Charles Pierce: There Is No More Loathsome Creature Walking Our Political Landscape Than McConnell

[kpete]

There Is No More Loathsome Creature Walking Our Political Landscape Than Mitch McConnell
Yes, that includes the jumped-up real-estate crook in the White House.

There simply is no more loathsome creature walking the political landscape than the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. You have to go back to McCarthy or McCarran to find a Senate leader who did so much damage to democratic norms and principles than this yokel from Kentucky. Trump is bad enough, but he's just a jumped-up real-estate crook who's in over his head. McConnell is a career politician who knows full well what he's doing to democratic government and is doing it anyway because it gives him power, and it gives the rest of us a wingnut federal judiciary for the next 30 years. There is nothing that this president* can do that threatens McConnell's power as much as it threatens the survival of the republic, and that's where we are.




More:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25956710/mitch-mcconnell-op-ed-voting-bill-democrats/

[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

It's funny how so many people of Irish heritage, who have been so oppressed in their own country, end up here in this country as oppressors. McConnell, McCarthy, McCarran, Ryan, Pence, Reagan, Mulvaney, Hannity, O'Reilly, Bannon, etc. Sure, we have the Kennedys and others on our side, but most of the loudest mouthed bigots seem to be of Irish extraction.

I live in Boston where the largest block of racists are the Irish Catholics. You would think they would have more compassion having been on the receiving end of such discrimination from the English. I personally know too many Irish-American people who are fierce racists and I don't really understand it. There are definitely many of them who aren't, but the stereotype is that they are a racist, tribal bunch on the whole. I apologize in advance to those of you who are Irish or partially Irish as I realize that it is not all Irish people. I am part Irish myself, but there is a certain culture here, especially in Boston, that is very racist and right-wing.

[alwaysinasnit]

2. Charles Pierce has described exactly my sentiments regarding the Turtle. K&R

[FakeNoose]

3. He has done nothing for the people of Kentucky who vote him back every 6 years