When it comes to the corrupt Washington Republican establishment are few better examples than Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. As the Senate Minority Leader the longtime insider who at least to me is a dead ringer for Yertle the Turtle has just enraged conservatives with his latest bit of deal cutting with his counterpart, former Nevada Gaming Commissioner Harry Reid. With the twin manufactured crises of the partial government shutdown seemingly at a stalemate it was good ole Mitch who rode to the rescue to partner with the Democratic party Majority Leader to put down the insurgency led by Canadian born charlatan Ted Cruz and save the day. If there is a bit of an eerie déjà vu feeling it is because McConnell essentially played the same game back in January when the state-corporate media was caterwauling about the “Fiscal Cliff”, the baddest thing to come down the pike since the Y2K computer hoax.
Obamacare was saved and the can was kicked down the road on the debt ceiling until February when the same tired dog and pony show will be trotted out once more and McConnell will reliably be there to come through again. The man is a master at working the working the levers of the arcane rules of that parliament of whores that is the United States Senate to benefit himself and the “Kentucky kickback” is Mitch at his finest. The ink of Barry’s signature had barely dried when it was revealed that McConnell was the beneficiary of a particular piece of greasy pork that was embedded in the debt bill, a 2.1 billion dollar gift to the Bluegrass State in the form of a dam project. Conservatives cried bloody murder and justifiably so over this veteran flim-flam man’s latest act of political chicanery with the denunciations coming from high power lobbying group Freedom Works as well as myriad other luminaries. The slimy little opportunist Senator Marco Rubio, an ambitious little twit from Florida who rode the wave of the backlash against Obama into a sunshine state Senator’s seat has already come out to praise McConnell which speaks volumes. Rubio, after his election never failed to play the race card in promoting himself as the party savior who could deliver the critical Hispanic demographics to the GOP and immediately went neocon, serving up warmonger talking points to ingratiate himself to the three-headed monster of McCain-Graham and Lieberman.
McConnell deserves to be roasted for the Kentucky Kickback, not only is he a hypocritical bastard but is emblematic of the bipartisan cancer of corruption that has metastasized through Washington like some mutant strain of kudzu. The defeat of McConnell in 2014 should supplant all conservative efforts to tilt at the Obamacare windmills because despite the disastrous clusterfuck rollout it is here to stay thanks to the judicial seal of approval affixed to it by the Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts, a career corporate water carrier. Good ole Mitch in defending the Kentucky Kickback admits that doing away with Obamacare is indeed an "impossible dream". No, the likes of McConnell need to be purged once and for all because let’s face it, the GOP is on life support right now, totally dependent on the whack jobs of the religious right, neo-confederate base that infiltrated and hijacked the libertarian tea party movement with the financial backing of the same big business interests that are now vowing to destroy it. McConnell needs to be more than just defeated, he needs to be made into a symbol of what happens to amoral, corrupt, career gravy train riders, I can think of nothing that would better unite Americans than a diverse and ongoing crusade against the D.C. elites who have sold us all out for pennies on the dollar. While I find Texas Congressman Steve Stockman to be a loud-mouthed oaf whose desire for publicity drives him to pander to the likes of washed up rocker and draft dodging baby daddy Ted Nugent I do have to give credit where it is due. Stockman blasted good ole Mitch with both barrels during an appearance on the Glenn Beck Show:
“Unfortunately … you’re playing on a football team and you got a bunch of guys over in the Senate that are not playing on your team,” Stockman said. “It’s unbelievable.”
“Jesus Christ was sold out for 40 pieces of silver, apparently we were sold out for a $2 billion project,” he continued. “That’s horrible. That was a backroom deal that should never have happened…”
It is nice to see the scales falling from eyes on the right about the true nature of their “leadership”. I would also remind folks that back in the aftermath of the 2008 economic implosion when there was some serious talk about retribution over the degenerate gamblers who blew it all up it was good ole Mitch who showed up on Wall Street to save the day. With the support of McConnell, the insiders in the Obama administration (as well as the incompetence of dear leader himself), Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and a bought and paid for media the day was carried for the banksters. They have been busting all of our backs ever since with their endless subsidizing of the Wall Street casinos through Q-Eternity programs.
Mitch and all of the others like him have to go (to prison preferably but at least out of office) if there is any chance to still avoid the looming collapse that will occur when the bailout bubble bursts or if our buddies in Saudia Arabia and Israel succeed in dragging the U.S. into World War III. Sunday morning McCain needs to be another top target for ouster, the man who never fails to sink to lower levels of political depravity has now hit bottom and set up a drilling rig. The Arizona warmonger has used the Kentucky Kickback deal to keep the spoils system running and the establishment war against the GOP insurgents to co-opt the fight against the implementation of Obamacare. Taking a break between pimping for wars and mass surveillance good ole John sees a golden opportunity for himself and is maneuvering into position as a defender of the rotten establishment. Wasn’t it just a week or two ago that he was defending Obamacare instead of using it at a lifeline out of his fading relevance? You just have to love the phony conservative flip-floppers, just like former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney whose state health care system served as a blueprint for Obamacare – they were for it before they were against it.
Time for Kentucky to kick back and ditch Mitch next year as a warning, it would be the equivalent of the GOP party bosses waking up one morning with a severed horse’s head in their beds.
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