Mitch McConnell is breaking the Senate

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Mitch McConnell is breaking the Senate
Will the majority leader’s desire to win lead him to wreck the institution he says he loves?
Updated by Andrew [e-mail] Jul 17, 2017, 8:30am EDT

If he can pull off that fiendishly difficult task, he wins.

His prize?

The federal government will spend hundreds of billions less on health care. Spending on Medicaid, the main program covering low-income Americans, will fall dramatically. Millions of people — tens of millions, by the latest estimates — will lose their health insurance. Years more instability and bitter political conflict over health care will ensue.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/17/15970034/mitch-mcconnell-senate-health-bill

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1. As long as his wife loves her new drumph position.

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2. He broke the constitution and the nation when he refused to hold hearings

on Obama's rightful Supreme Court nominee. McConnell deserves to rot in prison for the remainder of his miserable life.

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3. That was a milestone on America's decent

into a one party dictatorship.

And they clean got away with it.

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4. One very interesting ancedote that I find particularly galling

In 2006 he publicly supported the Iraq war and assailed Democrats for their opposition. In private, he asked Bush to end the war. Now imagine for a second that Reid had engaged in this kind of behavior. Does anyone think this would have been news to someone who pays attention to public affairs? I had never heard of this until reading this.