Mitch McConnell is really letting his racism show these days

Daily Kos Staff

Friday May 15, 2020 · 12:46 PM PDT

2020/05/15 · 12:46

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 10: U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the US Capitol to attend the Republicans weekly policy luncheon on March 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. He is flanked by (L-R) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO). (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) — McConnell isngleeful as he contemplates the destruction of our democracy.

Lying liar and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got caught in a whopper this week, repeating the outrageous Trump lie that the Obama administration had failed to develop a comprehensive epidemic response plan for its successor. When called on it four days later, he was forced to admit he was wrong. And no, Glenn Kessler and other "fact checkers," he doesn't get credit for backtracking on that blatant lie, because he never would have done it if he hadn't been called on it.

McConnell also doesn’t get credit because he's continuing to spew unadulterated crap on a daily basis. He sure as hell hasn't said he was wrong for saying that former President Barack Obama "should have kept his mouth shut" for criticizing Trump's response to this crisis. He didn't apologize for saying, "I think it's a little bit classless, frankly, to critique an administration that comes after you," in that same interview in which he falsely said there was no Obama pandemic plan. "You had your shot, you were there for eight years. I think the tradition that the Bushes set up—of not critiquing the president who comes after you—is a good tradition." But it's absolutely fine for the Senate majority leader to criticize, to disrespect the past president? Or does that only apply when that president is Black? McConnell definitely let his white supremacy show on that one.

We can save the nation in the next pandemic. We can boot McConnell and his majority, with your $3.

He's letting it show on the new coronavirus bill, as well. He actually said this week that "I don't think we have yet felt the urgency of acting immediately. That time could develop, but I don't think it has yet." With the majority of deaths happening among people of color, McConnell doesn't feel urgency. With all his friends taken care of with his big corporate bail-out bill in the last round, he doesn't feel the urgency. With more than 80,000 people dead and more than 30 million now unemployed, he doesn't feel the urgency.

"I think we all believe that another bill probably is going to be necessary," McConnell said Thursday. "But I’m not prepared today to put a precise date on when that will be." Maybe when there's 100,000 deaths? 150,000? Maybe when someone in his family gets sick and dies? Never?

McConnell is the No. 1 booster of Trump's Death Cult. He is its primary enabler, its chief officer. As surely as Trump is responsible for the massively botched response to the crisis, McConnell has enabled this disaster.

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