Mitch McConnell (R-KY) just handed his 2008 senate opponent

[Hawaii Hiker]

a George "Macca" Allen, Mastercard priceless moment with his epic blast;

"these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers.”
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/13846.html

Are you f-ing kidding me?...Can you picture if HRC made a comment like this?...What would drug addict Limbaugh say?, FOX Noise would cover the story non-stop...

Whoever challenges Mitch "since the soliders weren't draftees they don't matter" McConnell, has campaign material that surpasses "Macca".....

[MadMaddie]

1. Does anyone know who is running against this piece of shit?

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Not looking good.

Today, the state auditor (Crit Luallen) said no. The second possibility (Stumbo) is leaning against. That points toward a veteran, Andrew Horne, who lost a recent race.

Hate to say it, but he can probably get away with the statement by bringing more pork to Forts Campbell and Knox.

[AX10]

2. Just wait until the reich wing spokesnutz like "Insannity"

spin Mitch's words to deny he ever said this.

[frogcycle]

3. he is a scumbag

This is an Algae Award writeup for a newspaper, but it provides interesting insight to McConnell:

http://www.algaeawards.com/Print_Media/HeraldLeader.html

Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader Investigative Reporting,

This is an example of what the Fourth Estate is supposed to do. There was a bit of a cloud over it regarding funding of the investigation:

"Marilyn W. Thompson, then editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, faced a problem last year that is afflicting more and more newspaper editors across the country: She wanted to initiate a major reporting project but lacked sufficient resources to finance it.

-snip-

Then when the series was ready to publish:
"In a series of e-mails and phone calls to Herald-Leader editors, McConnell's top aides accused the Center for Investigative Reporting of liberal bias.

-snip-

"We certainly have been attacked over the years, but I'm not sure I've ever seen somebody attack the story in the media before it has even appeared," he said. "
-snip-

Link to article:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003254918

Excerpts:

LEXINGTON A six-month examination of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell's career by the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, based on thousands of documents and scores of interviews, "shows the nexus between his actions and his donors' agendas," the paper concludes in a major report today. "He pushes the government to help cigarette makers, Las Vegas casinos, the pharmaceutical industry, credit card lenders, coal mine owners and others.

-snip-

The massive report is titled "Price Tag Politics." It features quotes referring to McConnell's allegedly "thuggish" and "shakedown" practices.

The four-part series was published as planned, beginning Sunday. It includes e-mails to and from McConnell's office.

In one example, from 1998, it notes that McConnell helped to kill a proposal to curb youth smoking. About four months later, he called lobbyists at R.J. Reynolds Co. and asked for $200,000 in corporate "soft money" that he could pass to Republican senators in elections. In an e-mail exchange, published today, the lobbyists settled on "doing an additional 100,000 to him immediately and then seeing what we have left at end of next week."

McConnell drew national attention for his outspoken opposition to a bipartisan campaign-finance bill that President Bush signed into law in 2002. He was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the measure, which the Supreme Court upheld in December 2003. "

A four-part series, part one 10/15/06 - here is the link to the newspaper where it will run:
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky /

PRICE TAG POLITICS
Senator's pet issue: money and the power it buys
By John Cheves
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., spoke to reporters after a Senate vote on an amendment to a campaing finance reform bill in March 2001. The McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act passed in 2002 over McConnell's strenuous opposition.

WASHINGTON - In the early 1970s, Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr., a young and intense Republican lawyer, strode into the political science class he taught at the University of Louisville.

He didn't introduce himself to his students. He went straight to the chalkboard and scribbled.

"I am going to teach you the three things you need to build a political party," he said, and backed away to reveal the words: "Money, money, money."

Three decades later, the teacher has mastered the lesson like few in history.

An extraordinary political fund-raiser, Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has used his skill to put himself on the brink of a remarkable career achievement. If Republicans hold the Senate in the Nov. 7 elections, he is expected to succeed retiring Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee as majority leader.

McConnell's rise to the top of Congress is testament to the power of money in modern politics. He has raised nearly $220 million over his Senate career; he spent the majority not on his own campaigns but on those of his GOP colleagues, who have rewarded him with power.

"He's completely dogged in his pursuit of money. That's his great love, above everything else," said Marshall Whitman, who watched McConnell as an aide to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and as a Christian Coalition lobbyist...
Award: Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, Investigative Reporting, October, 2006

[kansasblue]

4. "full-time professional soldiers" .... What?

Correct me if needed, all great soldiers.... but the National Guard and reservist are over there.

Don't we consider them full-time professional soldiers, do we?