Mitch McConnell (above), the Kentucky Republican who will
likely be our next Senate majority leader has an astounding ability to lie,
dissemble, and misrepresent himself to voters, according to Michael Tomasky special
correspondent The Daily Beast and editor of Democracy: A Journal of
Ideas.
In a recent debate he routinely said “my position is
X”.
So this is how, with a 30-year Senate record that
you’d think you might be able to boast about, you win reelection: By completely
misrepresenting who you’ve been for the last six years, and by saying “Obama”
every 45 seconds.
Misrepresentations were numerous, but let’s just
zero in on student loans.McConnell responded that the Senate had taken care of
the issue in a bipartisan fashion. But it didn’t. And McConnell said publicly
at the time that he was against Warren’s plan because it was “designed to
fail” since it would raise taxes on rich people.
McConnell similarly talked out of both sides of his
mouth on the minimum wage, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and other issues.
If he wins, Kentuckians will have the pleasure of
knowing who their senator voted for in 2012 while he spends the next six years
positioning himself to the right of Exxon-Mobil (which at least supports a
carbon tax) and blocking any attempt to do anything about global warming.
McConnell’s real lie, had to do with Obamacare. As
you may know by now, he said yes, sure, keep Kynect, the state’s roaringly
successful health-insurance exchange set up under the health-care law.
After all, it’s “just a website.”
This was the moment when I was wondering how
Grimes’s head could possibly stay in one piece. As McConnell well knows, Kynect
is not just a website.
It’s a state health-care program that citizens happen to
be able to access through a website.
Kentuckians go on to the Kynect website to
see what types of insurance coverage are available to them under the Kynect
program, which exists solely because of Obamacare.
It’s amazing, the audacity of it.
Given that half a million Kentuckians have signed up
for insurance through Kynect, isn’t this just a little more important?
What’s worse is that he knows he can get away with
saying something like that because he is well aware that the explanation of why
he’s lying is a little complicated for the average voter to take in.
And, therein lies our problem… the average voter does not care about what
politicians say or do, all they care about is what is the government going to
do or not going to do for them.
For the average American, it is life as usual no
matter which Political Party is in power at the moment. Americans do the best that they can to
survive.
The wealthy slide through because they are wealthy,
hiding most of their money in offshore bank accounts to avoid paying taxes
while at the same time claim to be proud Americans.
The poor slide through because the government will
always be put in a position to take care of them and their families as the
price we pay for being a Democratic Republic.
The middle class assumes the burden and will always
assume the burden but again, they are simply focused on trying to acquire as
much as they can and do not really care which Political Party is in control
because in reality both parties are composed of the elite and wealthy; they
belong to the same clubs and attend the same parties and vacation in the same
locations; they just have a slightly different approach to keeping their wealth
and helping out the rest of us.
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