McConnell needs to be defeated: McConnell Basks in GOP Victory on Courts

[mfcorey1]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that the current vacancies in the U.S. court system will allow President Donald Trump to have the longest impact on the future of the country and vowed to continue to push through his nominees, regardless of any opposition from Democrats.

The comments delivered to the Faith and Freedom Coalition at its conference in Washington are likely to rile Democrats, who blasted the Kentucky Republican last year for refusing to allow even a single hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

For years when his party was in the minority, McConnell employed the procedural speed bumps at his disposal to slow the flow of Obama’s nominations to the federal court system. When Republicans claimed the majority after the 2014 elections, the flow slowed to a trickle, and the majority leader left dozens of nominees to linger, including Garland.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-basks-in-gop-victory-on-courts/ar-BBCngGh?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I don't believe the voters in Kentucky fully appreciate how their votes affect the

rest of the country. They seem to be contrarians: they vote because they're AGAINST issues, not affirmatively.

[mdbl]

2. Morons on parade!

in Kentucky, most of them are in the parade, not just spectators. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have someone like mcconell ruining our government.

[oasis]

3. He'll go down just as soon as Dems retake control of the senate. I despise

the Kentucky clown with twice the intensity I had for KKK wannabe, Trent Lott.

[tomp]

4. he is guilty of violation of his oath to uphold the constitution...

...by not allowing a hearing on Garland. I hold Gorsuch to the same standard as his accepting the nomination under these conditions makes him complicit and, I think, impeachable.

[gademocrat7]

5. Mcturtle has always put party above country.

He is a greedy power hunger jerk.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Cute

That McConnell wants Donald Trump to pick Judges.

[DefenseLawyer]

7. McConnell should release his military records.

What DID you do to get discharged from basic training back in '67, Mitch?

[Maggiemayhem]

8. Hmmm Never knew this

You would think when his father-in-law's shipping company got caught with a huge shipment of cocaine that would be enough not to re-elect him, but I would bet the vast majority of Kentuckian citizens don't have a clue. Need a better way to reach these voters.

[Jim Lane]

11. McConnell says it was a medical discharge

Per this story in a conservative newspaper, "Mr. McConnell signed up for the Army Reserves in 1967 but got a medical discharge for optic neuritis, an eye condition that can cause blurred vision."

McConnell's vision for the country is certainly blurred but that probably doesn't get you out of the Army.

[mountain grammy]

9. McConnell is a magot.. plain and simple..

100% political animal with no soul.. a magot!

[BSdetect]

10. He deserves to be used as a punching bag.