Mitch McConnell has very selective memory.

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He also blames Obama for not leaving Trump a game plan. Guess what?


Also before he tries, if Mitch blames Obama for lack of test kits this virus showed up 2.5 years AFTER Obama left office

Trump also disbanded Obama's pandemic response team

Don't fall for their lies and bullshit
 

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The kind of heat they are trying to manufacture against Obama right now... I'm not sure I see the context. It makes me think they are preparing for the PR campaign of something bad being exposed (perhaps financial documents).
 
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Mitch is the embodiment of the wishes of Republican voters and Trump supporters.

When any of them dare to say "I'm not part of that, I don't agree with it" - they are part of it. The blood is on their hands.
 
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OP, no reason to denigrate turtles. If only he were an actual turtle he wouldn't be such a piece of shit. Plus, people actually like turtles. Even Republicans don't like McConnell they're just using him to get the shit they weren't brazenly despicable enough to do themselves because they were often too stupid or not evil enough to be able to manage it.

The kind of heat they are trying to manufacture against Obama right now... I'm not sure I see the context. It makes me think they are preparing for the PR campaign of something bad being exposed (perhaps financial documents).

I think its a mix. They're looking to going after Biden but less directly (hence the blame Obama, which I'm sure didn't take much to sell to Turmp), and deflect any blame for the coronavirus situation. Which tells me that they know for a fact its worse than the data we have, and that opening things back up will make it worse. We might hit 200k deaths by the end of summer, and if it comes back strong in the fall, we could be looking at 500k+ by the end of the year. So they'll look for anything they can to try and pin it on someone else. They can't really do that with China (since they can fuck them over). And maybe they'll look for something else, like maybe they'll look to destabilize North Korea or drag us into a war, and they need Russia's blessing, and so they have to exonerate Flynn to justify ending sanctions.
 

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Mitch is right, to a point. Modern Ex-presidents generally don't say much about their successor because they know how tough it is & because they respect the office. OTOH, they never had to deal with a successor who's an incompetent disgrace. None of them had to deal with that.
 

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Mitch is right, to a point. Modern Ex-presidents generally don't say much about their successor because they know how tough it is & because they respect the office. OTOH, they never had to deal with a successor who's an incompetent disgrace. None of them had to deal with that.

I would really like for Obama to take the gloves off and go full force on how badly Trump, Mitch, and the rest of the crew have fucked up.

I know he won't of course, but I can dream 😂
 

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That is what a total lack of integrity looks like.

Suppose you were stranded on a desert island with a group of people and it had a Mitch in it.. you are staying on this island for a couple of years at least. How would you handle the Mitch?
 

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Even Michael Steele, the former RNC slammed Moscowmitch


"I'm sure Mitch is aware that a grown ass black man who happens to be a former president
has agency to speak his mind on how his successor is managing this crisis, especially since
his successor has yet to keep "his mouth shut" about him. And "classless"? "
 

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Even Michael Steele, the former RNC slammed Moscowmitch


"I'm sure Mitch is aware that a grown ass black man who happens to be a former president
has agency to speak his mind on how his successor is managing this crisis, especially since
his successor has yet to keep "his mouth shut" about him. And "classless"? "
I don't agree with a lot of Steele's positions, and certainly he's said/done a number of cringe worthy things - remember how funny Jon Stewart's Steele puppet was? BUT I've appreciated Steele, in general, because he's consistent and "reasonable." He used to have a radio show on SiriusXM with Rick Unger. Was entertaining.
 

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I don't agree with a lot of Steele's positions, and certainly he's said/done a number of cringe worthy things - remember how funny Jon Stewart's Steele puppet was? BUT I've appreciated Steele, in general, because he's consistent and "reasonable." He used to have a radio show on SiriusXM with Rick Unger. Was entertaining.
I used him because there are a number of notable Repubs from not too long ago that pretty much
disagree with much of what the orange menace is doing.
Yes, Steele has been consistent and reasonable, which is democrats would like to see in a Republican as
opposed to today's repubs.

Dave Jolly, who was a R-congressman from Florida, several months ago spoke to why other republicans
wouldn't speak up against the orange menace. Inferring that they wanted to get re-elected, and not be primaried, by the president
Jolly was musing in the interview (CNN I think), and I am paraphrasing, "he didn't know why they wouldn't speak up against trump, because being a
congressman isn't that great of a job to begin with". It was not a great job to try to hold.
 
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It seems Mitchell Mcfuckface wasn't being honest about the Obama team leaving a plan in place.

‘I clearly made a mistake’: Mitch McConnell admits to Fox News that he misled Trump supporters

Republicans are so far into crazy land that they think they can just keep lying and not be called on it.

This is your leadership, Republicans. Don't simper when you get taken to the woodshed and held accountable.
Difference between him and the orange menace is that Moscowmitch seems to have backed back down when
presented with the facts. The menace will just deny and claim fake news.

Fact is, neither of those two are honorable men. Maybe Moscowmitch is worried a little about his re-election.
 

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WHAT????

Since when the fuck does Mitch admit ANYTHING? Is he broken? Did somebody bribe him? Did somebody threaten him?
 

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Difference between him and the orange menace is that Moscowmitch seems to have backed back down when
presented with the facts. The menace will just deny and claim fake news.

Fact is, neither of those two are honorable men. Maybe Moscowmitch is worried a little about his re-election.

Although let's put Mitch's comments in the proper context:

He lied then lied again.

I'm not sure that qualifies as backing down, because admitting that you made an honest mistake / error of judgement is an admirable quality that I wish more politicians had. However, to make such a brazen statement then claim you "made a mistake" is just pure BS. If there was a plausible basis for such a mistake (e.g. Hillary factually did x and you mistakenly said Obama), that would be one thing. What he said was pure fiction without even a hint of factual basis. People in power especially have a responsibility to the truth, and to come out with blatant falsehoods like he did flies in the face of that.

I'd call it arse-covering rather than backing down.
 
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