Mitch McConnell gets $3700+ PER WEEK salary for doing abolutely NOTHING for his constituents.

[diva77]

And that's not even factoring in all his expenses and $millions (or $billions?) in shady deals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaries_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress

$3700+ of our taxpayer dollars per week being used for the unraveling of our government and making it barely recognizable with his sadistic policies and obstructionism.

[Blue Owl]

1. Hey Mitch go play with dynamite

n/t

[Hekate]

2. As far as I can tell, he brings home the pork, bigly. His wife is a member of Trump's Cabinet...

...and she runs a special division just for the State of Kentucky and Mitch. Elaine Chao makes sure all kinds of special contracts go to Kentucky. No other State, Senator, or Congressman gets that kind of special attention.

In any case, it remains very hard to unseat someone who can do that. Their citizens’ health and education levels may be abysmal, but there you have it.

[diva77]

3. I wonder whatever became of ethics investigations regarding the conflict of interest.

[Hekate]

4. IOKYAR, remember?

Nearly everybody eventually takes some advantage of loopholes, but it takes a Republican to turn corruption into an international franchise.

[diva77]

5. Thanks for the reminder.

The rethugs seem to be behaving, once again, as if the election's in the bag already.

[Hekate]

7. They know Trump is virtually guaranteed to lose (barring a Moscow Miracle) so they are going to...

...loot, pillage, and burn on their way out.

[PSPS]

6. The only "constituents" that count to Moscow Mitch are those with bags of cash

In other words, oligarchs and the kremlin

[diva77]

8. So true. I'm reminded of this interview with Jane Mayer

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/842715448/jane-mayer-on-how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief

[BigmanPigman]

9. He was the winner of both Robert Reich's and my DU poll today.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213873663

[diva77]

11. Have you got a link to Reich's poll?

[BigmanPigman]

14. It was on a video on DU yesterday.

The results of the poll are at the 30 min mark.

[diva77]

16. Thanks!

[BigmanPigman]

15. It was on a video on DU yesterday.

The results of the poll are at the 30 min mark.

[jls4561]

10. You and Andy Borowitz think alike, Great minds....

Borowitz: Americans Oppose More Payments to a Man Who is Not Working

Satire from The Borowitz Report
Americans Oppose More Payments to Man Who Is Not Working

By Andy Borowitz
August 8, 2020
Mitch McConnell
Photograph by Tom Brenner / Getty
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Americans are vehemently opposed to issuing more government payments to a Kentucky man who has not been working during the coronavirus crisis.

According to reports, the man has been receiving a weekly check amounting to over three thousand dollars for doing nothing, all at taxpayers’ expense.

Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of a watchdog group called Americans Against Waste and Abuse, called the payments to this non-working individual “nothing short of scandalous.”

“If you do the math, he is receiving checks that add up to $174,000 a year,” Dorrinson said. “Under those circumstances, what is his incentive to work?”

Dorrinson said that the payments the man has been receiving should be cut off “immediately” and sent to someone who is providing essential services during the pandemic, like a health-care worker or first responder.

As for the Kentucky man, Dorrinson said, “It’s time for him to stop living off the government and show some personal responsibility.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/americans-oppose-more-payments-to-man-who-is-not-working?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Borowitz_080820&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be5ca70fbd2976368715f24&cndid=49787632&hasha=22ffff498c4858274348f4b4acc455d6&hashb=599bbf974bf4cade7ccd0536c884e7c4a3ad5d98&hashc=24a04332b8c3582bbccd0342f89e84f1dbcb2b6847011fce0a30cc3f0acd9c66&esrc=article-newsletter&utm_term=TNY_Borowitz

[diva77]

12. McConnell is so outrageous it's hard to draw the line between full out rant and satire.

[DavidDvorkin]

13. And they keep voting for him

Chickens voting for foxes. It's America's curse.