10/23/2014

How They Operate


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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