Does Mitch McConnell have something against American democracy?

July 13, 2011
By Joe Sonka

There were some warning signs. His “money = free speech, and if you limit it in any way it is tyranny” argument. His belief that we have to ship defendants to Gimto because Casey Anthony was acquitted. And plenty of others that we don’t have sufficient time for here right now.

But today on the Senate floor, he made it a little more explicit:

The time has come for a balanced budget amendment that forces Washington to balance its books. If these debt negotiations have convinced us of anything, it’s that we can’t leave it to politicians in Washington to make the difficult decisions that they need to get our fiscal house in order. The balanced budget amendment will do that for them. Now is the moment. No more games. No more gimmicks. The Constitution must be amended to keep the government in check. We’ve tried persuasion. We’ve tried negotiations. We’re tried elections. Nothing has worked.

So… if you can’t get what you want because the American people decided to choose a president who is not a Republican, the only obvious conclusion is that elections don’t work? Roger.

And you can’t balance a budget without a ridiculous balanced budget amendment? OK, besides the fact that Mitch McConnell himself is personally responsible for our debt, he might want think back to a Democratic president in the not too distant past…

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