If there has been one politician on these pages we have WARNED ABOUT over the years it is Senator Mitch McConnell. The Senate Majority Leader is the most conniving, cunning and Machiavellian member of the republican party.
With his positions solidifying CTH warnings for well over a decade, his actions over the past several weeks now highlight the dark background of his politics. Today, McConnell took the final stab at the people’s president as Donald Trump prepares to depart the White House. The bloom is off the ruse:
The institution of the modern UniParty senate chamber requires a voter to understand the shell game. The pea is never where you think it is. The Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same vulture.
Defenders of the Decepticon schemes rely on our inability to understand a hidden agenda; a secret agenda… However, with more eyes now open this outline will start to make sense.
First, McConnell doesn’t care about holding a majority position in the Senate. Whether he is a majority leader or a minority leader doesn’t matter to McConnell. In fact McConnell’s political skill-set does better in the minority than the majority.
The preferred political position for Mitch McConnell is where he has between 45 and 49 republican Senators, and the Democrats hold the Majority with around 55. Of course with Senator Harry Reid’s retirement, this would now imply Majority leader Chuck Schumer holding office.
Why does McConnell prefer the minority position?
The answer is where you have had to actually follow Mitch McConnell closely to see how he works. When the Majority has around 52 to 55 seats, they need McConnell to give them 8 to 9 votes to overcome the three-fifths (60 vote) threshold for their legislative needs. It is in the process of trade and payment for those 8 to 9 votes where McConnell makes more money, and holds more power, than as a sitting Majority Leader.
The 60 vote threshold, and McConnell’s incredible skillset in the minority, is where he shines. Each of the needed votes to achieve sixty is worth buckets of indulgence to the minority leader and those on K-Street who need the Senate to support their legislative constructs. The votes to get to sixty are worth a lot of money.
This institutional dynamic is the currency of affluence and influence in the Senate; this is why Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell never changed the Senate rules for legislative passage. This is why the filibuster was retained and why the 60 vote threshold was always beneficial to both parties. The color of the flag atop the spire matters not.
Except for budget passage (reconciliation); and McConnell being forced by intransigence in the era of Trump resistance to change the judicial vote threshold to 51; McConnell would never consider changing the legislative threshold (60 votes) to a simple majority (51 votes) because it would be removing his favored position.
A simple majority vote is adverse to the institutional interests. That is why McConnell retained it during his reign as majority leader; as did Harry Reid before him.
The process of selling votes to the 60-vote threshold in the Senate is where the UniParty operates; and where the status of maximum financial benefit for the minority exists.
As a majority leader with 52 GOP senators, McConnell needed to purchase eight or nine votes for each legislative priority.
Mitch McConnell doesn’t like being the purchaser, he prefers being the vote seller where his skill-set as a broker really shines.
McConnell is much better at extracting terms for his vote sales, than being the purchaser for the votes of an intransigent minority wing. This is why the current Senate doesn’t pass many bills.
With Democrats in the majority, and McConnell as minority leader, we will see much more legislation pass because Chuck Schumer is a more well financed buyer (K-Street) and McConnell is a much better seller. Whenever we have this republican minority dynamic it always leaves people confused because few really watch what McConnell is doing.
McConnell takes his favorite 18 controlled GOP senators (Decepticons) and he brokers their votes on an ‘as needed’ basis. The eight to ten senators he selects each time get compensated in the process. McConnell rotates the financial beneficiaries on a bill-by-bill basis. As a consequence each of the 18 or so McConnell senators get quite wealthy over time, and McConnell gains additional power and influence.
McConnell decides who takes committee positions, those committee positions are worth money to K-Street purchasers of legislation. That’s one aspect to his power.
McConnell also hand-selects which senators will provide the votes to the majority to reach the 60 vote threshold. He uses a formula of favoritism, loyalty and studies the election cycles to determine who in his tribe will sell their votes and gain. That is the second aspect to his power.
If any of the republican Senators attempt to disrupt this UniParty business model McConnell excommunicates them from the legislative process; the best reference for the ‘excommunicado’ approach is former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC).
Additional references for how McConnell operates this scheme as the Minority Leader can be found in the Corker-Cardin amendment which allowed the Iran nuclear deal/payments under Obama; and/or the “fast track” Trade Promotion Authority deal for TPP passage, again for President Obama’s maximum benefit.
In these two examples McConnell worked with Harry Reid to flip the vote threshold from two-thirds (super-majority) need to approve, to two-thirds (super-majority) needed to deny. They flipped the dynamic in order to give Obama the tools he needed for the Iran deal and the Trans-Pacific-Partnership trade agreement (TPP).
[SIDEBAR – Within TPP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was again working on the priorities of U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue. McConnell and Donohue have been working together on UniParty trade and domestic legislative issues for around twenty years. It is well established that Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has one major career alliance that has been unbroken and unchanged for well over two decades. That alliance is with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and specifically with CoC President Tom Donohue.
CoC President Tom Donohue represents Wall Street interests and supports: all multinational trade deals, open-border immigration policies, amnesty legislative constructs, and all of the issues that have generally irked common-sense GOP voters for the same period of time. [SEE HERE and SEE HERE]. Tom Donohue is the biggest lobbyist spender in DC every year, by a mile.
To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles: CNN Part I and CNN Part II both showcase how McConnell works. Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE] – END SIDEBAR].
Hopefully, now you can see how the business model within the senate is lucrative from a financial standpoint. Selling votes from the minority position is worth a lot of money. Additionally, the power dynamic is essentially even within this process. The majority holds political and financial power… and the minority holds enough political power to keep the majority in check (as well as mutually beneficial financial power).
For those who understand the dynamic the next obvious point is: what happens when Schumer takes the majority, eliminates the filibuster and takes legislative passage to a simple majority (51-votes)? This is, after all, what the far-left has promised to do.
From McConnell’s position if the Democrats are the party that changes the precedent for Senate legislative passage, he feels it will provide him ammunition to retake control in the 2022 mid-term; and he wouldn’t be the historic figure to have changed the rules.
McConnell counts on the GOPe machinery (RNC), the purchased and allied Wall Street media, and his K-street backers to assist him in getting back in power. The righteous donation requests from the political and financial class are always enhanced by the extremes and outrage. If Schumer kills the filibuster and takes the senate to a simple majority McConnell will weaponize the maneuver against his “friend across the aisle”.
That’s the way the Machiavellian processes work…. they GOPe do not care what your opinion is about it.
Hahaha Mitch! When Democrats get rid of the filibuster you are worth nothing!!!!
He doesn’t care.
I guess at this point we can only hope this jerk gets primaried when he comes up for re-election and the good people of Kentucky will send him packing. Today was a very hard day for me. I have little confidence anything good will come from a Biden administration and fear a lot of bad will.
I’m now flying my American flag upside down to show my dismay at these events.
The Republican party has lost me. I hope a decent alternative will appear soon. On the other hand, since the democrats stole this election with impunity, what’s to stop them from doing the same thing next time around?
you are amongst friends, like 80 million of us!
No kidding!
“The Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same vulture.”
Pat Buchanan expressed it as “bird of prey.” Both are dead on. McConnell about to see any power an influence go away. A worthless clown is all he is, and ever will be. The man is a Judas goat.
Mitch the little witch sub the w with a b. Look Trump may get convicted but will run under his and our own party of patriots. There are many of us but their is just one DJT. God bless oyr leader and tge real 2020 victor. I will make a bet china Joe will be impeached with in 3 months. Dems and Rinos are discusting political anamals they eat their own.
McConnell is protecting his own assets, namely the chinese connection. He must realize, unless he is that dense, that he just ruined the Republican party. Never again will I donate or support them.
“McConnell takes his favorite 18 controlled GOP senators (Decepticons) and he brokers their votes on an ‘as needed’ basis. The eight to ten senators he selects each time get compensated in the process. McConnell rotates the financial beneficiaries on a bill-by-bill basis. As a consequence each of the 18 or so McConnell senators get quite wealthy over time, and McConnell gains additional power and influence.”
Sundance, this is a brilliant paragraph. If McConnell and company’s voting patterns and corporate sponsors could be linked over a period of time, this “assembly line” of corruption studied like a finely-tuned watch, then we could have some serious redpill material here. I’m thinking of a giant graph and spreadsheet that could be turned into an infographic for popular consumption. Or hell, maybe even a beautifully made video that makes the assembly line/watch gears analogy stick.
Conservatives need to know. The time for games is over. McConnell is at his weakest right now. We need to destroy his credibility for good.
i’m sure I’m not the only one blown away by Sundance’s knowledge on this complex and revolting topic. The web of deceit is thicker than kevlar, and here I thought Harry Reid was the WORST! I think Mitch just ran again and won, right?
If President TRUMP Had provoked a mob they would have known it. Felt it. Tasted it. Touched it. He did NO SUCH THING.
Mitch is a stone cold liar, as are any who repeat this malignant nonsense about President TRUMP and his supporters.
Exactly, there was never violence at any Trump rallies except the violence directed at Trump’s followers. Before they even elected him, the left was making up lies about him. Who burned our cities to the ground this past summer, it certainly was not us.
I’m perplexed why Trump did not take more direct action. That makes no sense to me. I suspect there are other things going on most are unaware of. That said, President Trump has lost me by his inaction. I want a leader who will fight for us, not fold and run away. I do not believe the Republican party is salvageable. We need a new party and new leaders who are not corrupted. Who they might be and where we might find them I don’t know just yet, but I hope it becomes clearer with prayer.
President Trump didn’t fold. He was abandoned by the Republican party, by his own VP, the greatest turncoat. All courts including SC refused even to look at all documents confirming fraud in the election. Just his family and us, more than 75 millions people, support him. But power is in DC. Those traitors repubs were bought, and Dems and MSM hate President Trump to the point they willing to ruin country just to get rid of him. What he supposed to do? Fists thrown or what?
The RINOs in Congress need to go away – I will never vote for an incumbent again – even if it means electing a Democrat for a term to get rid of an incumbent RINO.
RINOs need to learn that it is better to piss off a handful of Democrats than to piss off 80 Million Americans!
I agree Mitch is a snake and needs to go quickly. I do not agree the Republican Party is salvageable. There are too many weak leaders, too many corrupt leaders there to be worth the effort. A new party is the only way to go. I also do not think Trump should be our leader now. He did well, but in the end, he cut and ran. There were several things he could have done to stop this nightmare after the election, but for whatever reason, he chose not to. He also carries a lot of baggage, so I believe a new leader is what we need.
Whatever we call this new party, it needs to be comprised of Patriots who love our Republic. Professional politicians got us into this mess, we can’t afford them anymore. We must also accept playing the role of wimpy nice guy that the Republicans revelled in doesn’t work. We need to be tough and strong. Winning has to be our goal and nothing short of that.
I am appalled so many young people (I’m older than dirt) have swallowed the communist bait hook line and sinker. I blame our educational system for this, so a total rebuild of our education system is now in order and must be done. I’m unsure what to do about so many on the left who perpetually keep their heads in the sand, but something does need to be done about that.
After all that has happened, I can’t think of one politician except perhaps Ron Paul, who should be included in the new party (and maybe not even him). We need fresh faces, not already corrupted and strong enough to stand up to lobbyists. Money has always been a corrupting factor in politics, and we need to work very hard not to allow that to happen again. Perhaps we should look closely at the British model where elections happen quickly as a better model. Politicians on the stump for years before the election only leads to corruption in my opinion.
There is surely more to discuss on this subject, but this is a good start.