McConnell’s plan to shut down Obama

[maxrandb]

Source: POLITICO

Mitch McConnell has a game plan to confront President Barack Obama with a stark choice next year: Accept bills reining in the administration’s policies or veto them and risk a government shutdown.

In an extensive interview here, the typically reserved McConnell laid out his clearest thinking yet of how he would lead the Senate if Republicans gain control of the chamber. The emerging strategy: Attach riders to spending bills that would limit Obama policies on everything from the environment to health care, consider using an arcane budget tactic to circumvent Democratic filibusters and force the president to “move to the center” if he wants to get any new legislation through Congress.


McConnell is well aware of the difficulties ahead should he finally achieve his political dream. “Being leader is sort of like being the groundskeeper to a cemetery: Everybody is under you but nobody is listening,” he said with a big laugh, crediting Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander for coming up with the line.




Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/2014-election-mitch-mcconnells-barack-obama-confrontation-110154.html

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Great move Mitch...run on the promise of another Government Shutdown.

If this doesn't make everyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh get out and vote to defeat these ass-hatted Repukes...then nothing will.

I especially like his line about how being a leader is like being a cryptkeeper. Keep fucking talking you magnificent bastard. If anything deserves to be buried, it's the fucking Teabagging Congress we currently have in power.

Here's hoping Mitch is standing over a bunch of graves...and it's the final resting place of corporate ass-kissing Tea baggers, and every Republican politician who enabled them.

I'm sorry Mitch, you're hard to understand with those testicles in your mouth.

[maxrandb]

1. I just wanted to add

"Don't measure the drapes yet Mitch!"

[Blue Owl]

34. But he can measure his "curtains!"

n/t

[joshdawg]

2. I guess

that Black man residing in the White House is a burr under McConnell's saddle. But, I would never call McConnell a (gasp) racist.

[mfcorey1]

25. What I would call him cannot be printed.

[liberal N proud]

3. Yup!

?t=10s

[SummerSnow]

5. rofl...women for Mitch

wtf ? What are they a harem?


These women holding up these signs are crazy did they know...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Voted Against Paycheck Fairness Act twice. He voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Act, calling it a “special interest vote.” McConnell and Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill calling for equal pay in the workplace.McConnell voted against raising the minimum wage 15 times, when over 250,000 Kentucky women would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, according to a new report from the National Women’s Law Center. They report that 7 in 10 minimum wage workers are women working long hours to provide for their families in Kentucky.Mitch McConnell’s record on women’s issues gets worse. Not only did he vote against the original Violence Against Women Act co-sponsored by now Vice President Joe Biden in 1994, but McConnell voted against reauthorizing the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act as well, calling it a “distraction”. This “distraction” causes 3 deaths a day to women, and 1 in 4 women have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/12/women-prepare-revenge-mitch-mcconnell-voting-minimum-wage-15-times.html


**Any women voting for Mitch is crazy**

[SummerSnow]

4. yawn yawn yawn

[ReRe]

6. Shut the eff up, Mitch. No one wants to hear it. n/t

[rhett o rick]

7. If the Democrats retain control of the Senate, the first business is for Harry to shut down the

filibuster. There is no excuse.

[Thor_MN]

8. Eggs. chickens, turtles, whatever... Count them later Mitch.

[BlueJazz]

9. Go home...your mother is calling you.

[WhiteTara]

10. The only problem with his plan may be Allison Lungren Grimes.

Let's hope she blows it out of the water!

[maxrandb]

12. She is a very good candidate

but this is Kentucky.

The bottom line, as it always is, is that if Democrats get out and vote, they win!

I'm so tired of hearing the defeatist "well gerymandering means we can't win".

Gerymandering is our fault! Folks sat on their hands in 2010, which was not only an off-year election...it was a census year.

With a T-bag majority, and state legislatures controlled by T-baggers, they got to write the maps any fucking way they wanted to.

When 2010 happened, I felt like it would take a generation to fix the damage the T-baggers would do, but now, I'm not so sure. Wave elections can happen, and if the Dems get out and vote this November, those T-bag drawn maps may not matter.

Imagine if we swept to victory in both the House and the Senate...it would bury the T-baggers once and for all, and then it's the Repukes who would have to "move to the center-left".

Don't let Mitch's dream come true...get the "eff" out and VOTE!

[WhiteTara]

17. Carry a few voter registration forms

with you in your car. There is always someone who isn't registered. You'll feel good and they'll have the opportunity to vote.

[zipplewrath]

19. Nothing to do with the Senate

Gerrymandering doesn't influence senate elections because it is state wide. It's only house elections on the national level that are effected. House and state level elections are another issue.

[cosmicone]

26. Gerrymandering doesn't play in senate races - they're statewide. n/t

[Politicalboi]

35. Kentucky with a great Obamacare effect

I think more Kentuckians might like their healthcare, and will oppose anyone who tries to get rid of it.

[SummerSnow]

11. ....

[Historic NY]

23. LOL..

[packman]

13. Smirking, piece of shit

who knows what the other pieces of shit like to smell.

[leftyohiolib]

14. is this enough "motivation " to gotv

[davidpdx]

15. It's a completely stupid strategy

He's essentially running on more of the same. More shutdowns, more gridlock, more partisan bickering, more accusing Obama of being a dictator, more repeal Obamacare. The damn commercial should write itself. FUCK YOU MCCONNELL!

[AgingAmerican]

22. Yep

Their last 'shutdown' was a complete flop and it blew up in their faces.

[Arkana]

16. So his plan is another "Give me what I want or the country gets it!"?

I look forward to it blowing up in your face. Also, you apparently haven't noticed, but Obama hasn't exactly been tolerant of their shit in negotiations lately. He learned from his mistakes--a little late, but he did.

[Thinkingabout]

18. My hope is ALG's mission to prevent McConnell from having another term in office.

Not only would this be a good thing for Kentucky it would be a great thing for the US. Some of the issues he is against is common sense, time to go and get someone who can hear.

[EEO]

20. Here's his plan... IF he can even win his seat. IF the Republicans can win the Senate.

Stupid turtle.

[Botany]

21. Mitch better hope that the women of KY don't vote this fall

[blackspade]

24. If the Democratic Party doesn't hang this around the GOP's neck this fall....

Then they are either fucking stupid or bought.

[Phlem]

33. they're fully paid for

if you can't tell already.

see: the anointed one.

[TRoN33]

27. Like it worked the last time under Cruz's infamous government shutdown.

[Gore1FL]

28. This works so well when they use it.... n/t

[maxrandb]

30. And yet

Government Contracotrs and GS Employees will continue to vote for Republicans.

It's like they suffer from Battered Spouse Syndrome

[santamargarita]

29. He should be trying to find his chin.

[EC]

31. I hope Allison tromps him.

He deserves to be trounced but good. He is a mean, mean man.

[fbc]

32. He's an ass, but it's a shame Harry Reid didn't have his conviction and courage.

[Judi Lynn]

36. You see Mitch as a man of "conviction and courage" not as a racist, steaming pile of goo? n/t

[maxrandb]

37. Courage and Conviction

would mean standing up to the fringe elements of the his party for the good of the country.

Courage and conviction would mean standing up for the people of Kentucky, not the United Corporations of Asshattedness

No...there are many words one can use to describe Mitch, but courageous is not one of them. Convicted, maybe

Jumping off a cliff and dragging others down with you doesn't take courage or conviction. With Mitch and the T-baggers, stupidity, hatred and ignorance will suffice.

[fbc]

39. Perhaps audacity would have been a better word choice

Originally, I wanted to say "balls" but I decided to clean it up.

[Bill USA]

38. Obama has to deal with nihilists in Iraq and here at home: "It's our way or total destruction!"