mitch mcconnell

What a brain trust! Standing behind Miss Mitch are three of modern legislating's great GOP johns: Senators Barrasso (WY), Thune (SD), and Cornyn (TX)."The bottom line is they could probably clean this up very quickly."-- Sen.

Can there be doubt that CBS News, in effect, promotes a bias that favors the Republican Party? Anyone who follows politics and watched the Scott Pelley interview of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell last night on Sixty Minutes had to be dumbfounded when Scott Pelley failed to utter any challenge to both Boehner and McConnell’s hubris about the Democrats obstructing legislation, something the GOP promoted as policy. You would expect Fox News to misinform on that count but not a major network.

Miss Mitch, er, beamed at Tuesday's swearing in in the Old Senate Chamber"After so many years of sluggish growth, we're finally starting to see some economic data that can provide a glimmer of hope. The uptick appears to coincide with the biggest political change of the Obama administration's long tenure in Washington: the expectation of a new Republican Congress."-- silver-tongued "Miss Mitch" McConnell,taking over the helm of the U.S. Senate yesterdayby KenThat's right.

Do you recognize this guy? No, not from a post-office wall. What if I told you he's the number-three Republican in the Senate?

Presidents Xi and Obama conclude what the NYT's Mark Landler calls their "unexpectedly productive two days of meetings."by KenThat's two days in a row the president has not just controlled the news cycle, but done it with actual governing-type stuff, announcing what sure look to be big-issue policy commitments on the side of the angels.

No surprise that McConnell won. And not a surprise that that was the very first race called last night. The Democrats had a weak, inauthentic, poll-driven candidate who didn't inspire anyone who didn't already hate McConnell or who wanted a family friend of Bill and Hill to win or just a generic woman in office. McConnell won by a bigger margin than most pundits were predicting-- 754,777 (55.7%) to 557,652 (41.2%).

Florida Republican Trey Radel, a former Hate Talk Radio host and former U.S. congressman, got kicked out of his House seat for dealing cocaine in Washington. The FBI is covering up their own drug abuse investigation of another GOP coke freak, Ohio's David Joyce.

Although the right-wing crackpot newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio endorsed McConnell, yesterday Kentucky's two biggest newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader, both recommended that Kentucky voters fire McConnell and replace him with Secretary of State Alison Grimes.

Friday, Nick Confessore wrote in the NY Times how secret, dark money from undisclosed sources is dominating the elections and that it will be even worse in 2016.

The Cincinnati Enquirer is the dominant newspaper for northern Kentucky and publishes a Kentucky edition every day. This morning’s Mitch McConnell exposé by Curtis Ellis and Harry Wu isn’t only going to be read by folks in Ohio. And the basic premise that Ellis and Wu are making— that McConnell has enriched himself while in the U.S. Senate through his dealings with Communist China— aren’t new to Kentuckians.