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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Lexington Herald-Leader emasculates Mitch McConnell...
http://www.kentucky.com/2014/10/26/3501630/elect-grimes-to-senate-for-a-better.html?fb_action_ids=858097610869807&fb_action_types=og.comments<snip>
But, wait, you say: How can our poor state afford to give up the power that Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has amassed in 30 years in Washington, especially if Republicans take the Senate, making him the majority leader?
McConnell does have power. He commands a perpetual-motion money machine; dollars flow in, favors flow out.
The problem is how McConnell uses his power. He has repeatedly hurt the country to advance his political strategy.
McConnell has sabotaged jobs and transportation bills, even as Kentucky's unemployment exceeds the nation's and an Interstate 75 bridge crumbles over the Ohio River. He blocked tax credits for companies that move jobs back to this country while preserving breaks for those that move jobs overseas. He opposed extending unemployment benefits, while bemoaning the "jobless" recovery. He brags about resolving crises that he helped create.
The Senate may never recover from the bitter paralysis McConnell has inflicted through record filibusters that allow his minority to rule by obstruction.
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BeyondGeography
(39,382 posts)Along with the DMR endorsement of Braley these papers are begging people in their states to wake the hell up and help themselves. Hope they help.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Newspapers are about the only thing left for people to get honest and factual information, anymore. They are disappearing every day. But we cannot rely upon TV or radio for anything other than propaganda and entertainment. Support your local newspaper if they are giving people the truth.
murielm99
(30,765 posts)I subscribe to a local paper that is published daily in a community not far from me. I also read our weekly paper for the news of my rural community. The Freeport Journal Standard charges me a lot for a subscription. The editorial page, and even some of the above-the fold alleged "news" articles are becoming increasingly conservative. Often, those articles are filled with half-truths and downright lies. I am considering canceling my subscription.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)I do not take our paper anymore.
LittleGirl
(8,291 posts)I get all of my info online now because that way I can filter out the republican b.s. I might check now and then those GOP owned news sites for entertainment value only. And maybe sometimes to find out what the enemy is cooking up because it's always b.s. Well, almost always. A broken clock is right twice a day right?
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Yes.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)Where I live, we have a libertarian-owned newspaper that has a RW slant to most articles it publishes. They get their slant in the headlines if not in the report itself. For example, in Sunday's edition, front page, the headline states that the incumbent congressman's opponent is an "activist" which is a code word for anti-business liberal. And this paper's editorial pages will have tons of columns giving you the bullshit about the virtues of the hallowed "free market," getting government completely out of our lives, and so forth. The incumbent congressman that the paper supports is a teabagger on steroids who trots all over the place trying to drum up support for hearings on Benghazi, the IRS debacle, repealing the ACA and the other red herring issues he wants to waste our taxpayer dollars on. Then in the next breath he brags about how he's so conscientious about carefully spending our taxpayer dollars while never seeing an increase in military spending he doesn't support.
pa28
(6,145 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,809 posts)is how an endorsement should be framed.
Rather puts the Denver Post to shame.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)I don't know what happened to the Post?? Cory Gardner is pulling an elaborate deception on the voters of Colorado and the Post is assisting him with his crime.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)<snip>
And McConnell is pushing two outlandish deceptions:
■ This election's outcome can reverse coal's decline in Eastern Kentucky. McConnell harps on 7,000 coal jobs lost under Obama. But what of the 20,000 coal jobs lost in his first 24 years in Washington? Why has he offered no plan for this inevitable economic transition, even now? Grimes pledges support for economic diversification and benefits for sick miners.
■ You can keep Kynect while he repeals the Affordable Care Act. Reality: If McConnell has his way, a half-million Kentuckians will lose access to health care and the state will lose a chance to tackle costly ills like addiction, diabetes and cancer.
Kentuckians can't do much to stop a Supreme Court majority that's enabling the corrosion of our democracy by unlimited, secret contributions, in court cases bearing McConnell's stamp.
Kentuckians can send a powerful message on Nov. 4 and carve out a better future by retiring McConnell and making Grimes their senator.
lastlib
(23,303 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)That McConnell has seldom won his seat by a wide margin. It would be nice if he would just talk to a seat rather than occupy it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)sources, that his personal ideology is personal power.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)"The problem is how McConnell uses his power. He has repeatedly hurt the country to advance his political strategy."
And THIS....
"He brags about resolving crises that he helped create."
They are spot on. This is an outstanding editorial. Like Pat Roberts, Mitch McConnell's time is just about up. He has hurt his country and his state. He could care less about everyday Kentucky residents trying their best to make ends meet.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)This is so much more than an endorsement of her. It is an explanation of why he is so bad for the state and the country.
I cannot vote in KY.... or Florida..or NC or all those other states that may possibly replace some horrific Senators, but I know there are people in those states working hard for their replacements.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)my word! what a delight to read!
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Vote out his corrupt self.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)He's been a horrible minority leader, and he certainly wouldn't be better as majority leaders.
Vote him OUT!
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)That crystallizes TurkeyNeck right there in just a few words.
Bravo to the Herald-Leader.
democrank
(11,112 posts)and then some.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)time will tell.
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)I remain cautiously optimistic.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)House of Roberts
(5,186 posts)can get these endorsements into ads in time to make a difference.
calimary
(81,507 posts)For the life of me I do NOT understand why the Dems aren't showering, avalanching, dumping wholesale on him with THAT label. I'd be smearing that ALL OVER HIM with every breath I would draw, from the very first days it became apparent, early-on in the Obama years. WHY THE HELL DON'T THEY????? WHY HAVEN'T THEY???? What the hell is wrong with them? Still gotta keep playing nice? SHIT. He deserves that and MORE. But I would rain that down on his miserable head every minute of every hour of every day, shove it down his throat and up his ass, and laminate it on him. RELENTLESSLY.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)He 's just a nasty little drone...
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Send out Joni Ernst
karynnj
(59,504 posts)The value is that they make a really good case.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)McConnell can obfuscate all he wants, but the truth lies in these words because his record is being held up. His goal: "Make Obama a one-term President." Yeah, right - that's why you got re-elected to the Senate. Lord God almighty, I feel as strongly about getting this joker out as I did about NOT electing Bush, McCain and Romoney.
This piece really lays it out, and hope Allison can capitalize on it.
Cha
(297,718 posts)Mister Nightowl
(396 posts)rtracey
(2,062 posts)Of all the election stuff this year, I wouldn't even mind if the Senate went to GOP.. (i know, I know)... I would LOVE to see McConnell beaten.....what a pleasure it would be to watch C-Span and hear all the BS ...we love you shit the Senate would say on Mitch's last day...
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)about 8 mins in
That's good!
heckles65
(549 posts)of American politics. Remember Chernenko?
He was an old Soviet apparatchik who was given the General Secretary's job in 1984. He had no positive accomplishments, no ideas, promised no change. He was given power by the Soviet elite that was scared shitless of a number of trends that they couldn't stop. To me it was the first sign that our geopolitical rival had lost confidence in itself. Likewise, if McConnell gets the Senate Majority leader's job next Tuesday, he'll have been elected largely by old men and women who have convinced themselves this country has a crappy future.
Hopefully McConnell's hold on power won't last much longer than Chernenko's.
ComtesseDeSpair
(545 posts)Exactly what does gender have to do with being called out for political corruption, treason, and stupidity? Can't you think of a better way to phrase this that doesn't imply that men are strong and women are weak?
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)send in the pig castration expert from Iowa who just happens to be a woman. Would that mollify you?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)group has inflicted the most harm on this country with malice of forethought. May their names will live in infamy and may they soon be swept up in the rapture.