Mitch McConnell sure likes to run his mouth in front of the microphones! But when it comes to getting the people's business done, well, he seems to have been utterly and completely AWOL.
Make no mistake, he's been there to help rig the system for wealthy GOP cronies:
McConnell is also well known for his opposition to campaign finance regulation on First Amendment grounds. ... He spearheaded the movement against the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (known since 1995 as the "McCain–Feingold bill" and from 1989–1994 as the "Boren–Mitchell bill"), calling it "neither fair, nor balanced, nor constitutional." His opposition to the bill culminated in the 2003 Supreme Court case McConnell v. Federal Election Commission and the 2009 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
In August 2007 McConnell introduced the Protect America Act of 2007, which allowed the National Security Agency to monitor telephone and electronic communications of suspected terrorists inside and outside the United States without obtaining a warrant.
See, you play the Constitution card when it is convenient. When it's not, you play the national security card.
Is there even one piece of legislation bearing Mitch McConnells name?
is there any legislation the every day people of Kentucky can point to as bettering their lives that was initiated or supported by McConnell - despite re-electing him 4 times!?
And so to sum up, over a career in the United States Senate spanning 26 years, Mitch McConnell has managed to achieve the following:
- play hard ball politics and be a first class a-hole;
- put party above country - way, way, way, way, way above country;
- get his wife a plum appointment as Secretary of Labor by Dubya; and
- enjoy a life of privilege and leisure, dining at the finest clubs and sitting his pampered ass on a fine leather chair all day long, expensive shoes up on his luxurious desk.
And yet the Teapublicans have the gall to call the unemployed lazy.