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3/24/14, "McConnell’s no conservative," The Hill, Brent Bozell, opinion
"Which high profile politician recently told the New York Times
that he would “crush” dissent in his own party “everywhere,” Vladimir
Putin or Mitch McConnell? Putin would never have said that on the
record. The former KGB lieutenant colonel would be more discreet.
McConnell’s
threat was a mixture of arrogant and clumsy, two adjectives that have
come to accurately describe the Republican leadership in Washington. Many experienced GOP establishment hands were taken aback by the sheer
recklessness of such a statement, but conservatives across the country
have witnessed this movie many times before. McConnell’s words were
merely the most recent in a litany of statements that have told
conservatives they can go to hell.
The brutal irony is that McConnell is embarking on yet another
re-election campaign when he will again ask, plead and beg for
conservative support. “Give us your money, your volunteers, and your
votes” he will urge in TV commercials, direct mail pieces, and online
appeals.
The GOP establishment has been doing this since the sunset of
the Reagan presidency. From the faded echoes of “Read my lips” in 1988
to the repeated promises of “we will do everything in our power to
repeal ObamaCare” in 2010, GOP leaders have played this cruel joke on
the peasants who work so hard to elect them to office and give them the
majorities they lust for.
Up until recently conservatives have
been willing to put up with the lip service, empty promises and outright
lies. Not anymore.
GOP establishment hacks, suffering from
chronic denial, hysterically plead to anyone who will listen that
McConnell is a conservative. As Amy Poehler used to dryly ask on Saturday Night Live: Really?
I
have been a faithful soldier in the conservative movement for over 30
years. It’s a movement I’ve dedicated my life to; I’ve raised hundreds
of millions of dollars for many of its candidates and causes. I know a
conservative when I see one.
Since 2010, when conservatives and
Tea Party supporters swept Republicans into a House majority and put
McConnell and his GOP Senate colleagues in position to win a majority of
their own, there is not a single conservative accomplishment McConnell
can point to during his leadership. Instead of working with the
Republican House majority to oppose President Obama’s out-of-control
liberal agenda, he has continually thwarted each and every conservative
initiative.
The national debt only now sits at a staggering $17
trillion because McConnell has given it his blessing; every man, woman
and child in the United States now owes over $50,000 of that $17
trillion. At what point does it become economically unacceptable to keep
raising the debt ceiling: $20 trillion? $50 trillion? $100 trillion?
When
he had the chance to stand with House Republicans to defund ObamaCare,
all he gave them was his middle finger. And now ObamaCare is a complete
disaster, taking away health plans that people wanted to keep, and
costing them more money for plans that are worse than what they had.
How
many times over the years has McConnell made promises to cut spending,
rein in the growth of government and roll back Washington’s intrusions
in our everyday lives? Yet Washington continues to grow exponentially:
printing more money and spending us further into debt, crushing our
economy to the point where there are now 50 million people on food
stamps and 90 million people out of the workforce. The IRS illegally
persecutes conservatives without any justice, and the NSA spies on
law-abiding Americans.
Americans have been crying for help for
four years, yet McConnell’s repeated capitulations to Barack Obama have
soundly rebuked the will of the people so forcefully expressed in 2010.
McConnell has repeatedly chosen Obama over the people to whom he has
repeatedly held out his hand and promised better days.
He is no
conservative, and his empty threats against people who actually helped
him for so many years sound silly and desperate. He has proven that he
can’t lead, he should step aside for someone else."
"Bozell is chairman of ForAmerica, the largest active online conservative network with nearly 4.9 million supporters." via Mark Levin twitter
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Even on Monday 3/24/14 McConnell again manoeuvered things so the House GOP wouldn't have a voice:
3/24/14, "McConnell/Reid Supermajority Lives On," Daniel Horowitz, RedState
"Mitch McConnell couldn’t even go a few hours into this week’s Senate
session without selling out conservatives and granting Harry Reid a
supermajority. He delivered more than half of the GOP conference into
the hands of Democrats, enabling them to gain leverage over the
GOP-controlled House and pass the IMF deform package [read more here on the IMF package].
We’ve witnessed this dynamic throughout the past few years. Ideally,
Republicans should have more leverage than Democrats because they fully
control the House, while Democrats lack a filibuster-proof majority in
the Senate. As such, McConnell’s job is to block bad legislation in the
Senate, enabling the House to jam Democrats with the only viable
alternative. Yet, with issue after issue, we have witnessed the
opposite dynamic. McConnell hands Reid the requisite 60+ votes and
allows him to jam the House."....
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Comment: McConnell could've easily ended global warming fraud but he wouldn't even do that.
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