January 23 - Where's Mitch?

Hands in chains for a fist full of dollars
Who do we blame for the holes in our knowledge?
The past you know has been written by the victor
So I ask you now, who is it writing your future?
The butcher, the liar, the thief or the killer?
Your freedom died quiet in the halls of power

~ Parkway Drive Absolute Power

Day 33 of the US Government shutdown.

Our government was designed to have a system of checks and balances so that no one branch would have all the power.  This is only effective if those that have the power to check, provide the balance.

This is not the case with Mitch McConnell.  He has proven to be a lackey to the whims and will of a TV personality president, a subservient politician, concerned more with image and re-election than doing what is right for the American people.  He's refuses to put forth a bill to protect the Mueller investigation, he used the nuclear option (which he was outspoken opponent of when in the minority) to decrease the number of votes for Supreme Court appointee approval from 60 to 51, and he refuses to bring forth a bill to fund the government despite having an overwhelming majority of Senators from both parties support - enough to even override any presidential veto, and he hides in a "hideaway" office instead of deal with outspoken new democratic house member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Coward.  #wheresmitch

Being that he is up for re-election, I really hope the people of Kentucky realize the damage and danger such a weak person does to our political system.  Your freedom died quiet in the halls of power indeed.