McConnell looks at longer workweeks for Senate to keep Dems from campaigning: report

[applegrove]

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/383855-mcconnell-looks-at-longer-workweeks-for-senate-to-keep-dems-from-campaigning?amp&__twitter_impression=true

By Max Greenwood at the Hill

"SNIP.......

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is reportedly looking to hold longer workweeks as a way to keep vulnerable Democratic senators off the campaign trail.

White House legislative director Marc Short told a group of GOP donors this week that McConnell planned to prolong the Senate's workweek in order to reduce the amount of time vulnerable Democrats can spend campaigning, according to The Washington Examiner.

One GOP donor told the Examiner that the tactic is intended to keep Democrats, like Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.), "tied up from campaigning."

Heitkamp, Manchin and McCaskill are among a handful of Senate Democrats facing potentially tough reelection bids in states won by President Trump in 2016.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. THe traitorous pile of human filth has no shame

[mcar]

9. Soulless monster

[BigmanPigman]

2. And of course CNN and MSNBC will give the fucking moron all the free

air time he wants as he campaigns for the GOP like they have been doing in the special elections. We have our work cut out for us with the midterms. GOTV!

[onethatcares]

3. that's easy

Democratic candidates just have to run ads that say,

"Although we are expected to be back in our district trying to get elected/re elected, we are in Washington trying to break the republican stranglehold on our democracy. We are attempting to pass legislation that doesn't leave the not so wealthy behind. Meanwhile the Senate president is trying to prevent us from presenting our case the people that matter. YOU!"

Geez, this is the age of video and all the other necktology. Why not use it.

[Auggie]

4. Dirty politics: these fuckers don't miss a trick

[Johonny]

5. If you're voting Dem in November it's because Trump is president

and he's in the news every freaking day. I'm not sure how much boots on the ground campaigning needs to be done.

[bdamomma]

6. McConnell

dig yourself that hole you're in a little deeper. You POS.

[NYC Liberal]

7. Will McConnell comment on Trumps constant rallies and golf outings?

(Don’t worry; I know the answer.)

[scarletlib]

8. Well that means the Republicans Senators won't be able to campaign either.

Since many of them are now facing stiff Democratic opposition, we will see how that works.