$2 BILLION BRIBE PAID TO MITCH McCONNELL TO PASS OBAMA BILL

These slimy weasels are bought and sold like cheap whores. Sorry for the insult to all my cheap whore readers. Mitch McConnell is everything that is wrong with this country rolled into one disgusting package of shit. Kicking the can and bending over for Harry Reid and the Obamanistas are his specialty. When he was the Senate Leader the Republicans cut nothing. He added trillions to the national debt when he was in control. We are a deadbeat nation led by corrupt brain dead old men. This turtle faced douchebag needs to be crushed by a truck while crossing the road.

McConnell-Reid Deal Includes $3 Billion Earmark for Kentucky Project

    

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U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

 

A proposal to end the government shutdown and avoid default orchestrated by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Leader Harry Reid includes a nearly $3 billion earmark for a Kentucky project.

Language in a draft of the McConnell-Reid deal (see page 13, section 123) provided to WFPL News shows a provision that increases funding for the massive Olmsted Dam Lock in Paducah, Ky., from $775 million to nearly $2.9 billion.

The dam is considered an important project for the state and region in regards to water traffic along the Ohio River.

As The Courier-Journal’s James Bruggers reported in 2011, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said they needed about $2.1 billion for the locks due to “stop and go funding.”

Asked about the additional funding in the proposal, McConnell spokesman Robert Steurer directed all questions to lawmakers who worked on the bill directly.

“Senators (Diane) Feinstein and (Lamar) Alexander, the chair and ranking member of the energy and water subcommittee, worked on the issue and can help you,” he says.

Since 2009, McConnell has been an outspoken supporter of the project, and has been working on getting its funding for some time.

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Still, conservative critics of the proposal argue it is nothing more than a “kickback” for McConnell in an age where Tea Parties have eschewed earmarks.

The Olmsted Dam sees nearly 90 billion tons of materials such as coal, petroleum and other goods move through that stretch of the Ohio River annually.

UPDATE 7:30 p.m.:

A statement from Sen. Alexander’s office to BuzzFeed says the language was added to prevent funding from being canceled.

“According to the Army Corps of Engineers, 160 million taxpayer dollars will be wasted because of canceled contracts if this language is not included. Sen. [Diane] Feinstein and I, as chairman and ranking member of the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, requested this provision. It has already been approved this year by the House and Senate.”

UPDATE 9:35 p.m.:

The Senate passed the McConnell-Reid deal by a 81-18 vote and it now heads to the House.

Among those who voted against the bill were Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who derided the legislation for overlooking the nation’s debt.

“Tonight, a deal was struck to re-open the government and avoid the debt ceiling deadline. That is a good thing,” Paul said in a statement. “However, our country faces a problem bigger than any deadline: a $17 trillion debt. I am disappointed that Democrats would not compromise to avoid the looming debt debacle.”

Paul’s office has not responded to our request for commenting regarding the provision for the Olmsted project.

In a follow-up e-mail, McConnell’s office told the radio station the GOP leader did not request Alexander put wording to raise the authorization for funding in the bill despite McConnell’s support for earmark funding in the past.

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card802
card802

What amazes me more than the payoff, is voters will still vote in this fuckstick.

Chicago999444
Chicago999444

The voters in Kentucky like that they are getting $2.9B worth of pork tossed at them. They just don’t want it tossed at anyone else.

That is why we are in this hole to begin with- because voters see only what their district is getting and view spending favorably when it is on something they feel they derive personal benefit from, like a highway extension or other federal project in their area. As long as the pork falls in their laps, they’re all for spending. Spending on a new highway, dam, or other government-funded boondoggle is “growth” and means “jobs” as long as it’s in their locale- but if it goes to anyone else, it’s “waste” and “socialism”.

harry p.

card,
i am surprised by neither. although i am surprised by how the story about this kickback has gotten out so quickly.
its jsut too bad the attention span of the hoi polloi is still too short for this to register in their pea-sized brains and hold mcconnell accountable.
for the majority of the rethuglicans this wasn’t an opportunity to lessen teh blow from obamacare, they don’t care bc they are exempt, it was an opportunity to line their pockets. Nothing more.

IndenturedServant

It’s just not possible for me to have a lower opinion of these scumbags. The country is light years beyond broke and they spend it like it was just poofed into existence……….oh wait!

If they’re going to spend it anyway, why not toss a few billion towards Fukushima. At least that might actually help something. Why is Al Gore not all over this shit?

I gotta go to bed!
I_S

TC
TC

Makes you wonder what Captain Boner and his GOP pantywaists in the House got to pass this assrape of a bill. Now that they have changed the way debt ceiling increases are handled (or rather blocked), the death spiral of this once-great nation is a certainty.

flash
flash

admin, you couldn’t be more wrong.There is nothing cheap about the whores in Congress .While they are indeed the ugliest whore’s money can buy,they’re certainly not the cheapest.

harry p.

I was telling my wife this morning that the way the rethuglicans caved showed they had no spines.
I was wrong, they don’t lack spines, they lack souls.

Hope
Hope

Whew!!! What a relief that debt deal passed!!!!

***mopes brow with a $100 bill mistaking it for a paper towel***

We are SAVED!!!! Printing money to Infinity And Beyond!!!! The Final Debt Frontier is Infinite!!!!

Just when I thought we might, just might, obtain enough “escape velocity” to escape The Black Hole of Economic Implosion, nope, our dumbfuck dochnozzle CONgresscritters just put the pedal to the metal and SPED UP THE PROCESS of economic destruction (as well as destroying what was left of the Constitutional budgeting process but that ship ran aground decades ago)!!!

Glad to know that, just like the immense gravitational forces present in a real live Black Hole, our insane corrupt cranial-rectally inverted spineless craven IMBECILES currently running (into the ground) our country are following the universal laws of physics.

However, the Laws of Physics are as inexorable of those of MATH and EXPONENTIAL functions and SHALL BE OBEYED.

Folks, Mark This Day. It’s official. It’s over, stick a fork in it. The MSM is blathering on about how much “money” we “lost” in the shut down and all the doctors in the lounge are nodding their heads.

We. Are. Doomed.

Eddie
Eddie

“This turtle faced douchebag needs to be crushed by a truck while crossing the road.”

But how do you really feel?

TeresaE
TeresaE

How many times in the past five years have they pulled this shit?

How many billions has been tacked on, for the ear-marks that Obama PROMISED would end.

How many times have the individuals LIED to our faces, only to see their bank accounts and power grow while the “voters” sit on their fat, distracted, disillusioned, unhealthy asses and do NOTHING.

Everyone of these thieves and traitors need run out on a rail.

Won’t fucking happen though. Not a fucking chance in hell.

It’s “over,” the can had a kick left and we can all now return to the real world of trying to figure out how to waste what little fiat we have been allowed to have on entertainment, meds and toxic food.

What the fuck evah. Dirty bastards “leading” and skimming from a lot of ignorant, worthless bastards.

Wish there was a way to get off this ride.

Enjoy your ill-gotten gains a little longer Washington, the day approaches when your fiat won’t be worth any more than mine.

I hope when their lives are falling apart, they enjoy the fact that their kind created the mess.

FT
FT

Lamestream Media was more Goebbelsesque than usual in selling the storyline for this WWF match, gotta hand it to ’em. At least judging from tweets and FB feeds.

They managed to get many people buying into the following storylines: 1) The sequestor was a catastrophe and we can breathe a sigh of relief that it will be lifted since the sainted Democrats have far more political capital than before; 2) Obama is a great leader who refused to cave; he’s “learned” from his first term; 3) Only racists want to cut spending and essential programs that could never be provided without our all-powerful Federal Government; 4) The McCains and Grahams of the world (the “good” Repubicans per the media) are even terrified by these “extremists” who must be stopped. They were powerless to stop them, so thank God for Obama!

Math continues to be hard.

FT
FT

Oh, and of course, 5) kicking the can, avoiding reality for as long as you can and continuing to shovel billions/trillions to the Banksters is the patriotic and right thing to do.

You’d think the hard part would be continuing to keep people believing that Obama is powerless to do something against those big, bad Wall Streeters because the Republicans are standing in his way, but no, everyone seems to continue to believe that one too.

AWD

What a scumbag sellout piece of shit motherfucker asshole douchebag fuckface cumstain. He and Reid could be brothers, separated at birth from their mother in a mental institution. He torpedoed the republicans, is a traitor, and should be crucified by the GOP. No such luck, I’m sure.

Did you notice the roll back of the sequester spending cuts also? They used the threat (fear) to pass a porkulus bill of biblical proportions. Well done, criminals, robbing and looting the taxpayers again with your diversionary side show.

And this was the last effort, the last possibility to end Obamacare, and of course it failed because of traitors, lack of consistent focus, and the failure of the GOP. Now, we are stuck with the worst legislation in the history of the USSA. Forward! socialism wins again. Fascism for all! We’re doomed.

AWD

Thank god those 600,000 union government drones are back on the job, making $100,000 a year, retiring at 50. I don’t know what we’ve done without them. Did you notice the difference?

Thank god joggers will no longer be arrested and sent to FEMA camps while exercising in national parks. The government shut down doubled obesity rates, and it’s the tea party’s fault.

I’m glad 1/2 my money goes to the government, and the only thing that matters to me, the panda cam, is finally turned back on:

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples_resource/image/26489

harry p.

AWD,
nice rant, almost as good as Clarke Griswalds

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

McConnell is the Senate Minority Leader because of the seniority system. That’s why he wields undue influence. If there were no seniority system in congress, we wouldn’t need term limits, but because they have instituted a system where greater longevity means more power, we need term limits in order to minimize the ability of elected officials to bribe voters with pork. It’s always the guy who’s been there for decades (Byrd, McConnell) who most abuses the nation by buying votes with pork. That’s why we need term limits ASAP. Also, those no longer facing reelection might on rare occasion actually do the right thing.

Persnickety
Persnickety

I have never been more totally disgusted with politics, and the Republicans in particular, than I am today.

This is it for the Republican party. 45% of the country hated them before the shutdown, 60% of the country hated them for the shutdown, and now the other 40% hates them for selling out. They are absolutely worthless pieces of shit. They’d better hope W has room for them at his Paraguay doomstead.

Persnickety
Persnickety

@Iska Waran: Deck chairs. Titanic. Rearrange.

AWD

Mission accomplished!

More spending, more ObamaTaxes, much more spending, more debt, piles more debt, then some more spending, then more ObamaCard exemptions for cash. By 2017, three short years away, the Federal debt will the $20 trillion!

You can now check you state debt on the debt clock:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/h

The democrats continue to celebrate! Hooray for more and bigger government, free shit, socialism, fascism, continued spying, and flagellation of people that work for a living! All hail Obama, our debt brother!

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TPC
TPC

Oh holy shit, Russel Brand crushes the Westboro Baptist Church. Its almost a year old, but if you haven’t seen it, I highly suggest you do.

FT
FT

Lord, even 60 seconds of CNN is enough to lower one’s IQ.

Just now Wolf Shitzer and some talking head were blathering about how the President “took time out to thank those Federal workers who were furloughed and are probably feeling a little underappreciated right now”.

Yeah, a two and a half week paid vacation is a horrible thing, just horrible. How does one making $100K+ per year survive not knowing when that back pay is coming?

They then said the President’s “thank you” to those workers is “a sentiment that I imagine few people out there in the rest of the country could disagree with”.

Uh….being in the D.C. bubble really warps one’s view of reality, huh guys?

bb

AWD ,they are going to arrest you and make you work for free.Got to have free doctors for free
Medical care.You can always tell you are a minister of the gospel .

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

Welcome to gloomy Russia of November 1916. The Democrats are the 21st century Bolsheviks. The economic crash at that time that took the Russian system down; will take our system down the same way, and facilitate the communist control that will be repeated in this country for perhaps 50 years! Our economic crash; just Like Russia’s is the result of war.

The smart ones are getting out. Americans have no idea what the misery of real communism is like; but they are going to get a belly full.

Expect to see the insane asylums revived and the prison system expanded to expand the production from forced labor camps.

When the Bolsheviks took over in Russia they sent the intelligent free thinkers to Siberia and to the insane asylums. Here it will be the insane asylums where they will be kept drugged up, and the prisons where they will do forced hard labor. Education has been dumbed down in this country to train people for government service. This is the way of communism.

Our big box retail chains are going to shut down. They will be replaced by government stores. Government will try to improve employment by starting government run factories to produce consumer items. This will not produce the needed items and the quality will be very low. There is no incentive to work hard in government run businesses. So the output will be low. So who will get first choice of the items produced? It will be the card carrying government unions. There will be long lines for the rest of the public to pick over the leftovers. An alternate black market will spring up. Those with skills will produce separately in this black market but if they are caught then they will be sent to prison and be forced to produce there for the government. Welcome to communism!

What happened on the hill last night shows that no one or no body of people can do anything to change the course of sad events taking place in this country. Events are just happening.

Intelligent people that know what is coming are getting out just like the intellectuals were fleeing out of Russia in 1916.

People with the least knowledge of what is really going on are supporting the Democrats because they are being led by their mistaken emotions and their craving for the false promise of government handouts. These people vote and make up the majority of the population. They are easily manipulated through their emotions. They are being used and agitated by the Bolsheviks. They are the power of the people; the destructive power of the herd.

Some think all this can change. They have the false believe that they can do something to avert this. All I can say to these people is look at the WILL of the Senators and Congressmen in Washington DC that do not support them! THEY HAVE NO WILL! THEY SUPPORT THE MACHINE OF GOVERNMENT!

It is time for those that still have a mind to realize what is coming and prepare themselves for it. At this point no one can do anything to change the outcome, and the sooner one grasps this the sooner one can prepare for the obvious coming crash and the chaos that will follow.

All I can say is stay alert and pay attention to events. They are fast unfolding.

DaveL
DaveL

There seem to be a lot of angry people on here, so here is some further information to calm you down.

This extremely important locks project that is saving all the people along the river administered by the Army Corps(read corpse) of Engineers WAS STARTED IN 1989.

Forward_Idiocracy
Forward_Idiocracy

There’s always this interesting piece of “news”. Not that it really matters much any more, but I’m personally going to use this piece of “news” to troll liberals so I can watch them twist into peculiar nine dimensional shapes.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html?hp=r3

tom f

I read that the no chin pathetic pussy ass motherfucker says he will stop Trump from gaining nomination. How a pathetic unscrupulous piece of shit has more power then the millions of voters. Five weeks in the military and he has the audacity to put it on his resume, he probably was released for being the pathetic piece of shit that he became.

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