Chart of the Day: GOP voters now officially hate Mitch McConnell...

Via Gallop:

Rasmussen: Only 22% of GOP voters want McConnell to stay as Senate Majority Leader.

I am surprised the number is that high. 

Via Rasmussen: 

It looks like Republican voters are ready to clean house when it comes to the party's top two congressional leaders.
Following John Boehner’s sudden decision to step down as speaker of the House of Representatives, 46% of Likely Republican Voters think Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also should resign. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 22% of GOP voters don’t think the longtime Kentucky senator should step down as majority leader, but a sizable 32% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

If you wonder why outsiders are dominating the GOP presidential primaries, just check the above picture for understanding. 

Senate RINO's stampede to rebuke Ted Cruz for calling Mitch McConnell a liar...

I am from Kentucky and I believe Mitch McConnell is a liar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Senate Republicans lined up Sunday to rebuke Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for harshly criticizing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, an extraordinary display of intraparty division played out live on the Senate floor.
As the Senate met for a rare Sunday session, Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and John Cornyn of Texas each rose to counter a stunning floor speech Cruz gave on Friday accusing McConnell, R-Ky., of lying.
None of them mentioned Cruz by name but the target of their remarks could not have been clearer. The drama came as the Senate defeated a procedural vote to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law and took a step toward reviving the federal Export-Import Bank, both amendments on a must-pass highway bill.
Keep reading…

Cowardly Republican leaders skip #Obamatrade signing ceremony...

Boehner and McConnell are an embarrassment to the Republican Party...

Via The Washington Times:

President Obama signed hard-fought trade legislation Monday, thanking Republican leaders who helped get it done and saying the package will “reinforce America’s leadership role in the world.”
“I think it’s fair to say that getting these bills through Congress has not been easy,” Mr. Obama said as he signed the trade bills into law in the East Room. “They’ve been declared dead more than once.”
The two major pieces of legislation grant Mr. Obama “fast track” trade-promotion authority, which allows the president to negotiate a deal and submit it to Congress for an up-or-down vote without the chance for amendments, and expand aid for American workers who lose their jobs due to foreign competition. Members of both parties attended the bill-signing ceremony, although Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky did not, with Congress on its Independence Day recess.

Mitch McConnell caves on DHS funding; kisses Harry Reid's butt...

Shameful...

February 24, 2015 With the Homeland Security Department set to shut down on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday offered Senate Democrats everything they wanted. And then, as with mice and cookies, they asked for some more.

McConnell told reporters Tuesday that after two months of begging, he would finally agree to give Democrats a clean vote to fund DHS through the end of the fiscal year. The funding, based on an agreement between Democratic and Republican appropriators last year, would come with no strings attached.
"I've indicated to the Democratic leader that I'd be happy to have his cooperation to advance the consideration of a clean DHS bill which would carry us through till September 30th," McConnell said to press Tuesday.

Mitch McConnell doesn't seem to really want to defund Obama's illegal amnesty EO...

This is why I didn't vote for the turtle.   

January 15, 2015 HERSHEY, Pa.—After hearing a week's worth of complaints from his conservative members, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that the Senate will attempt to approve a House-passed bill that guts President Obama's executive actions on immigration.
Months after the president announced his executive action to protect millions of illegal immigrants within U.S. borders, Senate Republican leaders have been cagey about how they will respond, raising concerns among border hawks within the conference. But McConnell affirmed at a joint House and Senate Republican retreat in Hershey, Pa., that he will work to get the House's bill—which passed that chamber Wednesday—to the president's desk. "We're going to try to pass it," he told reporters Thursday.
The House bill appears very unlikely to pass the Senate, where McConnell will need to attract at least six Democrats to reach the 60-vote threshold to end debate. Although conservatives have called on McConnell to bring the bill to the floor immediately, he did not offer a timeline for consideration on Thursday. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires at the end of February.
McConnell did not provide a path forward Thursday in the likely case that the House bill fails. Passing the House bill would "be our first choice," McConnell said. "If we're not able to do that, then we'll let you know what's next." Keep on reading...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicates willingness to help Obama finish his destruction of America...

The election is over. It's back to business as usual for McConnell. 

Via Washington Examiner

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is “not opposed” to negotiating with President Obama, he said in an interview with CNN that aired Sunday, and expressed eagerness to work with the president to find a middle ground in the coming year.
“Now he needs to talk to us,” McConnell said. “And that’s good, because when the American people elect a divided government, they’re not saying they don’t want anything done. What they are saying is, they want things done in the political center, things that both sides can agree on. We talk about the things where there may be some agreement.”
Indeed, the White House has begun to indicate that President Obama will take less of a go-it-alone approach in 2015 and attempt to work with and through the Republican-led Congress to achieve his policy goals. Republican leaders, like McConnell, have so far expressed optimism that such collaboration will yield some breakthroughs.[…]

McConnell caves on doing anything serious about Obama's Immigration EO before the EO is issued...

Sen. Mitch McConnell is a negotiating idiot.This is tantamount to us telling Iran we would never use military force to stop them from getting a nuke.

“I’ve been very disturbed about the way the president has proceeded in the wake of the election,” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday after being elected majority leader in the next Congress…
Still, McConnell reiterated that there will be no government shutdowns or debt defaults while the GOP is in charge, despite talk among some Republicans of seeking to stop Obama’s immigration action through the appropriations process.
“We’re not shutting the government down or threatening to default on the national debt,” McConnell said…
“We’d like for the president to recognize the reality that he has the government that he has, not the government that he wishes he had,” McConnell said.

Amusing: Pro Amnesty Alison Lundergan Grimes Ad Attacks Mitch McConnell for Being Pro Amnesty...

 I saw this ad on tv and had a hard time finding it. It isn't on Alison Lundergan Grimes' website and isn't searchable on YouTube.

Alison for Kentucky TV Ad "Largest Ever"

 

 

Desperation: KY Demo Alison Lundgren Grimes exclaims "I am not Barack Obama" and fires gun in new ad...

Wow. Her internal polling must be even worse than the 5 points she is losing to McConnell by in the RCP average.

Unlikely: Mitch McConnell promises to reign in Obama's policies or force a shutdown...

Is there a Republican or Independent in Kentucky dumb enough to believe this?  If you want to hold your nose and vote for McConnell to cause Harry Reid to become the Minority Leader, I understand. I won't be joining you. Just know what a spineless disingenuous jellyfish you are voting for.

HENDERSON, Ky. — Mitch McConnell has a game plan to confront President Barack Obama with a stark choice next year: Accept bills reining in the administration’s policies or veto them and risk a government shutdown.
In an extensive interview here, the typically reserved McConnell laid out his clearest thinking yet of how he would lead the Senate if Republicans gain control of the chamber. The emerging strategy: Attach riders to spending bills that would limit Obama policies on everything from the environment to health care, consider using an arcane budget tactic to circumvent Democratic filibusters and force the president to “move to the center” if he wants to get any new legislation through Congress.
In short, it’s a recipe for a confrontational end to the Obama presidency.
“We’re going to pass spending bills, and they’re going to have a lot of restrictions on the activities of the bureaucracy,” McConnell said in an interview aboard his campaign bus traveling through Western Kentucky coal country. “That’s something he won’t like, but that will be done. I guarantee it.” Read it all...

McConnell trounces Bevin in KY Senate primary, but can he win in November?

In February, Matt Bevin polled better against Grimes than McConnell. Mitch McConnell has poisoned his relationship with many conservatives and Tea Party supporters. It's unlikely they will turn out with enthusiasm for him. McConnell can't win without them.

Via The Hill:

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) easily defeated his primary challenger, businessman Matt Bevin, in a sour loss for the Tea Party on Tuesday night.

The Associated Press called the race for McConnell right as polls closed at 7 p.m. in the Bluegrass State, where the Senate minority leader had a two-to-one lead over Bevin.

McConnell's victory sets up a closely-watched and expensive contest against Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, one of Democrats' best hopes at a GOP pickup this cycle. Grimes also easily won her nominal primary on Tuesday.

Tea Party groups, long frustrated with McConnell’s leadership, initially had high hopes for Bevin. He drew the backing of the Senate Conservatives Fund and Madison Project, among others, and SCF invested nearly a million dollars on his bid.

Demo KY House Speaker Stumbo claims his twitter account was hacked before anti-McConnell tweets

Yeah. Right...

Via FOX News:

Kentucky's House speaker says someone hacked into his Twitter account to post inflammatory comments about U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Democratic Speaker Greg Stumbo took to Twitter to distance himself from the criticism directed at the five-term Republican senator from Kentucky.
Stumbo tweeted he was unaware the anti-McConnell comments had been posted Thursday night until he was notified in a phone call.
The speaker explained that his personal Twitter account had been hacked and he was changing his password.

Here is what was tweeted.

From 8:31 p.m. to 8:46 p.m. Thursday, these political tweets appeared on Stumbo’s account:
*To Rich Mitch you sent our young men to war which was useless how about making your military file public? The dead deserve it.
*Check Mitches net worth over these years and @compare it to the average Kentuckian he gained you lost and this why he wants to be re-elected?
*Mitch McConnell went to Congress with an average net worth CHECK IT OUT NOW he made millions you went broke
*My God the Republicans who causes the Hoover and Bush/McConnell recessions think people believe them HELLO

Harry Reid Trolls McConnell over KY Obamacare sign-up numbers, but doesn't tell the whole story

Harry Reid took to the Senate floor Thursday and used Kentucky's Affordable Care Act numbers as a stick to hit Mitch McConnell.  

“My counterpart, the senior senator from Kentucky, will address the Senate probably after I finish. In his home state of Kentucky, 360,000 people have signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Three hundred and sixty thousand. Over a quarter million Kentuckians who did not have insurance now have health care under the Affordable Care Act. Or, in other words, Obamacare has reduced the uninsured population in Kentucky by 40 percent. I wonder when my friend from Kentucky will explain to the 270,000 Kentuckians how he plans to repeal the law without stripping their new health benefits.”

That sounds like a great success, but Dingy Harry left out one key statistic. 

With sign-ups reaching 1,000 people an hour, Kentucky surpassed 360,000 enrollees by Monday’s midnight deadline for the Affordable Care Act’s first open-enrollment period.[...]

The goal of the ACA was to help cover 48 million Americans, including 640,000 in Kentucky, who lack health insurance.

Although the state set no official first-year goal, its 360,000-plus sign-ups — 75 percent of whom were previously uninsured — represents a sizable chunk.[...]

Final figures are expected from the state Tuesday.

So far, about 80 percent of enrollees qualified for expanded Medicaid, leading some critics to question the added costs to federal budgets. The rest bought private plans on the exchange, where people are eligible for subsidies, based on their income.

80% signed up fro free Medicaid; proving once again free stuff is popular. That means only 72,000 actually signed up to pay. Most of them likely got a large subsidy. The 80% Medicaid number also explains why 75% of KY enrollees were previously uninsured. Most of these people were probably already "getting a check" from the government as they say in Eastern Kentucky.

Amusing: New Matt Bevin ad clads Mitch McConnell in Duke uniform

Coffee spitting funny...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell believes GOPe will crush Tea Party...

I hope McConnell is wrong. My vote is going to Matt Bevin.

Via TPM

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) believes that incumbent Republicans won’t have a problem holding their seats in the 2014 elections.
“I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” McConnell said about Tea Party challengers in a New York Times interview published Saturday. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”
McConnell faces a primary challenge from the right. The Senate Conservatives Fund, which backs Tea Party challenger Matt Bevin, believes the candidate has a chance of defeating McConnell the the primary.
“Mitch McConnell is clearly in trouble in this primary or he wouldn’t be attacking Matt Bevin and declaring war on conservatives,” Matt Hoskins, the head of the SCF, told the New York Times.

Stupid: Kentucky Speaker Stumbo Compares Defeating Sen. McConnell To Liberating Europe From Nazi's

GREG STUMBO, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE (D-KENTUCKY): You know, we’ve got a lot of people who came here tonight to celebrate, and I have to speak to the crowd that when we kicked off this campaign back in July in Lexington. And it reminded me of the feeling that our troops must have had when they liberated the European nations following World War II. Can you imagine what it felt like to know that you were liberating a country? Well, you’re about to liberate your state, you’re about to liberate your state from the worst reign of misabuse that we’ve seen in the last 30 years. You’re about to give us hope.

PPP asks who leads Republican Party: 21% picked Cruz to 17% for Chris Christie, and 15% for John Boehner...

Mitch McConnell was hardest hit. He only got 4%. Collaborating with Democrats to fund Obamacare and raise the debt ceiling for nothing has ended any support McConnell had.

Via PPP:

PPP's newest national survey finds that in the wake of the shutdown, Republican voters now view Ted Cruz as their party's leader. 21% picked Cruz to 17% for Chris Christie, and 15% for John Boehner. Cruz finished well ahead of the other GOP Senators we tested- Rand Paul got 9%, John McCain 7%, and Mitch McConnell only 4%. Mitt Romney at 8% and Sarah Palin at 4% were the other people we tested.
Numbers PPP will release next week show Ted Cruz would be an exceedingly weak Presidential candidate in the general election. The good news for the GOP is that even if the party base sees Cruz as their leader Democrats and independents actually see Chris Christie, who has far broader approval, as the leader of the Republican Party these days. With Democrats Christie gets 23% to 17% for Boehner and only 10% for Cruz. And with independents Christie gets 25% to 17% for Cruz and 10% for Boehner. Even if Republicans themselves see Cruz as their leader, they're better off with everyone else seeing it as Christie.

Payoff? Did Mitch McConnell sell his betrayal of conservatives for a $2 Billion earmark for a Kentucky project?

I am shamed to have ever voted for Mitch McConnell. I won't make that mistake ever again.

Via WFPL:

Language in a draft of the McConnell-Reid deal (see page 13, section 123) provided to WFPL News shows a provision that increases funding for the massive Olmsted Dam Lock in Louisville from $775 million to nearly $2. 9 billion.
The dam is considered an important project for the state and region in regards to water traffic along the Ohio River.

Moonbat democrat accused of secretly recording a meeting of Kentucky's Senator Mitch McConnell's campaign staff is unapologetic...

Let's hope the federal grand jury indicts both of them. 

Both Reilly and Morrison are well-known (not to say, infamous) in Kentucky political circles for past bizarre behavior. Reilly's past involves such interesting items as accusations of his possible involvement in the murder of his roommate, and Morrison was one of the organizers of the Looney Tunes movement two years ago, known as Occupy Louisville.

In a blatant plea for notoriety, Morrison wrote a piece in today's Salon Magazine, entitled, "Why I secretly recorded Mitch McConnell: My effort to expose the Senate minority leader's ugly campaign upended my life." In this desultory melange of admissions, justifications, and pleas for understanding (and requests for money to pay his legal bills), Morrison confesses that he is responsible for the surreptitious recording of a private campaign strategy meeting at the political offices of Kentucky's senior senator, Republican Mitch McConnell.

Part of Morrison's motivation for penning this bit of self-aggrandizing drivel seems to be the fact that his little escapade is being presented to a federal grand jury next week, and the likelihood of his indictment for a felony appears to be as close to a Sure Thing as one can find here in Derby City.