Robert Reich Obliterates Mitch McConnell: 'He Has Shamed Himself, the Republican Party, and America'

Ilana Novick
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 AlterNet
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 Ilana Novick
April 10, 2017

Mitch McConnell and his perma-smirk have been terrorizing Washington for years and getting away with it. His penchant for putting party over country came to a particularly infuriating head last week when Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court, a seat for which Merrick Garland never even got a hearing. On Sunday, former Labor Secretary and #resistance champion Robert Reich took on McConnell in a brutal new Facebook post, arguing, "No man has done more in recent years to undermine the functioning of U.S. government than Mitch McConnell."

Between his pledge to make Obama a one-term president and his sabotaging of the Supreme Court, McConnell has systematically undermined the instutions at the heart of American democracy, Reich argues. His invoking of the so-called nuclear option to put Gorsuch on is merely the latest expression of his corruption.

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