McConnell got it wrong ... intentionally

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    The special counsel, after a two year investigation, stated that Russia posed a “significant threat” as it increased the frequency and intensity of its active measures.

    FBI director Chris Wray concurred. “The Russians are absolutely intent on trying to interfere with our elections,” he said.

    The Senate Intelligence Committee released a wide-ranging report that detailed Russia's attempts to hack US election infrastructure during the 2016 election, urging states and the federal government to do more to prevent election cyber- attacks in the future.

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocked two election security measures last week, arguing Democrats are trying to give themselves a "political benefit."

    Republicans in Congress have not sponsored an election security bill that has made it to the floor.

    Today, McConnell felt it was necessary to defend his decision, but the undying Trump loyalist only provided a diversion. He defended himself against an imagined critique. A critique he chose rather than the real one.

    Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor Monday to blast the "hyperventilating hacks" who have accused him a being a Russian sympathizer.

    He compared the attacks to "modern-day McCarthyism."

    These are the attacks he chose. No reliable, respected news source has labeled McConnell a "Russian sympathizer."

    Then McConnell made the mistake of singling out the cause of his angst. "Over the last several days, I was called unpatriotic, un-American and essentially treasonous by a couple of left-wing pundits on the basis of bold-faced lies," McConnell said. "I was accused of aiding and abetting the very man I've singled out as an adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years, Vladimir Putin."

    Those "left-wing pundits" are Joe Scarborough of MSNBC fame and Dana Milbank of the Washington post. Those two left-wing pundits do not speak for the American people, the news media, not even MSNBC or the Post. They expressed their personal opinions.

    McConnell chose these two as targets because, like Trump and his outrageous, immature tweets, the majority leader thinks Trump's gullible base will believe his rant and ignore the real reason he blocked the two bills and the harsh criticism that immediately followed.

    Like Trump, McConnell chose extremists views and characterized them as representative of the news media. Once again, only Trump's base will believe such nonsense. No serious news correspondent believes McConnell is a communist sympathizer. That is absurd.

    McConnell's reason for blocking the two bills is much more basic. He got marching orders from his boss. According to his boss, the Russian threat is just a "ridiculous hoax."

    "There was no defense to this ridiculous hoax, this witch hunt, that's been going on for a long time, pretty much from the time I came down on the escalator with our first lady," Trump said after Mueller's testimony.
     
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    Yet Mitch the bitch had no problem with FAILING to override the presidential veto of the bill denying arms and armaments sales to the Saudi butcher MBS.I would love to know what payoffs the Saudis have offered to the GOP????
     
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    Trump fundraiser Thomas Barrack Jr. lobbied for Saudi nuclear deal, new report alleges
    WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s move to sell sensitive nuclear technologyto Saudi Arabia took shape even before the president took office and was championed by Donald Trump’s longtime personal friend and fundraiser, Thomas J. Barrack Jr., according to a new report released Monday by congressional Democrats.

    The report details how Barrack used his personal connections to the president and other Trump administration officials to win support for the controversial Saudi nuclear deal – at the same time he was seeking funding from the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates for a bid to purchase Westinghouse Electric Company, the only U.S. manufacturer of large-scale nuclear reactors.

    The Trump administration quietly approved the transfer of commercial nuclear expertise to the kingdom starting in December 2017, later explaining that it would allow Saudi Arabia to build nuclear reactors.

    But lawmakers in both parties have expressed alarm about the deal, in part because the Saudis have so far refused to agree to standard restrictions that would bar them from enriching uranium or reprocessing spent fuel.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...saudi-nuclear-deal/1851508001/?csp=chromepush

     
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    More GOP swamp draining?????NOT!!!!
     
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    Note to Moscow Mitch: If it looks like a duck, quacks, and walks like a duck.....
     
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    But he couldn't. So he attacked his critics. Gee, I wonder where he got that idea?
     
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    Fox News anchor Shep Smith criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for failing to address Russian interference in U.S. elections on Monday.

    "The Russians are using cyber influence to divide us amongst ourselves," Smith began, once the network cut from McConnell. "They attacked our election, it is the consensus of the intelligence community that they are attacking our election now. There has not been one to stand alone bill in his chamber, the chamber which he leads, to try to stop it."

    "There have not been congressional hearings to bring the nation together around the common cause that is the Russians are attacking us and we must make it stop. Democracy is at stake. That has not happened, not yet. Not at all," he concluded.

    There was no defense to this ridiculous hoax, this witch hunt, that's been going on for a long time, pretty much from the time I came down on the escalator with our first lady.
     
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    McConnell chose these two as targets because, like Trump and his outrageous, immature tweets, the majority leader thinks Trump's gullible base will believe his rant and ignore the real reason he blocked the two bills and the harsh criticism that immediately followed.

    Like Trump, McConnell chose extremists views and characterized them as representative of the news media. Once again, only Trump's base will believe such nonsense. No serious news correspondent believes McConnell is a communist sympathizer. That is absurd.

    McConnell's reason for blocking the two bills is much more basic. He got marching orders from his boss. According to his boss, the Russian threat is just a "ridiculous hoax."

    "There was no defense to this ridiculous hoax, this witch hunt, that's been going on for a long time, pretty much from the time I came down on the escalator with our first lady," Trump said after Mueller's testimony.
     
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    Has any one of the whining lefties ever found even one person that changed their vote from Hillary to Trump because of "the Russians"?
     
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    Do you approve of Russians meddling in our elections? Moscow Mitch doesn't care. Do you?
     
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    In polls, a number of voters cited fake stories about Clinton that the Russians spread over facebook and twitter as at least part of the reason they chose to vote for Trump.

    But also the Russians illegally funded numerous PAC's which either anti-clinton or pro trump.

    As well as illegally owning US companies (fake companies that were closed following the election) which they used to illegally funnel their money into the Trump campaign.
     
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    The turtle likes to ride a horse in two different directions at the same time.:cynic:
     
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    It's trump's fault.
     
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    No, because they never changed their vote. Russia convinced trumpies to vote for trump in the first place. BTW:deadhorse:
     
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    Make trump release his tax returns and then we'll find out.
     
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    Dear lord man/woman/alphabet, will you ever get over the fact working Americans wanted a change with respect to the usual suspect politicians that have been in the WH for a couple of dozen years and decided to give someone completely different a try.

    PRO TRUMP from the press? Are you friggin kidding me?

    Study: 91 percent of coverage on evening newscasts was negative to Donald Trump

    By HADAS GOLD


    10/25/2016 03:00 PM EDT

    A whopping 91 percent of news coverage about Donald Trump on the three broadcast nightly newscasts over the past 12 weeks has been 'hostile', a new study finds.

    The study, conducted by the conservative Media Research Center, found that not only has Trump received significantly more broadcast network news coverage than his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, but nearly all of that coverage (91%) has been hostile,
     
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    It is sooooo very apparent lefties still need an excuse for their tragic 2016 landslide election loss. Thank you for the comedy but whining will get you nowhere.
     
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    Yet another thread on this same subject, even though it's been pointed out in every thread about it that both Bill's had poison pills included in them to ensure they wouldnt pass, or even get considered.
     
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    Actually, facebook posts convinced Obama supporters to change their vote to GOP. Remember, 2 of the 3 states that assured Trumps win are solid blue and the third is a very dark purple.
     
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    The bills in question were little more than an egregious attempt to federalize the state and local election process. There are better ways to handle it and given the feds inability to secure it's own crap and the lack luster performance of the Democrats when it comes to cyber security I'm not precisely sure why anyone would want their advice let alone their control.
     
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    You assume the title ‘election security’ means election security. The dems partisan bill was for show.
     
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    I believe it is just setting up democrat party excuses for another election beating. No leftie likes to have 131 new conservative judges on the bench since Trump entered the White House.
    MAGA
     
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    What poison pills?
     
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