One
of the most pivotal races in 2020 that isn’t for president is the Kentucky race
for senate. The man who holds this senate seat has held it longer than I’ve
been alive and has gradually gotten worse and worse despite never having been
good in the first place. How doomed are we if we don’t ditch Mitch? Well, I
might as well get through some of this now.
Mitch
has a reputation of being the Grim Reaper. This is a label that he has given to
himself. He is the incumbent in the race and is a Republican’t. He is the most
powerful and dangerous of all of that party and that includes Trump. Mitch
McConnell has only three endorsements, which isn’t much, especially since his
challenger has a ton more. Now the Grim Reaper label is one that he calls
himself since he causes Democratic legislation to die by not doing anything
about it. He also has more ties to Russia than one would originally expect,
ties that are certainly not legal, but maybe not something he will ever face repercussions
on since people don’t seem to care. He doesn’t want to protect us from more
Russian interference and is up for reelection this year. While many don’t like
him, he might yet win again. But let’s not rule out his opponent.
The
Democratic challenger in the race is Amy McGrath. She has yet to hold political
office, but has run unsuccessfully for a seat before. She talked about the need
of political investigations into the Iraq War, pointing out that more died in
it than the Benghazi attack, yet there were only investigations into Benghazi.
She is known for having moderate and even conservative beliefs as she has stated
somewhat support of Trump, something she might have to do in order to win in
Kentucky, even though you’d think she’d only have to work with him for 17 days
if she does win her way to office. She also has strong Second Amendment beliefs,
which I would expect of someone who served in the military. She is a far better
candidate than some might give her credit for, especially considering who she
is up against.
There
are a lot of links that I would like to share some time, but am unsure if I
will in the end. All you can hope is that I find some place to put them at some
time. I have stuff that I was wanting to share from back when impeachment was
the main story. Republican’ts did poorly at being impartial and Mitch was a
reason why.
Him
not doing a lot of the work that he’s supposed to do has drawn bipartisan
outrage from 70 former senators who insist that he should do his job by casting
votes on legislation that the House has passed. To not do this is horrible. If
he doesn’t want it to pass, why not hold a vote and let it fail that way? Is he
that convinced that it wouldn’t happen?
Some
people got stimulus checks in order to pay for things, but there were issues
with that which lead to a lawsuit. Some people didn’t get the money that they
probably should have in the end and that’s an issue.
Mitch
doesn’t seem to have good things going with judges and justices and I may never
forgive him for what he did as a result. When confronted about his ways, he
couldn’t even offer an answer when trying to change the story of what actually
happened.
There
can be issues with the judges that Mitch has been tainting various courts with.
He might even be doing illegal things in order to do it. Whether he is or isn’t,
there are people who think that his role in this needs investigating. They are
right.
Even
though Mitch infamously refused to allow there to be a vote on Merrick Garland,
he seems to not even care that another election is coming quicker than the vote
was and is not following his own rules because it is the same timeframe and
Mitch is seeking to make the courts bleed as much red as possible.
Another
issue that is going on is that Mitch is trying to blame the poor pandemic
response that is going on right now on Obama. This far into the Trump
administration, you can’t be blaming things on what Obama might have done or
not done, especially when Obama left a pandemic response for the next
administration.
I
won’t say anything here, other than read this link if you have time.
At
least there are some people within the Republican Party who want to turn on
Mitch so they can do what needs to be done to deal with the pandemic. They haven’t
done anything yet, but maybe they will break ranks with him in the future.
With
more racism going on in the country and horrible things like that going on as a
result, we need an anti-lynching bill passed in the senate. Why won’t they do
it? They really should. But the two Kentucky senators are not going to do this.
The
one thing that Mitch is certain will be his legacy will be the courts. He’s
sadly right. It won’t be the legacy that he should be wanting as he has to fear
monger his way into getting the courts to be the way that he wants to be.
Even
in the rare event that he works with people of the other party, he does it
while lying through his teeth about what all he has done and could do. If some
people have a good idea that he does not originally embrace, he may take credit
for it himself in the end since it would make him look good.
Of
course, he has to support the horrifying and dangerous unemployed people are
lazy myth. If I ever got the chance to have a one on one conversation with Steve
Harvey, I’ll ask him if he likes being rich better like he is now or preferred the
days when he was so poor he was living in a car instead. I mean, come the fuck
on, people. Some people have good reasons why they shouldn’t work or aren’t
able to work in the end and he will support the myths that people are just lazy
and want to live off the government, something that couldn’t be further from
the truth.
Something
that I want to see in ads from the DNC or some sort of organization that either
supports Democrats or is against Republicans would relate to all the
Congressmen, Senators, and Congresswomen who felt that the voters should decide
Trump’s fate. We shouldn’t just decide Trump’s fate as we should vote out those
who didn’t vote him out of office as well since that is what they wanted. They wanted
to give voters the choice so we would choose to get rid of Trump and them as
well. I know this isn’t something meant for just this election, but figured
that I might as well say it now and didn’t know where else to say it.
While
most of this post has been about Mitch McConnell and all that he has done wrong
or is still doing wrong, I should remind you the alternative again, Amy
McGrath. She may not be the most liberal that she could be, but she is far
better than Mitch or any third party candidate in this race. Thus, my endorsement
in the race is the only choice that makes sense: Amy McGrath. If you can
vote in Kentucky in 2020, then be sure to vote for her for senate.
