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Mitch McConnell to Exit Republican Leadership
This afternoon on the floor of the Senate, Mitch McConnell announced that he will resign from the leadership after the November elections.
“One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” he said. “So I stand before you today … to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.”
McConnell turned 82 last week. A spokesman said it is not health related. Speculation has been rampant since 2 instances the Senator seemed to “freeze up” in public.
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Well, he has been in the Senate since 1984. If the Republicans re-capture the Senate in the 2024 elections, he would become President Pro Tempore, traditionally awarded to the senior-most senator of the majority party, Senator Patty Murray (D-Seattle) currently occupies the seat.
The second time that Senator McConnell publicly froze up, his staff didn’t even seem alarmed, which suggests to me that this has probably happened a few other times out of public view. I wonder who Republican senators will choose as their leader to replace him? South Dakota’s John Thune seems like a likely prospect.
Thune is the minority whip.
Not as long as there’s a beating heart in the chest of Chuck Grassley.
I sure would like to see him retire–period.
Too bad he can’t get out of the way now so maybe the Senate could have a strong message for November, instead of the “we don’t stand for anything” message of 2022. Guess he wants to kneecap Trump, aka the Tea Party, one last time. ¡Adios!
So the Chinese-spy controlled “Republican leader” finally leaves his position behind.
Does this means that Red China’s and the UN’s huge goal of turning NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, and Seattle into Commie states has been achieved?
I for one think that is the case.
Additionally, the unlimited open border’s new allowance of 7 million new Dem voters into the nation pretty much destroys any chance of the R’s getting this reversed.
If the Senate caucuses insist on basing president pro-tempore installation on seniority alone, they should pass legislation removing that office from the order of presidential succession.
I’m glad that McConnel decided to step down. I suspect that it’s not all that voluntary.
So Mitch McConnell is responsible for the way those cities are run, not the voters of those cities? And how did you figure out that McConnell is controlled by a Chinese spy?
As Shakespeare once said, though the character of Lady Macbeth (Act 3, Scene 4):
Chicago has been run by a very organized Dem party machine, which very tightly controls its elections. The one exception to its control was the election of Jane Byrne in 1980, when she ran against the machine party’s widely despised selection. (Both candidates were Dems, IIRC.)
Seattle is not much different, except that its over one hundred years of radical union members indicate its Dem party people lean even more to the Left.
LA hasn’t got a chance in hell of going to the Center, not with the huge influx of immigrants that arrive daily.
San Francisco is an enclave of progressives and immigrants.
NYC might be a Lefty province simply because it is the home of not only immigrants but many East Coast “progressives.”
But unless the open border is stopped, all states face similar fates. When even the governor of Nebraska announces his commitment to carbon neutral policies, the handwriting is on the wall.
So I went out on a limb with a statement that he is “spy-controlled.”
I do not have proof of that.
But he definitely has had huge economic gains that have come his way from China, going all the way back to the early 1990’s:
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/are-mitch-mcconnell-and-his-wife-financially-tied-to-communist-china/
https://humansbefree.com/2020/12/mitch-mcconnell-has-family-ties-to-bank-of-china-top-chinese-shipping-firm.html
https://newswithviews.com/communist-red-china-enriches-mitch-mcconnell-and-elaine-chao/
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So, all of them were controlled by Dems long before Mitch appeared in the Senate, with a few controlled by the Dems & Left before Red China turned Red. Go it.
Also Oliver Cromwell addressing the Rump Parliament in 1653:
“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
Not that I agree with the sentiment with regard to McConnell, of course. We still need someone to keep the Trumpist hooligans in line and give some spine to the weak and feckless who would otherwise surrender to them.
I would like to align myself with the words of Jeremy Carl:
And also:
Someone willing to do the Democrats’ bidding, I’m sure.
“Spy controlled”?
Feel free to elaborate.
He was very anti-China before he got married to a Chinese woman that has a family that owns a bunch of Chinese stuff. He’s very compromised in that sense.
His favorable ratings suck but primarily because of the way he handled the court vacancies from Scalia’s death onwards.
It was never enough to cost him reelection. Huge amounts of out-of-state money poured into his opponent’s coffers last fall. And he still won handily.
It wasn’t last fall, he was re-elected in 2020 and apparently felt the need to ask for a Trump endorsement due to the prospect of a difficult primary round. Given the results, I’m guessing the person who was the threat didn’t stay in.
Might have asked for it for the general, Amy McGrath made a pretty good splash for a while, fading at the end.
Murray’s got to be in the running for dumbest President Pro Tempore in U.S. history.
Let him retreat into his shell.
I’m trying to remember who it was here who favorably suggested her as a replacement for Biden.
She’s all that, AND a sack of hammers…
Yeah, I had a brain fart on that one. And the primary wasn’t close. McConnell still got 86% of the vote.
Pull quote from The New American article:
McConnell has shown himself to be, if anything, an astute and cunning politician who knows how to stay at the center of Washington politics and use the influence of his office for his own financial benefit, constantly winning over the Republican base with some crumbs here and there but ultimately betraying the people to his masters in the establishment every time it really matters.
Web page for the whole article: https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/are-mitch-mcconnell-and-his-wife-financially-tied-to-communist-china/
That comment is a decent and logical attack on some lazy thinking on my part.