Subject: SCOTUS Obstructionist & Hypocrite Mitch McConnell today : Election year "not an excuse not to do our work"
From: Jeremy Funk <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 17:37:06 -0400

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SCOTUS Obstructionist and Hypocrite Mitch McConnell today :
Election year "not an excuse not to do our work"<https://youtu.be/yvldilZVpyY>

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CSPAN2 5/12/2016 2:30:27 PM: Senator McConnell<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvldilZVpyY&feature=youtu.be>: "the American people have been frustrated in cent years over the  over the dysfunction they see in Washington, and their assessment of us has been correct. The biggest symbol of dysfunction has been the inability as the chairman of our energy and water subcommittee just pointed out to do the basic work of government. there are 12 bills that fund the government, the basic work of government. we haven't passed each of those 12 bills since 1994. so under majorities of both parties we have had at least some degree of dysfunction in recent years. they all get balled into one great big bill.  It looks awful and there's no way to conduct the affairs of the government. so what I said was we were going to devote the floor time, which is always at a premium in the senate, to give us a chance to do the work that we were sent here to do, regardless of party. and, fortunately, we had Chairman Alexander, who's arguably the best -- or maybe the second-best only to the senator from Maine -- bill manager on our side, take up the first bill, and there were some snags along the way. It took a little longer than we had hoped, but we're completed, and we're completed at a record early time, and we're going to keep on doing this right up until we break on July the 15th to go to the convention. We're going to give the senate every opportunity to do the basic work of government this year. and some have said because it is an election year, you can't do much. I'd like to remind everyone, we've had a regularly scheduled election in this country every two years since 1788, right on time. I've heard people say, well, we can't do it because we have an election next year. and people have said, we can't do whatever it is because we have an election this year. it is not an excuse not to do our work."

Funny, that's McConnell's exact excuse for not doing his job of considering the President's qualified Supreme Court nominee:

"So, all we're doing, Chris, is following a long standing tradition of not filling vacancies on the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election year." <http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/03/20/mcconnell-vows-to-hold-line-against-obama-scotus-pick-does-john-kasich-have/>

[It's Not At All Tradition, BTW: Huffington Post, Feb. 14, 2016<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-antonin-scalia_us_56bfcde2e4b08ffac1259285>: 'Mitch McConnell Voted To Confirm A Supreme Court Justice In Reagan's Final Year'; Washington Post, Feb. 29<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/02/29/one-third-of-all-u-s-presidents-appointed-a-supreme-court-justice-in-an-election-year/>:' One-third of all U.S. presidents appointed a Supreme Court justice in an election year]

Meanwhile, Scenes from Outside McConnell's meeting with Trump today, the Walking Insult to Women and Immigrants that the Soon-to-Be Senate Minority Leader<http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/page/-/Good-Bye%20GOP%20Senate%20Majority.pdf> Wants to Make the Next Lifetime Supreme Court Appointment:

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