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RandySF

(58,899 posts)
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 08:41 PM Jun 2017

Mitch McConnell Refused to Meet With Group That Funded His Polio Recovery

Say a charity group helps you recover from polio. Decades later, representatives from that same organization ask to have a word about your bill being drafted in secret that would reportedly gut healthcare for millions, including people with disabilities, while giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy. You might at least hear them out. Some people might even say that you owe them one.

Southern gentleman and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, though, apparently disagrees. As Death and Taxes recently pointed out, McConnell contracted polio as a two-year-old. As he described years later, on the 50th anniversary of the polio vaccine being introduced, polio is a virus that comes on like the flu, but can paralyze people for life. In McConnell's case, after he'd gotten over the initial illness, he had residual effects in his left quadriceps muscle.

McConnell was lucky enough that his family lived within driving distance of Warm Springs, Georgia, home to the first (and for many years, the only) hospital devoted solely to treating people with polio. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had himself been paralyzed by polio, created a charity called the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) to support the hospital and aid polio patients around the country. Comedian and radio personality Eddie Cantor called for Americans to send their spare change to President Roosevelt, in "a march of dimes to reach all the way to the White House."


https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/a3zbmz/mitch-mcconnell-polio-refused-march-of-dimes-meeting-over-senate-health-bill

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Mitch McConnell Refused to Meet With Group That Funded His Polio Recovery (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2017 OP
His hypocrisy knows no bounds. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2017 #1
This is beyond hypocrisy malaise Jun 2017 #13
He really deserves post-polio syndrome. TNNurse Jun 2017 #52
This is Fake Motownman78 Jun 2017 #2
LOL. I guess he discovered DU. PSPS Jun 2017 #5
No Snopes supports the post Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2017 #6
Right. Thanks, Yo. elleng Jun 2017 #11
As a youth, (McConnell) overcame polio. He received treatment at no_hypocrisy Jun 2017 #7
No. He was impoverished. Charity saved him n/t leftstreet Jun 2017 #10
Exactly. The very type of charity he despises today. Blue_true Jun 2017 #30
Addison "Mitch" McConnell Scarsdale Jun 2017 #42
Just like Paul Ryan. Instead of being eternally grateful WhiteTara Jun 2017 #49
Apparently it's not. Care to respond? paleotn Jun 2017 #25
Why don't you post a link and enlighten everyone else........ crickets. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jun 2017 #33
Sigh...no, he did get help for his polio from a facility funded by the March of Dimes. haele Jun 2017 #45
YOU check it out. Not fake. The falsity is that it was government money, but OP didn't say that. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #47
Something or someone here is fake atreides1 Jun 2017 #57
no character whatsoever. n/t KT2000 Jun 2017 #3
from "the Shootist" Va Lefty Jun 2017 #4
The GOP Ownership Society. "I got mine" mentality. nt oasis Jun 2017 #8
This is fake, he actually was injected with an experimental drug called TORTOISETERONE in 1956... BamaRefugee Jun 2017 #9
LOL!!! calimary Jun 2017 #15
LOLOLOL blm Jun 2017 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author miss-nasty Jun 2017 #20
awwww shucks ma'am BamaRefugee Jun 2017 #23
Off topic, but did you ever see Rowan Atkinson in The Tall Guy, with Jeff Goldblum? TrollBuster9090 Jun 2017 #53
haven't seen it, but now I need to. ! BamaRefugee Jun 2017 #56
All this before his SHELL grew ne? yuiyoshida Jun 2017 #21
Laugh. Watching Lolly on OINB...fits right in Alice11111 Jun 2017 #31
Good one packman Jun 2017 #35
Genius! *Yes*. Take a bow. NT pablo_marmol Jun 2017 #38
I believe that!! Scarsdale Jun 2017 #43
Fake or not, the bastard owes his life to healthcare that helped him overcome smirkymonkey Jun 2017 #12
"Otherwise he'd be a drooling vegetable." lastlib Jun 2017 #22
I just don't get it. He & Paul Rand. Is it self hate? The need Alice11111 Jun 2017 #32
I think it must be. Otherwise, I cn't account for their behavior. smirkymonkey Jun 2017 #40
If they were normal, it should make them want to help others. Alice11111 Jun 2017 #41
No shock here. George II Jun 2017 #14
an asshole among assholes.... dhill926 Jun 2017 #17
This man is truly a living piece of shit Metro135 Jun 2017 #18
Mitch is a sadist. zentrum Jun 2017 #19
Imagine his wife... BamaRefugee Jun 2017 #24
OMG. zentrum Jun 2017 #27
No amount of money...hmmm...maybe $1 mil for 5 min Alice11111 Jun 2017 #36
Lol@ tortuga trap Volaris Jun 2017 #39
Wrong gender Scarsdale Jun 2017 #44
hahaha took me a few minutes to work that one out ;-) BamaRefugee Jun 2017 #48
Like Sessions. He does that. Alice11111 Jun 2017 #34
He has a short memory Thinkingabout Jun 2017 #26
Dems around playing nice with this animal ... LenaBaby61 Jun 2017 #28
Dogs are nice animals crazycatlady Jun 2017 #54
"Dogs are nice animals." LenaBaby61 Jun 2017 #55
Proof positive he has no soul. democratisphere Jun 2017 #29
Why is he not confronted with this by the media? world wide wally Jun 2017 #37
Polio can paralyze a person for life. Orsino Jun 2017 #46
He is a MONUMENTAL prick. trof Jun 2017 #50
The 13th century Buddhist monk, Nichiren, had pointed words for people with no gratitude. BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2017 #51

no_hypocrisy

(46,121 posts)
7. As a youth, (McConnell) overcame polio. He received treatment at
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 08:52 PM
Jun 2017

the Warm Springs Institute that potentially saved him from being disabled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
30. Exactly. The very type of charity he despises today.
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 10:27 PM
Jun 2017

He would consider the people that put time at the foundation liberal dog posers today, got for nothing in his view. It amazes me how people become hard and heartless.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
42. Addison "Mitch" McConnell
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 11:24 AM
Jun 2017

needs to provide PROOF of this, since I do not believe anything he spouts.

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)
49. Just like Paul Ryan. Instead of being eternally grateful
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 04:55 PM
Jun 2017

they spit on the very kindness they received and deny others the same care. It really reduces them to the animal status.

haele

(12,660 posts)
45. Sigh...no, he did get help for his polio from a facility funded by the March of Dimes.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 11:40 AM
Jun 2017

What he didn't get was actual government assistance - which was not really available to anyone when he was a young hatchling. But he certainly benefitted from the government interest that helped to set up the charity in the first place.

The "got money and help from the government when he was young hypocrite" is Paul Ryan.

The confusion comes from the fact that President FD Roosevelt was a strong supporter of the March of Dimes, due to his own illness and recovery in Warm Springs, GA.

Haele

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
9. This is fake, he actually was injected with an experimental drug called TORTOISETERONE in 1956...
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 08:53 PM
Jun 2017

which had the terrible side effect of turning his face into that of a turtle. It was jerked from the market and from then on only used as a "beak enhancer" on male turtles who were too shy to try and mate on the beach in front of crowds of people.






uhhh, sarcasm, just in case

Response to BamaRefugee (Reply #9)

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
53. Off topic, but did you ever see Rowan Atkinson in The Tall Guy, with Jeff Goldblum?
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 06:53 PM
Jun 2017

Damn that was funny. And apparently, it's what Rowan Atkinson was like. Playing the hapless, innocent Mr. Bean when the camera was running, and being an absolute shit to people when it was turned off.

Atkinson: "How DARE you improvise, you diminutive mediterranean moron! And as for you Daddy Long Legs, you're FIRED!"

Goldblum: "You CAN'T fire me, because I QUIT!"

Atkinson: "Good! Then you get no severance pay, and I sue your ass for breach of contract."

Goldblum: "You're a complete and total bastard. I hope all your children have very small dicks. And that includes the GIRLS!"

Comedy gold.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
43. I believe that!!
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 11:26 AM
Jun 2017

Except Addison "Mitch" is much homlier than any turtle I ever saw. He is every bit as "handsome" as tRump!!

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. Fake or not, the bastard owes his life to healthcare that helped him overcome
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 08:55 PM
Jun 2017

polio. Otherwise he'd be a drooling vegetable. The bastard has no soul and no conscious. I can't even say what I wish his fate to be.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
32. I just don't get it. He & Paul Rand. Is it self hate? The need
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 10:58 PM
Jun 2017

To completely disassociate from your past? Identification w the perpetrator?

There is as group pathology of sadists here.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
40. I think it must be. Otherwise, I cn't account for their behavior.
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 11:55 PM
Jun 2017

They must want to divorce themselves so much from their pasts. The very thought of accepting outside help brings up bad memories for them

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
41. If they were normal, it should make them want to help others.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 03:03 AM
Jun 2017

However, it makes them want to torture and kill them. They are sociopaths.

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
24. Imagine his wife...
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 09:56 PM
Jun 2017

Chao-hound, or whatever she's called, staring up at that face, his hot, festering tortoise breath curling her fake eyelashes, and singeing what's left of her over-threaded eyebrows, as he heaves his ponderous turtle flesh again and again into her tortuga trap, all for the hope of becoming Secretary of SomeKindaCrap again someday.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
27. OMG.
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 10:10 PM
Jun 2017

Unthinkable. Ugh. But seriously, I don't think she has anything to do with him.

Just like Melania won't let Trump touch her.
He obeys because he can't afford the divorce, the secrets she'd tell etc.
Everything about them is fake.

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
36. No amount of money...hmmm...maybe $1 mil for 5 min
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 11:04 PM
Jun 2017

Guess everyone has her price. To be his wife, never.
He is gross, like DT, but he's sadistic. DTs just vindictive, pathological , narcissist and not bright. Turtle isn't stupid, but otherwise, he overlaps w DT.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
44. Wrong gender
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 11:30 AM
Jun 2017

Addison Mitch McConnell was discharged from the army after 3 weeks, for misbehaving in the showers. Years later, he was brought to tears in front of the entire Senate, while talking about one of his male aides leaving. The aide took a job a few blocks away, so Addison would not see him daily. Poor Addison CRIED real tears. Another fake family values repub.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
28. Dems around playing nice with this animal ...
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 10:19 PM
Jun 2017

You cannot play with a dog, or he'll lick you in the mouth.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
54. Dogs are nice animals
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 07:26 PM
Jun 2017

(I'm saying this as a cat person). Playing nice with Mitch McConnell is like playing nice with a wasp (the insect).

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
55. "Dogs are nice animals."
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 07:50 PM
Jun 2017

So true crazycatlady . My apologies to dogs EVERYWHERE.

I'd rather be licked in the mouth by a dog than by McConnell.

He's a disgusting, racist, a moral, nasty, filthy, piece of feces.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
46. Polio can paralyze a person for life.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 11:43 AM
Jun 2017

The polio vaccine, it seems, can paralyze an entire government.

trof

(54,256 posts)
50. He is a MONUMENTAL prick.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 06:13 PM
Jun 2017

How does a person get to be that way?
What happened to him to twist him so much?

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
51. The 13th century Buddhist monk, Nichiren, had pointed words for people with no gratitude.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 06:42 PM
Jun 2017

"The old fox never forgets the hillock where he was born;1 the white turtle repaid the kindness he had received from Mao Pao.2 If even lowly creatures know enough to do this, then how much more should human beings."

From Gautama Buddha, also known as Shakyamuni Buddha: "Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else."


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