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WARNING: IS McCONNELL USING YOUR DONATIONS TO THE SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND TO DEFEAT GOP CANDIDATES?

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Have you ever wondered why the Senate GOP may continue as a minority after 2022?

  • Is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell acting on behalf of the so-called establishment wing of the GOP and attempting to keep conservatives from obtaining political power that might oppose establishment interests?
  • Even worse, is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell acting on behalf of a hostile foreign nation like China to keep the GOP from obtaining political power that might oppose their interests?

For years, the McConnell and Chao families have cultivated a relationship that enriches the couple and grants status to the Chaos’ shipping company.

For decades, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have maintained a glaring conflict of interest, conducting extensive government business despite the Chao family’s deep ties to China through a maritime shipping company.

For years, the McConnell and Chao families have maintained a symbiotic relationship that grants opportunities to the Chaos’ shipping company, Foremost Group, which largely operates in and on behalf of communist China.

This reciprocity is well documented, but unlike with Hunter Biden, there is less scrutiny from observers, including those on the right, for this “corruption by proxy,” as author and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer calls it. <Source>

  • Is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell content with his present position and avoiding a possible change in Senate Leadership should the GOP become the majority in 2022?
  • Or is Mitch McConnell simply overrated as a political force and just another jumped-up feckless politician struggling to keep his leadership position?

Lowering expectations?

Mitch McConnell concedes ‘candidate quality’ may mean Republicans fail to flip Senate in midterm elections

The Senate’s top Republican is out with a sober assessment of his party’s chances for taking the chamber in November’s midterm elections, and he says “candidate quality” is a big factor.

Speaking in Kentucky on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said: “I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, [and] candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”  McConnell continued: “Right now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think when all is said and done this fall, we’re likely to have an extremely close Senate, either our side up slightly or their side up slightly.” <Source>

Putting his thumb on the scale?

Blake Masters' AZ Senate Race Faces Millions More in Advertising Cuts From McConnell-Backed Super PAC

The Senate Leadership Fund, a Super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, announced nearly $10 million in advertising cancelations in Arizona and Alaska. The Super PAC already announced cancelations of $13.5 million collectively for Pennsylvania ($7.5 million), Arizona ($3.5 million), Wisconsin ($2.5 million), and Nevada ($1.5 million). 

These cuts come after McConnell made comments about “candidate quality” and forecasted that flipping the House may be more likely than picking up the one seat needed to flip the Senate for Republicans in November. Former President Donald Trump harshly criticized McConnell for his comments, and McConnell has remained in Trump’s crosshairs. <Source>

When is the GOP going to run real attack ads?

Face facts, negative political attack ads work and are the gold standard for any political campaign. So, where are the brutal ads with all of the adverse progressive communist democrat behavior? Hell, where are the pro-GOP ads setting forth the platform and asking people to join the fight to “Make America Great Again?” Ads on energy independence? Ads on crazy Ukraine spending in a corrupt country? Ads on turning boys into girls and girls into boys? What about immigration, sex trafficking, and Fentanyl deaths? Wealth redistribution to college students who are learning to hate America?  

The progressive communist democrats are campaigning 24/7/365 and fighting in the courts – where is a similar GOP defensive countermeasure or offensive strike?      

FIVETHIRTYEIGHT FAVORS DEMS TO HOLD SENATE

  • FiveThirtyEight’s modeling suggests. Democrats have a 65% chance of maintaining their 50-seat Senate caucus, which effectively is a majority because the VP is the tie-breaking vote.
  • That’s a 15-point increase in Democrats’ chances in less than a month – a fact FiveThirtyEight attributes to weak GOP candidates in some states.
  • The good news for Republicans is that Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is favored to win a close race, and Marco Rubio has an 85% chance of winning reelection. <Source>

Bottom line…

As the late California Democrat Jesse Unruh famously noted, “money is the mother’s milk of politics.” So where is the GOP denouncing the Democrats for the shortage of infant formula?

What makes McConnell’s loyalty test worse than Trump’s is that McConnell uses real money, while  Trump pretends giving you his nod is the same as giving you real money.

We are so screwed.

-- Steve

“Nullius in verba.”-- take nobody's word for it!

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS

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I HATE POLITICIANS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE

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The Republicans are not beyond exaggeration and emotional fearmongering…

Biden’s super-sized IRS Army will declare war on political enemies

The public should be frightened that Democrats have passed new legislation to weaponize the already abusive Internal Revenue Service.

[OCS: Notice the rhetorical fallacy being used here: imputing that the behavior or a few bad partisan actors represent the whole?]

For nearly a century, presidents and members of Congress have used the IRS to harass and incriminate political foes. In addition to collecting revenue to fund the government, the IRS is a hit squad that destroys reputations and criminalizes dissenters.

[OCS: One might think, incorrectly, that the citizens would recognize political corruption and vote the bastards out of office. But, then again, Congress writes its own rules and exempts itself from most criminal consequences of its actions.]

A lot of pain can be inflicted under the guise of tax “auditing.” The bill President Joe Biden signed Tuesday, erroneously labeled the Inflation Reduction Act, will mean more audits and investigations. The law roughly doubles funding for the IRS’s enforcement division, adding as many as 80,000 agents and auditors.

[OCS: Most of the pain comes from an overly complex tax code and the volume of confusing, conflicting, or contrary interpretations of the code’s provisions. Yes, the Inflation Reduction Act is grotesquely named and misleading. But, there is the likelihood that a large percentage of the recent hires will be desk-bound support personnel and auditors rather than armed federal agents who require vetting and specialized training before being assigned to field duty.]

Biden, meanwhile, is starving the Defense Department, requesting too little funding to even keep up with inflation, despite Russian and Chinese aggression. Yet his legislation will make the IRS three-quarters the size of the Marine Corps. Who’s Biden making war on?

[OCS: Notice the false comparison with the military and the subtle suggestion that this funding act is tantamount to waging war against citizens.]

While the bill increases the IRS’s muscle, it fails to impose serious criminal penalties if the IRS leaks confidential taxpayer information or goes after political targets. History shows the danger ahead. <Source>

[OCS: Did I miss an amendment requesting enhanced penalties for government agencies leaking personal non-public information? Leaking to damage opponents or to influence public opinion is the second most important thing (after money) in the Washington D.C. beltway. Besides, leakers are now characterized as “whistleblowers” and given Congressional protections against retaliation and criminal charges.]

Bottom line…

It was, and is, the asswipes in Congress, on both sides of the aisle and acting at the behest of their special interests, especially the lawyers and accountants, that have created an overly complex tax code with arcane loopholes and gotcha funding provisions to fill the government feeding troughs.

We need to de-politicize the leadership of our government agencies and institutions if we are to reduce political corruption. We also need to reform our tax code and reduce government costs by prioritizing spending on those things granted by the Constitution to the federal government. But, most of all, we need to eliminate professional politicians who ignore their constituents and who, like attorneys and advocates, speak out of both sides of their mouths according to who is paying the freight.

We are so screwed.

-- Steve

“Nullius in verba.”-- take nobody's word for it!

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS

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