I have a pretty damn good feeling this is the only reason that keeps him tethered to voting yes on the bill. Seriously, Kentucky, you better throw up a good candidate that'll challenge him come re-election. Seriously, how did y'all let this RINO get re-elected in the first place? This isn't no conservative or lover of liberty. This man just has his own agenda.
Via Capitalism Institute:
Mitch McConnell caved on the government shutdown “negotiations”, and many wondered why. If we just look at what was in the bill, we can see one obvious reason: the bill dumped $2.9 billion on a project in Kentucky. This has led to many calling it a “Kentucky kickback”.
McConnell is claiming he didn’t directly authorize it, but nobody accused him of that at all. He didn’t have to do that. After all, that’s what a bribe is — when others work to find a way to “sweeten the pot” in order to get what they want.
This is an example of DC corruption. If McConnell feels this wasn’t corruption, then he should have insisted that the money not go there — instead, he did the wrong thing and went with the cash. Pathetic. He should step down or be fired.
The Hill reports:
A conservative group is accusing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of including an earmark for a water project in the deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.
The Senate Conservatives Fund tagged the provision the “Kentucky Kickback,” and said it would benefit the Olmsted Locks and Dam, which is under construction on the Ohio River between Kentucky and Illinois.
“In exchange for funding ObamaCare and raising the debt limit, Mitch McConnell has secured a $2 billion earmark,” the group wrote in a statement. “This is an insult to all the Kentucky families who don’t want to pay for ObamaCare and don’t want to shoulder any more debt.”
The debt-ceiling bill legislation could be one of the last appropriations bill to pass before year’s end, and senators seized the opportunity to attach funding for projects and natural disasters in their home states.
Section 123 of the bill calls for increasing the authorized funding for the Olmsted Locks and Dam project to $2.9 billion.Instead of admitting it was wrong, McConnell has decided to do what Obama has been doing, and attack Ted Cruz:
House Speaker John Boehner’s strategy collapsed. Ted Cruz’s push to use a shutdown to defund Obamacare was “not a smart play” and a “tactical error,” he said. And the country was staring at the threat of a prolonged shutdown and a potentially disastrous default on a nearly $17 trillion national debt.Here’s Mitch McConnell right before he actually caved — just watch his behavior and you can tell he thinks he’s a very clever man here:
Spread this around. It’s time for everyone to understand that this man doesn’t represent us — and that the people want him to be gone. This isn’t about partisan politics. This is about having leaders who aren’t “caving” in convenient ways while the rest of us suffer for it.
