Mitch McConnell loves his job. He has a base salary of $193,400, and he doesn’t do anything to receive taxpayer dollars. His overall net worth is over $36 million. He is a member of the wealthy class, and doesn’t believe that he should work. His latest promise to do nothing involves President Obama’s TPP trade agreement.
“The current agreement, the Trans-Pacific (Partnership) agreement, which has some serious flaws, will not be acted upon this year,” McConnell told a Kentucky State Farm Bureau breakfast in Louisville.
“But it will still be around. It can be massaged, changed, worked on during the next administration. So, I hope America will stay in the trade business,” McConnell said.
This is the second item McConnell has refused to act upon this year. A vacant seat on the Supreme Court remains for the single reason that McConnell refused to conduct hearings for President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland.
I shouldn’t be too hard on one of the greatest failed leaders of the Republican Party; he is just doing what he promised. In 2009, immediately after Mr. Obama was inaugurated, McConnell promised that his party would do nothing with the exception of making Mr. Obama a one-term president. Although that didn’t work so well, he liked not having to work for his paycheck so much that he thought he would continue doing nothing for four more years.
McConnell is one of the principle reasons why disgruntled Republican voters flocked to Donald Trump’s camp; he is a perfect example of why they are protesting against the establishment. Don’t blame Trump for the mess the Republican Party finds itself in; it is GOP leadership who created “Trumpenstein.” They have failed their supporters for nearly a decade, and the three principle villains are RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, Mitch McConnell, and former Speaker of the House John Boehner. Paul Ryan, Boehner’s replacement does not appear to be much of an improvement. The Republican-controlled Congress is why our government is in gridlock. Promising to do nothing and allowing an extremist group within the party to refuse to deliberate and compromise has destroyed our Democratic Republic. There is no democracy without compromise.
Unfortunately for the government of the United States, the uncaring voters of Kentucky continue to vote for a party instead of a person. The American people have been plagued with “the Turtle” for 31 years; that’s just over five terms. Why?
He is a perfect example of what an old, white, and possibly senile man can cause in Washington. Fortunately, McConnell and his cronies won’t be around that much longer. Millennials will soon be in control of our nation’s government. Hopefully, they will vote for term limits, relieving the American people of those like McConnell.
The American people have a single hope. It is very possible that Democrats will regain control of the Senate in November, and there will be a new Majority Leader in the Senate.
Op-Ed
By James Turnage
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