Yes, McConnell is both evil and stupid. After all he plainly stated that he wanted to make Obama a one-term president even before Obama had made one move!

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My Turn: Is Mitch McConnell evil or just plain stupid?
By Davy Jones, November 14, 2014

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” ~ Margaret Atwood, Award-winning author

Well, well, so much for bipartisanship.

Ten days after Republican Senator Mitch McConnell promised to work with Democrats to improve the quality of life of all Americans, the honorable senator from Kentucky disavowed that promise by declaring war on America’s first black president.

In an interview with Louisville, Kentucky’s The Courier-Journal today, McConnell, who presumably will become Majority Leader in the United States Senate in January, accused President Obama of waging a “war on coal” and declared, “I’m going to war with him.”

War?

A second war?

Really?

Does Senator McConnell actually believe that we didn’t notice that he and his allies, John Boehner, the Koch brothers, The Tea Party, and the 1% declared war on America’s first black president on January 20, 2009?

In any case, McConnell has now decided that his number one priority is not the economy, not the deficit, not the public debt, not education, not energy independence, not health care, not global warming, . . . McConnell’s supposed number one priority today is to save 7,000 purportedly at-risk coal industry jobs in Kentucky.

McConnell would like for you to believe that President Barack Obama has decided, for no good reason, to personally put 7,000 hard-working Kentuckians out of work.

If these jobs are at risk, and there is no hard evidence to prove that they are at risk, it would be because President Obama wants to utilize clean energy sources to produce eighty percent of the nation’s electricity by 2035, thereby eliminating a significant portion of the billions of tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide released by coal plants into the atmosphere each year . . . an ostensibly good thing for America in particular and a good thing for the world in general.

Senator McConnell wants you to believe that he is such a dedicated public servant, he is willing to ‘go to war’ with the President of the United States to save jobs in his state.

Yet this is Mitch McConnell . . . a man who actively supported and still supports a political party that literally killed millions of jobs and created the ‘Great Recession’ that has left a permanent negative imprint on our economy.

This is Mitch McConnell . . . the prominent Republican Senator who, on election night, 2008, threatened to do everything he could “make Barack Obama a one-term president” and then made good on that threat by doing everything he could to prevent President Obama from putting a stop to the hundreds of thousands of jobs hemorrhaging each month in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 crash.

So, you may wonder, why would such a man care suddenly now care about 7,000 jobs when he obviously has not cared about millions of jobs?

Money . . . lots and lots of coal money.

To make sure people like Senator Mitch McConnell do their bidding, coal industry lobbyists poured an estimated $8 million into the campaign coffers of members of Congress in 2013 and 2014.

How much of that swag did McConnell get?

According to OpenSecrets.Org, Senator McConnell has been paid nearly three quarters of a million dollars for his work on behalf of the coal industry.

So, the question that begs to be answered is, is Mitch McConnell evil or is he just plain stupid?

If McConnell is willing to sell out America’s environment under cover of a phony jobs war against President Obama, it would be reasonable to say that he is evil.

If, on the other hand, McConnell seriously believes that we actually think he gives a hoot about jobs in Kentucky or anywhere else, it would be reasonable to say that he is just plain stupid.

Or, you could say that Mitch McConnell is evil as well as just plain stupid.

Couldn’t you?
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