Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on Tuesday that comments made by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (RKY) on Monday suggesting that corporations stay out of politics projected “a whiff of desperation.”
Insert recording of irony’s death rattles here (yet again).
Repubs want to grift corporations for donations, but somehow when their politics don’t align, they want the corporations to remain silent. Smells like rank hypocrisy to me!
Smells a lot like desperation to me.
Turtle lies, details at 11.
Now if corporations and their CEO’s and Boards put their money where their mouths are, that would be one thing. I think their mouths will say one thing and their hands will do another.
McConell’s SuperPower is to be a shameless hypocrite of the highest order and merely blink a little faster like a quizzical turtle when confronted by it. This is what we are seeing. But the Kryptonite of reality is having an affect, and he is worried.
McConnell could easily punish these renegades (whom he thought used to be in the GOP’s back pocket) by raising the corporate tax rate on them . . . um, just like Biden’s proposing to pay for the infrastructure bill. Or, hey–he could really punish them by raising it more!
That’ll show them! McConnell: “Look at these woke people paying for a bunch of stuff we Republicans don’t think should be in that bill. That’ll show 'em.”
Also, he might die soon.
OK guys stop the false equivalences, contributing to candidates and deploying an army of lobbyists for tax cuts, rollback on environmental regulation, blocking financial regulation, eliminating worker protection, or even cancelling player that kneel during the anthem is not politics, just part of doing business.
Don’t tease like that. It’s too much to wish for.
So apparently Mitch is against free decisions by corporations. An aspect of free speech. According to Mitch. Anyone disagreeing with him is bad, evil and committing blackmail.
Hypocrit, I hope he enjoys the foul pig sty he chose to hang out in.
McConnell is lashing out because he has no power. He is trying to govern a radicalized party (ask John Boehner how that goes) that is now worried the party is going to be defunded.
We’ll see. I for one think corporate America lacks the cajones to actually abandon the GOP, but McConnell is clearly worried.
This is why, by the way, our best play is unrelenting pressure on corporate America to run from the GOP.
If he does as you say I will count it a good day for America
“Corporations are people too”, Mitt Romney in his 2012 presidential campaign.
Mitt’s father then Governor of Michigan George Romney walked out of the 1964 Republican convention over the Party of Lincoln opposing a voting rights act.
So well it is easy to attack McConnell’s shameless hypocrisy, it applies to the entire GOP.
Mitch always believed corporations were in lock step with the GOP.
I guess he was proved wrong.
Let’s see…didn’t some republican say something along the lines of “Corporations are people, my friend.” Wouldn’t want to mess with someone’s first amendment rights, would you, Mitch?
We all die.
Some just not soon enough.
Sadistic, Evil fuck…long obsolete and as ugly-acting as any creature ever darkening the halls of Congress.
And I think at, notwithstanding his universal popularity with all of those to the Right of Himmler, McConnell’s actual friends would fit in a matchbox.
If Mitch is worried about losing big business it would be an odd tactic to publicly insult them as he has just done.
He should have learned a lesson from this case. But, of course, he didn’t. Because he’s a chameleon and a charlatan.