NYT: McConnell Trying To Scuttle COVID Relief Deal To Uphold Rushed SCOTUS Confirmation

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at a press conference at the US Capitol on September 22, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is reportedly trying to hamper the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) negotiations on a COVID-19 relief bill, fearing that bringing it to a vote before Election Day will complicate his efforts to rush Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation.

Unnamed Senate Republicans told the New York Times on Tuesday that McConnell had told them he urged the White House to abandon talks with Pelosi because a vote on a stimulus package may throw off the Senate GOP’s schedule on fast-tracking the nomination.

Additionally, Republicans are reportedly worried that the White House may agree on too generous a relief bill with Democrats that would trap vulnerable GOP incumbents into clashing with either President Donald Trump or fiscally conservative voters.

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  1. By all means, please proceed Moscow Mitch. Don’t let a few thousand more people being made homeless or children going hungry stand in the way of seating another partisan hack on the Supreme Court.

    I only hope I live long enough to see your sorry ass booted to the curb and then rotting in Hell.

  2. Mitch McConnell, what a patriot, already trying to hamstring the Biden administration by making sure the Trump depression is as deep and long as possible. It’s 2008 all over again!

  3. He is not at all concerned that Americans are suffering due to Covid. 220,000+ Americans have died from Covid. He is without any morals.

  4. Compassionate conservatism in action.
    Or, is that passe in the new order?

  5. Every now and then a man comes along who is good at something which is harmful, but “institutional” enough that people say, “that’s just _______being ______”.

    With McConnell, his predilections, ideology, greed, purpose and skill have resulted in him being a soulless, genocidal** murderer.

    ** a step beyond Mass Murderer…more people (even with the business suit, which seems to inoculate Old WM from scrutiny…and I am serious about the business suit. Imagine Moscow McConnell with peaked cap, uniform and jackboots)

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