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McConnell, Chandler need your money

Mitch McConnell and Ben Chandler can’t do this for free. They need your financial support. And they’re getting it! Y’all are so nice to support Mitch and Ben like this. Senate Minority Leader Mitch...

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Mitch McConnell will get to vote to kill Medicare

As we and others have mentioned many times, the House Republicans recently voted to end Medicare so that they can give a huge tax cut to millionaires. This move will most likely haunt them next year,...

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Ben Chandler (D-KY) Goes All in Against GOP’s War on Medicare

Well, look who we have here… it’s Democratic Congressman Ben Chandler! Despite what you are hearing in the news, there are people in Washington committed to protecting Social Security, Medicare and...

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Rand Paul’s budget plan rejected 7-90, campaign promise broken

Look at Rand Paul being all important and influential. His Collectivist 5-Year Budget Plan went up for a vote last night and… got 7 votes. No, not in committee, in the full Senate. I will say this,...

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Mitch McConnell pulling some strings in Kentucky, but cutting others?

Ronnie Ellis brings up the obvious question: why is Mitch McConnell doing so much to help Todd P’Pool (who is running a campaign “independent” of other GOP candidates), yet not doing as much for David...

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McConnell & Reid channeling Bono?

Apparently America’s got a lot of debt. It appears to be a crisis. There’s an element in the Republican Party just wishing for the collapse of the economy in order to fulfill visions and prophecies of...

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May 2014

So it looks like the People of Tea are pretty much done with Mitch McConnell. So who will play Rand Paul in 2014? Could it be the Pizzabagger’s Dad? Eh. I’d prefer Marian. But seriously, you’ll have to...

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Say Goodbye to Crit Luallen; Say Hello to Crit Luallen!

Tom Eblen has a splendid exit-profile of Crit Luallen, outgoing State Auditor and all ’round awesome woman. The amount she accomplished and the force with which she did it is truly remarkable. If we...

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McConnell raises $1M, has $4.25M on hand

Ben Chandler/Steve Beshear/Crit Luallen really have their work cut out for themselves. Mitch’s people tell the AP that the Minority Leader raised $1,000,000.00 from October to December, thanks to his...

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McConnell continues to push Greece lie disproved last summer

In an example of why HD television was created, FOX News’ Greta Van Susteren interviewed Mitch McConnell the other day, an 8 minute visual orgy in which the two spoke casually while standing rather...

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ABSURD! In #KY6, Could Andy Barr’s Too Big To Fail Advantage… Fail? (and what...

On the surface, the 2nd Quarter campaign financing reports in the 6th District race for Congress show a blowout. Republican Congressman Garland Hale Barr IV raised $318,000 while his opponent, Democrat...

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In New Ad, Mitch McConnell Goes to China

The McConnell campaign has a new ad that attempts to claim Mitch has a strong record of standing up to Chinese trade practices that have cost Kentucky tens of thousands of jobs. The ad features...

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Grimes campaign hits McConnell for his record of creating jobs in China, not...

Last Wednesday, the McConnell campaign released an ad that went out of its way to insert Mitch’s own record on trade with China into the middle of the Kentucky Senate campaign. It was an odd move; for...

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McConnell campaign says women can’t do foreign policy because they’re...

Hours after the Grimes campaign released their latest TV ad — which attacks Mitch McConnell for his simply abysmal track record on women’s issues — the McConnell campaign tried to change the subject to...

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Is He “OK”? Mitch McConnell, Comedian or Gaffe Machine? (Dumb fun with dumb...

Today in the Kentucky Senate race the Grimes campaign continues to call out Mitch McConnell for his long history of opposition to the Violence Against Women Act and for his terrible three decade track...

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Apparently Mitch McConnell didn’t kill enough coal jobs as the coal miners...

Mitch McConnell may be a friend of coal executives, but Alison Lundergan Grimes is apparently the true friend of coal miners. The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) has endorsed Democrat Alison...

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Mitch McConnell’s War on Coal

WFPL’s Erica Peterson has an important look at the “War on Coal” and its history — and as this graph makes clear, if there is a “War on Coal” it began long before President Obama: The funny thing about...

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Paging Tom Petty: Mitch McConnell “won’t back down”

One day after Bill Clinton came to town to campaign for Alison Lundergan Grimes, Mitch McConnell was out on the campaign trail himself and because he has the charisma of Flat Stanley, his campaign...

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Mitch vs. “Them”: Paranoid Mitch McConnell satirizes himself

The end of Mitch McConnell’s speech in Middlesboro today was a doozy. In a minute and a half, Mitch McConnell insults our European allies, then glowingly quotes one of them insulting us, before...

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McConnell is mobbed by supporters, calls Rand Paul the “most credible...

Mitch McConnell is like the Beatles. When he shows up, it’s literally like Paul McCartney’s come to town. Look! Senator Mitch McConnell speaking at town hall meeting in Owensboro right now...

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