Friday, November 30, 2018

Yes, thank you, I WOULD like to see McConnell go down with the Trumps



Ornstein is talking about this, I assume:
Joe Biden said [...] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped the Obama administration from speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement of condemnation.

[...]

[A] former Obama White House official on Tuesday afternoon echoed Biden's frustration with the Senate majority leader, pointing to the way Obama's White House chief of staff Denis McDonough described the dispute in an op-ed last summer.

“Our administration's interest in making sure the response was bipartisan wasn't for the sake of being bipartisan. It was necessary because we needed the buy-in from state and local election administrators (many of whom were Republican partisans and/or skeptical of federal government),” the official argued in an email. “Unfortunately, as is well documented, Senator McConnell was unwilling to help — only making matters worse.”

  Politico



And, let's not forget this recent bit:



But, also, this:



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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