What about the coal mines?
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Remind me his position on the ACA, Medicaid, pharmaceutical drug prices, $15 minimum wage, teacher salaries, fair wages and benefits for coal-miners again please? Without even getting into the ethics of blindly supporting an indecent, corrupt, and unfit President and his rigged trial McConnell is pushing hard for.
As well as this great country becoming a junior partner to plutocratic Russia on Moscow Mitch’s watch. What an utter national security disaster he’s been for America.
I’d say our candidate has a lot to work with though the odds may be long.
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He probably had a role in getting the goodies, and I’m ok with saying that, because he’s the majority leader.
However it’s funny as hell that he believes that hes directly responsible for items that likely has bipartisan support.
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Meanwhile, he’s content to watch the rest of us burning where he put us.
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As he accuses others of supporting a socialist agenda. His version just has an Appalachian tinge.
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We’re not going to win against McConnell with Amy McGrath as the candidate. McGrath sucks at campaigning and Schumer was responsible for bringing her into the race which makes Kentuckians suspicious since they hate coastal liberals. She’s made too many stupid mistakes and is only appealing to a national audience instead of actual Kentuckians. People here, and liberals in general, need to realize Kentucky isn’t just going to vote for someone just because she made a cool ad and looks like a badass at first glance. Kentuckians are mostly right wing and the only thing that can sway them leftward are economic issues. They don’t care about climate change, they want to know who is going to give them a job when they desperately need one.
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Well he was against pork barrel/earmarks until he’s not against pork barrel/earmarks for KY.
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It’s not socialism if it gets him re-elected, it’s only socialism when he’s not running for re-election.
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Word. As a former resident, I hope all the other posters here read this one of yours.
Yours too.
I’m employed as a transit planner for a state agency. Earmarks can actually be good things because the money goes to a specific program or project.
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Actually, the Internet had a lot more to do with it.
$914.2 million in federal spending
Kentucky would like to thank southern taxpayers for their donations. Better for Kentucky to enjoy prosperity than for you.
And, by the way, y’all better like it, or Trump’ll get real mean.
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I’m just tired of the hypocrisy. McConnell gets money for miners and black lung, while CPB agents send a 7 y/o girl with a fistula back to Mexico and deny her asylum and medical care, and then reverse themselves.
The comments on several of the articles about the little girl were the same crap that we’ve seen for the last 2 years, her parents should have planned better, we can’t be expected to save everyone, yadda, yadda, and more yadda. How long have we’ve known about the effects of silica on miner’s lung tissue. How long have we’ve known that coal seams in the East of petering out, which means there’s more silica in with the coal, so thus not just regular black lung, but more severe black lung.
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I don’t know how any Democratic Senator can stand to look at the man.
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Means nothing if the general audience has no idea what is in those bills. Needs to be a scroll on every news channel and news broadcast as to exactly what bills are in that stack and how many Americans would benefit from their passage.
The Right would tell you it is all pork barrel spending. So who is going to redefine that optic??
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Weill, at least we know that good old-fashioned GOP pork-barreling is still looting the Federal Treasury
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Southern tax payers aren’t paying it, we Coastal elites and blue state taxpayers are. All of the southern states taking in more Federal money than they send the feds in taxes.
"Part of the explanation for why southern states dominate the “most dependent” category is historical. During the many decades in the 20th century when the South was solidly Democratic, its congressional representatives in both the House and the Senate, enjoying great seniority, came to hold leadership positions on powerful committees, which they used to send federal dollars back to their home states in the form of contracts, projects, installations.
Another part of the explanation is easier to discern. The reddest states on that map at the top—Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New Mexico, Maine—have exceptionally high poverty rates and thus receive disproportionately large shares of federal dollars. Through a variety of social programs, the federal government disburses hundreds of billions of dollars each year to maintain a “safety net” intended to help the neediest among us. Consider, for example, the percentage of each state’s residents who get “food stamps” through the federal government’s SNAP program. This chart tells the story."
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Do they really get $5k a year, or is that just what it averages out to?
Coz I’m thinking all those farmers and miners and distiller workers aren’t getting 5k coz of Moscow Mitch, rather they are getting the pointed end of the stick because of Moscow Mitch. As usual the wealthy and his supporters will be the ones to benefit.
Fellow Kentuckian and soulless monster Bevin pardoned these people’s son because they made campaign contributions I believe, and these are Moscow Mitch’s kind of folks, I think.
Didn’t KY get rid of the Medicaid part of the ACA, how much is that costing the average Kentuckian?
I hope McGrath makes those points in her campaign.
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