Ignoring irony, McConnell accuses Dems of taking a 'one-year vacation'

[babylonsister]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ignoring-irony-mcconnell-accuses-dems-taking-one-year-vacation

Ignoring irony, McConnell accuses Dems of taking a ‘one-year vacation’
10/30/19 12:55 PM—Updated 10/30/19 01:33 PM
By Steve Benen


If there were a Hall of Fame for political hypocrisy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would be a first-ballot inductee. The Kentucky Republican has condemned obstructionism after mastering the fine art of obstructionism; he’s stressed the virtues of bipartisanship after becoming the most partisan congressional leader in modern history; he’s demanded that senators treat Supreme Court nominees fairly after spearheading an unprecedented blockage against a qualified, compromise Supreme Court nominee.

And this morning, according to a Congressional Quarterly transcript, McConnell stood on the floor of the Senate and condemned a productive House Democratic majority for taking “a one-year vacation.”

“Look, I think it’s pretty clear our Democratic colleagues do not have a great affinity for President Trump, but the country cannot afford for Democrats in Congress to take a one-year vacation from any productive legislation just because they’d rather obsess over impeachment.”

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) complained over the summer that McConnell had “effectively turned the United States Senate into a very expensive lunch club that occasionally votes on a judge or two.”

The same week, Politico ran a piece describing the upper chamber as a legislative “graveyard,” adding, “The Senate standstill is frustrating even some in the GOP.”

It’s against this backdrop that Mitch McConnell, reading from a prepared text with a straight face, wants to talk about House Democrats taking “a one-year vacation from any productive legislation.”

There’s hypocrisy and then there’s you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me hypocrisy.

[UniteFightBack]

1. Damn I am sick of this man......but he ain't foolin' History. Fuck up Moscow Mitch. nt

[Mike 03]

2. Moscow Mitch's comment triggered a tsunami of ridicule on Twitter.

#MoscowMitchTraitor #MoscowMitchMcTreason

[maxsolomon]

7. Which does exactly nothing to McConnell.

He doesn't care. He bullshitted successfully.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Moscow Mitch and the Russiapublicans are consistent projectionists

[MyOwnPeace]

4. No matter how much we complain,,,,,,,

GAWD, how I HATE that man.........

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Conservative projection usual M.O.

[BigMin28]

6. Please let the people

Of Kentucky send Moscow Mitch packing. Him and his corrupt wife. Hypocrites and liars of the worse kind. Both of them.

[TheRealNorth]

8. The Democrats should hold a press conference on Capitol Hill

And print out all the bills Moscow Mitch refuses to bring to the floor and deliver them to Moscow Mitch's office.

[MiniMe]

9. I just say Merrick Garland

He sat on that for a year.

[Garrett78]

10. Dems must take to the airwaves over and over and over again about how there are hundreds of bills...

...languishing on McConnell's desk.