OK, McConnell didn’t actually say this. I am stealing this line from the greatest sports writer in American history, Jim Murray.
Murray wrote for the Los Angeles Times. If he had been a political columnist, he would be legendary.
He had no time to polish his stories. After a game, he had to phone in his column to the paper before the next day’s print run. He wrote it off the top of his head, typed it, and phoned it in. He won the award as the nation’s leading sports writer 16 times, 12 in a row.
Every time he finished a column, he leaned back in his chair and uttered this line: “Fooled ’em again.
This line should be the epitaph of American national politics. But, like a zombie, it keeps coming back, walking the streets, and eating people’s brains.
SAVED FROM THE BRINK! (AGAIN)
Senator Mitch McConnell has articulated the irrelevance of voting as no previous national political figure has in American history. He has raised the bar.
On the website of a local CBS affiliate station, this headline was run on November 4, 2014, the day of the mid-term Congressional elections: McConnell: ‘This Is A Chance To Begin To Save This Country’. McConnell had announced this the day before at a political rally. The statement was reported across the nation’s media.
McConnell is the nation’s leading Republican spokesman. He was the minority leader of the Senate on November 4, and he will be the majority leader when the new Senate takes over on January 2. November 4 made this a reality.
On November 5, after a sweeping victory of Republicans across the nation on November 4, McConnell said this: “We are not going to be shutting down the government or defaulting on the national debt. I think we ought to start with the view that maybe there are things we can agree on to make progress in this country.”
In just one day, America had moved off the railroad track to the burning trestle, and onto the excursion track, where everyone gets back safely in the afternoon. Mitch McConnell is the friendly conductor. “Tickets, please. Have your tickets ready.”
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The RINO's will again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Can you imagine that we have a good chance of Clinton VS Bush in 2016?
Rino's have their last chance to make good in the next 2 years. If they truly want to become conservative, now is the time. Don't ruin it for every true conservative who caares about the future of this country, by giving the liberals a pass. Nail them to the wall. Don't compromise at all. Make the dems make the concessions. By all means, stop being the "stupid party" for once in your lives.
So much for Obama’s “do nothing Congress.” Now my greatest fear is a “do something Congress.”
Relegate mitch mcconnel to understudy and get somone in that leadership position who's much better suited and who has conservative principles. McConnel is a fraud, a fake, a RINO. Same goes for john boehner. Relive him of his leadership role and replace him with someone who cares what happens with our Republic.
It's insanity to keep McConnel and Boehner as leaders. These two are looking to line their own pockets and not looking out for Americans or our well-being. GET RID of THESE TWO A S A P ! !
RINO implies they are what they are. I don’t expect Boehner or McConnel to become anything else – least of all conservative.
in a way, i don't blame mcconnell. all of us knew from the beginning that he's a traitorous liberal hiding in conservative's clothing. IOW, getting angry at him is like treating the symptom instead of treating the cause of the disease. i REALLY blame the idiots in kentucky that voted for him in the primary when they had a great chance to elect a true conservative and rid all of us of this piece of political cancer.
OBAMA'S FEMALE ERIC HOLDER ANOTHER PARTY APPARATCHIK
NO WAY DOES THIS LADY GET THE JOB. GUESS WHAT HER CLAIM TO FAME IS? SHE INDICTED CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL GRIMM. THE LAST CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSMAN IN COMMUNIST NEW YORK CITY. SHE WILL BE WORST THAN HOLDER AND CANNOT BE APPROVED TO REPRESENT JUSTICE.
THE HIT ON GRIMM WAS POLITICAL AND THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED HIM HIS SEAT BACK KNOW THAT. TWO DAYS AFTER THE PEOPLE SPEAK A VENGEFUL OBAMA STRIKES BACK WITH THE LYNCH MOB .PLUS A RIOT IN FERGUSON, MO. THEN SENDS A HELPLESS CONTINGENT OF 1500 AMERICANS TO DIE IN IRAQ WITH THE OTHER 1500 THAT ARE TRAPPED THERE ALREADY. PLEASE NO MORE SGT TAMHOORESSI'S
THE LIE IS THEY ARE ONLY ADVISORS.THE TRUTH IS YOU WILL SEE THEM BEING BEHEADED. THIS COMMUNITY ACTIVIST WILL BENGHAZI THE ENTIRE MILITARY. THE SAD TRUTH IS YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT. THIS A VENGEFUL MAN WHO HATES THE COUNTRY HE PRETENDS TO COME FROM. WE HAVE TO LIVE THE NEXT TWO YEARS WITH PRESIDENT SPITE JOB. CUT THE BUDGET. NO MORE GOLF UNLESS IT'S MINIATURE
IF BOEHNER AND MATCH MCCONNEEL DON'T STOP HER APPOINTMENT. THEY MUST STEP DOWN AND MAKE WAY FOR ACTION HEROS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGthgVd3i0E
FLAG BURNERS OF RECORD.
I cringe whenever I see McConnell; do they not understand that, aside from his RHINO actions, this is NOT what we need as the "face" of the party! like it or not, it is the modern reality. He is SOOO unattractive and SOOO unengaging and SOOO unappealing, and SOOO boring, and when he speaks it just reinforces it. It only serves to reinforce the notion that Republicans are "old, "stuffy", "out of touch", "grumpy" old white men and dinosaurs, and a turn-off to [often shallow] younger people., somebody they do NOT want to be associated with. Impression is 90%, and we need someone who will at least get their consideration. Like it or not, if you don't attract the younger folks, you just slowly fade away.
I think the American people have taken shutting down government out of the toolbox.
When that changes it will be a new day.
McConnell is an extremely crafty politician. He knew a government shutdown hurts Republicans more than Democrats, I did not and I’ll bet everyone9ne reading this did not.
Better he is on our team.
The last guy we elected that was sooo attractive, sooo engaging, sooo appealing and sooo interesting was Ovomit. Boy, he was great wasn't he. They have to be much more than the above. Mitch McConnell was not who I would have picked if I could have picked but whnd compared to Grimes, he is great.
McConnel and Boehner are no different than your attractive boy obama, which by the way only you think he's attractive.
Ole Mitch seems pretty sure of himself! He forgets that the only reason he was re-elected was because he is a Republican, not necessarily because we want him as Majority leader. I say that the newly elected Senators rebel from the get go, and fight for a new leader. Mr. Lee would be a good choice, with Ted Cruz or Rand Paul as Majority whip. That will put the RINO’s on notice right away, that were are not taking any “Bovine Scatology” from the Progressives!
WHERE IS IT WRITTEN THAT MCCONNELL MUST BE MAJORITY LEADER? THE NEW YORK TIMES? OF COURSE THEY WANT MCCONNELL BECAUSE THEY KNOW HE IS A RINO! I SAY, KICK HIM IN THE TEETH RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!
I certainly hope you are wrong on a Clinton vs Bush ticket in 2016. America has had enough of these two families and it is time to infuse some new blood and ideas into the American Government and sweep out all the dead and rotting carcasses from the halls of America's Capitol. Best ticket for the 2016 election for America as I see it is a Cruz/West ticket. We(America) need to get some new ideas and vision in the WH and this duo seems to be the best chance this country has at this point in time.
When are we ever going to learn? The Houses of Congress and the Senate do not represent the American taxpayers.
I knew McConnell was a RINO before he won his election. I couldn't believe his state re-elected him. I know people are worried about the future of this country, but that worry isn't going to ease up with Republicans in charge. I didn't want to vote for the incumbent for my state, but I knew nothing of the independents running, & sure wasn't voting for a Democrat. So I held my nose & voted for him. And I bet I'm not the only one that had to do that. We need to have a law in every state where we can vote to recall a person from Congress
Look, a lot of these comments are not particularly helpful. RINO or not, no Republican is as bad as any of the Dems that have been voted out in the last several elections. And no Republican voted for Obamacare. Pay attention to what happens when Republicans take a principled stand — they are pilloried for it by the press and then the sheeple blame it on them and give more seats to the Dems. Let's just bide our time and play nice. How many senators and congressmen/women do we have of the Tea Party persuasion? There should be enough to start some arm-twisting of RINOs to bring them around to getting the fundamental bills passed that won't cost us the House or the Senate. And start focusing on structural reform rather than merely "we hate Obama." If you really want to change things, push for term limits to break the power of incumbency and the influence of money. I'd say 2 consecutive terms is enough — first term to try to do something, 2nd term if your constituents think you did a good job, sit out a term and if your constituents think you did a better job than your successor you can come back. Revoke the current congressional pension system and convert it to a 401(k) system like many of the rest of us have — and make it effective for every future and former senator or congressman drawing a congressional pension. Require a balanced budget and stop this BS of assessing the cost/benefit of a program over 10 years. Since when has COngress stuck to anything for 10 years. Reform the parts of the health care system that kept it from being competitive and made it overly expensive, specifically, decouple it from employment, make it transportable and available across state lines, use Medicare for catastrophic insurance, and institute tort reform to make losers pay and to limit awards in all but egregious cases. That ought to be a start for the next 2 years.
I agree with you, however I would like to start a move to remove Boehner & MCConnel from the leadership roll, put the press and heat on our Congressman & Senator, they have to vote in January, they don't have to vote for Boehner nor mCConnell. Let's drop both the RINO's now..neither one has the "BALL'S" to hold obama feet to the fire.
I will write Senator Sessions regarding NOT wanting McConnell to lead, may I suggest Y'all write your senators? IF you post here, please take the time to "Write Your Senator"!
Then I will write Martha Roby and ask her NOT to vote for Boehner. Please write your representative also.
McConnell, Boehner, McCain, Graham and the rest of the Republican Party old-line hacks and good old boys are the reason I went from registered Republican to Independent. Their betrayals–plural–left such a bitter taste I couldn't stand to be associated with them. It was the tea party that brought me back, gave me hope that the GOP could once again become "grand" by actually standing on principles. It's been a real slug-fest ever since with some of the dirtiest tricks against tea party conservatives played by those supposedly on their side.
With real leaders, warriors in the Senate (and the House), why the GOP falls meekly into line behind such blatant failures makes me wonder how invertebrates manage to look as though they stand erect. Nothing would give the country and the voters who did the real fighting and winning of these majorities more confidence in a better future than to choose actual leadership that reflects the will of the people as stated November 4. Instead we're almost certainly going to be saddled with these losers again. Such lost opportunities, and with the losers still in charge, we truly may not get the opportunity to really begin to restore America again for a very long time. The losers will continue to be…losers.
A chance (maybe a 1% chance) I suspect is correct however, it “ain’t” gonna happen! No way!
Pure Song-and-Dance Political Theater. The $64 Trillion Question is "Who is the Choreographer?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZdVK913I The town is US! Is the new sheriff Barry, or Both parties?
Sound ideas, except for your delusional assertion that "no Republican is as bad as any of the Dems that have been voted out in the last several elections." May I remind you, for example, of John McCain and Lindsey Graham?
And perhaps you haven't noticed, but America has been moving unrelentingly in the same disastrous direction under both Democratic and Republican control for decades. That seems to at least suggest that the acclaimed "differences" between the Democratic and Republican parties are cosmetic, not substantive.
Are the Republicans not talking of immigration "reform," a Democratic concept and preference? Are the Republicans not talking of "replacing" Obamacare with another government plan, even though government plans are a Democratic concept and preference? Are Republicans not talking of "equal rights" for homosexuals in same-sex marriage, even though homosexual "rights" are a Democratic concept and preference?
In the years of Republican control did we get balanced-buudget legislation, term-limit legislation, or possibly most important, did the people gain some control of activist judges, who now rule America by absolute fiat?
I really believe you should reevaluate your claim of "no Republican as bad" in the light of years of empirical evidence to the contrary.
Gosh darn. Here I was, wearing my little "I voted today" sticker with glowing pride, and you tell me my vote isn't going to change anything. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! Totally chagrinned, in fact.
I had of course been hoping for a protracted government shut down – and not the 'national park gates' kind we got last time which was nothing more than a POTUS having a HISSY-fit. Nothing really shut down. Section 8 housing checks still went out, SNAP monies were distributed, and regular old 'welfare' for the 'don't wanna work' crowd still went out too. And what did we get – bike racks around the Lincoln Monument, and a few closed gates at National Parks – with a few arrest threats no less. Bleahhhhh! Pfffff-t! It wasn't even worth the time it took to count all dozen or so park closings.
But what did I get? What did we get? Oh, we're gonna roll over and let BO rub our tummies – that's what we got!
For the two of you, above and below, I hate to ruin the party but their will be no party nor no USA if this demonstrated Muslim-Marxist jihadist is permitted to carry out his term! I'll give both of you 100-1 on that; either this demonic pschopath is made to step down ASAP or the country goes down. REVOLUTION will be the SOLUTION!
OK, you got me, so let's talk empirically. How many of those Republicans voted with the Dems as many as times as those Dems voted with Obama? I'm not saying they should not be voted out, but that's for another election now, and we're stuck with what we have. They're politicians and these ones, unlike Obama, are influenced by their constituencies. And yes, immigration does need to be reformed – first by sealing the border and then by addressing those who hire illegals to make America less welcoming for the uninvited. I think that modifying immigration to stop the immigration of extended families that is so out of hand that it's almost like letting in all their Facebook friends. I don't believe that you're right when you say that Republicans are trying to replace 1 government health care plan with another. I have heard them say that they want the laws governing health care — portability/availability across state lines, tort reform — changed to bring true competition to the industry, just like with car or homeowners insurance. And maybe the left wing of the Republican party may be talking about same sex marriage along the lines of the Democrats, but most are not. Bottom line, Republicans need to articulate their vision, which has to be more than "we hate Obama." The Tea Party helps with this, but we also need to make sure that Tea Party candidates know what they stand for and they cannot be 1 issue deep. If Republicans don't blow it in the next 2 years by taking Obama's bait and getting bogged down in unwinnable fights, then we have a real chance of increasing the hold on the Senate and replacing Dems and RINOs. But we still need to articulate a real vision of why the Republican Party offers solutions to the worst of our problems and why we should move back to COnstitutionally limited government.