Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Absurdly Magical Inference — about the Source and Timing of Our Economic Recovery — Proves Alan Grayson’s Point about Tribe — and Mine about Influential Loons

10 January 2015

Klan of Kaucasian Kleptomaniacal Krazies

Yesterday, I took Alan Grayson’s question/hypothesis about the “white” Republican “tribe” to concoct the (above) satirically intended name for nationally prominent Republicans.

I saw afterward that comedian Jon Stewart’s show caught the new Senate Majority Leader making the ridiculous argument that expectations for the new Republican Congress, two days then in office, was responsible for the past approximately six years of America’s recovering economic growth:

© 2015 Jon Stewart, Alison Williams: McConnell’s #TurtleBrag, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (08 January 2015) (the pertinent portion begins at about 4:00 minutes into the video clip, however watching the whole clip lends evidentiary weight to Stewart’s ridicule)

From a cause and effect perspective, and even a child’s basic sense of time, Senator McConnell’s notion is so stupid as to be completely brainless.

He “steals” truth and substitutes magical thinking. The tactic is seemingly common among his fellow “KKKK” members.

To Senator McConnell’s credit

The Majority Leader makes a crafty and superbly manipulative political devil. I am reasonably confident that McConnell will have the overwhelming majority of "Klan" followers believing his economic nonsense, much to the detriment of rational cause and effect thinking.

And to Senator McConnell’s arguable shame

From Fox News:

KELLY: Now, you told to Washington Post that quote, "The single best thing Republicans can do in the new Senate is to quote "not mess up the playing field for the GOP presidential nominee." Really? Is that the top goal?

MCCONNELL: Yeah. Unless this president is willing to sign our legislation, then that's probably the best we can hope for. To -- to have the American people feel very confident that if they had a Republican president to this Congress they're finally going to be able to turn the country in another direction.

Thus, one can reasonably infer that the Senator Majority Leader’s top priority is to prepare the way for the election of a Republican president in 2016. He appears to admit that he does not particularly care whether his Republican Congress accomplishes anything more than that, if it means compromising some of his “tribe’s” purported principles.

Consider McConnell’s statement. Does he really mean that pursuing a partisan goal, still about two years away, outweighs making any less than ideal, but still arguably constructive responses to America’s many problems?

One can assume so because this exquisitely cynical man said virtually the same thing, four years before his Party’s successful 2014 midterms:

Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term.

PoliticalHay, Mitch McConnell: Top Priority, Make Obama a One Term President, YouTube (07 December 2010)

Senator McConnell is political craftsman, but not a substantively oriented American leader. This difference in concept is what is currently destroying the United States. We have lots of smart manipulators, but they are poor builders and captains.

Senator McConnell is a superb, but destructively inspired Machiavelli. Jon Stewart’s characterization of him as a lettuce-eating turtle does him too little credit.

The moral? — The intelligently manipulative Kleptomaniacal Krazies are in charge

America’s oligarchs are further ascending the heights of institutional control.

PeteFree.com

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Absurdly Magical Inference — about the Source and Timing of Our Economic Recovery — Proves Alan Grayson’s Point about Tribe — and Mine about Influential Loons