Two of Moscow Mitch McConnell’s aides have been hired as lobbyists for the new Aluminum plant in Kentucky that is controlled by Oleg Derispaska – the Russian oligarch whose sanctions for interfering in the 2016 election were lifted by the Trump Administration and then confirmed by Moscow Mitch’s actions in the Senate.
There’s great money to be made in protecting Russians undermining our Republican and no shortage of people lining up for their thirty silver pieces.
Someone explain how the swamp is being drained please.
In Kentucky there now are signs touting “Putin for Senate… cut out the middle man.”
Which part is overreacting. The issue of lobbying? The decision by Rusal to invest in Kentucky shortly after sanctions were lifted certainly looks suspicious.
McConnell blocked the effort to prevent Trump from lifting sanctions on Derispaska. In the neighborhood I grew up in (inner city), if someone did a favor for a made guy and then suddenly opened a new business… one made strong assumptions and kept one’s mouth shut.
I find “Moscow Mitch” just sits well on the tongue… the attempt to extend it to “Leningrad Lindsay” just does not sound right. “Lindsay from Leningrad” works much better.
That’s nothing compared to losing all our CIA agents in China when they were hacked in to Hillary’s secret server the whole time she was Secretary of State.
I really should’ve known something was up when Mitch McConnell, who lost all his ■■■■■ like twenty years ago, started screeching about the Moscow Mitch nickname.
When I was like twelve, my father made the worst mistake of his parenting career and told me it was always easy to tell when I was lying because when an accusation was true I would get really upset denying and when it wasn’t I’d say, “Whatever, don’t believe me then.” Never forgot that.
“Moscow Mitch” is a great moniker, and appropriate, too. I understand the impulse to build on its success, but “Leningrad Lindsay” doesn’t cut it and has the effect of diluting the value of “Moscow Mitch.”
The problem with Democrats is that they lack focus. They should have identified the winning thing and stuck to it singularly.