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Indi Guy

(3,992 posts)
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 02:06 PM Sep 2013

Conservative group says McConnell doing "nothing" to stop Obamacare...

Source: CBS News

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is doing "nothing" to stop Obamacare, an influential conservative organization complained in a new TV ad, urging the Senate's top Republican to show "real leadership" by going to the mat in defunding the health care law.

"McConnell's the Republican leader, but he refuses to lead on defunding Obamacare," charged the ad from the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), a well-funded outside group pushing Republican senators to fall in line behind a strategy to undo the law.

"What good is a leader like that?" The ad asked. "It's nice that McConnell voted against Obamacare, but we need real leadership to stop it now."

The ad will air between September 6 and 17 on network and cable TV stations across Kentucky, and it is backed by a $340,000 ad buy, according to the group...

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57601514/conservative-group-says-mcconnell-doing-nothing-to-stop-obamacare/



The ad:

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Conservative group says McConnell doing "nothing" to stop Obamacare... (Original Post) Indi Guy Sep 2013 OP
Well did they just come out of a coma? Turtlehead hasn't done anything on anything in years! bluesbassman Sep 2013 #1
Oh, the pain.....the pain... louis-t Sep 2013 #2
Thats right...Eat your own....I love it. jessie04 Sep 2013 #3
The only thing Repubbies do is FAIL Berlum Sep 2013 #4
well turtles are slow SummerSnow Sep 2013 #5
Watching in amusement... Indi Guy Sep 2013 #6
given how many folks will be helped iamthebandfanman Sep 2013 #7
He could lay down on the tracks in front of a freight train. gordianot Sep 2013 #8
Go ahead, Turtle, do it. Make our day. Jack Rabbit Sep 2013 #9
The Senate Conservatives Fund is Jim DeMint's creation jmowreader Sep 2013 #10
All it takes to be "influential" is money, lots and lots of money. Bandit Sep 2013 #14
Toss him under the bus...PLEASE! SoapBox Sep 2013 #11
I don't get republicans these days obama2terms Sep 2013 #12
That's right! He isn't! They need to find another candidate! I urge them to. silvershadow Sep 2013 #13
You want ANOTHER teabagger in office? jmowreader Sep 2013 #15
No. I want Alison Lundergen Grimes in office. nt silvershadow Sep 2013 #16
I think we're better off running against Yertle the Turtle down there jmowreader Sep 2013 #18
Flat earther morons....nt Evasporque Sep 2013 #17

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
4. The only thing Repubbies do is FAIL
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 02:21 PM
Sep 2013

These so-called "conservative" asshats who are whining and compaining really don't have a freakin clue.

I bet if you look into this "well funded" so-called "conservative" group you will find that ooodles of the funding comes from Big Med, Inc. and Big Pharma, Inc. and anyone else who is making massive MoneyBucks off of sick Americans. That is so "conservative" and so f*cked up.

iamthebandfanman

(8,127 posts)
7. given how many folks will be helped
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 02:26 PM
Sep 2013

by Obamacare and the expansion of Medicaid in Kentucky .. why would he actively try ?

regardless, hes a dead man walking in the world of politics..

gordianot

(15,234 posts)
8. He could lay down on the tracks in front of a freight train.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 02:27 PM
Sep 2013

Barring that extreme he could advocate defunding the Government embrace Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Maybe he could enlist Rand Paul as a political consultant make a few rousing speeches or do a really good filibuster and shut down the Senate. If all that fails he could try some character assination of his Democratic opponent in the upcoming Senate election. I think a little plastic surgery on the fat under his chin would help with his image.

All this advise is free of charge.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
9. Go ahead, Turtle, do it. Make our day.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 02:38 PM
Sep 2013

We'll take down more right wing morons than just you next year. We'll Californiaize the beltway and neither the House nor Senate will have enough Republicans in them to stop business from being conducted for lack of a quorum or prevent any bill from coming to a vote. And you won't even be one of the ones left.

All the Kochs' money and all the Kochs' men won't put the Tea Party together again.

jmowreader

(50,528 posts)
10. The Senate Conservatives Fund is Jim DeMint's creation
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 03:01 PM
Sep 2013

Their specialty is replacing moderately-insane Republicans like Mitch McConnell with teabaggers like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, both of whom the SCF is responsible for.

My question is, how did a group that's only been active since Obama's inauguration become "influential"?

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
14. All it takes to be "influential" is money, lots and lots of money.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 05:28 PM
Sep 2013

Republicans seem to have lots of that since they are experts at ripping off the National Treasury..

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
11. Toss him under the bus...PLEASE!
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 03:12 PM
Sep 2013

'Cause the ConservaTurds are SO STOOPID, that it takes them down as well.

Just keep on vomiting up shit, ConservaTurds! Please! Let America know that YOU are THE Death Panel!

obama2terms

(563 posts)
12. I don't get republicans these days
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 03:41 PM
Sep 2013

What if the law is such a huge success that in let's say 5 years there is no real issues with it? If it works not only will it make democrats look better, but it will show republicans were wrong, and were really only doing this to spite the president and not actually help people. If the law is a success they will be in a deeper hole then they already are, and they will have no one to blame but themselves. How's that for personal responsibility?

jmowreader

(50,528 posts)
18. I think we're better off running against Yertle the Turtle down there
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:42 PM
Sep 2013

Yertle's got a record we can run against.

A teabagger is like a deep fried turd or a caramel onion at a fair booth. It looks perfectly yummy. The cute girl with pigtails selling it says it's perfectly yummy. Only when you buy one and bite into it do you realize it's not what it seems.

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