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    EXCLUSIVE -- MCCONNELL: TEA PARTY 'BULLIES' WHO NEED PUNCH IN NOSE

    EXCLUSIVE -- MCCONNELL: TEA PARTY 'BULLIES' WHO NEED PUNCH IN NOSE



    by MATTHEW BOYLE 22 Nov 2013, 8:36 AM PDT 3261 POST A COMMENT
    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on a conference call organized by Karl Rove’s Crossroads organization for large donors and their advisers on Oct. 30 that the Tea Party movement, in his view, is a “nothing but a bunch of bullies” that he plans to “punch … in the nose.”

    On the call, according to a donor who was on it, McConnell personally named Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) as Tea Party conservatives he views as problematic for him. “The bulk of it was an attack on the Tea Party in general, Cruz in particular,” the source, a prominent donor, said in a phone interview with Breitbart News.
    But the most memorable line came at the end of the call.
    “McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies? You punch them in the nose and that’s what we’re going to do.’”
    Rove, as well as American Crossroads President and CEO Steven J. Law who also serves as the president of sister group Crossroads GPS, were also on the call. Rove “talked in a slightly gentler way, or let’s say, a more diplomatic way,” the source said. “But the message was pretty well the same: That if we’re going to save this thing, we have to back real Republicans.”
    Pointing to how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just invoked the “nuclear option,” breaking 225-year old Senate rules to slip through President Obama’s liberal nominees, an aide to a Tea Party lawmaker said that McConnell’s focus on trying to go after the Tea Party has jeopardized Senate Republicans’ chances at actually beating Democrats. “Under Sen. McConnell's watch, Republicans today just got rolled over by Democrats who pushed the button on the nuclear option, destroying years of well-established Senate order,” the aide said in an email to Breitbart News. “Perhaps if he focused less on destroying the Tea Party and more on defeating Democrats, he'd have more to show for his leadership.”
    Rove spokesman Jonathan Collegio denies that anything was said about Cruz, Lee, or the Tea Party in general but admits the call did take place and that “some discussion” about the government shutdown and the Senate Conservatives Fund took place.
    “Your source is ascribing things to the call that simply were never said,” Collegio said in an email. “There was no ‘anti-tea party donor call.’ There was a call, and there was some discussion about the government shutdown and the Senate Conservatives Fund (note this was one day after SCF launched a dishonest ad about McConnell), but nothing about the Tea Party or Sens. Cruz or Lee.”
    Collegio declined to provide a transcript or recording of the call to Breitbart News. McConnell’s office has not commented on the matter.

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    McConnell: Punch Tea Party “In The Nose”

    November 22, 2013 by Ben Bullard

    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) evidently has a plan for the 2014 midterm Congressional elections: punch the Tea Party in the nose.

    The comment came to light today via Breitbart, following an interview with a GOP donor who said he heard McConnell’s remark during an Oct. 30 conference call hosted by Karl Rove’s Crossroads donor group.
    On the call, according to a donor who was on it, McConnell personally named Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as Tea Party conservatives he views as problematic for him. “The bulk of it was an attack on the Tea Party in general, Cruz in particular,” the source, a prominent donor, said in a phone interview with Breitbart News.
    But the most memorable line came at the end of the call.

    “McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies? You punch them in the nose and that’s what we’re going to do.’”

    The source said Rove was less vivid in his remarks, but essentially agreed with McConnell that Tea Party conservatism needs to be relegated to the margins as part of the GOP’s 2014 center-line campaign strategy.

    The revelation comes just one day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wielded majority power to castrate Senate Republicans’ powers, and Senate procedure along with it.

    In light of Reid’s invocation of the filibuster-ending nuclear option, and the failure of Republican leaders to counter by withholding unanimous consent on the rest of the day’s business, “an aide to a Tea Party lawmaker said that McConnell’s focus on trying to go after the Tea Party has jeopardized Senate Republicans’ chances at actually beating Democrats.”

    Red State persuasively argues the Tea Party isn’t the problem; McConnell’s weak leadership is:
    Instead of fighting fire with fire, McConnell is basically saying we can’t do anything until after the elections:

    “The solution to this problem is an election,” McConnell said at a Thursday press conference after the Senate voted to go nuclear, changing the rules of the filibuster.

    “The solution to this problem’s at the ballot box,” McConnell said. “We look forward to having a great election in November 2014.” […]

    “I don’t think this is a time to be talking about a reprisal,” he said. “I think it’s at time to be sad about what’s been done to the United States Senate.” [Daily Caller]

    I’m sure Harry Reid is scared to death.

    There is one simple thing Republicans can do to retaliate. They can start by ending the Democrat super-majority on legislative issues. They can easily pledge to filibuster every piece of legislation and deny all requests for unanimous consent until the rules change is overturned.

    …Harry Reid has identified a soft target. And until we change GOP leadership in the Senate, he will keep punching.
    We’ve seen that the most loyal servants in President Barack Obama’s partisan army don’t reward true negotiating overtures or understand the time-tested, workaday dance of give-and-take. For the GOP to accomplish anything in the current Congress, it needs leaders who are willing to hew to the party’s core values and take a stand. It isn’t the Tea Party McConnell should want to punch “in the nose” – it’s the Democrats who are leading him about with the ring they’ve stuck in his.

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    Good the Senator knows his enemy "Tea Party" and not the Dem's, so therefore we conservatives know he is our enemy along with the Dem's. Not smart Senator, join your buddy McCain and retire.
    I'm old with many opinions few solutions.

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    <--- This Sissy Boy with a weak Chin would Crap His Pants standing up to a real man and he's talking about punching somebody in the nose

    Sorry Sissy Boy.... you are Feared NOT
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    Flip The Senate 2014


    John Boehner And Mitch McConnell Have To Go – We Can Do Much Much Better And We Better Start Changing The Leadership In The House And Senate Soon.

    Senate Conservatives Fund 11/5/13

    Fellow Conservatives:...


    Last week, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported that U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has decided to declare "war" on the conservative groups that disagree with him.

    He is specifically targeting the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), Heritage Action, Madison Project, and FreedomWorks in a misguided attempt to destroy the Tea Party.

    But that's not all...

    McConnell's operatives told the New York Times on Friday that he has ordered the Republican Party to stop doing business with private companies that provide services to SCF and to oppose candidates endorsed by SCF.

    Their offense? They're associated with us and we support Matt Bevin, McConnell's conservative primary challenger.

    Mitch McConnell can't hurt us directly so he has instructed the party to punish our vendors and our candidates.

    Not only has McConnell forced his party to support bailouts, debt limit increases, tax hikes, and funding for Obamacare, he's now going to force it to abandon the free market and even the freedom of speech.

    Here's what his Chief of Staff, Josh Holmes, told the New York Times:

    “S.C.F. has been wandering around the country destroying the Republican Party like a drunk who tears up every bar they walk into. The difference this cycle is that they strolled into Mitch McConnell’s bar and he doesn’t throw you out, he locks the door.”

    McConnell's aide was alluding to the bar fight scene in A Bronx Tale where mobsters beat up a biker gang. He's wrong about SCF being drunks, but he got the description of his boss right when he compared him to a mobster.

    Mitch McConnell can't defend his record so he's using threats to intimidate those who disagree with him.

    Conservative blogger Dan Riehl described it this way:

    "Yet, here we see a DC GOP establishment on display at its worst. In effect saying -- If you engage in a form of commerce we don’t like, we will try to destroy you! If you attempt to exercise your First Amendment right to free speech to say something with which we disagree, we will try to destroy you?"

    Unfortunately, this is how Mitch McConnell operates. He doesn't lead. He doesn't inspire. He just intimidates. He can't beat Matt Bevin in a debate on the issues so he's smearing him and threatening everyone who supports him.

    WAR ON CONSERVATIVES


    For many of you, Mitch McConnell's hostility toward conservatives is not news. But this the first time he has been open about it. In the past, he only attacked conservatives in private meetings or through disconnected surrogates.

    Now, he's admitting something that he's tried to keep quiet for years: he doesn't like conservatives.

    You see, Mitch McConnell is a Democratic deal maker and he doesn't like conservatives getting in his way. It's why he has lashed out and called conservatives "fringe", "traitors", ... and now "drunks."

    Erick Erickson at Red State -com described how McConnell's war on conservatives is hurting people in Kentucky and across the nation:

    "It’s all the sadder still in that McConnell worked against Ted Cruz’s effort to defund Obamacare. 280,000 Kentuckians are losing their insurance. But McConnell would rather drive a private enterprise out of business than fight for those Kentuckians losing their health insurance. If only McConnell had put as much energy into stopping Obamacare as he has stopping a business that does work with the Senate Conservatives Fund."

    McConnell says conservatives hurt the Republican Party, but what truly hurts the party is a leader who doesn't listen to or even like his own voters.

    What hurts the party is a leader who refuses to stand up for conservative principles and helps the Democrats enact their liberal agenda.

    What hurts the party is an incumbent who ignores his unpopularity at home and selfishly chooses to run for another term rather than retiring and helping the party hold his seat and save money to win others.

    (Contact Mitch McConnell (R-KY) And Tell Him To Back Off Of His Attacks On The Conservatives In The House And In The Senate)

    WE WON'T BACK DOWN

    The Senate Conservatives Fund is a grassroots organization driven by freedom-loving Americans across the country. We're not controlled by special interests in Washington, we're not controlled by a small group of big donors in New York City, and we're not controlled by the Republican Party.

    We listen to the grassroots and do everything we can to help them bring about real change in Washington.


    Before we endorsed Matt Bevin in Kentucky, we polled our members to get their views. Out of 70,000 ballots cast, 98% disapproved of Mitch McConnell's record.

    On the question of whether we should endorse Matt Bevin, 90% said we should while 8% were undecided and only 2% opposed.

    We listened to the grassroots and answered the call to help Matt Bevin win this important Senate race. Now, we're in a bar fight with a bully. He has locked the door and he's trying to kill us.

    We aren't intimidated.

    Sure, the odds aren't in our favor. Matt Bevin is an underdog. He doesn't have McConnell's money or his power. But he has you, and the support of thousands of others like you, and that's more than enough to win.

    The grassroots in Kentucky are rising up and need our help. Here's what the United Kentucky Tea Party said over the weekend:

    "We have the next U.S. Senator from Kentucky in Matt Bevin and we intend to roll out a grassroots campaign in Kentucky -- the likes of which Mitch McConnell has never faced. Kentucky will lead the way in this national fight against out-of-control big government Republicans. This is a historical moment in the future of America. Will we continue to be a government ‘Of, by and for the People?’ If so, average Americans must engage in the fight.” (Share This Information With Others)

    Will you join the fight? Will you help us defend liberty? Will you do it for your kids and grandkids and for generations to come? Will you help us elect true conservative leaders like Matt Bevin, even if it means standing up to powerful bullies like Mitch McConnell?

    We can win if we all work together.

    Thank you for your support and your willingness to fight for freedom.

    Best regards,

    Matt Hoskins
    Executive Director
    Senate Conservatives Fund
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