How to control Mcconnell?????

[IowaGuy]

Just spitballin' here. Clearly we have to politically put him in a box or he is just going to be going back to the delay obstruct playbook.
What if Joe publishes a plan to move the functions of the military bases in Kentucky to other states and close those Kentucky bases.
Call it the Mcconnell/Paul plan. Hang it around their neck.

Most of military brass probably wouldn't mind too much. They spend too much money on just keeping bases open they don't want or need. They would rather spend the money on weapons systems..sweeten the pot for the military by giving them a few more coins. Make the plan where there is a choice between moving to another red state or blue state. Divide and conquer. It will also strike fear into other Rethugs that their own pork will be threatened. The Senators clearly respond to fear...look at the last 4 years. Not exactly profiles in courage.

We got to play hardball with this MF. Any thoughts or other ideas?

[spooky3]

1. Win the two GA runoffs. Try to peel off Romney and Sasse and others

On certain issues.

[W_HAMILTON]

10. Yep. I'm a little perturbed at hearing so much talk about McConnell.

The Senate is still up for grabs.

We have the chance to make McConnell the leader of the minority, if they even bother to stick with him if he and his Republicans lose control.

Let's focus on that.

Republicans went into Election Night with the presidency and the Senate.

The leave Election Night without the presidency and the Senate still undecided.

Focus on that and let's win those two Senate seats in BLUE Georgia!

[IowaGuy]

29. I like your attitude, however...

no matter what, Mconnell is still going to be there and we will have to deal with his crap one way or another. He's a poo flingin' monkey and we need to mitigate that in any way possible.

[W_HAMILTON]

31. If we win control of the Senate, we can get through any appointee we want...

...any court nominee we want, any Supreme Court nominee we want, and pass most anything we want through reconciliation.

[wryter2000]

13. Unfortunately

McConnell can refuse to bring things to a vote, so trying to get R votes for bills may not work. Get a R to switch to Dem or Independent caucusing with Dems. My candidate is Lisa Murkowski.

[spooky3]

17. I like that too, but she did (probably through bribery) vote to confirm Barrett. Nt

[IowaGuy]

25. We know that is what he will do, unless....

it causes him too much pain, threatens him too much to do that. Those kind of ideas are what I'm looking for....ways to punish the MF and make him fear Joe, not for the sake of revenge (although that would be nice at some level), but as a strategy to politically castrate the motherfucker and make it unappealing from the standpoint of self preservation to get in Joe's way.

[joshcryer]

36. Win in GA, remove the virtual filibuster.

Make them actually filibuster (oh and they most certainly would, they've been having a vacation for over a decade).

[rzemanfl]

2. Win two seats in Georgia in January. n/t

[blaze]

3. JON OSSOFF AND RAPHAEL WARNOCK!! nt

[ffr]

24. +1

All they need to know. We need to put in a presidential campaign effort to get two senators in Georgia!

[Lokee11]

4. Georgia

Win those senate seats in Georgia!

FDT!

[WonderGrunion]

5. Georgia went for Biden

With proper GOTV efforts, we win the Senate.

[meadowlander]

6. He's up to his eyeballs in shady Russian and Chinese money.

Independent ethics investigation anyone?

[IowaGuy]

21. Like it (nt)

[wryter2000]

7. My idea

First, we all work our asses off to win both run-offs in Georgia. That'll take care of McConnell.

If we only win one, talk Lisa Murkowski into caucusing with the Dems. Offer her something really, really sweet.

[True Blue American]

16. We already have 2 independents

That vote with Democrats.

[wryter2000]

33. So, we'd have three

Jeffres (not remembering his first name) flipped control of the Senate when he became an independent and caucused with the Dems. Murkowski could do that. I don't trust Susan Collins, but if we could get another R, that would give us the Senate.

[True Blue American]

35. Didn't the Republicans

Reject Murkowski? She ran as a write in and won.

[wryter2000]

38. She lost the primary to a tea bagger

And she won as a write in. She voted to save the ACA. I don't know if we could get her or not, but if we only win one seat in GA, we'd only need her to get the majority.

I've signed up for Stacey Abrams organization to be a volunteer. Winning both seats in GA would be the best solution.

[True Blue American]

40. Great news!

Keep us informed. I read that Democrats need to work to help food banks and basic needs instead of wasting millions on ads! What do you think?

Good luck!

[wryter2000]

41. We have to do both

If we don't win the Senate, we won't be able to make real progress to help regular people who are hurting much more than usual now. Just imagine if Trump had been able to pull off his idea of ending the Social Security tax. Millions of old people would be in serious trouble, including me.

[True Blue American]

42. You are posting to another!

Let us see what the Supremes do to the ACA. And how the Senate plays out.

[IowaGuy]

27. I'm not real crazy about giving Murkowski that much power,

it may be necessary in the end though. I would like to try other options or strategies before we get to that point, though.

[boston bean]

8. Dig the dirt on his wife. There is plenty.

[IowaGuy]

20. Yup!! (nt)

[True Blue American]

37. Elaine is gone from the cabinet now.

Investigate that Russian aluminum plant on Ky.

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Investigate and indict his wife.

Well deserved karma after the way he obstructed Obama and the Dem agenda.

[halobeam]

11. Georgia Georgia Georgia. Jan 5 2021 - Senate run-offs... Lets get busy! :))))

[JCMach1]

14. This

[True Blue American]

12. If we can win

The 2 run offs Mitch will be toothless. I think he is seriously ill with those hands and his face.

They are talking about forming the group of 8 to get things done.

[DBoon]

15. investigate criminal activity tie to him

I'm sure there is something funny about that aluminum processing plant in KY built by Russian money

[IowaGuy]

19. You probably got something there, should probably pull on that thread.

[IowaGuy]

18. Seeing some good ideas....pinning all our hopes on winning the Senate

while hopeful, doesn't give us a plan if it doesn't work out. While I believe we can be competitive, to assume we can get either or both seats is not entirely realistic. Their were more republican votes in both races than dem. We're playing from behind.

I was more interested in peoples ideas about what Joe, the executive branch could do to fuck Mcconnell.

[Cartaphelius]

22. My vote is for a cattle prod convincer

applied liberally and as needed. Did he fall asleep? Three Zaps.

Did he piss himself following the above application on the first
Zap? Double the remaining zaps. So add an even 10 more zaps.
Just for safety sakes....

[House of Roberts]

23. Move Fort Knox to a blue state?

That'd chap their asses!

[Roland99]

44. It's now training/hr as its primary purpose

Ft Campbell strides the KY/TN border...not sure it would have much effect

[IowaGuy]

46. Actually, locals always get tripped out when there is a threat of their base closing....

loss of jobs, etc. Local economies are heavily dependent on their base. The dirty little secret is that a lot of our bases are totally unnecessary from a defensive necessity or posture. They are just government make work projects put on the back of the Defense Department because it's easier for a politician to look like they supporting funding for the military rather than a "socialist" make work project. Losing that level of pork is a big threat to any politicians career.

[Bad Thoughts]

26. Keep Chao as Sec of Transportation

Biden doesn't need to ask for her resignation. Allow her to continue in her post. It will be more exciting than retiring.

[DeminPennswoods]

28. That's an interesting idea

Keep the camel inside the tent p-----g out.

[IowaGuy]

32. That's some 4D chess thinking, makes her immediately available for Congress subpoenas

She would probably quickly resign and I wouldn't be surprised if she ran to another country. But it sure would put the spotlight on Mconnell. Hell we might actually get an Infrastructure week that actually did something... LOL.

[In It to Win It]

30. Win the senate races in Georgia

[WyattKansas]

34. Crawl up his ass with a microscope and publish everything out of place.

Expose the smarmy evil bastard for what he really is... A crooked SOB.

[MyNameGoesHere]

39. 333 Indictments, 50 congressional investigations, fire his wife.

[Ilsa]

43. Hypnotism or blackmail?

Just kidding. Maybe.

[Sogo]

45. Work your ossoff for Ossoff and Warnock!!

That's how we'll control McConnell.

[Generic Brad]

47. Convince Trump the GOP Senators let him down

If he thinks McConnell & Company double crossed him, he will command has cult to not turn out for the two GA senate runoff elections.

[IowaGuy]

49. LOL...like it

[Prince99]

48. Wedge issues him for short term

We need to push the CARES package immediately. His waffling will allow us to hang that as wedge issue for Georgia. Some of this will be on Dump not agreeing to any new CARES deal but by association we can tag him with it and make it a case for the election.

If he agrees to our terms, the more the better that need help. I say he will roll dice and not agree to a deal because Dump will not sign it.

[IowaGuy]

50. Good thought...I like it.

[IowaGuy]

51. A lot of these replies are focusing on getting 50 Senators in the DEM caucus....

while certainly preferable to not being in the majority...that doesn't automatically make DEM priorities a slam dunk. It essentially gives any individual DEM, independent or R who caucuses w/ the DEMS veto power over a DEM agenda item. We don't have to go into any discussion about who's a DINO or not here, just accept that they do exist and can and will probably present problems.

We need a way to hamstring Mconnell and his fellow rethugs so they don't act as a cohesive unit. This diminishes the power of any individual DINO if there are a significant number of Rethug senators that are not afraid of the turtle and would rather act as independent agents.