Mitch McConnell gives away the game: 'Kelly and David are getting hammered'

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"Kelly and David are getting hammered," Mitch McConnell told GOP senators, explicitly linking Loeffler/Perdue travails to the new stimulus compromise. This shows pressure works. But it also suggests that if Rs hold the Senate, they won't deliver again:

Opinion | Mitch McConnell gives away the game: ‘Kelly and David are getting hammered’
A stark admission about the vulnerability of Georgia's two GOP senators.
washingtonpost.com
2:41 PM · Dec 16, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/16/mitch-mcconnell-gives-away-game-kelly-david-are-getting-hammered/

Pressure works. That’s what we’re learning from the news that congressional negotiators are moving towards a deal on an economic rescue package that includes stimulus checks for individuals.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has now suggested on a private conference call with GOP senators that a key reason for this movement is that the two Georgia Republican senators, both of whom face runoffs in January, are “getting hammered” over Congress’ failure to pass a new rescue bill.

But this news doesn’t just tell us that Republicans are feeling heat from this failure. The likelihood that this played a key role in moving Republicans also underscores how unlikely they are to help the economy and the country next year, if they do retain control of the Senate.

CNN’s Manu Raju reports that on the call with GOP Senators on Wednesday, the Senate Majority Leader said that the lack of stimulus payments has become a big issue in the runoffs:

“Kelly and David are getting hammered” on the issue, he said, according to a source who heard his remarks, a reference to incumbent GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who are both facing off against Democratic challengers.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Well, GOOD. THEY DESERVE TO BE HAMMERED. n/t

[yuiyoshida]

18. This!

[SharonAnn]

45. EXACTLY!

[TomCADem]

2. The Truth is that If Loeffler/Perdue Win, McConnell Will Try to Sabotage Recovery

McConnell does not care about the people. He fears Putin more than he does his own constituents. If Loeffler/Perdue win, McConnell will just do the same stuff he did with President Obama and try to torpedo the economy in the name of austerity knowing that due to Demographics, he holds a natural advantage in holding Senate seats.

[rickyhall]

9. That's his job. Down with the turtle.

[DallasNE]

22. Even A 50-50 Senate

Presents problems with getting things out of Committee. A tie vote means it doesn't report out. But it is huge in determining what measures the Senate considers and that is where the real action is. And the first Senate opening could very well flip who controls the Senate. One reason even flipping 1 of the Georgia seats is important.

[uponit7771]

27. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

[KPN]

40. I believe you are spot on about the Putin part in

particular. Putin has had two major agents working for and with him in his quest to permanently destabilize the USA: Trump and McConnell. Most of the others are small players; they benefit from Russian $ and interference, but aren’t full agents with the exception of a relative few - like Nunes.

[trueblue2007]

3. THEY SHOULD BOTH get B e a t .... up !!!!!

lose BADLY at the polls !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[global1]

4. So The Only Reason We May Have A Compromise Stimulus Deal Is To Save Mitch's Job And Keep A Repug...

Senate?

So it's not because the People of the Country are suffering; without jobs; starving and may get evicted?

Wow!!! How altruistic the Repugs are.

Very benevolent and noble-minded.

Who would have guessed that they might come to some agreement on this deal for a selfish reason?

[Hortensis]

12. Yes. He's very likely a sociopath. @ 1 in every 20, after all,

have no conscience, life's big thrills to manipulate others for self advantage. Some get off on cruelty, but my best guess is probably not him; he just doesn't care.

McConnell's lifelong ambition has famously never gone beyond the accumulation and exercise of personal power itself. His museum in KY shows off particularly successful dishonest ads that secured his reelections, but is pathetically bare of the kind of meaningful achievement most would want to leave as a legacy of 30 years of rising to the pinnacle of congressional power.

McConnell's not the only one bringing the average way up in the Republican congressional caucuses. So, a lot of people not only guessed but expected all along.

[Laelth]

39. I've seen a study that suggests 1 in every 8 adults suffers from a Cluster B personality disorder.

Sociopathy, of course, is one of 4 Cluster B disorders, but, from what I can tell, none of them have consciences, or, more precisely, they have weak consciences that actually get weaker as they get older. I doubt Mitch feels much of anything at this point in his long life. He has to “pretend” to feel. That’s why his laugh is so creepy and unnatural. They’re all emotionally retarded, and they inevitably get more emotionally retarded as they age.

-Laelth

[KPN]

41. Sums it up nicely.

[mucifer]

5. 538s numbers don't look so good for us right now

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/georgia-senate-polls/?cid=rrpromo

I mean it could be worse. But, not trending in the right direction if it's correct.

[Rice4VP]

23. The only thing that matters is who turns out. Polls are useless

[Cosmocat]

31. Shitty, completely bullshit ads

Watched an Georgia Tech basketball game, both perdue and loffler had multiple ads. Same over the top, completely made up Democrats going to raise taxes, socialism, etc bullshit.

We just can't win these kinds of close races in places like these until we find a way to develop universal negative frames about republicans and repeat them until the become as ingrained as this shit.

This is why they win. It not only solidifies their zombie base, it flakes the "independents.,"

[Tommymac]

37. Fuck 538 and the current Poll models.

They are nothing but soothsayers and charlatans.

May as well cast chicken guts or bamboo slivers.

[DFW]

6. Where have we heard this before?

Oh, yes, now I remember-- Lindsey Graham was "worried" about getting "hammered" by Jaime Harrison in the Senate race in South Carolina. Except that he didn't.

I'll believe they're nervous on election night, when they are neck and neck, and the Atlanta area votes haven't been counted yet.

[tinymontgomery]

30. I still don't understand how that went south

All polls, even Harrison’s internals, showed neck in neck. How Graham pulled
off a 12% win is kind of weird, should be investigated.

[DFW]

33. I think the pollsters didn't venture into the right parts of South Carolina

They probably polled in Charleston and Columbia and didn't bother to canvas the backwoods parts that are spread out and where 95% of the people think Trump and Graham were chosen by God, who registered Republican 6000 years before the party was even founded.

[tinymontgomery]

47. Could be, as good as a reason as anything else

n/t

[Roc2020]

8. I live in GA, they are getting hammered mercilessly

does not mean Purdue and Loeffler will lose, but now I have moved from happy if just one of the Dems win...to both can win. The GOP are a basketcase right now.

[Different Drummer]

11. Fellow Georgian here. Can confirm what you've written. n/t

[HUAJIAO]

24. By hammered, do you mean ads, TV news/talk shows, ??

I'm not sure.....

[Roc2020]

25. Yes yes and yes...but also

timing is hammering them. Small business's is the lifeblood of GA. my line of work I talk to many owners. They are cratering and still no stimulus. Plus the GOP circular firing squad here in the State and Trump refusal to concede which is motivating Dems hand over fist. Awful timing and events for the GOP.

[HUAJIAO]

36. Thanks. That is all good to hear....

Keep on hammering !! Until Jan 5 !

[moonscape]

34. Good news from the front. Thanks. I admit to

thinking it was a mighty uphill slog, but sounds like the ground has leveled out.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Blood sucking parasites -- the Republican death cult party.

Make Moscow Mitch mad:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dufor2020runoff

A few questions: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14520874

and answers: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14520972

[keithbvadu2]

13. Don't cry for K&D. They are making money on body bags.

Don't cry for K&D.

They are making money on body bags.

[dustyscamp]

14. Maybe it's another trick like what Graham did when he was begging for money?

https://www.essence.com/news/politics/lindsey-graham-grovels-opponent-backers-hate-my-guts/

[uponit7771]

28. +1

[LaMouffette]

15. Pelosi should now ask, "What would Mitch McConnell do?" Turn the screws tighter, that's what.

And I think that's what Nancy should do. She's got them on the ropes. Demand that the bill include $1,200 cash to Americans per month for the next six months or until the majority of Americans are vaccinated. Watch the Republicans squirm.

But, borrowing from the Republican playbook, that $1,200 per month would just be a red herring. After the Republicans refused, then come back with "Okay, we'll compromise! $1,200 per month for three months!"

Just keep putting it back on them. Back them into a corner. That's what Mitch would do.

[kentuck]

16. Trump made a disastrous move...

...by tweeting that the Governor and Secretary of State of Georgia should both be in jail. That will not go unnoticed by Republicans, especially if someone reminds them.

[cayugafalls]

17. Can I get a turn holding the hammer? Just one whack is all I want...

[Roc2020]

26. LOL

[Buckeyeblue]

19. If that's the case I wouldn't be quick to compromise

Moscow Mitch should be told the Heroes act is the legislation passed by the House. Let's bring that to a vote first. If it doesn't pass we can discuss compromise. But let's get Kelly and David on the record for that first.

[Evolve Dammit]

20. Moscow Mitch: That's a real fucking shame. Your party is disgraceful and disgusting

[Rice4VP]

21. So that explains why he's all gung-ho about no one going home until they pass a bill. Thank God for

early voting

[bdamomma]

29. oh

I can make a small donation, I want to see McConnell out, Robot lady, and Chicken man out.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

32. Oh - I misunderstood

I thought he meant Kelly and David were on a beach drinking Cuervo from the neck of the bottle.

[struggle4progress]

35. Mitch says they're out drinking? Do we need more crazy drunks in Congress?

[Wednesdays]

38. K&R. nt

[Brainfodder]

42. So Mitch had determined he was about to lose his job and weasels weasel?

[Nitram]

43. The pendulum has swung the other way, and McConnell is running to catch up.

For a while, he could display strength by obstructing Democratic legislation, but now the electorate is onto him. They want results, not ideological bullshit and obstruction.

[BobTheSubgenius]

44. For a moment, I took a different meaning from "Kelly and David are getting hammered."

And I thought "That explains a lot."

[Cha]

46. Rt.. Fucking Monsters! Get the word

on the Street in Georgia!