![\"bitch-mcconnel\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/BitchtoDoleSTFU_1E32\/bitchmcconnel.jpg\" "\\"bitch-mcconnel\\"")
<\/a> Bob Dole was told to keep his trap shut by non other than the odious Mitch McConnell, the man who has<\/font> as an approval rating as low as Dick Cheney’s.<\/a><\/p>\nThe GOP\u2019s 1996 candidate for president said he was asked by current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., not to issue a bipartisan statement calling for passage of health care reform legislation<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re already hearing from some high-ranking Republicans that we shouldn\u2019t do that \u2014 that\u2019s helping the president,\u201d Dole said. He later specified that the people he referred to included one \u201cvery prominent Republican, who happens to be the Republican leader of the Senate,\u201d according to The Kansas City Star. Dole was also quoted as saying that partisanship by his own GOP was behind the delay in reaching agreement on a final health care bill<\/strong>\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n I don’t expect Dole to suddenly go on the air and rip into his party, but the fact that this much got out says a lot. The republicans have no plan for health care reform so any words that come from older republicans on the hot topic carries a sting to it\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n Unbelievable! Not all Republicans are bad people. I disagree with many of Bob Dole\u2019s positions, and opposed him when he ran against Clinton in 1996, but I respected his sincerity. Today\u2019s Republican Reich does not allow free speech within it\u2019s ranks. They have driven traditional conservatives and moderate conservatives out of public office and almost into extinction. What\u2019s left is a rabid collection of extremist neocon, theocon, and plutocon ideologues, respectively representing warmongers, the American Taliban, and the richest individuals and corporations. We the people<\/em> no longer matter to them. Until and unless authentic conservatives regain control of the party, every Republican in Office is one Republican too many.<\/p>\n Off topic: I\u2019ll be replacing our poll tomorrow afternoon, so if you haven\u2019t voted yet, please do so before then.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does Bitch McConnell think that he\u2019s the new Fuehrer of the GOP Reich? Apparently so! Bob Dole was told to keep his trap shut by non other than the odious Mitch McConnell, the man who has as an approval rating as low as Dick Cheney’s. The GOP\u2019s 1996 candidate for president said he was asked […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","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\/129","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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}