I didn’t hear him promise a thing to any one in particular. He promised to push back on legislative across the board that conservatives didn’t want in the first place.
It won’t have the impact Romney’s comment had. Romney singled out the lower and middle class with a put down. No way around that. Romney’s comment came across as a betrayal. Before his comment became public, he probably did have a few 47%ers who would have voted for him because they were looking for solutions, and the possibility of a future without food stamps or whatever. Just because you are on the ropes someone shouldn’t assume you out of the fight.
McConnell is not really not on the national stage. Nobody will care.
The problem is that the Democrats are very much aware they could lose the Senate this fall, so instead of playing their game to save seats, they are concentrating their efforts to take back seats from the most senior of the Republican ranks up for grabs this fall. A majority of newbies isn’t going to serve the Republicans well. The Senate or Congress could flip back in 2016 just focusing on the ineptness of newcomers.
Love him or hate him, McDonnell’s seat is important.

I don't think any group which promotes "The Ed Show" (Ed Schultz) is legitimate.

The Marxocrats are trying to scare the base into action for 2014.
Plus they need something (anything) to counter the Mary Landrieu carpetbagger allegations.

I suspect it's all factually correct, but they've picked a few statements that sound the most controversial without providing context.

If you think McConnell is a problem, just think of the problems with Grimes. "Of two evils, pick the lesser."

I don't trust the source. It sounded like cherry picking to me. That said, I wouldn't put it past McConnel or any R since they are almost as ideologically unfaithful to the Constitution and the American people as are leftist/totalitarian D's (or do we just call them O's now?).

No, its not legitimate, nothing published by any politician's opponents at this time of an election year can be considered anything but campaign propaganda.
However, I must find agreement with much that McConnell said. Much of the Progressive Agenda, which is supported by all Democrats and a Hell of a Lot of Republicans, McConnell among them are extra constitutional big government issues, that include 20+ Republicans voted for Nixon's Environmental Protection Act, Carter's Department of Education, Bush's NCLB, and Obummer's Dodd-Frank, AHCA and dozens more passed bills that are violations of the 9th or 10th Amendments and of Articles I and II.
So do your due diligence, research your candidates thoroughly before you check the box or pull the lever on November 4th.

consider the source -- did you see the "articles" at
the bottom of the piece? obviously a leftist site. he's
a RINO, of course, but better than Grimes. -- j

I have no way to make a politician keep the promises he makes whilst campaigning. But I regard it as better for someone to 'say things that I like to hear' and 'get elected' than for someone to 'say things I do not like to hear' and then 'get elected'. Even if he does not do what he says, just getting the vote would show a weather change in the feelings of the voters - and the other politicians will want to change their sails to catch that wind.

Jan

McConnell, Boehner, and all these politicians are CREEPS only interested in getting re-elected and will say and do anything for money just like the Sluts and Whores of a cathouse.

We need to put together "Operation Clean Sweep" and work to oust ALL politicians in office at the primaries, and send a clear message they ALL suck the big oval orifice.

Call a meeting secret or private, seems there is always some snitch with a recordring device. Maybe the only thing smart Maxwell Smart ever did was to always demand the "cone of silence."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9C...

I honestly don't see the flub - he wants to push back against riders and actually line item each part of a spending bill. So what?

Just another politician promising to do what his largest contributors want him to do. Both sides look stupid when they claim to "catch" an opponent doing this. They ALL do this.

Original piece was in "The Nation" mag. It's probably legit, but I see nothing wrong with what he said. The GOP in the House will have to do it, and should have been doing it since 1994.

Curious about the Koch brothers. After reading "Sons of Wichita" only to discover Charles was/is a major backer of both the Tea Party and the Libertarian party, would he be better described as a Hank Rearden or an Orren Boyle?

If this is true, these folks just might save the nation.
They get have anything they please

So let's see, was McConnell's statement worse than "we'll have to pass it before we can find out what's in it", Dodd Frank, obamacare, lack of approval of the pipeline across Armerica, Benghazi, the Middle East debacle, returning Churchill's statue, and a 1000 other missteps by the liberals. He sounded like any other politician to me, telling tham what they wanted to hear while wanting to hold on to power. Hardly worth the time to bring up unless you are desperate.

Wouldn't vote for the guy, he likely makes plenty of promises to various groups he cannot keep. However on the whole Citizens United thing... the USSC ruled correctly if not all the majority for the right reason... see Scalia supporting opinion, he got it right. Person do not lose their First Amendment speech protection when speaking within a corporate structure using corporate resources no more than a person loses their First Amendment press protections when performing press functions within a corporate structure using corporate resources. If they did the vast majority of the press would be out of business. Also CU struck down the part of the legislation applied to for profit companies, not for profit companies were never prohibited this way, which negates the whole corporations are/are not people arguments. It was about profit or not for profit when Congress passed the legislation.

What is wrong with what he said? A fight is good. The less politicians do the better. Keep them fighting. That said, 2015 may be the end of the $.

It all looked like good stuff to be doing. No problem with what he said.