'You are failing': Former GOP supporter of Mitch McConnell tears into the majority leader

[bdamomma]

https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/you-are-failing-former-gop-supporter-of-mitch-mcconnell-tears-into-the-majority-leader-for-helping-russia/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1380

article title: ‘You are failing’: Former GOP supporter of Mitch McConnell tears into the majority leader for helping Russia


snip of article:

When well-known former Republicans start goading Mitch McConnell with the moniker that clearly has him enraged, you know Moscow Mitch’s cover is blown. For years he’s been able to keep sliding under the radar, undermining the Senate, flouting the norms and traditions that kept the institution a functioning body, while the wider world paid little attention.

But that’s changed. His enthusiastic enabling of this worst, most dangerous president is one thing that’s breaking his protective shell. So is his refusal to protect the nation from enemy interference in our elections. But his disregard for human life is the last straw for a lot of people. That includes well-known former Republicans like David Weissman, who used to support McConnell, as well as Trump. In an open letter to Moscow Mitch published Wednesday in The Times of Israel, Weissman told him “if you don’t like this nickname, do your job.”



Whew, we need more of this. Moscow Mitch needs to be accountable for his dirty deeds.

[mopinko]

1. there will be more.

i see the wall cracking.
walsh, mooch, all those who retired or are not running again.
at some point thugs are gonna fight back to avoid going down w the ship.
hopefully it wont work, and they will have to change their name to try to get the stain off. but they will try. it is in the nature of rats to flee a sinking ship.

[Hortensis]

6. I watched a couple hits on Morning Joe against the

Republicans in congress, especially McConnell. They were outnumbered by the usual suggestions that Trump was the genesis of their evils by himself, but they were still specific, serious criticisms. They also included a video of the same charges from a Fox anchor.

The tide seems to be turning away from enabling destructive RW extremism, at least among some RW talking heads. Maybe consequences are biting them on the nose and making them wonder if their own children, or they themselves, will be able to vote in future.

Maybe what's happening is that it's finally becoming safe to say these things from the middle of the pack. Maybe these people are media equivalents of the retiring congressmen and senators who were part of all that's gone wrong until the day that speaking out against those still there didn't cost them anything. But still, a few of their comments today were different from theirs of the past decade. A few were amazingly honest and responsible.

[CrispyQ]

2. A DUer came up with another good name for him: Massacre Mitch.

As he waits for his "boss" to come up with gun legislation.

[calimary]

10. And don't forget Mass Murder Mitch.

That’s one that’s also good and also fits.

Might have been from me, ‘cause I’ve been applying it - um - liberally - but seriously, there are so many clever minds here that it could have been anyone’s idea.

I would not be at all surprised if it originated in this-here li’l online think tank.

[bdamomma]

21. that's very fitting

too. Mitch is a dirty dog, who can ever forget how he publicly said President Obama was going to be "a one term President" . Yes karma will be biting him hard.

[eShirl]

3. "...one thing that's breaking his protective shell... "

[empedocles]

4. The Russia scandal moneys to trump and nra should be coming public before long.

That will be a testing of more 'cons.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. He's not failing.

He stifled Obama's second term agenda, stole a Supreme Court seat, rammed through two SC Justices and hundreds of other right wing judges. He also passed a destructive tax cut, and shepherded scores of Trump nominees, including an attorney general that killed the Mueller investigation.

I only wish he had failed.

[dalton99a]

7. +1. Moscow Mitch is really doing what he is paid to do

[Haggis for Breakfast]

28. He DID fail.

He failed America - YOU AND ME - the minute he neutered the Senate.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Moscow Mitch can't be cleaned up

he's been like this since February 2016 since the Supreme Court vacancy.

[malaise]

9. MoscowMitch originated right here on DU - long before JoeScum used it

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212016433

[Hekate]

13. Heh. How's the moniker Leningrad Lindsay coming along in the public sphere?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. yep. earlier link ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11599992

There are likely earlier ones than that.

[malaise]

19. I think yours was the first and there was another one

in January. Too many folks from other places steal from DU
















in January that I mentioned a few weeks ago. Too many folks steal from DU and don't give us credit
















hi:

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. Russia to NRA to Moscow Mitch's SuperPAC

I think I started calling him Moscow Mitch when the news about all that money passing through the NRA to his PAC came out.

It's likely I read that name here on DU before adopting it.

Kentucky voters need that moniker stuck in their head in the voting booth.

[malaise]

25. It's great

Thank you

[Brainfodder]

11. The stupid greedy grunt needs hung upsidedown for treason.

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Don't give 2 shits about his safety since he's being ignoring ours!

CONSEQUENCES!

...and so no other selfish assholes ever pulls this again...

PUBLIC SQUARE this TURD!

-A proud Moscow Mitch hating SOB!

[Hekate]

14. That was Mussolini's end...

[Brainfodder]

20. Yup, at the gas station AFTER execution.

His S.O. and couple of the worst associates, the footage is out there.

Drawn and quartered and/or a used steamroller works for me too.

I really hate this SOB for what he's done.

Keep him out of my space!

Used, because ship it to the Smithsonian, right after it's heroic effort!

[MyOwnPeace]

15. I LIKE the way you think!!!!

[smirkymonkey]

18. Sounds appropriate to me.

I wouldn't shed a tear.

[Sneederbunk]

12. Dems need to go scorched earth in Kentucky 2020.

[MyOwnPeace]

16. NOT just Kentucky!

We've got to take both House, Senate, and OUR WHITE HOUSE!!!

[bdamomma]

22. We got work to do,

never underestimate/ or ignore the will of some of the American people.

[MyOwnPeace]

24. And their

Russian teammates!

[appleannie1]

26. Turtle shells can and do crack with enough pressure.

[alfredo]

27. They have found a fossilized turtle shell,

that appears to have been squashed by a Sauropod. So you think you had a bad day.

[UCmeNdc]

29. Corruption, pure and simple, corruption!