[Magdalen] Hypocrisy?

[Chad Wohlers]

You have to understand that Mitch McConnell is a politician, first, 
last, and always. Nothing at all matters - not hypocrisy, ethics, 
morality, whatever - as long as it advances his cause (the Republican 
Party). He is a complete Machiavellian.

-- 
Chad Wohlers
chad at satucket.com
Woodbury, VT   USA


On 9/19/2020 9:39 AM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen wrote:
> An earlier attempt to send the bulk of this was blocked by the 
> system's spam filter (no quibble about that, Brian) so here's another 
> attempt.
>
> It is being reported that Mitch McConnell as saying that the Senate 
> will move forward quickly on confirming President Trump's nominee of a 
> successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. I would like to 
> think that this really is "fake news" but is all too plausible. In 
> March 2016 this same Leader of the Senate said it was too close to a 
> Presidential Election to proceed with President Obama's nomination 
> following Antonin Scalia's death. Does he really have the gall and bad 
> taste to do this six month's closer to the election? If he does then 
> he certainly does not deserve to be in his present position given 
> Christ's condemnation of hypocrisy? It would be even worse if he did 
> so if he sought Senate confirmation of such a nomination if, as the 
> polls indicate, the Democrats achieve a majority of the popular vote.
>
> Roger
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