Tag: mitch mcconnell

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A Broken Mitch McConnell Whines That President Obama Is Ignoring The Midterm Election

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been reduced to whining and complaining after being outwitted by President Obama.

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Boehner and McConnell Bomb On 60 Minutes When Asked For GOP Alternative to Obamacare

Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a disastrous appearance on 60 Minutes, the lowlight of which was their complete inability to discuss the Republican alternative to Obamacare.

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Obama will not meet with Netanyahu during trip to Washington

President Barack Obama will not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he travels to Washington in March.

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Obama’s Brilliant State of the Union Wasted On Stupid Anti-Government Americans

For the past seven years President Barack Obama has delivered prescient State of the Union speeches that should appeal to the majority of Americans regardless of their party affiliation except for one small detail; he represents the federal government.

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Republicans Fooled Americans Again To Eliminate Women’s Reproductive Rights

Instead of introducing legislation to create jobs, or help Americans struggling in an economy created for the benefit of the rich, on the first day of the 114th Congress Republicans introduced five separate bills restricting women’s reproductive rights; something they did not pledge would be at the top of their legislative agenda.

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GOP Civil War: Tea Party Congressman Rips Speaker John Boehner For Poor Leadership

Continuing GOP civil war, Rep. Richard Nugent of Florida vents Tea Party dissatisfaction with John Boehner’s leadership and competence.

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Thieving Republicans Robbed Americans In Their First Week Controlling Congress

It is amazing that Republicans who could not pass any legislation last year, spent the first four days of the 114th Congress stealing from women, retired and disabled Americas, large corporations’ employees, and various government departments and the Executive Branch.

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GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America

There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous to other human beings and should be prevented at all costs, and yet wishes they could do the same thing. Last year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, like all Republicans, witnessed the complete economic devastation…

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2014 Finishes With Best Job Growth Since 1999 As Unemployment Rate Drops To 5.6%

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released December’s job numbers and revealed that the strong growth we had seen throughout 2014 continues unabated.

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Speaker John Boehner Declares Himself Anti-Establishment Rebel And Not A Squish

Just two days after orchestrating the removal of two disloyal Florida GOP Congressmen (Daniel Webster and Rich Nugent), from the House Rules Committee, John Boehner is continuing his fight against recalcitrant Republicans. Today, Boehner tried to make the case that he was not “spineless or a squish”. In a press conference, he told NBC News that he was the…

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The First Act Of The Koch Congress Is A Vicious Attack On Social Security

On the evening before officially taking control of Congress, Republicans launched a Koch-Wall Street attack on Social Security as a first step in another Republican-created crisis; this time to hasten privatizing Social Security for the Kochs and Wall Street.

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PolitiFact Busts Mitch McConnell For Trying to Steal President Obama’s Economic Record

“False”. This is the harsh ruling PolitiFact had for Mitch McConnell’s claim that the economy improved because the GOP won. Further, “The data we found suggest McConnell is engaging in some wishful thinking.”

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According to Republicans The 114th Koch Congress Is Focused On Koch Priorities

Republicans are beginning the 114th Congress with the mindset that “nothing is going to get in the way of our team’s focus on the Koch brothers’ priorities” in quickly passing two bills the Koch brothers demand be acted on.

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Mitch McConnell Lies and Blames Obama and Democrats For His Years Of Senate Dysfunction

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) desperately tried to rewrite history today by implying that President Obama and Senate Democrats were responsible for the campaign of dysfunction and obstruction that he orchestrated.

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President Obama Preserved Women’s Reproductive Rights In Passing the CRomnibus

The recent appropriations bill known as the CRomnibus could have been a lot worse for women’s reproductive rights and it is very fortunate for women that Democrats and President Obama succeeded in getting it passed.

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113th Congress Produces 22% of “Do-Nothing” 1947-1948 Counterpart

Similar to overpaid NFL “star” Jay Cutler’s reign of terror as the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, the best thing we can say about the 113th session of Congress is that it’s over.

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The Insane Republican Reaction to Obama’s Cuba News

Tom DeLay said, “Frankly, I think this could also be payback by Obama to those Cubans who normally support Republicans”

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President Obama Outplayed Republicans Again – So Stop Complaining

Once again, President Obama has out-maneuvered Republican plans to further wreak havoc on the nation, and although a clean funding bill would have been ideal, it was never going to happen because Republicans.

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McConnell Promises Republicans Will Escalate The Religious War on Women

Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.

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Republicans Completely Cave As President Obama Wins Big In Government Funding Deal

President Obama notched another big victory as Republicans put off their attempts to stop his immigration order and agreed to fund all of the federal government except Homeland Security through September 2015.

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GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Thinks Release Of CIA Torture Report “Politically Motivated”

On Tuesday, after Senate Democrats released a detailed report showing the CIA’s use of torture was both ineffective and far more expansive than previously acknowledged, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released a statement where he said that the release of the report was “politically motivated.”

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Delusional Mitch McConnell Thinks Democrats Are Happy That He Will Be Running The Senate

In a new interview, a delusional Mitch McConnell implied that Democrats are happy that he is going to be running the Senate.

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President Obama Single-Handedly Protects Americans’ Health and Combats Climate Change

Now, every Republican and related conservative is under the illusion that providing for the general welfare means providing for the fossil fuel industry, corporations, the wealthy, Christian clergy, and financial sector’s general welfare, but that is not what the Founding Fathers or the first four American presidents believed; neither does President Barack Obama.

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Paul Ryan Plans A CBO Rubber Stamp For Trickle Down Disaster

Paul Ryan is quietly working behind the scenes to make sure the next head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Congress’s objective eye in all matters concerning fiscal policy, is an ardent proponent of the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity economic agenda.

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House Report: No Benghazi Coverup. Republican Response? Broaden Investigation

in response to the House investigation proving there was no Benghazi coverup, Republicans, looking for a different answer want a Senate investigation

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Once More, President Obama Is Doing The Republicans’ Jobs For Them

There is an idiom that parents and employers likely put in practice when an important task has to be completed correctly; “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” President Obama certainly understands that sentiment with a slight variation; if the nation wants anything done at all, the President has to do it himself due to Republicans who have done nothing since January 2009.

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GOP Heads Explode After President Obama Cuts Historic Climate Change Deal With China

On Tuesday evening, it was announced that the United States and China had come to an agreement to reduce carbon emissions and increase sustainable energy consumption.

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Republicans Celebrate Veterans Day By Dishonoring Veterans In Word And Deed

Republicans have no respect for the valiant service and sacrifices of veterans. In fact, for well over a decade, at least, Republicans have done everything within their power to dishonor their service.

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Republicans Are Shocked That Obama Refuses To Cave and Give Them Everything They Want

Aides to Sen. Mitch McConnell are frustrated because President Obama has made it known that he is not going to back down and give the Republican controlled Congress what they want.

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Conservatives Turn on McConnell And Anoint Ted Cruz The Leader Of Congress

The real conservatives look forward to Cruz’s plan to push “his” Republican-led Senate to be as conservative and confrontational as “his” Republican-led House.

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McConnell and Boehner Announce Plan to Take Health Insurance Away From 1 Million Americans

Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have announced that one of the first things that the new Republican controlled Congress will do it take away health insurance from 1 million Americans.

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The Likes of Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Leave America a Bleaker Place This Morning

We are the victims of voter suppression and intimidation. Our votes were overridden with dark money and corporate-funded propaganda

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How Republicans Conned The American People Into Giving Them Control Of The Senate

The lazy explanation from the media and political chattering classes is that Democrats lost their Senate majority because of Barack Obama. The truth is that the Senate Republicans ran a years long con on the American people that resulted in the GOP’s election win.

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Bad News For McConnell: Heavy Turnout Reported In Kentucky Urban Areas Likely For Grimes

Turnout has already hit 20% in some Louisville Kentucky precincts and Kentucky voters are fired up.

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Only 100 Show Up, 15 From Out Of State, For “Big” Rand Paul/Mitch McConnell Rally

There wasn’t any enthusiasm for Senator Mitch McConnell at Monday’s rally. The 15 or so young people may or may not be local, as they took off in vans with non-local plates.

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Alison Lundergan Grimes and Kentuckians Swamped by Corporate Dark Money

The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition’s millions of dollars represents the method by which we have had our democracy co-opted by big money

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Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Are Desperate To Conceal Their Koch Connections

Apparently Republican corruption has reached such a level that blatant lying and obvious violation of campaign disclosure laws is part and parcel of what it means to be a Republican; at least a Republican Senate candidate.

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Mitch McConnell May Have Committed Two Felonies With Illegal Voter Intimidation Tactics

Senator Mitch McConnell appears to have committed two separate felony offenses, and that’s just under Kentucky state laws. The Kentucky GOP is beginning to look like a band of lawbreakers.

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Mitch McConnell Admits That Obamacare is Here to Stay Even if GOP Captures Senate

Following Obamacare’s bumpy rollout, the GOP expected to campaign on a platform of repeal, repeal, repeal. However, as Americans have come to embrace much of the Affordable Care Act in substance, if not yet in name, campaigning on all out repeal has lost its luster.

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Mitch McConnell Resorts to Lying to Win, Claims ‘Nobody Wants to Privatize Social Security’

While casting himself as the “change” candidate after 30 years of the same old same old, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) then denied that he had ever said diddly-squat about privatizing Social Security.

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Grimes Campaign Expresses Confidence After New Poll Shows McConnell Up In Kentucky

The final Bluegrass Poll of the 2014 election showed Mitch McConnell leading Alison Lundergan Grimes 48%-43%, but the Grimes campaign expressed confidence that they will prevail on Election Day.

GRIMES LEADS MCCONNELL NEW KENTUCKY POLL

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While Alison Lundergan Grimes Speaks to 16,000 Only 250 Show Up For McConnell Rally

While Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes was addressing 16,000 Kentuckians last night, Sen. Mitch McConnell spoke to a virtually empty room of 250 people while campaigning with Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA).

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Mitch McConnell Scam Exposed: Fake Kentucky Supporter In Ad Has Never Voted

Things continue to get worse for Sen. Mitch McConnell. Not only has McConnell spent tens of thousands of dollars on fake supporters, but one of the women featured in an ad touting women who support McConnell isn’t from Kentucky, and has never voted.

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Mitch McConnell Ad Backfires and Exposes His Empty Reelection Campaign About Nothing

Mitch McConnell goes bumper sticker slogan and dogs to avoid talking about his secretive policy agenda.

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McConnell Reeling After 2 Biggest Newspapers In Kentucky Endorse Alison Lundergan Grimes

In strong editorials, the two largest newspapers in Kentucky have both endorsed Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes over Sen. Mitch McConnell in the Kentucky Senate election.

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A Sign Of Defeat? Mitch McConnell Forced To Loan His Reelection Campaign $1.8 Million

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was forced to personally loan his sputtering reelection campaign $1.8 million. Needless to say, candidates with lots of supporters don’t have to loan themselves money.

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It Gets Worse For Republicans As Mitch McConnell Busted For Using Non-Kentucky Woman in Ad

Mitch McConnell has done it again. The fading Kentucky Republican has gone beyond paying people to attend his rallies to having a non-Kentucky woman appear in his ad touting female support for Sen. McConnell in Kentucky.

Obama and the Democrats Set a Wall Street Reform Trap for the GOP

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Republican Senate Wave Is Disintegrating As Democrats Again Outraise Republicans

Senate Democrats have outraised Republicans again, with the DSCC taking in $6.5 million to the NRSC’s $6 million in the first two weeks of October.

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Mitch McConnell Gets Caught Trying To Disguise His Paid Supporters As Sound Crew

Sen. Mitch McConnell was caught in a massive lie today when he told reporters that his paid supporters were sound crew. Other media soon revealed that many of his supporters were bused in.

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Ted Cruz Says A Functioning Senate Subverts the Will of The People

In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that he would burn to the ground in a hot second if he were able.

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Chuck Todd Is Wrong: New Poll Shows Alison Lundergan Grimes Positioned To Win In Kentucky

Contrary to Chuck Todd’s belief that Alison Lundergan Grimes disqualified herself, the new Bluegrass Poll of Kentucky shows Grimes in a position to win as she is deadlocked with Mitch McConnell.

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Arrogant Mitch McConnell Dismisses Alison Lundergan Grimes and Acts Like He Has Already Won

Sen. Mitch McConnell is ignoring reality and acting like Republicans have already won the Senate, and he’s the Majority Leader. The truth is McConnell could lose his seat, and Democrats have an opportunity to keep the Senate.

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Chuck Todd Defends His Campaigning For Mitch McConnell By Claiming He’s Smarter Than You

Meet The Press’s Chuck Todd defended his attack on Alison Lundergan Grimes by calling it “political reality.” Todd’s defense centered around his belief that he is smarter than his critics.

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Clearly Biased Polls Being Sold As Fact To Discourage Voters From Voting For Alison Grimes

Rasmussen released a poll of the Kentucky Senate race that showed Mitch McConnell leading Alison Lundergan Grimes 52%-44%. Here is why the poll is another piece of propaganda that is designed to discourage Democrats from voting for Grimes.

Poll: Opposition To Minimum Wage Increase Could Doom Mitch McConnell and Scott Walker

A new PPP poll revealed that Republican opposition to the raising the minimum wage is hurting candidates like Mitch McConnell and Scott Walker in Kentucky and Wisconsin.

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Mitch McConnell Admits Republicans Want Kansas’ “Conservative Hell” Enacted Nationally

McConnell is anxious to lead the Senate and join House Republicans in enacting Brownback’s Koch brother model at the national level.

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Nondisparagement Clauses and the Path to GOP Corporatist Tyranny

If our elected government is replaced by a board of directors, is it far-fetched to think corporate nondisparagement clauses might trump our freedom of speech?

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Mitch McConnell Humiliates Himself Then Flees When Asked Why He Won’t Debate Grimes

Mitch McConnell’s trainwreck of a reelection campaign got even worse today as the Kentucky senator embarrassed himself on the largest radio show in the state, then abruptly ended the interview when he was asked why he won’t debate Alison Lundergan Grimes.

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Natural Born Job Killers: Why Republicans Are Afraid to Reveal Their Job Creation Ideas

It is difficult to believe that any American might think, even for a nano-second, that Republicans serve anyone other than the rich and corporations, and it is why they are hesitant to lay out their true agenda heading into the midterm elections.

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Mitch McConnell Chickens Out and Goes Silent On Offer to Debate Alison Lundergan Grimes

Mitch McConnell has gone full blown chicken. He is so afraid of debating Alison Lundergan Grimes that he is refusing to acknowledge offers to debate the Democrat.

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Sam Brownback Insults Kansas Voters By Treating Them Like They Are Gullible and Stupid

It is beyond dispute that Republicans take advantage of their supporters’ stupidity, and Brownback must believe Kansas voters are the stupidest people in the nation

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Mitch McConnell Turns Yellow and Refuses To Debate Alison Lundergan Grimes

After appearing to agree to a debate with his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes in late October, Sen. Mitch McConnell abruptly flip-flopped and refused to debate the fiery Democrat.

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Momentum Has Shifted With Two New Models Showing Democrats Favored To Keep The Senate

Momentum is shifting as the nation moves closer to Election Day. Two new models give Democrats a better than fifty percent chance of keeping control of the US Senate.

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While Firing A Gun Alison Lundergan Grimes Sets Mitch McConnell Straight On Who She Is

A new ad from Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes takes aim at Mitch McConnell’s attempts to paint her as Barack Obama. While skeet shooting Grimes sets the record straight.

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Bill Clinton Wallops Republicans With The Truth By Calling Them Koch Brothers Clones

Former president Bill Clinton pulled no punches when talking about the Republican Party. Clinton called Mitch McConnell and the other Republicans clones of the Koch brothers.

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Alison Grimes Shreds Mitch McConnell For Blocking Amendment To Overturn Citizens United

Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is calling out Sen. Mitch McConnell for selling out the American people in order to protect the Koch brothers.

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Republicans Are Fixated On Using Extortion To Rule America

The truth is that since teabaggers became de facto leaders of the Republican Party, they have contemplated various schemes to shutdown Washington.

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Bernie Sanders Calls Republican Blocking Of Citizens United Amendment A Defeat For Democracy

After Senate Republicans had blocked a constitutional amendment that would have overturned Citizens United, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called the Koch victory a defeat for democracy.

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Alison Lundergan Grimes Has a Small But Impressive Lead Over Mitch McConnell In New Poll

According to a new internal poll, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes has a small lead over Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky 43%-42%.

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Democrats Are Squandering an Opportunity to Expose The Republican Agenda

One of the primary reasons the GOP is so successful selling a bill-of-goods to voters is that Democrats, while campaigning on issues they fully intend on advancing if elected, are more often than not reluctant to either cite Republicans’ broken promises, or inform voters of the GOP’s true motivation for seeking control of the government.

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McConnell Campaign Crumbling As Mitch Dodges Questions At Watermelon Festival

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign continues to crumble. McConnell found the environment at a watermelon festival too challenging, so he avoided reporter’s questions about his former campaign manager’s bribery scandal.

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Things Get Worse For Mitch McConnell As His Campaign Manager Resigns Amid Bribery Scandal

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) barely teetering reelection campaign has suffered another gut punch as campaign manager Jesse Benton resigned amid allegations of his involvement in a bribery scandal.

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Republicans Can’t Run Away From Their Allegiances and Policies Unless We Let Them

Mitch McConnell is a man on the run from a disastrous week for the Republican Party.

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Mitch McConnell Runs Away From Reporters After Leak Of Secret Speech To the Kochs

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been caught on video literally running away from reporters after audio of a secret speech that he gave to the Koch brothers was leaked.

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Mitch McConnell Puts His Foot In His Mouth By Calling The Founding Fathers Radicals

McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is “an act of true radicalism,” something that makes the Founding Fathers and the great majority of Americans “true radicals.”

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Mitch McConnell Promises the Kochs That Republicans Can Do Their Bidding With 51 Votes

The heavily Koch gifted to Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is pretty desperate to win the Senate for Republicans. He’s got a lot on the agenda. A lot he can’t tell you about.

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Mitch McConnell Tries To Undo Everything Obama Has Done With Government Shutdown Threat

If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell’s own words encapsulated the entire conservative mindset when he promised that “Obama won’t like it, but that will be done. I guarantee it.”

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Mitch McConnell May Have Committed A Felony and Democrats Demand An Investigation

In a letter to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, the Kentucky Democratic Party is calling for an investigation into whether Mitch McConnell used official government resources to solicit contributions to his reelection campaign.

Mitch McConnell Promises a Massive Government Shutdown If Republicans Win The Senate

Mitch McConnell is already making plans for after Republicans take over the Senate, and his top priority is to get Obama to give him what he wants or he will shutdown the government.

Bill Clinton Hammers Mitch McConnell While Campaigning for Alison Grimes In Kentucky

Former president Bill Clinton tore apart Sen. Mitch McConnell for his belief that it is not his job to create jobs while campaigning for Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky.

Mitch McConnell Admits That Republicans Have No Chance Of Taking The Senate If He Loses

Sen. Mitch McConnell admitted that if he loses his reelection campaign, Republicans have zero chance of taking back the Senate.

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Senate Republicans Vote Against American Jobs By Blocking Bill To End Outsourcing Tax Breaks

Senate Republicans blocked a bill today that would potentially bring millions of jobs back to the United States by refusing to end tax breaks for companies who outsource jobs.

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Mitch McConnell’s Big Spending Isn’t Working As He Is Tied With Alison Lundergan Grimes

Mitch McConnell has already spent $30 million to try to keep his Senate seat, but a new Bluegrass Poll found that he remained tied with Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.

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Things Go From Bad To Worse for Mitch As Kentucky GOP Leader Resigns To Protest McConnell

A local Republican Party leader in Kentucky has resigned her position in act of protest against Sen. Mitch McConnell.

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KY Dem Says Hillary Clinton Will Campaign With Alison Grimes Against Mitch McConnell

Democrat Rep. John Yarmuth (KY) let the cat of the bag. Hillary Clinton will be going to Kentucky to campaign with Alison Lundergan Grimes in her bid to defeat Mitch McConnell.

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Mitch McConnell’s Nightmare Gets Real: Democrat Alison Grimes Sets Fundraising Record

Mitch McConnell’s worst nightmares are coming true as Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes announced today that her campaign led the nation in fundraising with over $4 million donated in the second quarter of 2014.

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Kentucky Getting Ready to Ditch Mitch As Democrat Grimes Leads McConnell 48%-46%

What looked like it could be an anomaly is beginning to look like a real thing in Kentucky as the most accurate pollster of 2012 finds Grimes leading McConnell by two points even after his primary.

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Mitch McConnell is ‘Irritated’ Because Everyone in Kentucky Hates His Bridge To Poverty Plan

Mitch McConnell is in big trouble when even reliable conservatives reject his plan to repeal a federal prevailing wage law (the Davis-Bacon Act) to pay for the Brent Spence Bridge replacement.

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Republicans Threaten to Withhold Government Funding Over Obama’s New EPA Rules

Republicans in the House and Senate are so angry at the President over new Environmental Protection Agency regulations on coal-powered power plants that they are threatening to withhold previously agreed-on funding for the government unless the EPA regulations are eliminated by September 30.

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Shocker: Republican Poll Finds Democrat Alison Grimes Leading Mitch McConnell 49%-46%

Mitch McConnell has 99 problems and Allison Lundergran Grimes is the biggest one. A new Republican poll has found that Grimes is leading McConnell 49%-46%.

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Elizabeth Warren Declares War on Mitch McConnell After He Blocked Her Student Loan Bill

On MSNBC tonight, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) virtually declared war on Mitch McConnell after he blocked her student loan bill. Warren told viewers to donate money to Alison Lundergan Grimes, and announced that she will be going to Kentucky to campaign for the Democrat.

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Rand Paul Sabotages Mitch McConnell By Glowing About His Friendly Relations With Harry Reid

Hypocrisy alert: Pallin’ around with Harry Reid is reason enough to not deserve a seat in the U.S. Senate, according to Mitch McConnell. Except when it’s Rand Paul pallin’ around with Harry Reid. Then it’s okay.

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Republicans Label Obama’s Plan To Combat Climate Change a Terrorist Attack

. As usual they use mendacity as a fear-mongering tool to convince their stupid supporters that President Obama’s attempt to assuage the health and economic devastation of climate change is a deliberate job-killing, economy-devastating, terrorist assault on Americans.

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Republicans Shouting Impeachment Have Reached Critical State Of Obama Derangement Syndrome

A few days after the President of the United States announced that our last prisoner of war, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, had been rescued from his five years of captivity by the Taliban, Republicans are now seriously calling for the President to be impeached for his actions in securing Bergdahl’s release.

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Ted Cruz Actually Thinks Government Shutdown Will Lead The GOP To Victory In Midterms

During a speech at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated his belief that the 17-day shutdown of the federal government last year will be a positive for the Republican Party this November in the midterm elections.

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