Appeal to Mitch McConnell re: 14th Amendment via Executive Order

Senator McConnell,

I remember a immigration bill that passed the Senate 68-32 in 2013. It was a good bill that addressed the real issue with immigration--making it difficult for employers to hire people who are here illegally. It also had a guest worker program for areas of need. You opposed that plan because of some silly nonsense about the border security.

I also recall that it went nowhere in the House because feckless Speaker Boehner refused to bring the measure to the floor because of the Hastert rule. The 2013 cowardice by you and Boehner has left us with a narcissistic wannabe autocrat in the White House who who wants to shred the 14th Amendment via Executive order. Please find your voice and restore a bit of your honor and give this President the advice he needs. You owe your KY constituents that much at least.

Greg Leichty

Jamal Khashoggi investigation - open letter to Mitch McConnell

Senator McConnell,

After two weeks of "investigation" we are now told that Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a fistfight with 15 Saudi security agents. Let me cut to the chase, this is a brazen murder of a legal U.S. resident. More debasing than this outrage is that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has already reduced the country of Yemen to a famine of epic proportions that threatens 10 million people.

POTUS can reverse his stand of being an obsequious apologist for these crimes against humanity, or he can be branded by history. You should advise him to reverse course in short order. The verdict of history's obloquy is about to be read both for him AND for you..

Greg Leichty

Khashoggi is the real Benghazi

Senator McConnell:

I'm sure you are busy putting together multiple investigations into what the Trump family knew, when they knew it, and what their roll was in the brutal torture and death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, similar to what your party did with the Benghazi tragedy that you exploited for political purposes for so long. Because, you are such a fair, honest man. (I really did type that without vomiting. Yay, me!)

Khashoggi is the real Benghazi and everyone should have expected something like this because:

• Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured and dismembered over seven minutes while he was still alive, according to a Turkish source who heard an audio recording of the murder.

Trump is totally defending Saudi Arabia in the apparent torture and murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Since Monday the U.S. President has made clear his relationship with the Saudi royal family, which pre-dates his presidency by decades, is worth more to him than what reportedly is the murder of a Washington Post journalist.

 While President Donald Trump welcomed Saudi Arabia’s new statement confirming that journalist Jamal Khashoggi is indeed dead, blaming some kind of physical altercation in the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey, others in Washington and beyond expressed their stunned incredulity. 

You know, Senator, that this was not a fist fight that went wrong. You know, without doubt, YOU KNOW that this man was captured and murdered. And, I'm willing to bet that you also know that the Trump MOB is not innocent, which makes your party and YOU complicit. At the very least, they/you are complicit for accepting the ridiculously unbelievable results of an investigation done by the very people who killed this man.

I expect at least the same overkill investigation into this as there was into Benghazi, with Trump and Kushner spending as many hours in their hearings as Hillary Clinton spent in hers. At least. But, I know believing you will do anything right is totally irrational. I'm still letting you know what I expect because my expectations are not irrational.

I suppose you also know that the same MOB (not Democrats, by the way) might come for you with bone saws if you do the right thing. What a mess you've created for yourself and us, huh?

Sandy 

Entitlement explained to Mitch McConnell

Entitlement 

• the fact of having a right to something

• the amount to which a person has a right

• the belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment 

Senator McConnell:

Definitions one and two apply to those of us who have paid (through taxes) into the Social Security and Medicare programs. We *are* entitled to the benefits that we have paid into. Entitlement, in this case, as well as unemployment, insurance, and a number of other somethings that you and your party want to deny us, actually *are* things that we are socially, legally, rightfully entitled to so you can stop misusing the word entitlement as an insult to us. I plan to reclaim it.

Definition three would apply to your tax cuts to wealthy citizens (some of whom brag about not paying their taxes, lie about it later, and refuse to show their taxes) and corporations that are not paying their fair share of taxes and are, instead, paying that money to CEOs who already make far more than what should be the maximum wage. I believe you probably fall in category three, so I can understand your reason for misleading people and protecting yourself, even though I don't condone it. The misleading part is NOT OKAY. And this #3 entitlement is not okay. It is socially and morally correct for us to use the word entitlement to shame you.

I want to walk you through my history, and remind you that I am not unique - there are many others in my situation and in much worse situations.

I was born with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, so I've been in pain just about every minute of my life. Like many people with chronic pain, I learned at an early age to manage that pain and work around it. I was determined not to let it get in my way, and I wanted no sympathy for it. It was just who I was - normal for me.

At age nineteen, I was supporting myself. I paid my own insurance, bought my own car, paid for my education (except when employers covered CEUs), paid my own rent, bought my own houses, supported my kids. Out of every paycheck, I made automatic donations to multiple charities, took in people who needed a place to stay, fed people who were hungry, drove the streets in the cold passing out gloves and scarves and blankets and food . . .  I lived simply and gave what I had left to people who couldn't afford to live as well as I did. Because that's what good people do. That's what my parents did, and how they taught me to be a good citizen.

I am the only person I know who volunteered to pay extra taxes because Reagan started the mess that your party has continued, causing homelessness and increased crime to benefit the wealthiest people. (Criminal behavior, in my opinion.) I cared about people. And, at the time, I had the money to try and help those people. But one crazy lady paying a little extra in taxes didn't fix much. Just telling you that there was a time in my life when I was working and I chose to try and make things better for the 'greater good' (something else my parents taught me), not hoarding away great amounts for my future. I believed that was necessary because of actions that your party took.

I worked, and I worked extremely hard, sometimes two and three jobs, for as many years as my body could work and long after doctors encouraged me to slow down and to file for disability. I worked until I was so fatigued that I literally had to be carried out of my office once because I didn't have the energy to move. And until I had to lie down on my living floor when I got home from work one evening because I literally didn't have the energy to walk the remaining three steps to get to the couch.

During those years, I paid high premiums for disability insurance. I spent a small fortune on health insurance, deductibles, co-pays, medications . . . When the time came, after working twenty-six years, to file for disability, I had so many secondary diagnoses that could all be attributed in some way to the original diagnosis that the crooked (to use a favorite Republican word) insurance company that had taken my money for that fancy disability policy were able to deny me. And, of course, they did. And the process for getting on social security disability was long and complicated.

During the two years that it took to get a hearing, I had to live on my 401(k), and was told that I would not receive my social security until that money had been depleted. That meant that the best I could hope for the rest of my life would be to live on my social security and, when I reached retirement age, a small pension. So, if you think that people who are disabled should have a huge savings and/or pick themselves up by the bootstraps, you are clueless.

I remind you that I worked for twenty-six years and paid into social security and Medicare. There's a good possibility that I didn't pay in as much as I'll take out before I die. And your position is that I (and millions like me) deserve to die so you and your donors can destroy the economy by hoarding  money. Do you know what that makes you?

There are many people who will die before they draw their social security or use Medicare. And many who will never use as much as they paid in. I believe we are covered.

My belief is that you care only about power, and being popular, (not money like so many others think) even if your popularity is for all of the wrong reasons, and it has grown from being bullied and unpopular as a child. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. What I don't understand is how you can wish misery and death on people who did nothing to you because of how someone(s) treated you in your past. I've almost given up hope that it's possible to reach a human emotion in you - but can't stop stop writing. Even if I don't get through to you, maybe I will reach a reader.

Sandy


If you would like to see your letters to McConnell published on the blog, please send them to me at: mcconnellletters@gmail.com 

McConnell Can't Hide From This

Senator McConnell:

UPDATE - THIS BELONGS ON TOP - ELECTION DAY MOBS/MILITIAS WARNING: <>Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League told Politico he was sceptical any efforts by Mr Anglin or his alt-right associates would come to fruition. However, he said, plans of the Oath Keepers – the militia made up of former law enforcement officers and military personnel – seemed much more likely to materialise.<> (article from 2016 and the violence has only gotten worse as they are incited and condoned by Republican leaders) 

“Fighting solves everything. We need more violence from the Trump people. Trump supporters: choke a motherfucker. Choke a bitch. Choke a tranny. Get your fingers around the windpipe.”Those are the words of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.

You can call it fake news if you want, deny it all you want, but you can't hide from this. We know it's true that your party is, and has been for years, inciting violence against Democrats. And we know that you know it. And you can be sure that I will make a lot of noise about it.

More evidence piling up every day to support my blog post about hearing you inciting violence against me and others.

Proud Boys - Cuomo blames Trump

"But state Republican Party leaders accused Democrats of trying to exploit the violence for political gain."

“I started this gang called the Proud Boys,” McInnes says in the beginning of the video.“We will kill you,” he says in the next segment of the edited video. “That’s the Proud Boys in a nutshell.” 

The Proud Boys ― a pro-Trump fraternity known for acts of violence ― started their outburst of violence on Friday night, immediately after members left an event headlined by their leader, Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, at the Metropolitan Republican Club, the GOP’s headquarters in New York City. 

Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was a long-time Fox News contributor and appeared on Hannity's eponymous Fox show Hannity 24 times from January 2014 to May 2015,


“A Quartz analysis of the database shows that almost two-thirds of terror attacks in the (United States) last year were tied to racist, anti-Muslim, homophobic, anti-Semitic, fascist, anti-government, or xenophobic motivations,” its posting says.



It was a bizarre event to host at the GOP’s Manhattan clubhouse, but the Metropolitan Republican Club defended McInnes and the Proud Boys after the fight.

• it was a hipster nationalist militant behind the club’s podium: McInnes, a hateful and vulgar vlogger from Canada who likes to play with his butt on camera.

Prior to the start of a scheduled Aug. 4 demonstration, "the Portland Police Bureau discovered individuals who positioned themselves on a rooftop parking structure in downtown Portland with a cache of firearms," Wheeler said during a City Hall press conference. Berk Nelson, a senior mayoral aide, later said the weapons included "long guns."


Trump isn't toying around with vague, semi-tough political tropes, he's flagrantly telling his people to literally accost protesters, which they did on countless occasions.  Don't forget that McConnell and Rand Paul have done the same - inciting violence. 

Republican MOB goes after Nancy Pelosi. 

White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right"  FBI arrest 10/24/18 (day of the #magabomber spree) 

And don't forget these guys . . .

As a treat, I add this eye candy for you, Senator. They are surely your biggest fans.

Sandy

I will update this throughout the day  FOREVER as I see more reports about Republicans inciting violence, or heeding the calls (no matter how they try to mask them) of their leaders. I will also publish your letters to Senator McConnell about this or anything else he is doing to hurt us and our country, if you send them to me with permission to publish. If you are too afraid of him to use your own name, you can use an assumed name and I will not reveal your email address. Send your letters to: mcconnellletters@gmail.com 

Breitbart channels NPR's McConnell quotes

McConnell: 

You will most likely say that you have no control over what the "fake media" (true, in this case, there is nothing faker than Breitbart) publishes about you, because you and Trump think you have mastered the CYA language. While that might be true legally, it is not true ethically or morally. And I know that you know that and just don't care about being ethical or moral. Whether that's because you are pure evil, or because you are a sociopath, it is NOT OKAY. In the case of a diagnosable condition, your doctor and bea---wife owe it to this country to do whatever is necessary to remove you from power. You are dangerous to millions of people. I can't speak for anyone else but I am holding you personally responsible for the danger that you are putting me in by purposely inciting your dangerous supporters. (See previous letters and your Twitter feed for examples before pretending to not know what I'm talking about.)

I'm dissecting quotes from a Breitbart article about you. If you don't think you actually said these things (they included a video so I'm taking their word for it since your voice triggers my anxiety) you'll need to take it up with

your mob

at Breitbart. 

---- Breitbart in black, me in red

“Lose the Senate, and the project of confirming judges is over for the last two years of President Trump,” McConnell told National Public Radio (NPR). “That, I think, is a scary prospect to the people who like what we’ve been doing on the judge project and I hope will help us hold on to our majority.”   Again, I remind you that many of the judge positions are positions that should have been President Obama's to fill but you obstructed during your heinous, unprecedented, unacceptable reign of traitorous obstruction of a legitimate (as in he actually WON the most votes, HAD the most support, without lying, cheating, rigging, stealing) President. I know it's been a long time since your party had one of those (legitimate president) but I am sure you still know what that is. Your ability to even speak these words in pubic without your tongue falling out or the god you pretend to honor smiting you on the spot is something I can't comprehend. 

McConnell has said the circus and protests orchestrated by leftists and Senate Democrats have turned out to be a “gift” to the GOP with constituents fired up after the battle to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.  If I interpret (or purposely misinterpret and abuse the English language) the same way you and your pals at Breitbart do, I can consider this a threat, from you, channeled through your mouthpiece, Breitbart, that your GOP constituents are in battle mode and ready to commit arson. (See pictures of your rabid supporters carrying torches before you pretend that my position is as unreasonable as your words.)

“The Kentucky Republican said it awakened them to the Supreme Court cause — an issue that inspired many of the same voters to back Trump in 2016,” NPR reported. Would it surprise you, or would you pretend to be surprised, to find out that many Kentucky Republicans don't have a single clue about the Supreme Court? It wouldn't, if you paid attention to what they say on your social media accounts or if you actually spent time with the average Republican voter - the ones who claim to support your party because they hate abortion and love guns. Think about that - hate abortion and love guns. Try to make that make sense. 

“But what we are now seeing is that the enthusiasm and energy on the Republican side come close to matching the Democratic side, and given the states that we’re competing in, that’s really good news for us,” McConnell said. Gaslighting? Wishful thinking? The truth is, your base has been rabid and violent for years. You know that. You encourage and incite that. So, it's rational for me/us to use what we (and you) know about your base and your manipulation of them to read between the lines and hear the message that you are hoping they are hearing when you say things like this. This is NOT OKAY. 

NPR reported on McConnell called out the anti-Kavanaugh protesters for threatening and intimidating Republican lawmakers after Christine Blasey Ford accused the now Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a high school party decades ago. Why don't your friends at Breitbart just link to the NPR links? This "fake news" strategy of reporting what someone else reporting is cheesy. IF your party was willing to talk to real constituents and not just big donors, and to listen, and to care what the majority of them think, know, and want, we wouldn't have to track you down on the street. And if you were willing to listen and talk on the street, we wouldn't have to get in your faces. And if you consider 'we will vote you out' a threat and intimidation, you are in the wrong job. Actually, the fact that you don't listen to your constituents or the world means you are in the wrong job. The fact that you lie, cheat, steal, obstruct, and do harm to many means you are in the wrong job. 

“We were literally under assault ourselves,” McConnell said. “Trailing members for their homes; getting in their faces here in the Capitol.”  Want to hear about REAL assault, Senator. I man holding his hand over someone's mouth and laughing while he attempts to rape her is REAL assault. Thugs curb-stomping a young woman for carrying a sign that Rand Paul didn't like is REAL assault. Rape is REAL assault. School shootings are REAL assault. Daily shootings in your city are REAL assault. Getting in your nasty face to call you out for destroying our country is NOT REAL ASSAULT, and it is NOT OKAY for you to imply that it is. 

“An effort clearly to try and intimidate us,” McConnell said. Yes. This is true. If you can't eat what you serve daily, you need to stop serving intimidation, threats, death, destruction, and lies. Grow up seems like a ridiculous thing to say to a man your age but it fits. Grow up. 

McConnell told NPR he was proud of Kavanaugh’s confirmation because the GOP stood their ground and, in the end, were able to confirm after an FBI probe could not find anyone to collaborate Ford’s story. ohhh, how slick to throw in 'stand your ground' here. And fffffuck (thank Brett for making this word perfectly acceptable in my correspondence to you - if Graham's staff hasn't updated wikipedia to document that Republicans have decided this is a good word now, I'll do it for him) you for this dishonest statement about disgraceful sham of an FBI probe that wouldn't have penetrated tissue paper. Your dishonesty is appalling. 

“We stood up to the mob, and we also stood up for the presumption of innocence in this country,” McConnell said. Tell that to Hillary Clinton, you dishonest pig. 

Sandy

Dissecting Darlene Superville, Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump - How to read articles and liars

"He's Kentucky tough," Trump declared.  Warning: one of the most dishonest articles you'll ever read

The inability to read critically, or between the lines, seems to be one of the biggest problems in our society. In the past, the common joke on all of us was that people believed it was true if they saw it on the internet. We've gone way beyond that sad joke now. Most people know better than to believe it must be true simply because they saw it on the internet but a great number of them will search for what they know to be untrue to use as proof that their lies or opinions based on lies are valid. Trump screams fake outrage about fake media when he's only in the position to destroy this country because fake news outlets helped put him there. He loves fake news. This is a perfect example of the fake news he, McConnell, and the Republican Party thrive on.

I intend to add at least the required number of my own words to Superville's fake news and insult to journalism to make it both legal and ethical for me to repost her words. Hers will be in black and mine in red.

Darlene SupervilleAssociated Press

Donald Trump heaped praise Saturday on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, crediting the veteran Kentucky lawmaker's political toughness and acumen  What Trump (and this writer, since she didn't indicate otherwise) calls political toughness and acumen are what honest, ethical, conscientious, intelligent people call depraved obstructing, blackmailing, cheating, and -- in some of Senator McConnell's own words* -- "ramming down our throats" something exceptionally unpalatable. Kavanaugh's progression to this position began with him being groomed from a young age, possibly as early as his obvious problem with alcohol began and at which point his emotional growth was stunted, to be used as a tool to assist the Republican Party's coup. He later assisted Ken Starr in worrying about blow jobs and semen on dresses, back in the days when Republicans thought the White House belonged to them and they had a right to tell the occupants exactly what they could do and when and where they could do it, and helped smear the Clintons. Then, he worked on Bush the Dumbers campaign, helped in the recount that wasn't really a recount, and assisted in  implanting Bush the Dumber in the White House, where he was rewarded with a United States Circuit Judge seat that he was in no way qualified to hold. 

Since I come from a long line of troubled gamblers, I don't actually gamble with money. If I did, I'd bet everything I own that his unhinged outburst of spit-filled rage toward the Clintons during his hearing testimony wasn't only about promising Republicans they could depend on him to be a partisan hack, it was also a guilty conscience erupting like projectile vomiting.  -- during the ugly battle that concluded with Brett Kavanaugh becoming a Supreme Court Justice.  Never forget that he became a Supreme Court Justice only because Republicans lied and cheated to put him in that position, and because Mitch McConnell is a Machiavelli clone. 

"He's Kentucky tough," Trump declared.  To which some depraved Republicans cheered while sane, educated, ethical Kentuckians felt deep regret and embarrassment AGAIN. 

Kavanaugh took his seat on the high court this week after overcoming allegations of sexual misconduct dating to his high school and college years. No, Darlene Superville, he did not overcome allegations. Republicans denied the many people who could have corroborated Dr. Ford's story the opportunity to testify, and conducted a sham of an FBI investigation that brought shame on the court and this country.  That's what guilty people and people who want to protect a guilty person do. He forcefully denied the charges, and Trump and McConnell firmly backed Kavanaugh (making them deplorable fathers who must hate their daughters, misogynists, and a danger to all girls and women) as part of their combined quest to populate the judiciary with conservative judges. Kavanaugh could tilt the political balance of the high court in the conservative direction for generations. 

"We stuck with him all the way because we knew the facts," Trump said, speaking of himself and McConnell, Kentucky's senior U.S. senator. And, since Trump lies in every sentence and McConnell has lived a lie most of his life, and we watched Kavanaugh lie repeatedly during his hearings, I'm offended that Darlene Superville quotes this without any reference to this important, common knowledge. 

"There's nobody tougher. There's nobody smarter. He refused to cave to the radical [sic]-- see how easy it is to insert honesty, Darlene? Five little keystrokes.  Democrats' shameful campaign of personal and political destruction," Trump said lied at a political rally at Eastern Kentucky University before he called McConnell to the mic. 

"He stared down the angry left-wing mob.* Right here, Darlene! THIS is where you remind the reader that mob is a favorite word of Trump's because he is a MOBSTER, supported by mobsters and violent militias.* And where you point out that this is gaslighting, and where you mention that this behavior is NOT OKAY.  He never blinked and he never looked back and he got us a man who will be one of our great, great Supreme Court justices," Trump said. Great, great = great like Thomas (the sexual predator) Alito (who also lied repeatedly in his hearings).   Video of the peaceful protest that they lied about - only dangerous to people who fear truth. 

McConnell returned the compliment and told the president to continue nominating judges and "we'll keep confirming them." Which jumped global warming up an entire year in one second as the blood of millions of people boiled, remembering that king-of-obstruction, Machiavelli-clone, depraved, sociopath McConnell stole enough seats from President Obama to complete his coup. Seriously, what's the point in writing this irresponsible fluff piece if you aren't going to report the things that matter? Nobody cares if the orange man came to stump for one of his cronies and praise a monster? Really. Nobody even needs to know that. 

Democrats fiercely and vocally opposed Kavanaugh, opposition that hardened after Christine Blasey Ford accused him gave the details of him sexually assaulting her when they were in high school. Other women accused him of other sexually inappropriate behavior. And were denied the opportunity to testify. You forgot the important part again. 

Protesters swarmed Senate office buildings and hundreds were arrested in a futile attempt to intimidate a handful of holdout senators (back to my unfortunate non-gambler status because I would also like to bet that there were only two reasons this could have happened, 1) every Republican took Russian money or 2) GOP threatened their lives) into voting against confirming Kavanaugh. Trump has taken to referring to Democrats who opposed Kavanaugh as an angry "mob."* Get a real job. This is so irresponsible. 

The president flew to Kentucky to campaign for three-term Republican Rep. Andy Barr, who is facing a strong challenge from Democrat Amy McGrath, a retired Marine fighter pilot, in one of the country's most-watched House races.

Democrats are focusing on the seat in their drive to regain control of the House. Former Vice President Joe Biden became the highest-profile Democrat to campaign for McGrath when he came to Kentucky on Friday night.

Trump told the rally that a vote for Barr "could make the difference between unbelievable continued success" Unbelievable might be the most honest word Trump has uttered and it was probably a Freudian slip or failure, (In this case, I'll take failure, please) and pleaded with his supporters to vote on Nov. 6 to send more Republicans to Congress.

"The only reason to vote Democrat is if you're tired of winning," he said. We aren't winning and we are tired of your lies and gaslighting "I need you to get your friends, get your family, get your neighbors, get your co-workers and get out and vote for Andy Barr," Trump said. 

The president sounded familiar themes during the hour-plus rally Hitleresque gaslighting touting the economy's performance, a new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, and his plan for a new military branch devoted to outer space, among a host of other issues that led the crowd to cheer him.

He again panned journalists as the "fake news media" and suggested he could live without their attention. If only they were responsible enough to STOP GIVING HIM ATTENTION. 

"I'd like to walk into a place one night and not have any of these guys," Trump said. No one would love that more than I would. This McConnell puppet should be totally ignored. 

With just over three weeks before Election Day, Saturday's rally was part of an aggressive fall campaign push by Trump to energize Republicans and encourage them to help keep his legislative agenda (look Mitch - he said that dirty word that you hate so much) moving forward (speaking of puppets, these words scream, "I want you to see that I use the lingo.")  by voting to keep the GOP in control of both houses of Congress.

In fact, even before Trump left the stage on Saturday night, his campaign announced a three-state Western swing through Missoula, Montana; Mesa, Arizona; and Elko, Nevada, next Thursday through Saturday. Who's paying for this? And why don't Republicans care? 

*

Epitomes of weakness

Senator McConnell, 

I wrote about your party years ago. You've only gotten worse over time.

Joined in ignorant bliss

bound by family and home

you breed hatred and blindness

toward everyone but your own,

spewing empty words of love

veiled in god’s name

while diffusing devastation

born in the bowels of shame.

I curse your gutless clans

of hypocrites and beasts,

flag-waving bible-thumping liars

epitomes of weakness.

Fuck your big hearts

swollen beneath curdled brains.

Your actions speak your truth

your victims wear your name

Choke on the lies you spew

drown in the tears you produce.

May the blood of those you hurt

wash back over you

And this is NOT OKAY.

Post Kavanaugh McConnell Republican Party Affect On Women

Senator McConnell:

I'm writing to congratulate you on an accomplishment that I'm sure will elicit one of your evil grins. I'm on day two of the anti-anxiety medication my doctor prescribed to help me deal with the violence you and your party have incited against people who dare to stand up to your fascist party. Unlike you, I actually care about my daughters, and my granddaughters, and the many women (and men) who are and will continue to suffer the consequences of your actions.

Dr. Ford's testimony triggered what I thought was a decades-behind-me case of PTSD following an assault. The man who attacked me also smiled as he thought he was choking me to death. The saddest part about typing this is that I believe, should you happen to read it, my pain would bring you pleasure. But, I will type it anyway, in case sane people are reading, to show that no matter how much you, and people like you, try, you will not silence us. For me, that trigger was easily diverted and used constructively. My emotional pain lasted seconds and then I was able to turn it immediately into sorrow for the woman who was strong enough to ruin her own life for the sake of many. I hope you'll compare her to yourself - SHE was willing to ruin her life to HELP others. You are the opposite. You devote all of yourself to destroying others. That's not sane, Senator. And it's NOT OKAY.

I spent much of the ten hours following that hearing comforting friends and family whose emotions were totally shredded as a result of the wrong they had seen. It was such a mixed bag of wrong that it was and remains almost impossible to comprehend. We watched, on national television, a woman whose credibility no sane person could question, pour out her heart. And we watched the man who caused her that pain lie, prove to the world that he was lying, that he had no self-control, that he was unfit in every possible way to be seated on any court, much less the Supreme Court. We watched your party make a total mockery of the system. You caused extreme emotional damage to many people. You caused permanent damage to the system. You built HATE in people who thought they couldn't hate anyone.




None of this is okay. What happened after is even worse. In a time when millions of people were feeling hurt, vulnerable, fearful, anxious, and angry - feelings that won't subside soon, you and your party decided to incite violence toward those people.

I hold you and your party responsible. And I am calling on reasonable people to take action. I know you don't care how many people march, protest, sign petitions, call . . .  You are heartless and care nothing about doing the right thing. So, I am going to encourage people to think outside the box and find ways to hold you responsible.

We will find ways.

The violence that you pretend you are speaking out against, when you and everyone with any sense knows you are truly inciting - IN ACTION.  YOU, Rand Paul, and your violent, fascist party, OWN THIS. The blood will remain on your hands. This is the USA that you and your party created.

Kavanaugh's wife told us what we needed to know about him during his testimony. Although she sat there like an obedient, well-coached mannequin, her eyes darkened when he said he had never abused any woman. Women who have lived through abusive relationships saw in her eyes that he was lying. I'm sure you saw it, too. If you didn't watch, or didn't see it there, you surely saw it here. Unless, you aren't human enough to see what normal people see. I'm allowing for that to be your truth but that means you are not qualified for your job.

In accordance with a cloture vote, there is only a 30-hour window between when debate ends and when a vote needs to be held. This prevents senators from attempting to filibuster and delay the process.  The take-away from this article highlights your hypocrisy and depth of your depravity. You, the proud king of obstruction and filibuster, denying others a fair chance to expose the truth that you want hidden. This is one of the many things that tell me you are one of the most depraved, dangerous people alive. 


McConnell family blasts Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Even after I have watched you and your party proudly strut your depravity and lack of concern for people, I still can't imagine any father hating his own daughters enough to disregard their opinions and safety the way you do. It's unnatural. It's unacceptable. It's NOT OKAY.



McConnell 'will not be intimidated' after protests over Kavanaugh vote has to be one of the most ignorant, dishonest headlines ever written. You, Senator McConnell, have made it your purpose in life to intimidate people through lies, policies, fear tactics, blackmailing, and obstruction. Media that elects to sugar-coat, misrepresent, mislead by framing things the way this headline does are irresponsible and not trustworthy. They know as well as I do that, unfortunately, due to the consistent dumbing-down of our society by people like you, who know intelligent, educated, informed people will never allow you to be in power, many people read nothing but headlines and don't have the critical thinking or political savvy to see what they are doing.

You only smile when you are doing something to hurt many people. That's NOT OKAY or normal, either.

Sandy

I will publish your letters to McConnell on this blog if you send them to me with permission to publish. mcconnellletters@gmail.com

Greg Leichty Letter to McConnell re: Khashoggi Assassination

Senator McConnell,

The carnage left in the wake of our so-called foreign policy with respect to Saudi Arabia is unacceptable.

SA bombs Yemeni children and Pompeo certifies that they are improving their record. They are not improving their record, but not doing the certification endangers arms sales. So he overrides the objections of State Department subordinates.

The Crown Prince orders a team of assassins to lure Jamal Khashoggi to a consulate. There he is tortured, murdered and his corpse is cut up with a bone saw. Now POTUS says "I will never cut off arms sales because that hurts our commerce."

Jared Kushner is so thick with the Crown Prince that Saudi agents crow that they own him. The Trump family itself has so many conflicts of interest in this it is difficult to detail them all. Yesterday POTUS described relations with Saudi Arabia as being "very good". First degree murder of a U.S. based journalist seems to be only a minor matter where these relations are concerned.

Trump is complicit in this crime. You will be complicit in this too, if you don't quickly stake out an honorable position on this.

Greg Leichty

Posted with permission from Greg Leichty