# Mitch McConnell in the Pit! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 26, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681 "2019-07-26T18:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/61 "2019-08-01T12:46:39Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > How far back should I stand when doing the little finger-waggle wave? Surely one of the top-10 setup/callbacks in TV history. ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/62 "2019-08-01T14:13:52Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Surely one of the top-10 setup/callbacks in TV history. “… as a warning to the next **ten generations** that some favors come with too high a price…” ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/63 "2019-08-01T14:34:12Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Well it is the new standard of adault behavior established by Republicans with their fearless so-called president that childish nicknames for politicians from other politicians is A-OK. Exactly so. Not so funny or acceptable when the shoe is on the other foot, is it, MM? Karma is a bitch, as we used to say. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/64 "2019-08-01T15:10:54Z")
The most basic tenet of a civilized society is “treat others as you wish to be treated”; many Republicans have forgotten, ignored or disavowed that. Now they’ll have to live, at least for a while, in the society they’ve helped create. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/65 "2019-08-01T15:16:31Z")
Nm I got whooshed ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/66 "2019-08-01T15:44:27Z")
[Just Say Nyet! to Moscow Mitch](https://store.kydemocrats.org/defeat-mitch/) shirts, pins, & stickers available now! If you want 'em, they got 'em! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/67 "2019-08-01T19:57:45Z")
#RussianRubio carries water for #MoscowMitch, attempting to blame the demands for security against Russian election hacking on Russian election hackers: > [@Moscow Marco](#): > > Fascinating & instructive to watch how Russian online operatives are helping spread & amplify MoscowMitchTraitor hashtag > A reminder the goal of Putin influence effort isn’t to help either party. It’s to drive social divisions by stoking contempt for each other among Americans. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/68 "2019-08-01T21:48:35Z")
Likely some truth to that. Russian agitprop was aimed at inciting white racists and provoking their black opponents. Provoke blue collar whites against Hillary, convince black folks that voting was futile, but _especially_ voting for Hillary. Lies are fluid, its truth that is stubbornly inflexible. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/69 "2019-08-01T22:57:56Z")
[McConnell rams thru 13 more judges](https://apnews.com/dea2d85fa7b34746886961d8b23ff02b) today. > [@](#): > > But topping McConnell’s list were Senate votes this week confirming 13 of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees. The actions bring to more than 140 the number of judges confirmed by the Senate since Trump took office in 2017. > > McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, called the Senate votes “big progress for the federal judiciary,” adding that “for too long, thoroughly uncontroversial judicial nominees just like these have been held up and delayed by our Democratic colleagues.” > > Frustrated by delays in confirming dozens of lower-profile nominees, McConnell and Senate Republicans rammed through a rules change this spring that cut back debate on most of Trump’s picks. > > The 13 judges approved this week marks a decrease from the 19 judicial nominees Senate Republicans had planned to confirm before leaving Washington until September. Six other nominees are expected to get a vote once the Senate returns. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/70 "2019-08-03T12:59:56Z")
Moscow Mitch: Selling out America for [thirty pieces of aluminum](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/31/mcconnell-staffers-lobbied-russian-backed-kentucky-project-1442550). ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/71 "2019-08-04T21:18:02Z")
MoscowMitch [breaks his shoulder](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/politics/mitch-mcconnell-shoulder-fracture-kentucky-home/index.html). > [@](#): > > McConnell’s injury comes as Democrats demand he reconvenes the Senate to pass gun control legislation after a pair of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio this weekend left 29 people dead. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/72 "2019-08-04T21:26:28Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > MoscowMitch [breaks his shoulder](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/politics/mitch-mcconnell-shoulder-fracture-kentucky-home/index.html). Let me guess: He’s using ACA to pay the expenses? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/73 "2019-08-04T21:26:44Z")
Protip: Don’t leave bags of NRA boodle lying around on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/74 "2019-08-04T21:28:26Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > That shit has got to spread like wildfire and follow that motherfucker to his grave. Agreed. It seems to really be getting under his skin, and therefore might even do some good for the country. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/75 "2019-08-04T21:30:29Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > MoscowMitch [breaks his shoulder](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/politics/mitch-mcconnell-shoulder-fracture-kentucky-home/index.html). [Really bad news! Too bad!](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1157259424794324992) ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/76 "2019-08-04T21:39:23Z")
Rep. Ted Lieu has [a question for Mitch McConnell](https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1157886192181866496) (posted yesterday): > [@](#): > > Dear @senatemajldr: The House of Representatives, on a bipartisan basis, passed common sense gun safety legislation to the Senate. You are blocking those bills from coming to a vote. > > Please let the entire nation know when you will allow a vote on gun safety legislation. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/77 "2019-08-05T22:56:40Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Rep. Ted Lieu has [a question for Mitch McConnell](https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1157886192181866496) (posted yesterday): > > > [@](#): > > > > Dear @senatemajldr: The House of Representatives, on a bipartisan basis, passed common sense gun safety legislation to the Senate. You are blocking those bills from coming to a vote. > > > > Please let the entire nation know when you will allow a vote on gun safety legislation. I’m guessing the 12th of Never. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/78 "2019-08-05T23:11:23Z")
Maybe McConnell injured his shoulder while carrying away a sack of gold. [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/05/nra-spent-1point6-million-lobbying-against-expanded-background-check-laws.html): > [@](#): > > • The National Rifle Association spent $1.6 million during the first half of the year lobbying Congress against laws that would enact stricter background checks for people looking to buy guns, according to disclosure reports. > > • One of the dozens of bills targeted by the NRA is H.R. 8, a bipartisan proposal that passed the Democratic-controlled House in February and has yet to be taken up by the GOP-controlled Senate. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/79 "2019-08-05T23:29:48Z")
How about a Moscow Mitch home made you tube song? At the very least, you have to give that you tuber an A for effort! ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/80 "2019-08-05T23:32:03Z")
I hope he gets addicted to opioids and winds up giving handjobs for votes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681.md?page=5)