In Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell says Clean Coal Doesn't Exist and that He's for Jobs

Clean Coal According to NBC News

In 1984 McConnell Objected to a New Coal Plant in Kentucky


McConnell, like many Republicans, wants to appear one way for the voters back home, but in Washington acts another way. He said Kentuckians can keep their Kynect website (funded by Obamacare / ACA ), but he would get rid of the ACA. How can Kynect connect to the government agencies necessary to operate properly if the ACA is ended? How can the insurance companies who would offer policies via Kynect be regulated to offering comparable good quality policies if the ACA is ended? Nope, it can't. But, McConnell wants people to think Kynect was just a website invented by Kentuckians and that's all it is, just a simple website. But, it's not.

Many Republicans around the country do this, but McConnell is the leader of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate. He sets the tone for much of what happens in Washington and his main priority he announced just after Obama was elected president was to make him a failure, a one-term president. To that end he has filibustered more than any time in the past and opposed the president tooth-and-nail.

In the House of Representatives the Republicans are doing much the same thing. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) pretends to be Speaker of the Majority and only brings bills up for debate & a vote if they have support from the Republicans. That's never been done before. The Speaker is supposed to Speak for the whole House, not just his own party.

To end that kind of hypocrisy and gridlock we need new Republican leaders and a clear Democratic majority in the House and Senate to get things done.