{"id":3360,"date":"2010-11-13T04:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T12:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2010-11-13T04:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T12:40:53","slug":"mcconnells-ultimate-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/mcconnells-ultimate-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell’s Ultimate Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peel back the veneer on almost any Republican politician and you will discover a corrupt, dishonest, hateful hypocrite who will do virtually anything to hold on to power.  Most representative of this paradigm is Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, as this editorial from his local paper demonstrates.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"BoughtBitch\"George W. Bush got a lot wrong in his administration, but he certainly did figure out Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n

In his new memoir, Decision Points, the former president tells of a meeting he held in September 2006 with Mr. McConnell, then the Republican whip in the Senate. The occupation of Iraq was going horribly, American and Iraqi casualties were rising sharply, costs had mushroomed into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and Iraq was teetering on the brink of full-scale sectarian civil war. Mr. McConnell was concerned, and he gave the president his advice.<\/p>\n

But why was he concerned? It wasn’t because of bloodshed, destruction, a hemorrhaging budget or a slide toward disaster. He was fearful that the morass in Iraq would cause the Republican Party to take a beating in the approaching mid-term elections<\/strong>. And what was his advice? He urged the president to \u201cbring some troops home from Iraq<\/strong>\u201d to lessen the political risks, Mr. Bush writes.<\/p>\n

This incident, which Sen. McConnell’s office has not denied, shines brightly on the contemptible hypocrisy and obsessive partisanship that have come to mark the senator’s time in office<\/font><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the time that Sen. McConnell was privately advising Mr. Bush to reduce troop levels in Iraq, he was elsewhere excoriating congressional Democrats who had urged the same thing<\/strong>. \u201cThe Democrat[ic] leadership finally agrees on something \u2014 unfortunately it’s retreat,\u201d Sen. McConnell had said in a statement on Sept. 5, 2006, about a Democratic letter to Mr. Bush appealing for cuts in troop levels. Sen. McConnell, who publicly was a stout defender of the war and Mr. Bush’s conduct of the conflict, accused the Democrats of advocating a position that would endanger Americans and leave Iraqis at the mercy of al-Qaida.<\/p>\n

Unless he is prepared to call a former president of his own party a liar, Mr. McConnell has a choice. He can admit thut at he did not actually believe the Iraq mission was vital to American security, regardless of what he said at the time. Or he can explain why the fortunes of the Republican Party are of greater importance than the safety of the United States.<\/font><\/strong> [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Courier Journal<\/a>><\/p>\n

Normally, the earmark king of any Senate is the a member of the Majority, but  not this year.  Bought Bitch Mitch holds that title too.  I fully agree with the conclusions his local paper has reached, and I\u2019m not tha only one who does.  Here\u2019s Rachel:<\/font><\/p>\n

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If only there were a Democrat in the Senate to rub his bulbous nose in this every time he opens his lying mouth!  His term ends in 2012, and Democrats had better put up someone better than Blanche!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peel back the veneer on almost any Republican politician and you will discover a corrupt, dishonest, hateful hypocrite who will do virtually anything to hold on to power.  Most representative of this paradigm is Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, as this editorial from his local paper demonstrates. George W. Bush got a lot wrong in […]<\/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-3360","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\/3360","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=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}