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The Whiny Moscow Mitch

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by adoo, Jul 29, 2019.

  1. adoo

    adoo Member

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    last yr, Turtle face [​IMG]stopped the Senate Rules Committee from advancing the bipartisan Secure Elections Act

    in July 2019

    There’s Bipartisan Support for Election Security.
    Mitch McConnell Won’t Let It Happen.

    https://slate.com/technology/2019/0...ssia-tried-to-interfere-in-our-elections.htmler
    this was too much for Joe Scarborough, former GOP lawmaker from Alabama;
    on his Morning Joe TV show, he called McConnell unpatriotic, w the moniker "Moscow Mitch"
    because the majority leader halted two measures aimed at preventing foreign interference in U.S. elections.​


    WaPo's Dana Milbank also had this to offer:

    McConnell is a Russian asset. This doesn’t mean he’s a spy, but neither is it a flip accusation.
    Russia attacked our country in 2016. It is attacking us today. Its attacks will intensify in 2020.
    Yet each time we try to raise our defenses to repel the attack, McConnell, the Senate majority leader,
    blocks us from defending ourselves.

    Let's call this what it is: unpatriotic.
    The Kentucky Republican is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President Vladimir Putin's bidding.Presumably he thinks whatever influence Russia exerts over U.S. elections will benefit him (he's up for reelection in 2020) and his party.​

    https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/07/28/dana-milbank-when-it/
     
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  3. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Reagan is rolling over in his grave.
     
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    Forgive me, I don't want to listen to him talk- what are his reasons for repeatedly blocking this?
     
  5. dobro1229

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    States rights blah blah
     
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    More like Soviet States rights, amirite comrade?
     
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    ...he might as well have kissed Gorby right on that big red blotch on his head, if this is what all that Star Wars crap and "...tear down this wall..." business was going to amount to...

    ...er...

    ...excepting a bloated military budget and indefinite wars, of course...;)
     
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    States rights only matter when it benefits your tribe does it?
     
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    Well, yes. Problem with Republicans is make it part of their alleged platform, but they don't really mean it.
     
  10. dobro1229

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    Yes kind of like the deficit, and balancing the budget. One of king Cheeto baby’s campaign promises.

    In this case if they were concerned about states voting independence they could just simply write in measures to insulate the states from federal overreach, and congressional and presidential candidate laws to enforce notifying the FBI has nothing to do with federal overreach in federal elections.

    Mitch’s excuses are laughable in this case and it’s a clear sign that the GOP is freaked out about getting wiped out in 20 that they are openly holding a sign out in front of the door saying “Russia...if you’re listening...”

    Such Patriots
     
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  11. adoo

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    ‘Moscow Mitch,’ Putin's other useful idiot

    [​IMG]



    Trump sees any attempt to tighten election security as a tacit suggestion that his election win in 2016 was illegitimate. And if Trump doesn’t approve of something, McConnell won’t even let the Senate vote on it.

    McConnell says he is blocking the mostly bipartisan security measures to safeguard our elections because Democrats are trying to give themselves a “political benefit.” That’s rich.

    These are bills to require candidates to notify the FBI if a foreign entity offers help, mandate the use of paper ballots or better fund the Election Assistance Commission. Hardly partisan stuff.

    But if foreign hackers want to interfere and give his own party an unfair advantage, McConnell’s position seems to be, more power to them.



    https://www.nj.com/opinion/2019/07/moscow-mitch-the-other-useful-idiot-editorial.html
     
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    Some people care enough about our country to do what they can to safeguard its election process. Other people love our country so much they put pictures of American flags as their moniker on a basketball forum because they are just such true patriots. Bots also do that second thing.
     
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    States rights didn't matter when he said:

    “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” -2010

    He's a hypocrite and a piece of ****. Can you defend that?
     
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    Wait...what...Mitch actually said this?!? :rolleyes:

    Good lord, saying the other side is unpatriotic has been one of the keys of the Republican platform for decades...still is.
     
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    They always get sloppy eventually. It's just human nature. If Homelander can get sloppy, you know pathetic turtle man Mitch can get sloppy.
    He seems very concerned about added scrutiny. Interesting.
     
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