Video of McConnell cutting off debate:
Politico reported:
Blindsided Democrats accused the Kentucky repugican of shutting down a Senate that he had promised to run in a more open way than their own leaders did. They also wondered aloud if repugicans were trying to wrap up all Keystone business to accommodate a conference scheduled for this weekend in Palm Springs, Calif., that’s affiliated with the billionaire wingnuts Charles and David Koch.“McConnell’s rush to vote on amendments without providing time to read or debate them could have something to do with this Koch retreat tomorrow, which a number of repugicans are reportedly attending…,” Adam Jentleson, spokesman for Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), said by email.Jentleson and several other Democratic aides suggested that McConnell might have acted to let the Senate repugican cabal’s trio of expected White House hopefuls, Marco Rubio of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, make their way to the conference.
The open amendment filled Senate process that Mitch
McConnell promised evaporated as soon as
the Koch brothers came calling. What McConnell doesn’t want to admit is
that the Democratic strategy to turn Keystone XL into a real
jobs/climate change bill was working. Senate Democrats were going to
keep holding repugican feet to the fire, and they didn’t like it.
There is no way that McConnell was about let
anything get in the way of the repugican cabal’s real duty of serving
the Koch brothers. When push came to shove, McConnell quickly went back
on his word and shut down the so-called “open” process. McConnell
behavior is evidence of the repugican-misled Senate’s real priorities.
Nothing is more important to Mitch McConnell and Senate repugicans than
the Koch brothers.
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