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Levin writes: "Something you've probably picked up on by now is that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell literally cares about nothing but amassing and maintaining power."

Mitch McConnell. (photo: CNN)
Mitch McConnell. (photo: CNN)


Mitch McConnell Vows to Block Biden's Entire Agenda Just to Be a Dick

By Bess Levin, Vanity Fair

08 May 21


The Senator from Kentucky is �100%� focused on obstructing anything that might actually help Americans.

omething you�ve probably picked up on by now is that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell literally cares about nothing but amassing and maintaining power. Whereas even some of the worst people in Washington typically have something they care about beyond power for power�s sake, or a set of beliefs to guide them, the Kentucky lawmaker truly has none. �Give up,� someone who knows McConnell well told The New Yorker�s Jane Mayer last year when she set out to find �the larger principles or sense of purpose that animates� the senator. �You can look and look for something more in him, but it isn�t there. I wish I could tell you that there is some secret thing that he really believes in, but he doesn�t.�

Perhaps to remind people that, despite being an elected official ostensibly sent to D.C. to work on behalf of the Americans who pay his salary, he doesn�t give a fuck about anything but his own interests, McConnell on Wednesday told reporters that while he could spend his time helping to end the pandemic, or aiding the economic recovery, or stopping mass shootings, he�s actually got something else in mind: blocking Joe Biden�s entire agenda. �One hundred percent of my focus is standing up to this administration,� the Kentucky Republican said at a press conference in his state in response to questions about fighting among House Republicans. �What we have in the United States Senate is total unity from Susan Collins to Ted Cruz in opposition to what the new Biden administration is trying to do to this country,� he said, referring to his colleagues from Maine and Texas. What sort of things has Biden proposed that McConnell is dead set on opposing? In a word, everything. Per The Wall Street Journal:

Democrats passed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill with no Republican support earlier this year and have proposed more than $4 trillion in additional spending on infrastructure, antipoverty, and education proposals. Republicans have said they are willing to engage in talks on a narrow infrastructure plan focused on roads, bridges, and broadband, and some GOP lawmakers outlined a $568 billion infrastructure framework. But they have rejected Mr. Biden�s more extensive spending plans. Proposals supported by Mr. Biden on gun laws, voting rights, and D.C. statehood have also drawn little GOP interest. They passed the House but are unlikely to progress in the Senate, where most legislation needs 60 votes to advance.

In his comments in Kentucky, Mr. McConnell repeated GOP contentions that Mr. Biden ran as a centrist promising to reach across the aisle, but once in office has hewn too closely to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. �We�re confronted with severe challenges from a new administration and a narrow majority of Democrats in the House and a 50-50 Senate to turn America into a socialist country, and that�s 100% of my focus,� he said.

Yes, it�s true that Republicans have thrown a bunch of hissy fits about Biden supposedly abandoning his promise to work in a bipartisan manner, but that�s just a tad bit rich coming from people who have vowed to block everything the president wants to get done. Which, of course, is nothing new for McConnell:

Asked about McConnell�s comments, Biden laughed and brushed them off, telling reporters, �Look, he said that in our last administration�he was going to stop everything, and I was able to get a lot done with him.� (While that may be true, there was also a lot McConnell and Republicans managed to block that still reverberates today.) Stressing that the administration still welcomes Republican engagement, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki suggested Wednesday that it�s not very difficult to see who in this scenario is actually doing the job he was sent to Washington to do, and who is just a dick. �I guess the contrast for people to consider is, 100% of our focus is on delivering relief for the American people, and getting the pandemic under control and putting people back to work,� she said during her daily press briefing. �The door to the Oval Office is open.�

On the one hand, it�s not clear that the American Medical Association recognizes �Foxitus� as real affliction. On the other, they sure do love to lie to their viewers, like, all the time!

Rudy Giuliani�s legal bills are cutting into his ability to roll through Manhattan with a five-man deep entourage

Times are reportedly tough for the ex-mayor who is seemingly in a whole bunch of legal trouble these days. Per Politico:

Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for ex-president Donald Trump, has reduced the size of his personal entourage, according to three people familiar with the matter. Giuliani laid off several staffers and independent contractors in the last few weeks, according to one of the people, who said the ousted employees had been told that the former New York mayor was seeking to cut costs. Giuliani has enlisted a part-time driver, Eric Ryan, the son of his friend Maria Ryan, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. But he no longer moves around Manhattan with the full complement of as many as five people he has kept around him in recent years�. A lawyer for Giuliani declined to comment. Giuliani didn�t respond to requests for comment, and a spokesperson didn�t provide a comment.

Last year, in the midst of attempting to overturn the 2020 election, The New York Times reported that Giuliani had asked the Trump campaign to pay him $20,000 a day in legal fees, a request Trump reportedly told aides not to pay. This week, the Times reported that Giuliani�s son and assorted pals have urged Trump to cover the former mayor�s legal bills, a request that has thus far been denied.

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+6 # janie1893 2021-05-08 14:12
It seems that 'ultra conservative' Americans esteem only 2 concepts today and these are lucre and power over other people. McConnell gets lucrative perks without even trying but his biggest body- jerk comes from playing god by erasing anything good that others try to implement. He did it with Obama and he will continue to do it with everyone he sees as as an opponent to his self-created divinity.
 
 
+6 # chemtex2611 2021-05-08 14:14
His legacy will be "He did nothing !" when there was a pandemic, global warming, failing infrastructure and economic hardship. FULL STOP
 
 
+5 # ellen9 2021-05-08 14:17
What do you expect from McConnell? Just as the saying goes, "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a duck." If McConnell acts like a dick and talks like a dick, he's a dick. And he proves it every time he opens his mouth.
 
 
+2 # Kootenay Coyote 2021-05-08 14:21
Altogether, not a hopeful report.
 
 
+4 # Skeeziks 2021-05-08 14:39
"Something you've probably picked up on by now is that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell literally cares about nothing but amassing and maintaining power."
And so does every republican except maybe 3, in Congress. We, us US citizens are in deep trouble as we try to hold on to our basic democratic, free country.
 
 
+3 # Robbee 2021-05-08 15:59
joe left mcdickhead no cover!

repukes want nothing paid for, by taxes on rich folks nor corps

and so that trumps out ANY spending

joe reaching across the aisle has been a critically necessary exercise

to sell the infrastructure that america needs, to compete with china, to the american public and to any recalcitrant dem senators!

if mcdickhead seems obnoxious?

it is only the truth - repukes have nothing to offer america!

senator manchin? get used to it; biden gave it his best shot, thanks!

Mitch McConnell Vows to Block Biden's Entire Agenda Just to Be a Dick
By Bess Levin, Vanity Fair
8 May 21
 
 
-7 # skylinefirepest 2021-05-08 17:14
Old gropey joe has a definite agenda...unfort unately it's NOT putting America first.
 
 
-1 # PaineRad 2021-05-08 17:38
While she's in a somewhat different league of a--ho--s, Spkr. Pelosi is also mostly fixed on holding power and egomania.
 
 
-5 # oldoilieotto 2021-05-08 17:50
McConnell and Biden served many years together in the Senate. If they could not sit down together and come up with a package that a centrist majority could pass, then there is fault on both sides.
 
 
+4 # shudderer 2021-05-09 21:42
oldoil
Obama attempted the middle road with mcconnell, it undid the Dems. Lost big in the mid terms.
 

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