Mitch McConnell a Workhorse?

Mitch McConnell has a new radio advertisement that has been running for the last several days.  In it, the announcer says that Mitch is "not a show horse -- Mitch is a genuine Kentucky workhorse."  The ad also says that "Last year, [Mitch] saved 99% of Kentuckians from an income tax increase."  Please let me translate that Washington speak for you:  Mitch was unable to stop a tax increase on the richest 1% of tax payers in Kentucky.

Then, the announcer says Mitch "forced President Obama to cut spending."  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  I just can't stop laughing now.  Remember the sequester "cuts" the Republicans demanded before giving in to President Obama's tax increase on the rich.  Those were the cuts that the Democrats used to blame everything bad that happened last year on the Republicans.  We have to shut down the White House tours because of those devastating budget cuts.  Those were the cuts that weren't actually cuts.  This is more Washington speak, because the cuts were really just a slow down in the rate of growth of the federal budget.  The budget just didn't go up as much as they had originally planned.  You know, it's like when you expected the price of a loaf of bread to jump 40 cents from $1.99 to $2.39, but instead it only went up 30 cents to $2.29.  In Cincinnati, the price of bread went up by 30 cents, but in Washington, the price was cut by 10 cents.

Next this campaign ad goes on to say:

• "Mitch fights on the front lines for Kentucky miners against Obama's war on coal.  And he's leading the fight against Obamacare.  Mitch McConnell fights for our values, our future…and our jobs.  But he doesn't spend a lot of time bragging about it.  Mitch just gets it done." 

Really?  He "just gets it done?"  I don't see how Mitch got any of it done.  The EPA is continuing with the plans to force utilities to shut down coal-fired power plants that are safely producing low cost electricity.  I guess Mitch is fighting but losing the "war on coal."  Higher costs of energy and increased government regulation and Obamacare are driving good jobs out of Kentucky and the United States.  Mitch might be fighting for the future and jobs of Kentuckians, but he seems to be losing that fight too.  If Mitch is "leading the fight against Obamacare," then he's not much of a fighter at all.  It has been fully implemented.  We are all feeling the effects of this law, and I don't expect it to change anytime soon unless we replace the members of the MessAPolitico like that good ole "workhorse," Mitch McConnell.  We need to replace all of Congress with new people that will represent their constituents rather than carrying the party banner and fighting for re-election.