Pic Of The Moment: As Sandy Hook Parents Come To DC, McConnell Joins Gun Bill Filibuster

[EarlG]

Mitch McConnell joins Senate gun filibuster

60 Minutes: Newtown families on gun control

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[LuckyLib]

1. If that isn't the face of a classic good ole boy!

He makes me gag. Time to move on down the road to permanent retirement so someone from your state can actually govern and the citizens can be represented.

[Chipper Chat]

6. Right down to his perfect republican haircut.

He reminds me of Jesse Helms more every day.

[xtraxritical]

13. A Strom Thurmond clone...

[MADem]

16. That's the face of a tortoise in an expensive suit! Except most tortoises are better looking... nt

[Warren DeMontague]

24. I was thinking he looked uncannily like one of those creepy toothed squids.

[zebonaut]

26. Turtle or Funeral Director

Crypt employee? Blue Meanie? Something out of Alice? But Jesus; he scares the kids....

[Blue Owl]

2. Mitch McConnell: Self-Serving Piece of Shit

Go to hell, Mitch.

[Capt.Rocky300]

3. I wonder......

if any of the Sandy Hook parents have even tried to meet with McConnell and demand he explain his actions to their faces? It would probably be a futile effort, he'd just run away and hide in the Senate Men's Room.

[nolabear]

4. I hope they form a ring in the galley with posters of those children's faces.

I'm tempted to say "bodies" but I can't imagine the horror that would put them through. But it's a horror those asshole filibusterers should be put through.

[caledesi]

11. Yeah. The police who "cleaned"up this tragic mess hv all kinds of isses such

as PTSD etc. Oh well ... Why is the turtle smiling?

[Talk Back America]

5. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time.

Why is it so hard for the majority of the population to see the obvious; this nation is no longer a refuge for the poor, the uneducated, or any other segment of poverty? In spite of how people of "other" impoverished nations see the United States. This nation is not able to address poverty as a serious dilemma that is, in addition to other pressing problems, gradually sapping the economic strength from our political will. This nation has long lost it's way because the focus was attaining and maintaining vast amounts of material wealth to the detriment of those on whose backs wealth was attained. We became arrogant is our quest to gain more through warfare via the military industrial complex. The WASP dominated Republican Party is daily revealing it's core values of disdain for the poor by various state legislative agendas as they experience the death throes of a dying body no longer relevant to most; even their own.

[valerief]

8. The people don't own the media. The media tells us what everyone thinks. It lies. nt

[caledesi]

9. Welcome to DU, DBA. Very good essay ! nt

[valerief]

7. Well, he needn't worry. He and his family are safe. That's all he cares about. And his money.

Well, maybe not his family.

[caledesi]

10. As usual, EarlG comes through. nt

[olegramps]

12. I just want to know how the hell he got out or was kicked out of the Service after 4 months.

[xtraxritical]

15. Anyone can see he's 4F and non compis mentis.

[mbperrin]

19. Mutual masturbation in the shower with another guy.

That's what I heard.

[CBHagman]

14. If I were a billionaire like Bloomberg...

...I would run ads suggesting the gun lobby was willing to crucify crime victims, including children. That's not such a radical image. See the December 2012 article below by Garry Wills.

[url]http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/15/our-moloch/[/url]

[Jamaal510]

17. "Sorry about your kids,

but I have to protect the freedom of deranged lunatics to hoard guns and kill people. Their right to bear arms is more important than your kids' right to live a safe life. You know how it is!"

[awoke_in_2003]

18. I am so glad...

that Harry got that filibuster reform taken care of.

[Initech]

20. Can't wait to fire his ass in 2014.

[Canuckistanian]

21. When McConnell smiles, people die

The man is a twisted wreck of a human being.

[William769]

22. Recommended.

[timesup]

23. Creep deluxe model

Mitch is like a horror movie villain, I assume he has neither heart nor spine, and would fit in with Zombies.

[Jennicut]

25. Inhofe took the cake though. Said the Newtown parents were "delusional".

Being "used". Sorry, but I live in CT and the parents have been outspoken for a long time on the local news. No one used them, they have been through hell due to gun violence.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. That's disgusting.