Dems Need To Take A Bite Out Of McConnell
– By Ed Kociela –
I’m not quite sure what it is, but the former president is obviously holding a huge blackmail card over Sen. Mitch McConnell’s head.
Is there any other explanation for why McConnell so vehemently opposed the formation of a commission to investigate the terrorist activity that overtook the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6?
How bad could this blackmail possibly be to coerce a man, sworn to protect and defend the Constitution and America, to renege on his oath?
Is infidelity at play here? Sexual orientation? Bribery? Sedition? Some sort of SEC violation? Dope dealing? A bad gambling debt? How big is the chit that the former is leveraging against McConnell?
McConnell came to the Senate in 1985. You’d think by now he would have collected enough savvy to fend off any negative attacks from within or without the party. You don’t survive in the Senate for 36 years unless you keep a shiv hidden neatly in your boot and know your way in and out of back doors that lead to smoky rooms of influence and intrigue. That’s why I wonder how the former got his number. Surely, McConnell knows how to cover his tracks, right?
Maybe the Russians helped the former get the dirt on McConnell and other spineless GOP members who have caved and sang his praises despite the treachery and treason. They can’t be that stupid, can they?
I mean even though Republican Kevin McCarthy got exactly what he wanted in the Jan. 6 Commission proposal, he still voted against it. Sen. Ron Johnson unbelievably called the insurrection a “peaceful protest.” And former Vice President Mike Pence saw a disruption in brotherly love when his sibling, Rep. Greg Pence voted against the commission even though the terrorists held up signs calling for the former VP to be hanged.
Topping it all off, of course, was McConnell asking his peers to vote against the commission as a “personal favor.”
This is the same Mitch McConnell who, in February, said that the former was “practically and morally responsible” for the riot that took its toll on not only the Constitution but human life as well.
It doesn’t help matters, of course, when the Democrats lay down and play dead while McConnell and his cronies run roughshod and defiantly deny justice,
A commission to get to the heart of the insurrection is not a bad thing. In fact, it is a necessary thing. This wasn’t something insignificant, some minor infraction. It isn’t a parking ticket, it was insurrection and treason perpetrated by a posse of gunpowder-snorting thugs conned into believing the Big Lie.
Even former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the staunchest of traditional Republican values, cringes at what has happened to his party.
“If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or on second-rate imitations, then we’re not going anywhere,” he said late last week during a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. “Voters looking for Republican leaders want to see independence and mettle. They will not be impressed by the sight of yes-men and flatterers flocking to Mar-a-Lago.”
The only plausible reason for strong Republican opposition to a commission to investigate the latest attack on the United States is a long memory, a memory that recalls how the party took such a beating when the commission put together to investigate the 9/11 attacks found that the George W. Bush administration, despite adequate warnings and briefings months before the attack, was caught with its pants around its ankles when airplanes were suddenly turned into weapons. It was an embarrassment, to be sure, but it must be remembered that at the time, U.S. leadership was so closely married to Bin Laden and the Saudis that it would have been “inconvenient,” let’s say, to take preemptive measures. It resulted in the hounds of hell being unleashed, killing thousands of innocent people on our turf. It wasn’t a brilliant plan or a stroke of good luck that made the attack successful. Our intelligence agencies knew it was coming, but the administration was negligent and did nothing to stop it. Ignoring the intelligence was simply one oil man giving a pass to another, forever staining the hands of Bush and Dick Cheney with lamb’s blood. The result, of course, is that never again will a Republican president be found guilty of romping around with dropped trou, unless, of course, a porn actress is involved, which places it into the “boys will be boys” category.
Meanwhile, the former remains unscathed, free to spread his vile and insidious lies about the 2020 election.
The sad thing about how this “Dumb and Dumber” sequel plays out is the fact that the Democrats have been too nice, too polite, too mannered to grab these morons by the throat, shake them, and powerfully remind them that they won the election, the GOP lost, and they need to deal with that. Instead, they are pussyfooting around trying to take the higher road. The higher road, however, is the one less traveled. When you are dealing with thieves and liars, the best way is to steamroll them, not cajole them or employ intellect they cannot comprehend. The only way, unfortunately, to stop a bully is to knock him on his backside, something the Democrats need to understand. The GOP is not as willing to work things out in a mature manner. They would rather nuke than negotiate. They would rather pull a blade than fight by the gentlemanly and honorable Marquess of Queensbury Rules leaving the Democrats rather ineffectual.
The thing is, this gentlemanly tact is not working and, quite frankly, there is too much at stake at this point.
It’s time for the Democrats to go Medieval on McConnell and Cruz and Rubio and Johnson and McCarthy and MGT and the rest of the bunch. Time to take out the trash and leave it in a dumpster in Mar-a-Lago. It’s time for the Democrats to stop being so prim and proper. It’s time for them to bloody some noses. It’s time to show a little spine.
Their behavior is nice.
Their behavior is decent.
But, their behavior is pathetic.
They need to get up off the mat, take a lesson from Mike Tyson, and bite somebody’s ear off.
It might be ugly, but what’s happening to them right now is worse, not only for the party but for the nation.
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This is exactly what I have been saying since Democrats won the Senate. You are not playing with nice people and when they continue to show how ugly they are then it is time for the nuclear option. It is high time that we get rid of the filibuster. It is something that has been stopping progress for decades and it has outlived its usefulness if it ever was useful. Because of the Republicans and that includes Donald Trump we have the most divided country we’ve ever had since 1860. Democrats, stop being so nice because they will do whatever they can to blow you up so it’s time that you blow them up first. The only reason they were against this commission is because so many of them were involved.