{"id":11044,"date":"2013-09-05T01:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11044"},"modified":"2013-09-05T01:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:45:16","slug":"republicans-on-parade952013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/republicans-on-parade952013\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade–9\/5\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the twenty-third article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), aka Bought Bitch Mitch. He is being honored for a pile of BS deep enough to drown every race horse in Kentucky.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"BoughtBitchMitch\"Mitch McConnell\u2019s re-election campaign is touting his support for the Violence Against Women Act \u2014 even though the Republican Senate minority leader has a consistent record of voting against the anti-domestic violence legislation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A press packet that McConnell\u2019s spokeswoman distributed to reporters at a Friday event titled \u201cWomen For Team Mitch\u201d features testimonials from Kentucky women. One of them caught the eye of Joe Sonka<\/a>, a reporter for the Louisville-based LEO Weekly, who posted it on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The quote<\/a>, attributed to a woman named Angela Leet in Jefferson County, read, \u201cMitch was the co-sponsor of the original Violence Against Women Act- and continues to advocate for stronger policies to protect women. I am proud to call him my senator.\u201d<\/p>\n

The claim belies the Republican leader\u2019s actual record<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Chris Hayes exposed him like Larry Craig!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bought Bitch Mitch, is the top Republican in the US Senate.  What better example could there be to illustrate the Republican Party\u2019s nonexistent relationship with both women and integrity.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the twenty-third article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), aka Bought Bitch Mitch. He is being honored for a pile of BS deep enough to drown every race horse in Kentucky. Mitch McConnell\u2019s re-election campaign is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}