Rick Scott Is DESPERATE For More Power As He Brutally Attacks Mitch McConnell

Republican Senator Rick Scott might be the most power-hungry man in America right now, and his relentless attacks - and failed challenge - on Mitch McConnell are all the proof you need. Scott is once again blasting McConnell for allegedly "caving" to Democrats on the debt ceiling, an issue that most Americans don't understand and most would like to see the country NOT default on our debt. But Scott wants power, and he'll destroy everything in his way to get it, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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Last week, Republican senator, actually Republican minority leader in the Senate. Mitch McConnell, stripped Rick Scott of his position on the commerce committee as a way of basically giving Scott A. Little bit of payback for his challenge to Mitch McConnell as the leader of Republicans in the Senate. And of course for attacking Mitch McConnell publicly for the past year, going against him when he said, we're not running on a platform. Then Rick Scott said, screw you. I'm putting out a pa a platform that was widely criticized, not just by Democrats, but also by Republicans. And Rick Scott is mad. So during an interview with the Hill this week, Rick Scott lashed out at Mitch McConnell once again saying this, you saw in 2021, he came out and said in July that we would not participate in raising the debt ceiling. And then he organized 11 people to say, we'll allow the Democrats to do it on our own.

We didn't follow conference rules. I'm tired of caving. Now, of course, Rick Scott is talking about the ongoing debt ceiling crisis here in the United States. We have officially hit our debt ceiling. We have enough money to keep things solvent. I think the Fed said until June maybe. Uh, then after that we run into some very real problems. Government workers will not be able to be paid. We do, uh, expect government programs like entitlement programs to see checks stop or be reduced, and nobody wants to do that. Rick Mitch McConnell is not caving on this issue, which by the way is an issue that Congress imposed upon itself. The debt ceiling is something y'all created. I mean, not you specifically, cuz you weren't there yet. But it it, it's a congressional construct that has only been around for, you know, a couple years. It shouldn't exist.

It's very stupid and just sets up these idiotic fights. But Mitch McConnell, who has been around since I think before we even had a debt ceiling, um, he understands how to play the game. Something Rick Scott does not. Mitch McConnell understands that it will be viewed as the Republicans who make people not get their social security checks, especially after Rick Scott has already called for cutting social security. So Mitch McConnell is basically trying to do cleanup for you, Rick. You are out there causing all these problems, attacking the man who's trying to fix all the problems that you've created. But here's why Rick Scott is doing this. Rick Scott wants that power, even though he is still technically just a first term senator who has not paid his dues. I mean, let's be real about that. You want that power. You wanna be the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, then you gotta do your time, bud. You have to actually pass some bills. I mean, you haven't even done that. That's what's truly remarkable is Rick Scott has not done

Anything since coming to office other than put up obstruction and send out stupid policy platforms that call for raising taxes on the working class and cutting social security. You're very bad at this, Rick. I know you won your two elections down here in Deep Red Florida because we're a state of morons and that's why you made it to the Senate to begin with. But once you get up there, you gotta play by their rules. You don't have that power anymore. I know you desperately won it.