The Final Shaming of Mitch McConnell

[deminks]

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-final-shaming-of-mitch-mcconnell/

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 Cooper’s 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 Cooper’s 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 party’s 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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For McConnell, however, there is no honor. The man who holds the seat once occupied by his mentor and hero John Sherman Cooper has used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to silence the recollection of Coretta Scott King’s warning that entrusting Jeff Sessions to uphold the rule of law would have “a devastating effect…on the progress we have made toward fulfilling my husband’s dream.”

Mitch McConnell has shamed himself and the Senate.

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[Va Lefty]

1. One has to be capable of feeling shame to be shamed

[Lindsay]

2. Exactly.

As somebody said recently, "Shamelessness is their superpower."

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Most of us have wanted to believe people like him were decent at one point.

Nope, they have never been and they show true colors now because they can, they have unlimited power and they show you who they are with it.

One party does not believe the other party has a right to exist.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. The title is wrong.......

a "final shaming" would be to see "Turtle" crawling out of the honored chambers of noble people, deprived of his seat among those who truly represented the sincere wishes for the best for our United States.

[grantcart]

7. exactly

[heaven05]

5. he's the 1933 now 2017 model german bismark who faded away in probable shame

for his part in what horror he helped unleash on the german people......he's a useless tool now....ryan is wielding the 'big stick'.

[Hekate]

6. Kick

[Lucinda]

8. KNR

[blue neen]

9. Wow. Amazing article.

McConnell has, indeed, shamed himself and the Senate.

[curiouso]

10. Where's the outrage?

I keep hearing about protesters giving members of Congress hell - Democrats as well as Republicans - but so far have not seen a report on any effort to shut down the offices of Sen. Turtle or the Speaker of the House.
Did I miss something?
I live on the West Coast, so it's not particularly convenient for me to contribute any sweat equity to such an effort, but what the hell is with those of you who live in Kentucky and Wisconsin and D.C.?
I'm not talking about showing up with a sign and hanging around for an hour or so, I'm talking about an onslaught that goes on for days, weeks, months.
Anybody got these bozos' phone numbers and email addresses?

[klook]

13. www.congress.gov (n/t)

[Perseus]

11. Does he care?

No, he does not.

[world wide wally]

12. I can't think of even ONE decent thing that asshole has ever done for this country