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from wikipedia:
Mitch McConnell was born on February 20, 1942, in Sheffield, Alabama, and raised as a young child in nearby Athens.[9] McConnell is the son of Addison Mitchell McConnell, and his wife, Julia (née Shockley). McConnell is of Scots-Irish and English descent. As a youth, he overcame polio.[10] ?? ???????? ?????????? ???????? ????????? ?? ??? ???? ??????? ????????? ???? ????? ??? ???? ????? ???????? ??? ??? ???? ?? ??? ????.
What's with McConnell & Ryan. They both received gov't. help and are where they are today because of it but it was only good for them and not the rest of us?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40385385
I don't even know what to say about Trump supporters, they seem such a sad bunch, deluding themselves as they are. What will happen to them after all their hopes are dashed, they'll suffer the worst.
Brandy it is just sick how the GOP behaves and thinks, incomprehensible for someone like me. The only thing I think might explain it is a diagnosis of sociopathy, meaning an inability to feel empathy that's wired into the brain. A lot of people who are attracted to power have that condition, and there is statistically more CEO's and politicians like that then there are in the general population. He is just evil, but I don't think he's even capable of seeing himself this way.
Just so everyone knows, polio care at Warm Springs was privately funded, not government. Check it on snopes.com.
Quiet, when I read your question just now, I heard in my head, "Something will pass." I also heard that the GOP is putting tremendous pressure on their members to pass it. Backroom threats from GOP leadership to members, like "we will put someone in your place, run someone against you and finance them and you will lose your seat." Those who oppose the bill are going to feel very alone, like the Senator from Maine. I do feel something will pass and we are on the precipice of a dark period.
While I agree with you that we are on the "precipice of a dark period", it just seems to me that throughout our history (US) we would only act when things got very, very bad. I tell my friends that things will get worse before they get better.
They have postponed the vote until after July Fourth break:
What's with McConnell & Ryan. They both received gov't. help and are where they are today because of it but it was only good for them and not the rest of us?
Brandy - McConnell and Ryan are all about denial and enriching themselves personally. Empathy is for their own personal kin only. As for anyone own the GOP taking government subsidies for themselves and denying them to others, GOP policies have been welfare for the rich for decades. So many examples, can't even begin -- the fossil fuel industry gets huge subsidies, country clubs all over America get tax-free status for their golf courses, hedge fund earners have a 15% cap on their income, while everyone else pays up to 50% taxes on the margin. Chris Rock did a comedy routine on how pissed off everyone would be if they had any clue about all the free stuff rich people get. The Military Industrial Complex and the Pharmaceutical Industry (to name just two of many) through lobbyists and donations to politicians get huge financial gifts and favoritism. We have fought wars in which tens of thousands of innocent people and our own young people died and were maimed for life just so the Military Industrial Complex will get to make tons of money in the war business (see Halliburton and the Iraq War).
What was that about them being decadent and out of touch, Jeanne?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/amp/paul-ryan-explains-why-22-million-will-be-uninsured-he-n777186
Something tells me him and his ilk are in for a rude azz awakening...