Mitch McConnell's Homestate Paper Thrashes Him For 'Unabashedly Courting Wall Street Bankers For Political Money'

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is "unabashedly courting Wall Street bankers for political money" and "happy to scratch their backs if they'll scratch his," opines McConnell's homestate newspaper, the Lexington Herald-Leader, in an unusually strong rebuke.

In a staff editorial headlined "McConnell to big banks' rescue," the Herald-Leader decries McConnell's pandering to Wall Street executives and repeated use of the catch phrases outlined in an anti-financial reform memo written by pollster Frank Luntz. Here's a sample of the Herald-Leader's outrage:

McConnell's statements are perfectly calibrated to inflame the public. He insists the bill would "allow endless taxpayer-funded bailouts for big Wall Street banks."

Their resemblance to the truth is another matter.

...

McConnell, it should be remembered, voted for the bailout of the big investment banks in the fall of 2008, when it was the only alternative to global economic meltdown.

We have read that the Republicans have a plan for financial reform, but McConnell isn't talking up any solutions, just trashing the other side's ideas with no respect for the truth.

While the intricacies of financial regulation are complicated, McConnell's calculus is pretty obvious.

Comments

[Sandy Knauer]

10:10 PM on 05/28/2010

Mitch McConnell unabashedly makes my life difficult every day. http://lifewithmitchmcconnell.blogspot.com/

[baileywick]

07:14 PM on 04/18/2010

I've said it for years, and each year it becomes more obvioust: the Republican party is now an organized crime syndicate.

[poonchkie]

01:45 AM on 04/18/2010

Strange these pages seem devoid of Repub cheerleaders. Where are you guys? Where is the support for your leader? Hmmmm. Where are the teabaggers and birthers? What about the Faux, Limbaugh ditto-heads, this is your guy, come on surely you support his talking points.

[Mafdet]

11:50 PM on 04/17/2010

Is it just me or does Mitch McConnell look like Montgomery Burns?

[MichaelLittleBig]

07:15 PM on 04/17/2010

This poem is deicated to Senator McConnell of the Congressional Choir

Banking in the US is like playing with fire,
Banks balance sheets confirm the liar

Bank's greed now like an overinflated tire,
Banks said to the Congressional choir,

Banks told send billions more by wire,
Banks next scam losses to be higher.

Michael LittleBig
Poet from Cleveland Ohio

[hottpotat0]

12:03 AM on 04/17/2010

finally the media has the sack to go after corruption and the inbred nature between congress and lobbyists!
good on them

[marilyn 63]

09:00 PM on 04/16/2010

Mconnell always has that sneaky (I JUST LIED AGAIN LOOK) HOW ANY ONE CAN BELIEVE HIM IS UNBELIEVABLE. talking points from Frank Lunze almost word for word.

[jtenn]

03:56 PM on 04/17/2010

When does this dick head run for re-election in Tennessee?

[jtenn]

03:59 PM on 04/17/2010

Sorry Tennessee, I meant Kentucky.

[cincinnati]

06:32 PM on 04/16/2010

Citizens of Kentucky.

Contact McConnells offices, there and in DC,
and let him and staff know you are watching
his distortions and Lie's, and are not happy.

You will not accept him and pals working for
Big Banks and Big Business instead of You.

Better yet this fall elect a Democrat to replace the
other Republican hack.

[CTtransplant]

05:52 PM on 04/16/2010

Groveling for Dollars...guess we'll know in a week or so if Mitch is the winner!

[emma richmond]

05:30 PM on 04/16/2010

Ask McConnell who wrote his Speech and why he met with Wall Street Bankers and why he promise Wall Street to Protect them we also say the same to the Democrats, these Law Makers have Wiped they feet on the American people for 8 yrs., Wall Street have Screwed the American People for 8 yrs., and these Law Makers these Bastards, have lined they Pockets with they Money, Last week Boehner and McConnell to Wall Street if they endorse them they will protect them, these people have forgotten who put them in the Seat. McConnell and his Cronies are trying to do what they did for 8 yrs., Screw over the People, these guys are nothing but Gangster.

[celmo]

01:19 PM on 04/16/2010

In the past, the Republicans have been very successful in spreading lies that are designed to embarrass the President and Democrats in general. It has commenced to become very difficult to differentiate between Republicans Politicians and right-wing talk show host. As a matter of fact, it appears as though (at times) they are reading from a script that was written by one of those host. The sad part about this is, this gargage has a lot of appeal to certain narrow minded people.

[keepyourheaddown*]

12:05 PM on 04/16/2010

USELESS trash = McConnell

[Altruth]

12:02 PM on 04/16/2010

BUSTED!

[modrocker]

11:24 AM on 04/16/2010

Another part of Mitch McConnell's legacy. Dead coal miners. Don't forget.

[nannews]

12:56 PM on 04/16/2010

Something I'd appreciate hearing about from some of the KY posters here: what was the local attitude toward McConnell's wife, when Bush appointed her as Sec. of Labor? There were charges of inadequate oversight of the mining industry during her tenure. Any comments made about her role in that?

[Dorothy Nelson]

02:32 PM on 04/16/2010

Excellent point. Fanned.

[bebecca]

09:35 AM on 04/20/2010

it was crickets, we heard virtually nothing about her.

[rocketman19]

10:27 AM on 04/16/2010

This man always looks so clueless.

[ReedYoung]

11:05 AM on 04/16/2010

I find his beady eyes suggest more shock and terror, but there's no reason we can't both be right.

[Meteor]

04:51 AM on 04/17/2010

...and corrupt. We are looking at the poster boy for the Republican party.