In the first volume of his memoir "A Promised Land," former President Barack Obama recounted a story about Mitch McConnell now President-Elect Joe Biden told him about passing a bill the then Delaware Senator championed. According to Biden, the Political Prince of Darkness-Enemy of the People-Obstructionist in Chief Moscow Mitch looked at his friend, the future Vice President and President, and said:
“You must be under the mistaken impression that I care."
At least the heartless bastard is honest. That makes it more surprising that the people of Kentucky, among the largest recipients of federal aid, continually elect this enemy of the people.
The Senate's most skilled Machiavellian in recent memory showed the American People again that he does not care about them when he voiced an objection to letting the Senate vote right away on the House bill to increase the amount of direct payments to Americans in the latest COVID relief legislation from $600 to $2000.
If Democrats had substituted the words tax cuts for the rich instead of direct payments, would McConnell have changed his mind?
In his defense, McConnell has attempted to link these direct payments to separate measures to repeal liability protection for Big Tech companies (Section 230) that Trump wanted out of the Defense bill and an investigation into elections fraud.
It is ironic that it was a little over a week ago that McConnell wanted liability protection for American businesses that were sued for exposing customers to the Coronavirus.
He is also using Trump's baseless claims of election fraud as a long term scheme to help keep Republican voters in line for the Georgia Senate runoff elections and the 2022 midterms.
To his credit, Bernie Sanders said he would hold up the vote to override the Trump veto of the Defense Appropriations Bill until McConnell holds a vote on the direct payments.
Other Democrats should join Sanders because fighting back is all McConnell understands. The two Georgia Democratic Senate Candidates, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff should frame the election as a choice between McConnell obstructionism or moving the country and the people forward. President-Elect Joe Biden should probably look at all the ways Trump diverted funds from other programs, aided by a Supreme Court ruling, to his border wall (and Republicans hardly did not say anything about) as a way to shift monies to vital areas like aid to state and local governments as a way to get around McConnell's likely obstruction in the Senate if he retains the title of Majority Leader (or Majority Obstructionist.)
Hopefully, Joe Biden, who continually states he can work with McConnell and other Republicans, is under no illusions about what he faces with the legislative grim reaper.
Furthermore, Democrats should not take for granted that the people are aware that Republicans do not serve their best interests.
If the people were aware, Republicans would not have won the 1994, 2002, 2010, 2014 midterms and made legislative gains in the House in 2020.
Democrats need to make the people aware every day that the likes of Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy in the House (who missed the votes yesterday in a display of leadership cowardice,) are the true enemies of the people who do not care about their interests.
They and their supporters in the activist community need to do it again and again until the people are aware.
They can not stop fighting for every cause and every vote.
Because no one else will.
Definitely not Mitch McConnell who has shown again today that he does not care about the people.
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