German magazine "Der Spiegel" has a nick-name for Mitch McConnell: "The Destroyer"
article in german:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/us-kongresswahlen-mitch-mcconnell-wird-neuer-mehrheitsfuehrer-im-senat-a-1001083.html
"US-Wahlsieger Mitch McConnell: Der Zerstörer"
"US-election-winner Mitch McConnell: The Destroyer"
translation of some excerpts:
"For three decades Mitch McConnell has worked towards this position: He's majority-leader now in the US-Senate, the most powerful man among the Republicans. Political goals? He has none. His specialty is blockade."
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"Mitch McConnell has always been so much more than merely the opposition-leader. He was a master of the destructive, a destroyer."
"This unimposing, shyly looking man will from now on be one of the most powerful men in America. As a majority-leader, he has the maximum power for blockade, all of Congress is now in the hands of the Republicans. He can badger Obama now week by week with uncomfortable bills that can only be stopped by Obama's veto."
"But McConnell doesn't care at all about laws, he has always only wanted the position, being boss. He never had another goal: Many Senators dream of becoming President. Mitch McConnell always only wanted to be majority-leader. He had worked on that since entering the upper chamber in 1985. McConnell does not want a different America, a better one or a worse one. He does not want to do politics for either the rich or the poor or anybody else. McConnell is about McConnell. Where others have political ideologies, he has always been flexible. It brought him far in five decades of politics, further than most."
"Back then, when the Republicans were still a party with a strong moderate wing - that was a while ago - he liked to be called a feminist, he fought for the right to abortion, he fought for civil-rights."
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"But when Ronald Reagan took over the party, McConnell adapted. He had fought Reagan before that, but who cares. Now he fought against the right to abortion, tried to sabotage voter-registration, took a right-turn on all sorts of issues."
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