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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnell tries to turn Obama into Nixon
Mitch McConnell tries to turn Obama into Nixon
by Joan McCarter
Apparently Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to ruin this blogger's day by making me deal with his inanity. First, he said he'd agree to a grand bargain, provided it means more tax cuts for the wealthy and cuts to entitlements.
Then he elaborated that the poor don't sacrifice enough and need to pay more, apparently to offset those tax cuts for the wealthy.
But that's all just typical Republican tax talk. This, referring to the Obama campaign and quoted by Kevin Drum, is quite something else.
Worse than Richard Nixon with his enemies list, McConnell would have you believe. Has Obama sicced the IRS on political opponents? Of course not. Will that stop McConnell's lies? Of course not.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/19/1101391/-Mitch-McConnell-tries-to-turn-Obama-into-Nixon
by Joan McCarter
Apparently Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to ruin this blogger's day by making me deal with his inanity. First, he said he'd agree to a grand bargain, provided it means more tax cuts for the wealthy and cuts to entitlements.
Then he elaborated that the poor don't sacrifice enough and need to pay more, apparently to offset those tax cuts for the wealthy.
But that's all just typical Republican tax talk. This, referring to the Obama campaign and quoted by Kevin Drum, is quite something else.
What theyre trying to do is intimidate donors to outside groups that are critical of the administration. The campaign has rifled through donors' divorce records. Theyve got the IRS, the SEC and other agencies going after contributors trying to frighten people and intimidate them out of exercising their rights to participate in the American political discourse....Of course, the temptation of anybody in power is to try to silence your critics.
Worse than Richard Nixon with his enemies list, McConnell would have you believe. Has Obama sicced the IRS on political opponents? Of course not. Will that stop McConnell's lies? Of course not.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/19/1101391/-Mitch-McConnell-tries-to-turn-Obama-into-Nixon
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Mitch McConnell tries to turn Obama into Nixon (Original Post)
ProSense
Jun 2012
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Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)1. It's always projection with these guys. n/t
tularetom
(23,664 posts)2. If he was Nixon, McConnell would be in legal trouble so fast he'd never know where it came from
Obama is too smart to fuck up like Nixon did.
GeorgeGist
(25,327 posts)3. Suggest summer reading for Sen. McConnell
Yertle the Turtle.
The eponymous story revolves around a Yertle the Turtle, the king of the pond. Unsatisfied with the stone that serves as his throne, he commands the other turtles to stack themselves beneath him so that he can see further and expand his kingdom. However, the stacked turtles are in pain and Mack, the turtle at the very bottom of the pile, is suffering the most. Mack asks Yertle for a respite, but Yertle just tells him to shut up. Then Yertle decides to expand his kingdom and commands more and more turtles to add to his throne. Mack makes a second request for a respite because the increased weight is now causing extreme pain to the turtles at the bottom of the pile. Again Yertle yells at Mack to shut up. Then Yertle notices the moon rising above him as the night approaches. Furious that something "dares to be higher than Yertle the King", he decides to call for even more turtles in an attempt to rise above it. However, before he can give the command, Mack decides he has had enough. He burps, shaking the stack of turtles and tossing Yertle off into the mud, leaving him "King of the Mud" and freeing the others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yertle_the_Turtle_and_Other_Stories#Plot_overview