McConnell runs the Senate like a Mafia Don. Fortunately, not for much longer.
Since speeches inside the chamber can now be recorded, and shown, the targets can simply give their local stump speeches with pointed references to his actions, and have them delivered to crowds back home.
Nobody really likes a bully. Even in a red state.
Is this phallicly challenged asshat ever going to do his job?
Kentucky, why did you ever elect him? Or Paul? Or Bevin? etc?
Terrapin touts turpitude.
threatening Senate Democrats with longer work weeks
Good luck. Repugnicans love their 3-day workweek as much as anybody else.
The problem with this tactic is that it would require Republican Senators to work longer weeks as well.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is reportedly threatening Senate Democrats with longer work weeks?
Given that the Senate Republicans don’t do jack, unless they have a tax cut or a budget bill to pass (and most don’t even do the work of reading the bills to know what’s in the legislation they’re voting on), it seems to me that this brilliant idea will impact the Republican “Maynard G. Krebses” of the Senate as much as the Dems.
I would have thought McTurtle would be basking in the warm glow of self-congatulation. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, is it not?
You are a nasty traitorous piece of shit McConnell, but nothing you do is going to stop us from getting this country back from you and rest of the traitors and criminals in the GOP.
What a petty, little man. His scorched earth partisan behavior is very destructive of the legitimacy of our country.
Could backfire: A lot easier to get home to campaign in WV, Indiana and Missouri, than to Nevada, Texas and Nebraska.
Gotta do as much damage as possible while there’s still time…and a majority.
After all, what’s it matter to a turtle if he spends more time at the office? He carries his home on his back.
Maybe I’m missing something here. What says they have to be there? What are they going to miss? (In this Congress, at this point, particularly.) For all practical purposes, isn’t not voting on stuff the same as voting no? (And what’s to vote yes on in the Senate?) Aren’t there quorum rules and things like that?
What Turtle means:
How dare Democrats attempt in a small way what I and my GOP colleagues did starting the day we had 41 votes in the senate! All those judgeships to fill because we blocked Obsma’s nominees! And the unqualified cabinet appointees? How dare you attempt to keep Dear Leader from continuing destroying the government! Our paymasters will not stand for this! Never!
Party before county, rdoubled down.
He figures that blue-state GOPers aren’t worth protecting, so please proceed, Mitchell!
It also might not be a great strategy to give the candidates the Republicans are running in many of these states more airtime. I seem to recall McCaskill and Donnelly being vulnerable six years ago but winning mainly by letting their opponents say repellent things.
The same reason CA elected a freaking fitness model for governor. Sometimes the stupid far outweigh the sane.
I suspect that Dems would go “scorched earth” on McConnell, calling him Comrade Mitch, and asking him why he took $3.5 million for the PAC he controls in 2016 from someone (Len Blavatnik) connected to Putin’s oligarchs – then prevented the full story of Russian interference in the election from seeing the light of day before people voted…
…and has blocked every effort to ensure that the investigation into Russian meddling is not interfered with.
As a strategy, not your best work Mitch.