[Old School Hound]

That old bastard has political instincts like no one I've seen in my lifetime. You have to think he feels like a victor in the Omnibus negotiations, with policy gains and banking leverage in  an inevitable battle next year over increasing the debt limit. My question is, should he have delayed the Omnibus vote until after Republicans took over control of the House, when Republicans would have had more leverage? He obviously wanted this goliath of a spending bill to be passed now. I read months and months ago where he had made deals with Biden to not run intereference with Joe's spending initiatives. 

Let's face it, Mitch owns this.  He's banking that he will come out looking stronger in the end. We'll see. I never, EVER underestimate him. He may be a bastard but he's your bastard and he's been one of the shrewest politicians in any of our lifetimes.  However, let's once and for all never attach the moniker "Conservative" to him again.  Can you be an ideological conservative and support a $1.7 B  spending bill with so much pork in it that pigs all over are fleeing the country for India. ?

Guess, we'll see eventually if Mitch played his cards right, yet again.

Conservatives have known for decades that McConnell is not one of us. As is the case of so many crooked Democrat lifelong politicians, Mitch McConnell is in politics to amass a personal fortune on the taxpayers' dime. I would love to know precisely how much wealth McConnell and his wife have accumulated at our expense. He is among a small (but much too large) group of politicians whose personal fortunes I suspect are at least a magnitude greater than their documented net worths. Americans have enabled crooks like McConnell, the Clintons, the Bidens, and the Pelosis to ransack the U.S. treasury as if it were nothing more than their personal piggy bank.

Agree.  Mitch is not an ideologically strict conservative by any stretch. What he is ,  is a political animal. And a smart one. He almost always plays his hand to his advantage. We'll see if his Omnibus hand was a straight flush, once again.

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McConnell and other power players on both sides of the political aisle are robbers. Might as well call them the Jesse James Gang.
Jesse robbed trains for a living. McConnell & Co. rob our bank accounts for a living. The only difference between them and Jesse is that they do it without a gun and with a sh!tty @ss grin.