Did he steal a SCOTUS seat and get major tax benefits for millionaires? Yes.
But aside from that, Mitch McConnell has actually been quite a failure at his biggest goals.
He failed at making Obama a 1-term president:
2010: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2010/11/04/131069048/sen-mcconnell-insists-one-term-for-obama
But aside from that, Mitch McConnell has actually been quite a failure at his biggest goals.
He failed at making Obama a 1-term president:
2010: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2010/11/04/131069048/sen-mcconnell-insists-one-term-for-obama
He failed to stop Obamacare from passing, https://www.healthreformvotes.org/congress/300072
and he failed, REPEATEDLY, to repeal Obamacare.
2017: https://money.cnn.com/2017/07/27/news/economy/senate-skinny-repeal-health-care/index.html
2017: https://money.cnn.com/2017/07/27/news/economy/senate-skinny-repeal-health-care/index.html
2018: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/18/17994154/mcconell-midterms-obamacare-repeal
Yeah that was a fail.
2019: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/02/mitch-mcconnell-tells-trump-the-senate-will-not-revisit-obamacare-repeal-before-2020-elections.html
2019: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/02/mitch-mcconnell-tells-trump-the-senate-will-not-revisit-obamacare-repeal-before-2020-elections.html
Even after he stole a SCOTUS seat, he still failed at his goal of gutting the ACA via the courts.
Nov 2020: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/supreme-court-appears-willing-to-leave-obamacare-in-place-.html
Nov 2020: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/supreme-court-appears-willing-to-leave-obamacare-in-place-.html
He failed at preventing his members from fomenting The Big Lie that the election was illegitimate, and thereby his members are *complicit* in the incitement of a violent insurrection.
Dec 2020: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mcconnell-certify-biden-electoral-vote_n_5fd90be0c5b663c3759a8573
Dec 2020: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mcconnell-certify-biden-electoral-vote_n_5fd90be0c5b663c3759a8573
He failed at holding on to his power as Majority Leader.
Sure, his allies blame Trump. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/mcconnell-blames-trump-georgia-455657
Sure, his allies blame Trump. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/mcconnell-blames-trump-georgia-455657
Why is McConnell at fault too? Because he allowed the GOP Senators to run using their culture of white grievance and anti Semitism.
He didn’t make them stop. Public outcry and public shaming is what made Perdue slink away from dirty tactics like:
Jul 2020 https://forward.com/news/451581/jon-ossoff-jewish-nose-david-perdue-antisemitic/
He didn’t make them stop. Public outcry and public shaming is what made Perdue slink away from dirty tactics like:
Jul 2020 https://forward.com/news/451581/jon-ossoff-jewish-nose-david-perdue-antisemitic/
McConnell didn’t take Loeffler to the woodshed for gross, tired tactics like: https://www.salon.com/2021/01/04/kelly-loefflers-new-facebook-ad-darkens-skin-of-raphael-warnock-her-black-opponent/
McConnell let Lindsey Graham get away with using that dirty old playbook too.
Jul 2020: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/lindsey-graham-jaime-harrison-skin-tone-ad/index.html
Jul 2020: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/lindsey-graham-jaime-harrison-skin-tone-ad/index.html
By stealing a SCOTUS seat and obstructing all of Obama’s judicial picks, Mitch McConnell is going to fail at keeping the filibuster, too.
He spent over 10 years sowing shit.
Now?
He gets to eat shit.
#McConnellFailed https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/
He spent over 10 years sowing shit.
Now?
He gets to eat shit.
#McConnellFailed https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/
As I was saying, https://twitter.com/ninaandtito/status/1352509445172047872