Mitch McConnell Cries Crocodile Tears Over Democrats Not Working With Him

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that he was super disappointed that Democrats are passing legislation - like the COVID relief bill - in a partisan way without getting any Republicans to support it. This is all for show, as McConnell had no problem passing strictly partisan legislation while he was the majority leader. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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From Thursday evening to early Friday morning senators, uh, for 14 straight hours debated and voted on amendments for the COVID relief package. Uh, it ended up passing 50 50, uh, actually 50 51 because vice president Kamala Harris had to come in and be the tie-breaking vote strictly along party lines, Republicans, all on one side Democrats, all on the other, but the majority rules it passed. And then immediately Mitch McConnell goes out and cries to the press about those doggone mean old Democrats not working with Republicans. Uh, Mitch McConnell said not withstanding the actual war needs not withstanding all the talk about bipartisan unity. Democrats in Congress are plowing ahead. They're using this phony budget to set the table to Ram through their 1.9 trillion rough draft. Um, apologize for that impression. I don't know if that was more McConnell or more Nixon, but either way. It's two horrible people and, uh, I'm sure Nixon would be proud of what the Republicans have become.

Nevertheless, McConnell's out there whining. There, there was no bipartisan tripping later and work willows. See, here's the thing though. Magic. You're lying. You're lying through your teeth and you're doing it because you want to use that as a talking point, going ahead into the midterms because trust me folks, everyone in political world up in DC is already thinking about the midterms and Mitch McConnell is laying the framework to say that Democrats have run rough shot over this country, and they're not including us. So if you vote for Democrats, Republicans have no say you have no voice, yada yada, that's the talking point. So this thing by McConnell though, there's a lie and Biden met with 10 Republican Senator said, gimme your input, come up with good ideas. Let's see where we can find common ground. But even those so-called 10 moderate Republicans came up with such garbage.

That Biden said, okay, we're not going with any of that. Thanks. But no, thanks. And then of course you had all of the amenities mints that Republicans tried to tack on. And most of them got voted down, but actually some of them ended up being, uh, passed and added on to the actual legislation. So you're talking point that the Democrats did this alone is already bogus. Based on that one fact, based on the votes you idiot, I mean, Mitch McConnell, you've been in the Senate for what, 35 years now, you know, that votes are open records. Like we can see that, but your banking on the public, not taking the time to go and do that. And instead, just going with your idiotic talking point of nobody works with me not to mention the fact that, uh, Mitch, we got to bring up, you did the same thing by the way, for six straight years, while you were majority leader, you didn't give a with Democrats sent you didn't care about any of their objections.

You through multiple different Supreme court nominees, you withheld one from president Obama, you piece of crap. You packed the lower courts in this country with a couple hundred judges, 230. I think it was the final number that Trump got. You pass the tax cuts without Democrats, you passed all kinds of stuff without Democrats and not wants to Democrats go on TV and cry about they didn't work with us. They went out there and they said Republicans did horrible things. And none of us were a part of it. Look at how crappy they are. And Mitch, I can guarantee you, if you would put forward one idea that would have helped the people of this country. One idea the Democrats would have leaped at that, but that's the problem with you, your entire party, you have nothing. You are a party of no ideas. You haven't had an original idea in 40 years. So cry all you want. Mitch, maybe you ought to start looking at your own party and wonder why none of you can come up with a single idea on how to make the lives of American citizens better during a pandemic and a recession. It shouldn't be that hard, but the Republican party is so brave dead. You can't even figure it out.