"One of the enduring mysteries of the 2020 presidential election was Mitch McConnell’s apparent lack of interest in helping to reelect President Donald Trump. From the perspective of the White House, the political press corps, Democrats, and effectively everybody watching the race, there was one major thing they thought would go a long way to delivering four more years for Trump, and that was a major round of stimulus in the weeks before the election, complete with checks destined for voters. Given that a swing of fewer than 100,000 votes in the right states would have flipped the election to Trump, it’s fair to say that such a stimulus could indeed have turned the tide for Trump.
Yet McConnell stood in the way. We now know with certainty that the Senate majority leader is well aware of the political value of stimulus checks. “Kelly and David are getting hammered,” McConnell told his Republican flock, explaining why the party would be agreeing not just to a historic-sized piece of legislation, but also to one that included $600 checks for everybody with under a certain income. “Kelly,” of course, is Kelly Loeffler, the wife of the owner of the New York Stock Exchange,"
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Mitch McConnell Rushed to Save His Senators, but Left Trump Twisting in the Wind
McConnell is trying to protect Sens. Loeffler and Perdue, but he’s gotten nearly everything he could out of Trump.
Ryan Grim
December 28 2020, 12:54 p.m.
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It’s impossible to understand 21st Century politics without understanding right wing terrorism.
Just like it’s impossible to understand how the “Bloc of Four” got elected & burned down Coatesville without understanding how right wing extremists took over the CCRC.
David Koch ran as a Libertarian in 1980. The Koch Brothers abandoned their attempts to run for office and went about recreating the Republican Party in the John Birch Society image.A John Birch Society Chapter Leader named Pat Sellers completed his very successful decade long efforts to change the City of Coatesville's government in 2005.The Koch brothers were also very successful, the JBS and the Republican Party are now one.If we don't stop them the GOP/JBS will burn down the United States.MORE AT:
When he was a Federal Prosecutor Tom Hogan said to me, “Coatesville was ready to turn over and then these new guys (bloc of four) came in.”
If the revitalization of Coatesville went as planned it would nearly end Coatesville’s coke business and present job opportunities for residents other than the drug business. I believe there are powerful politically connected people who do not want Coatesville’s position as the drug depot for Chester County, PA to change and will do anything they can to stop the revitalization of Coatesville.
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
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“If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’” she said about signing the letter, “I’d get my house bombed tonight.”
Rightwing extremist terrorists control the Pennsylvania Republican Party, not McConnell’s coalition:
"Even Republican politicians understand that the threat is moving beyond the realm of ordinary politics — primary challenges, letter-writing campaigns, the occasional angry voter at a town hall — to a place where people’s physical safety is at risk.
Consider this shocking comment from a Republican leader in the Pennsylvania state Senate, about a letter some of her colleagues sent to Congress demanding that their own state’s results in the presidential election be rejected:
Kim Ward, the Republican majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, said the president had called her to declare there was fraud in the voting. But she said she had not been shown the letter to Congress, which was pulled together hastily, before its release.
Asked if she would have signed it, she indicated that the Republican base expected party leaders to back up Mr. Trump’s claims — or to face its wrath.
“If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’” she said about signing the letter, “I’d get my house bombed tonight.”
Perhaps she was exaggerating, but the fact is that this is what immediately comes to the mind of a loyal Republican in the midst of an election controversy: If I don’t support Trump’s insane claims of fraud, my own party’s supporters might kill me and my family.
And why would that be a foolish thing to worry about? All over the country we’re seeing conservative rage reaching right up to the line that separates activism from violence, as they vent their feelings about both the election and public health measures meant to contain the pandemic:
- Heavily armed protesters surrounded the home of the Michigan secretary of state, after a plot to kidnap the state’s governor was thwarted.
- Other secretaries of state who refused to steal the election for Trump have found themselves and their families threatened.
- A prominent supporter of the president went on TV and said that a federal official who countered Trump’s false claims about voter fraud should be “taken out and shot.”
- In Idaho, anti-mask protesters terrorized local officials’ families.
- Public health officials all over the country have been threatened and harassed.
- The American right made a hero out of a teenager who went to a protest and allegedly killed two people.
The situation right now is terrifying. And in a month it’s going to get much worse."
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