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Mitch McConnell made a deal with the devil for judges and tax cuts. He assured the world that Trump would be fine, that a manifestly incompetent executive was manageable because he would be able to contain Trumps worst failings. This is as much his legacy as it is Trumps.
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Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)they reassured people by saying, "Don't worry, we are hiring him."
gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)He can not escape the firestorm that is coming.
grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)and I'll say it again. McAsshole has been flying under the radar all this time except for a few instances. I understand the MSM treats him that way because they want to focus on POtuS, but he's the one who's been enabling POtuS all along. I want to see a spate of books and articles on him and his crew, and I want to see McGrath leave him in the exhaust from her afterburners .
I would even love for a next-generation Bob Woodward to discover that McAsshole is behind some illegal stuff and have him convicted and hauled off to Ryker's Island or some other place suitable for his assholiness.
crickets
(25,981 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)wouldn't go along and replace with hard-right corruptible and just plain corrupt replacements, but they've done it. No exception for Mitt Romney and his hypocrisy that he's able to support corruption and betrayal but somehow be separate from it.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)They finally have a gang that will operate in lockstep no matter how extreme the position taken by their leader.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the judiciary and governments around the nation for a long time and, with sophisticated nation state-level assistance from foreign enemies, are dangerously close to taking over.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)every single one of them is responsible for the fate of the people they represent. They should all be sued, and all their ill-gained profits confiscated. Especially the slush funds, in off-shore accounts.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)SunSeeker
(51,569 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)balls, since we can't do that with Dump. He doesn't have them. Putin has them.
Traildogbob
(8,748 posts)It would take a very tall tree and very long rope. At his turtle age those balls are hanging below his boney knees, and probably has the elasticity of a bungee cord.
certainot
(9,090 posts)Traildogbob
(8,748 posts)But it takes some fairly large balls to be an outright in your face treasonous bastard with no fear of ever being defeated, because Putin would never allow it.
certainot
(9,090 posts)tool, talk radio kingpin lmbaugh, like the dittohead trump and admin
today lmbaaugh continues to downplay corona, defend trump, and explain to 20 mil a day that it's just hype from liberal media to sell big govt
that is why it i so easy for mcconnel to look like he has any power at all - like the last 30 years - any republican who sides with dems will be named a traitor by limbauagh and on the 1500 radio stations that have to fiollow his lead
and trump just repeats the same shit
and it would be so easy to reverse this if dems just stop ignoring rw radio - the ad industry will have to break up the monopoly
Traildogbob
(8,748 posts)Medal of Freedom hero. Just hours before the orange blob interrupted "Seal Team", he was ranting hoax, librul lies, yadi, yadi, yadi. A bloated, cancerous, drug riddle, asshole guiding people to their deaths, for 50 million a year. Satin will not give a damn about the cash he takes there with him. The devil will just stoke the eternal fire pit with his obnoxious fat ass. Like whale oil, it will keep the fire good and hot till the trump family arrives.
certainot
(9,090 posts)and mara lago and studios, and talking like he knows what the 'common man' wants
a great candidate for corona death - but that would be too quick
dchill
(38,502 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)but the extent he's likely to be remembered by most Americans, it will be as a footnote.
History is largely defined by whomever was president. Or President, if Democrats.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Answer: somewhere in-between nothing and what Trump has done, which is nothing.
KPN
(15,646 posts)greedy, evil incompetent crooks. They should all be tarred, feathered and run out of town.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Trump-Republicons own this.
Republicons plowed the ground for tRump
Republicons seeded the ground with trumpanzees
Republicons created tRump as a Republ Icon in 2015-16
Republicons elected tRump candidate
Republicons endorsed tRump
Republicons voted for tRump
Republicons enable tRump
Republicons defend tRump
Republicons protect tRump
Trump-Republicons own this.