12 bills the GOP is refusing to work on because of impeachment

[turbinetree]

By Josh Israel -
September 26, 2019

After months of Mitch McConnell blocking virtually all legislation in the Senate, Republicans are now blaming the impeachment inquiry for their legislative impotence.

While conducting oversight of the Trump administration, the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has managed to pass more than 400 pieces of legislation since the start of 2019. The vast majority of these have been blocked by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell has bragged about his blockade, calling himself the "Grim Reaper" and gleefully refusing to take any action to stop gun violence, protect the planet, improve the nation's health care system, protect LGBTQ people from discrimination, or ensure equal pay for women.

Now that the Democratic majority in House of Representatives has launched an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump's apparently illegal attempts to enlist a foreign government to provide opposition research for his 2020 campaign, Trump and his defenders in Congress have embraced a new dishonest talking point: blaming their unwillingness to act on impeachment.

Trump previewed this approach a May. Angry that the Democrats were doing their constitutionally required oversight of him and his administration, he stormed out of a meeting with Democratic leaders, vowing he would not do anything to improve the nation's crumbling infrastructure unless they stopped investigating him. He has so far been true to his word, doing nothing to improve roads, bridges, dams, or anything else.

In the past few days, congressional Republicans have attempted to convince the American public that because the House is investigating Trump's Ukraine scandal, all of their opportunities to legislate are now dead. These include:

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FUCK YOU MOSCOW MITCH with your attempt of deflection...............................

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough

[TwilightZone]

1. I understand blind partisanship being a thing...

but I'm a little surprised that more people don't get annoyed with McConnell's open refusal to do his job for the past ten years and vote him and some of his compatriots out.

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...for visibility...nt

[Pachamama]

3. They weren't working on it before - this is just a lame lying excuse of why they aren't

Meanwhile - I am looking forward to watching the House Dems continue working away on bills and bringing them over to the Senate and Moscow Mitch continue to ignore....

The GOP voters will wake up one of these days (especially in Kentucky) will wake up hopefully soon and see what is really preventing things from "working" in our Government....

[bdamomma]

9. isn't that the truth.

Kentuckians need to throw this bastard out. Amy McGrath I think I will give her a little donation.

[mikeysnot]

4. MM PB

[bdamomma]

8. love it too bad

we couldn't put that on a billboard. Or is there one already.

[TheRealNorth]

5. They are petulant teenagers

Looking for someone to blame for why they didn't mow the lawn and do the dishes.

[ooky]

6. Every time Republicans open their mouths about legislation it is an opportunity for democrats

to respond with a list of legislation that the House has passed, while working on impeachment, then tell the voters that if they want this legislation to pass the Senate, then vote democrats into the Senate in 2020.

[bdamomma]

7. oh what the hell

McConnell was using his circular file for bills put forth before. Now they are trying to use Democrats to say bills are going through because of impeachment inquiry, give me a break.

I hate how they think of the American people not all of us are ignorant of the facts and truth, some of us do pay attention.

[Indykatie]

10. The Moscow Mitch Controlled Senate Wasn't Going to Do Jack Sh*t on The Bills Passed by the Dem House

They're just using that as an excuse to criticize Impeachment. Trump tried it too by saying that they can't work on gun legislation now because of Impeachment proceedings. Like that was really gonna happen.

[Faux pas]

11. What was their

excuse before? General assholery I guess.

[Roland99]

12. K&R!