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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 10:33 AM Apr 2017

"He has not spoken to me": Elizabeth Warren says Mitch McConnell is still angry about reading...

“He has not spoken to me”: Elizabeth Warren says Mitch McConnell is still angry about reading the Coretta Scott King letter

Warren won't say there's sexism at play, but does think there's bad blood with the Senate's GOP leader

CHARLIE MAY

Elizabeth Warren persisted, but she’s not over it.

“All I can say is the next day, four men stood up and read exactly the same letter and they all got to finish,” Warren told CBS “Sunday Morning,” referring to her silencing at the hands of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for reading a letter by Coretta Scott King in opposition to the confirmation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Warren wouldn’t say exactly if there was sexism in McConnell’s action.

Warren was also asked by CBS if she was comfortable the fact that she has been referred to as “the de-facto leader of the Trump resistance”

“Look, if it works,” she replied. “What I want to do, is I want to have every person in this country lift their voices and be heard.”

When pressed on if that meant she would run against President Trump in 2020 she said she’s not thinking about it.

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"He has not spoken to me": Elizabeth Warren says Mitch McConnell is still angry about reading... (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2017 OP
He is such a small, petty little man mcar Apr 2017 #1
Took the EXACT words from my mouth... LakeArenal Apr 2017 #4
Yes. There is real ability in the man, but Hortensis Apr 2017 #6
Childishness seems to be a common GOP trait appleannie1943 Apr 2017 #2
he's no loss samnsara Apr 2017 #3
McConnell is just making an ass of himself. Imagine that. nt raccoon Apr 2017 #5

LakeArenal

(28,729 posts)
4. Took the EXACT words from my mouth...
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 11:07 AM
Apr 2017

Small and Petty.. All of them.. Oh, let's not forget vindictive.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Yes. There is real ability in the man, but
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 12:14 PM
Apr 2017

seemingly no capacity for even adequacy as a national leader, much less greatness.

He started as a moderate conservative before Reagan, similar to Elizabeth Warren, but his positions have shifted as needed to accrue power and more power. Over 30 years devoted to self aggrandizement in in government now, and he has no legacy of achievement to honor after he's gone.

As for this behavior, I've yet to read an explanation that "pings." He has few close friends and they don't blab about him. Is he cynically playing to a right that is increasingly revving up their partisan hate against her specifically? Is he angry with her that his parliamentary maneuvering "unjustly" backfired on him by being played as sexist? Is his failure to use his power in the senate the way he always imagined turning him bitter? Paranoia, and the hostility that goes with it, is a common early sign of dementia; could that be it?

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