The Grim Reaper is just plain evil:
McConnell, in Kentucky, talks Biden’s $1.9T Covid relief law: “It passed on a straight party line vote… So you’re going to get a lot more money. I didn’t vote for it, but you’re going to get a lot more money. Cities and counties in Kentucky will get close to $700-800 million.”
McConnell, cont’d: “If you add up the total amount that’ll come into our state: $4 billion… So my advice to members of the legislature and other local officials: Spend it wisely because hopefully this windfall doesn’t come along again… We’ve floated entirely too much money.”
McConnell says Dems’ plans to spend trillions more is “wildly inappropriate” and will harm economy. “And that’s why the era of bipartisanship on this stuff is over.”
He says “there’s a way forward” on infrastructure “if that’s credibly paid for as opposed to adding to the debt.”
McConnell bashes Biden/Democratic plans to raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%: “Our friends on the other side act like corporations are not people. Well what about all the people that work there? And all the people who have stock in their retirement account?”
McConnell: “There is a process by which they could pass this bill w/out a single Republican. But we’re going to make it hard for them. And there are few Democrats left in rural America and some others who would like to be more in the political center who may find this offensive.”
Mitch McConnell on the 2020 election: “The president was not re-elected but his party had a really good day.”
McConnell says “some of the regulatory overreach” of the Biden administration “may well not survive the courts.”
“We have three new Supreme Court justices, 54 new circuit court judges. And it was my top priority…to get in place judges…referred to as strict constructionists.”
“I’m pretty happy with the new Court,” Mitch McConnell says of the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court he helped build, praising last week’s 6-3 ruling to uphold some voting restrictions in Arizona.
McConnell goes long in touting his impact on the courts, starting with the 2016 decision to block Pres. Obama from filling the Scalia vacancy. With Democrats now in control, he says, the courts are the main bulwark and “some of this stuff may be subject to judicial review.”
Originally tweeted by Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) on July 6, 2021.
The man is a monster. But you knew that.