Former GOP Rep: ‘You’re Watching McConnell Eat A Manure Sandwich’

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Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), who used to serve as the House Intelligence Committee chair, compared Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to support President Trump’s insistence on a national emergency to eating “a manure sandwich.”

“You’re watching Mitch McConnell eat a manure sandwich in this whole process,” he told CNN’s “New Day” Friday morning. “I think what he said is, ‘listen, I’m weighing the fact that another government shutdown is pretty damaging to the country,’ and I think he believes that and also the party. … And I think he probably thought, ‘if I can get past this, I’ll deal with the other.’ The other being the President’s interest in a national emergency.”

McConnell reportedly talked Trump into signing the bipartisan spending bill after the President threatened to pull out on Thursday afternoon by vowing to get Republicans to support his interest in declaring a national emergency.

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  1. Avatar for outis outis says:

    Actually, that is just what McConnell always looks like. He has made and served enough of these sandwiches in the past. It is about time he had to try one himself.

  2. Stating the obvious: Couldn’t happen to a nicer or more deserving guy.

  3. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    McConnell got served Donny’s Big Macs? New meaning to mystery meat - now attempting to be served up for all of the country.

  4. Turtles do eat and enjoy food laced with fecal matter from other parts of the animal kingdom. This is why he doesn’t get mad when people yell, “eat shit, McConnell!” He thinks it means, “take a break, McConnell, go get yourself some lunch!”

    I assume this Confederate traitor is going to be aggressively challenged in 2020.

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