and a Rand Paul

two of the biggest scum bags in Washington.

[Kaiserguy]

12. We will have the answer

as far as Mitch goes in a couple of months

[mucifer]

3. he's an evil genius

[spanone]

4. mitch is a profile in cowardice

[apnu]

5. In a word: Kentucky.

But you know this kentuck. You're a smart person and pose excellent points daily here.

So long as Kentucky allows him to sit in the Senate, he has no obstacle Nationally.

[Buckeyeblue]

7. Correct. Senate leaders are only beholden to their states.

Kentucky won't hold him accountable so the rest of the country can't hold him accountable.

[JI7]

6. Because the Media likes to do the both sides bs .

[ariadne0614]

8. The question becomes, what is wrong with the citizens of Kentucky? n/t

[malaise]

9. Great question

He is a disgrace to the Senate

[mcar]

10. I have never understood it

Media always gives him a pass.

[Enoki33]

11. Suspect one day the turtle will suddenly realize he sits atop a

fence post wondering how the hell he got there. His lifelong worship of money and power will not help him get down.

[beachbumbob]

13. how do you come up with this? Everyhere I read is heavy criticism of McConnel's Senate leadership

[abqtommy]

15. You betcha! Never forget that Mitch has friends in low places*...

* Garth Brooks

[ehrnst]

17. +1000.

[JoeDuck]

14. He is criticized, just not enough.

Quite a few of us in Kentucky are very critical of Mitch McConnell. There is no such thing as enough criticism of this enabler. We think he has a good challenger in veteran Amy McGrath. We acknowledge that it is hard to unseat an incumbent who is so powerful.

[beachbumbob]

16. Kentucky has there own problems and many are tied to state of denial

[Lonestarblue]

20. Mitch brings in some jobs before each election, as he did with the Russian investment last year.

He also ensures that the military in Kentucky get a big slice of the pie. Mitch’s overall approval ratings have never been particularly high, but he always wins because he has built up a large organization that gets out his vote.

One of the things McGrath should use against Mitch is his statement that states should be forced to go bankrupt instead of getting federal help. It needs to be explained that if a state can’t pay its bills, then state employees like firefighters, police, and teachers will be laid off. Those people are in every community.

The other thing McGrath should focus on is clean energy jobs. Coal jobs are not coming back, and voters need to be reminded that if they want jobs in oil production they’ll need to move to places like Texas or Oklahoma. Alternative energy jobs can be located anywhere. Mitch supports fossil fuel companies with big tax breaks, which means he is not supporting Kentucky. Bloomberg had a good article yesterday about why Exxon was removed from the Dow index. The gist was that it’s the beginning of the decline for big oil because the world is moving away from fossil fuels.

Kentucky’s farmers have also been hurt by Trump’s trade wars with China. McGrath should remind people that the Constitution says Congress has complete authority to set tariffs and regulate commerce with foreign nations. But with Mitch in control, that power has been ceded to the president to do anything he wants. Obviously Mitch is not solely responsible for this, but he certainly did nothing to stop it and reassert Congressional control, especially as Trump’s policies just caused more and more damage.

[JoeDuck]

30. She knows all of that.

Amy McGrath knows those things and uses them against McConnell. The affected groups know it too but I suppose it's like people who support Trump: They want to believe him and when he tells them all the good things he will do for them next time -- all the good things he has failed to do during his much-too-long senatorial seat at the trough -- it's like Lucy with the football. They believe him this time. I really want McGrath to kick his wrinkled ass in November.

[Kid Berwyn]

22. Money

He makes it for those who put him where he is. Like Putin.

GOP campaigns took $7.35 million from oligarch linked to Russia

Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.

Ruth May,
Dallas Morning News, Aug. 3, 2017

Party loyalty is often cited as the reason that GOP leaders have not been more outspoken in their criticism of President Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Yet there may be another reason that top Republicans have not been more vocal in their condemnation. Perhaps it's because they have their own links to the Russian oligarchy that they would prefer go unnoticed.

Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.

During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard "Len" Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent senators. Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.

Marco Rubio's Conservative Solutions PAC and his Florida First Project received $1.5 million through Blavatnik's two holding companies. Other high dollar recipients of funding from Blavatnik were PACS representing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at $1.1 million, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham at $800,000, Ohio Governor John Kasich at $250,000 and Arizona Senator John McCain at $200,000.

Continues...

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/gop-campaigns-took-7-35-million-from-oligarch-linked-to-russia/

Same for Murdoch. Otherwise, McConnell would be out of his luck, like most everybody else.

[heckles65]

23. Kentucky's senators make me nostalgic for Jim Crow Democrats...

yes I know they sat on a system maintained by terror, but the genuinely cared for some poor people, e.g. white poor people. McConnell and Paul have only concern for the rich. How does the state with the sixth worse poverty rate manage to elect these two? And what is Ayn Rand Paul doing in the Senate anyway? Shouldn't he be out inventing a motor run on static electricity?

[DallasNE]

24. Correct

With Donald Trump it is what he does. With Moscow Mitch it is what he doesn't do, for the most part.

[UCmeNdc]

26. Correct! No one mentions Mitch McConnell and how he has cheated and bilked the Tax payers!

[dlk]

27. The mainstream media gives the grim reaper a pass

For the most part, they are his enablers.

[mjvpi]

28. You obviously don't live next door to me! MITCH McCONNELL IS DEVIL SPAWN!

His "leadership style" has functionally killed our democracy. If no bill is introduced until a majority approves it, then there is never any real need to honestly debate and compromise. All that remains is ever increasing polarization. McConnell is a ratfucker.

Now that I got that out of my system, I agree with you 100%. The press basically gives him a pass.

[mountain grammy]

29. I've never understood it..

maybe, being from Kentucky you could help us understand...

[helpisontheway]

31. People pretty much leave him and his corrupt wife alone..bt