But who knew. Consequence is so rare for representatives. Its almost as if they are judge by alternative facts.

Regardless of that and his statement about polio, he'll vote for RFK, Jr. No doubt about it. It's all about the PARTY!

Mitch can never redeem himself for failing to impeach/convict Trump and for saddling us with this mockery of SCOTUS.

In other news McConnell will bow to the Dump. Even if he has no intention of returning to Senate. He has a nice retirement plan funded by the mega donors. (Mega Donor= big bribes)

Voting & supporting conspiracy theorists & criminals in order to retain party power was pure evil. America/Americans were not protected by McConnell, the Republican Party & SCOTUS. They betrayed their oaths in exchange for money and lust for power.

I never betray the billionaires-awk, I mean oath-I promised to protect!

However, McConnell and his ilk have escaped scrutiny from allowing Trump to once again gain the WH. Biden and Garland shoulder the bulk of responsibility for Trump’s ascension, when McConnell and his cronies could have ended Trump’s campaign before it ever took flight.

And we’re all paying the price for their stupidity. It’s just not fair….

He’s used his platform for his personal benefit. He had his chance and failed his country.

And yet, McConnel has put his head in the sand time and time again and stayed silent on the misinformation

😡

We have reached the FAFO stage for Trump enablers, co-conspirators and voters and it is only going to get worse. Too bad NOT voting for Trump does not inoculate the rest of us from the consequences!

Didn’t McConnell say that he would face justice and then the law-maker did nothing to stop him from becoming even more powerful

My mom taught us: do NOT do something that cannot be undone. The Trump voters will rue the day.

So what? It doesn’t matter what Mitch says. Trump hates him. Trump wants to keep our country stupid and sick.

Yet another example of they only care when it personally affects them.

Welcome to the new Dark Ages

Mitch could have stopped this. He could have been a forthright leader. He is forever culpable in this debacle

Yep. The Leopard is eating his face.

Glad to know McConnell has a line.

When it comes to a vote, he’ll vote for him. Spineless.

The downfall of the Republic begins.

He'll still vote in favor of rfk's nomination tho

It would be nice if he would show the same concern for the leadership of federal law enforcement and national intelligence.

Way too little way too late from McConnell. When he could have made a difference he chose not to. He’ll go down in history as a “failure of the first magnitude.” Thanks for nuthin’ Mitch.

Yep Mitch. This is all on you.

From his mother's love and surviving polio to go on and cause misery for millions of Americans with his cruelty and endless greed.

Best comment on McConnell is that his grave should always smell like piss.

You got that right!

Never once did that turtle chinned swine mention the March of Dimes, the actual organization that provided care when he was a Polio stricken piglet (Mitch even refused to meet with the March of Dimes in 2017) 🐷 Be best

Right, though the system also failed in its inability to put Trump in jail. They had 4 years to put him behind bars for his many and obvious crimes. We will all pay the price for that failure.

Biden nominated Merrick Garland to rebuild the DOJ, which had been ravaged by the previous Trump administration. Unfortunately, Garland was not the right person for the job of prosecuting Trump. We needed someone much more tenacious for that job.

And it was obvious early on and Biden did nothing.

Right, Biden was pretty useless frankly and he even let a lot of Trump policies stay in place which only helped to normalize Trump’s fascist bigotry and bad policies.

Absolutely this is also on garland but before u even get there, Mitch could have stopped him from being able to run for office.

Garland is corrupt. There's no doubts in my mind about that.

Too bad he’s old and has no power. A few years ago? Yes. But not now. He owns this. In more ways than one.

Sure does

Good piece by him, BUT if past is example, he will approve the RFK, Jr. nomination anyway. We're talking about Mitch McConnell.

So will he vote no on Kennedy or is he too chicken to do that too?

He will vote yes because he’s a wimp and a coward.

And Republican. 😡

I guess someone loaned him a pair for a few minutes.

The reasoning behind RFK Jr's attack on vaccines: The NRA wants something other than guns to be the number one killer of children in our country. They told Trump and Trump told RFK Jr. to take care of that.

McConnell is an intelligent man who has always known how dangerous, corrupt, and morally bankrupt Trump is. He just thought he could exploit Trump's popularity while controlling him. McConnell has picked power over our democracy again and again, and we are all paying for his depravity.

😂😂😂😂

🤣

Quack quack

I was born of a father crippled with polio. When the pink sugar cubes arrived at school I was first in line. RFK is a shameful, hollow, deranged man. The thought of him lording over medical science sickens me.

I Agree‼️

This will live on is McConnell’s shameful legacy.

He had too much faith in the justice system and the American people. He thought he could take the easy way out and Trump would just disappear. . . . and there are many other events that can be added to his shameful legacy.

I agree 100%. He has a very long list of shameful actions

Mitch McConnell was one of the very worst leaders in our history! In my opinion, he didn’t love America he loved the GOP!

He loves power. He doesn’t even love his wife as much as he does power at any cost.

Soon it will have dire consequences for all of us!

I'll listen to what McConnell has to say when he rejects RFK Jr.

Get read for a deafening silence

MAGA Senate (MAGA Congress) has no problem with Trump colluding with Russia, quid pro quo-ing Ukraine, telling Barr to weaponize the DOJ, trying to overturn a free and fair election, inciting a deadly insurrection, threatening our legal system, threatening our justice system, ⬇️

threatening our democracy, tweeting threats of nuclear bombs, shitting all over our allies, falling in love with our adversaries, mishandling top secret classified information, found guilty on 34 felony counts including election interference, campaign finance fraud, ⬇️

tax fraud and bank fraud and using the oval office and our taxpayer dollars to enrich himself. Do you really believe the Polio vaccine is going to be McConnell’s line in the sand?

Trump was guilty AF in two impeachment trials. Mitch had the opportunity steer us away from ruin and chose not to. Here we are.

Crocodile teeth. Im so tired of this effing party. What a "croc" of shit.

Fucking 💯 %

Well Mitch, Karma, she a Bit@h ain't she?

Yup. Complicit.

I feel like we are in really really dangerous territory when I am starting to feel sorry about anything regarding Mitch McConnell.

Who’d a thunk?

Thanks, George. We need more people saying this over and over again.

And it's only just begun!

Sadly, his history makes his determination in this area very questionable.

He will vote for him anyway. McConnell has no standard. But he does write a nice protest letter.

You mean Mitch McConnell, who endured four years of ridicule and disdain from Trump, yet still voted for him in 2020, is going to draw a line in the sand over Trump's appointment of a man who intends to downplay his childhood polio? There is no level of hypocrisy thats just too much for Mitch.

And 2024.

Yes, and whose wife Trump attacked repeatedly with racial slurs

I included Coco Chow slurs in my original reply, but it made my post too long. Let me add a shout out to Coco, and her husband's lack of respect for her (like Cruz's lack of respect for his wife) and also add the fact that both these assholes voted for Trump in 2020, and AGAIN in 2024.

Just shows what some people are made of or should I say "not made of". If someone attacked my wife I would cut them off at the knees...nicely putting it.

But she worked for him for 4 years until January 11, 2021 regardless of the attacks. At least Mitch was getting a second income from the government, right? When you let the monster you created take control, you either do what you are told or find another as filling gravy train.

I'm out raged that Moscow Mitch is now worried...please retire....feeling safer already

He should also at least have the balls to say RFK’s name

This coward impersonating a turtle chose the easy way out four years ago and that has consequences for things you actually do care about as he’s finding out now.

Lack of cartilage

What’s the over/under on McConnell voting to approve this clown?

Old turtle Mitch is not the person to go to if ya want the highest expression of moral clarity and supreme example of moral courage , the old goat is a disgrace lol

Is Pam Bondi going to prosecute this??? www.huffpost.com/entry/lara-t...

Sorry Turtle Boy, this is 100% the results of your actions/non actions

And then voting for him to return to office!

Yawn, let me know if he actually does something.

FAFO

🐢 man is one of the main reasons we are where we are. All of his nasty deeds spanning decades! 🤬

This. McConnell could and SHOULD have ended Trump when he had the chance. We’re here at this moment BECAUSE of him!

Yes, and he made SCOTUS have six out of nine of its members hand picked by the right wing dark money funded Federalist Society And he proudly killed many good bills that would have helped Americans before they even were voted on because he put his Party over the well-being of Americans.

I remember 2 children in Kindergarten had polio. One of those children didn't make it to 2nd grade, the other didn't make it out of Kindergarten. I'm 60, I still remember the little girl who loved her bright pink fluffy coat, her big glasses and pretty smile, gone. We all cried and went home early.

Sadly, Mitch’s selfish power devotion to owning the Supreme Court, has lead to the rise of avoidable polio. Zero anything to Mitch. He can turtle on. (No diss to turtles)

Example..they got barrett into the SCOTUS 3 days before a potus election....when Barack tried to get Garland into the SCOTUS 8 months before an election turtle head shut that down citing too close to a potus election. Then mcconnell bragged that telling Barack that was his proudest moment.

Way to flex that vestigial spine, Mitch.

I absolutely LOVE that Trump has absolutely fucked McConnell’s legacy.

It’s to bad McConnell didn’t stand up against trump and his thugs in the beginning… Party over the best interests of America, seems to be his agenda… IMO 🤦‍♀️ 🤨

One would have thought McConnell would have appreciated that when he had the chance. He is single-handedly responsible for this. He should hang his head in shame.

McConnell will backtrack this statement in 3, 2, 1…

Well, I mean that's just crazy.🙄

South Korea knew what to do when their leader misbehaved. Mitch & his crew chose the felon over country now he’s whining. Now we all suffer because of it. Our vets deserve better. Kids & Women deserve better. I hope we get another chance to hold the felon accountable. he needs prison time-big time!

Doctors in jail and no vaccines. Welcome to Trumps America.

Don’t forget the concentration camps and the planned deportation of US citizens.

After saying all of this 👇 & proclaiming "party over everything," Mitch is not happy with the consequences of his narrow-minded loyalty. Mitch, I hope you live long enough to endure what this country asked you to save us from. www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/p...

He's a rich old white man he won't "endure" anything

And yet McConnell still doesn’t outright reject Kennedy as a cabinet pick. Just sit down sir. You’ve done enough harm already

Well, at least he is pretty clear about the vaccines.

You've spent decades building the foundation of this dystopian existence, but you still voted for the Cheeto you knew would try to burn this country to the ground. Eat shit Mitch and the rest of the cowards working with you.

Mitch McConnell has no-one to thank but himself. He could have stopped this. He didn't try.

This is the story of all these Republican cowards. They all hoped someone else would stop Trump. Maybe the Democrats, maybe the DOJ. Then they would be rid of him without being blamed by the MAGA base. It's no silver lining, but most of the MAGA base will suffer with the rest of us.

It’s hard to believe we are going down this road.

Karma!

Appeasement something something appeasement

Way to show up Mitch. Too bad it's too little too late.

Notice McConnell did not say he wouldn't vote for JFKjr only that he expects him to "steer clear" of the lawyer who petitioned against the polio vaccine. RFKjr will disavow him and promise not to de-list the polio vaccine but lie about it just as the MAGA justices did about Roe v Wade.

Oralè Resisters He’s selling the government institutions, USPO,, What’s next the US Army To the Salvation Army? #VonShitzInPants

If they confirm him we know they are beyond any respect

People really don't blame McConnell enough. Personally, I think him and Mccarthy are the two most responsible for where we are today. Everyone wants to blame Garland, though.

In a country chock-full of crazies with guns, why aren't certain priorities being considered in the wake of all the obvious horrors unfolding? 🤔 I'm hoping someone(s) will make the unspoken sacrifice to save us all. #FreeLuigi #TrolleyProblem

McConnell may have single-handedly caused children to suffer polio like he did by his refusal to act.

McConnell is a facist enabler. Fk him.

Republicans have been putting party over country for half a century. The result is an end to American democracy and the rise of the #FourthReich.

You also used your platform to let an insurrectionist escape all consequences, then slither back into office again. And next he’ll free all the criminals who did his dirty work. We don’t trust your words anymore, Mitch.

Yes, indeed unwanted consequences for us who tried everything to prevent it. But unprincipled evil has a way of winning elections. And, when evil gloats its BS cynicism mountain makes Everest #2 to no-conscience power addicted Mitch.

AGREE WITH HAKEEM. SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT. WAS MUSK LOTTERY BEING USED TO GATHER ADDRESSES THAT COULD BE MATCHED WITH GOP VOTER ROLES AND USED TO CREATE ADDITIONAL VOTES (VIA HACK INTO SYSTEM) FOR THE TOP OF THE TICKET, TRUMP READ LETTER TO HARRIS(see link) docs.google.com/document/d/1... (part 1)

This all falls on his shoulders. We could have been rid of this twit with a senate impeachment

Now he discovers humanity? Lil Late Mitch -by 40 fuckin years.

When will people realize that the MAGA playbook is for sick, poor, old citizens to just die. They want to put an end to spending on said people. Rich people can get vaccines no problem plus any care they may need they have the $$$. Don’t ever think that the MAGA wealthy give a shit about you

Agree 👍🏽

They are killing the children.

Siri and RFK, Jr are low life people

The Covid vaccine would like a word

Like all GOP, they don't give a shit about how their hard-line policies affect anyone else, until it turns personal. THEN they somehow find the gumption to care.

Moscow Mitch reaped what he sowed.

It will go down as the most serious political miscalculation of American history.

Like the women that voted for abortions rights, and yet voted again for the criminal felon that took the right away! The pure cretinism of the red states is appalling! And yet we have Time magazine in NYC kissing ass to the orange stink! 🤦‍♀️

Hey Mitch, you had 2 chances: you caved! Party before country is how you responded - thanks, you're no patriot,you're a coward, and as much a traitor as tRump

Is the purple prose meant to confuse the orange oaf?

GOP: battalions of Chamberlains standing in formation, preparing to march courageously into appeasement

"I have never flinched from confronting specious disinformation ..." McConnell supported and helped elect this guy: "Trump Is a Super-Spreader of Disinformation" The Atlantic 10/3/2020

Fuck McConnell all the way to hell. Polio is what got him to perk up and say something?? Fuck fuck fuck him.

I will be first in line to piss on his grave.

Pretty much

So this is the line for him? All that other stuff he stayed quiet about, interesting

“Anyone seeking the Senate's consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts." So they will lie.

Does he want to cripple this country??? Who would do such a sick thing??? What the fuck is wrong with these people???

Like many Republicans, Bitch McConnell speaks out when there's no longer any danger to his position of power. Tells you what he (and they) were thinking all along.

Wait until diphtheria hits some poor soul. Gruesome death is an understatement.

We could learn a few things about democracy from the South Koreans.

Are these people even capable of hindsight? I think not, because they never seem to learn from their mistakes. Incapable of self reflection.

How can half the country be so stupid???

That's it in a nutshell.

Oh it's a problem now bc McConnell was affected. Got it

He's going to vote to confirm him anyway. Spineless twat.

He does have a brain!

His words are worthless

Yup, but at least we get a fragrance that smells like cheetos and orange ass crack juice...

America is going to a direction of lawless…

Which I believe will be his legacy. Major blunder.

Sorry Mitch - you can't grow a conscience out of a personal experience as a child. The balance of your public life has been an exercise in willful indifference to anything not associated with obtaining and holding on to power. Save it for your deathbed

McConnell was three when he got polio. He was treated at the Warm Springs GA Foundation while FDR was going there, and ultimately died there.

I don't care how many times the turtle will be falling down or belly up

It’s a nice statement Mitch. You are lucky to have survived polio. But the question is are you voting no on RFK Jr? That’s all that matters right now.

I am so jealous of S. Korea. They had the guts to impeach and remove a traitorous leader. McConnell refused to do his job. How does he like it now?

Yes. His cowardice in not convicting Trump has caused a lot of problems. History will not be kind to McConnell.

If they don’t succeed at erasing history first

McConnell did this. ALL of this. When polio, and a host of other preventable diseases, rampages through the country, Mitch McConnell was responsible for MOST of it. Because he wanted POWER, he chose not to hold a criminal accountable. And here we are.

Exactly!

When something becomes personal, Republicans show their hypocrisy and leave the dark side. But they always go back.

Yet how will he vote?

Well I’m glad Mitch McConnell finally found a line he couldn’t cross because he knows first hand the devastation it woul wreak. Too bad he didn’t find the lines of rapist, misogynistic, liar, treasonous to far to cross. 🫠

He propped up Trump and gave him the presidency over and over, so too bad so sad, Mitch.

McConnell’s failure to uphold Senate democratic principles being shown to his full view. What goes around comes around…usually with pain and consequence.

He might still have the opportunity to die in a bird flu pandemic. It's coming, and if RFK Jr has anything to say about it, we won't have a vaccine.

It has dually chilling consequences. First - the obvious - it undermines and compromises the Rule of Law. Second - perhaps even more significant, because of the obviousness of his guilt - it facilitates and enables the arguments and propaganda that undermine and compromise truth - and even reality.

This!

Amen

Scary. Old enough to remember not being allowed to go swimming in City pool because of threat of Polio

Not only did Moscow Mitch's monster leave the laboratory he took over management of it making Mitch his personal Igor whom he torments any time he gets a chance.

McConnell has learned his lesson. Susan Collins

G... ya know that the guy across the street from you may be a Phyco child molester white collar crook and wife beater so well half of society is OK with voting in a person with similar interests trump tah dee dump .... doubt that will change in my lifetime

Aaron Siri sounds like a moron.

Or, just hear me out for a second, CNN normalizing Trump for two years and normalizing the entire MAGA world, has consequences

Who the F! is watching CNN or MSNBC and thinking anything about Trump is normal? I don’t watch CNN but I do watch MSNBC and I’ve never heard anything close to… oh maybe Trump isn’t as bad as I thought he was…

Slamming doors behind them and locking them is the American GOP. It’s not a feature, it’s a requirement to advance their cruelty which is the point. Equality is the only bug Trump et al wants to eradicate.

And Mitch will gladly vote for RFK Jr even if it results w more polio.

F Mitch , Mitch is the bitch that enabled this

As we have seen with at least 3 SCOTUS confirmation hearings and Roe v Wade, anything they say to get confirmed is suspect.

Homer Mitch really fucked that up.

Yeah, I don't want to hear from McConnell. He could have rallied enough votes to rid us of the orange man once and for all, but he played cowardly lion that day. How disgraceful.

If he feels so strongly about it, he should call RFK Jr in for a little sit down. He’s a Senator & in Republican leadership. Just like a fart, nothing but loud air.

Interesting to see that when it benefits him, then he suddenly grew a spine and spoke up. He is very much one of if not the most responsible senator for the division this great nation is facing today. His kangaroo court is to blame for the majority of it.

For years, Republicans have undermined trust in government. Mitch is complicit and he comes across as disingenuous.

And that is why, in the end, like the fictional Dr. Frankenstein who had his chance to kill his monster and didn't, his creation ultimately destroys him.

The Senator will probably support RFK Jr in the end.

We'll see what all his yada yada amounts to.

Cowardice had consequences.

Never seen him pull out all the stops for the good of the country before, but it's nice to see.

AMERICA GET YA TIX REQUEST IN ASAP LETS HIT TRUMP WHERE IT HURTS ..READ FOLLOW DIRECTIONS & ( DONT SHOW UP )SHOW HIM & HIS CRIME FAMILYS AMERICAS STILL OURS NOT HIS...& THE WORLD...

His age is more of an impediment than allegedly killing someone.

The real question is then... How many felony charges he will get? I feel like he's gonna need at least 40 to win

well… he apparently has a fair mix of both MAGA and Democrat voters and Trump obviously is going to one up him - so 35 max… and he should announce his 2028 POTUS campaign bid Monday morning - first thing without stealing any of Trump’s thunder for being America’s dumbest mob boss ever.

You think we could get him on the cover of Time magazine some how? Or is that strictly a dictator thing?

NOPE! Trump will be on every Time Magazine cover for as long as he lives and then an additional three months for his cult to fucking get over it.

Between RFK and his diet... It won't be long... 🤣

fingers crossed. he should have expired a decade ago.

Well at least that time I'm Bulter. That would have been fine.

McCarthy is a fraud

Never forget, trump is, in large part, the creation of mitch mcconnell. Dr. Frankenstein is just realizing he can not control his monster.

What a complete jackass! Understatement!

Too late

AND, polio vaccine has nearly eradicated a terrible disease and if rfkjr can't see that...well. it's obvious

That's true. We are where we are right now because of mitch McConnell.

People Are Going To Die Again .

Some leopard is getting his fill in GOP faces.

Correct

Absolutely! So true!

Moscow M1tch is warning them to hide until they’ve gotten their jobs.

He's just beginning to find out what his greedy wrath has wrought, i.e. dark money, corrupt justices, etc.

If/when polio makes a comeback it will be Mitch's legacy.

May he live long enough to fully appreciate what his refusal to convict Trump means for this country as Polio again ravages it’s children. He single handedly brought polio back.

Mitch did not think the whole power at any cost thing