Mitch McConnell-Honored Statesman or Political Hack?

Sometimes it's hard to not swell up and burst with pride over the state of politics here in Kentucky. The very fact that we've replaced one nut job, Sen. Bunning, with another nut job, Sen. elect Rand Paul has got to keep us in the national focus.

And now, over the past week, we have learned that our other esteemed senator, Mitch McConnell, is hard at work in his attempt to emulate his idol, Sen. John Sherman Cooper. Personally, I am anxious to learn how the senator's lapdog, John David Dyche, is going to help out his hero from fallout from the disclosures.

Earlier in the week, at a time when home foreclosures are at a 50 year high, unemployment is stuck at about 10%, and unemployed workers are running out of unemployment benefits and employed people are afraid for their jobs, we learned that statesmen Mitch McConnell believes that the most important objective to the Republican party is limiting Pres. Obama to a single term.

Now we learn from the new book by "the decider" that Mitch McConnell approached him in September of 2006 with the suggestion that the president lower troop levels in Iraq in order to increase Republican chances of victory in the fall elections. Not to save Iraqi and American lives, or to reduce the massive, uncontrolled spending created by his President and party , but to win an election.

To Mitch McConnell, the king of hypocrites, what's good for the Republican Party is not always whats good for America. And before Mr. Dyche writes his next fawning article on Sen. McConnell, I would suggest that the body of Sen. Cooper be exhumed in order that his body can be tightly secured in the casket to reduce the spinning which must be taking place inside.

The smug, multi-chinned "statesman" from Kentucky is no more interested in the safety of American troops than he is interested curing the economic malaise which his party has inflicted on our country.

And for whatever one thinks of our president, I believe it is safe to say that he has genuinely tried to help us out of the hole dug by the previous administration. Further, even if you think he is totally misguided, he did attempt to win over Republican votes in order to form some kind of consensus between Republicans and Democrats. With reference to the healthcare bill, it is obvious that the Republicans in the Senate just played him for a fool, because it was never their plan to agree to anything. But they were able to get him to water down every important aspect of his original bill before they all voted against it.

But at any rate, as we are headed towards eliminating the middle class and to becoming a nation of huge inequality between the rich and the poor, at least we know what is important to Kentucky's own statesmen, Sen. McConnell. And its not you or me.