"Shut Up And Pay!"

McConnell says that telling corporations to 'stay out of politics' doesn't mean to stop sending him donations https://t.co/e7Ts4qS49l

— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 6, 2021

During a talk in his home state of Kentucky, McConnell once again chastised corporations such as Delta and Coca-Cola for publicly condemning Georgia's recently passed voting rights bill that reduces the number of statewide ballot drop-off boxes and makes it illegal for non-poll workers to hand out water to people waiting in long lines.

McConnell hastened to add, however, that it was perfectly fine for corporate America to shovel money to politicians.

"I'm not talking about political contributions," McConnell said. "Most of them contribute to both sides, they have political action committees, that's fine, it's legal, it's appropriate, I support that."

McConnell then described why he objected to corporations protesting the Georgia voting law.

 

"I'm talking about taking a position on a highly incendiary issue like this and punishing a community or a state because you don't like a particular law they passed," he said.

Punishing states because they don't do what you want (hem-hem, re-elect a Republican POTUS) is for politicians to do!  Not corporations!  Their role in public life is to shovel money to politicians and shut up!

Yeah, McConnell tried to walk it back:

 I didn't say that very artfully yesterday day," McConnell admitted.

Does anybody believe McConnell doesn’t know exactly what he’s saying when he speaks in public?  Not that it matters now; the damage has been done:

GOP: Any effort to prevent corporations from expressing their views through unlimited political donations is a violation of free speech

CORPS: people should be allowed to vote

GOP: well that's enough of that

— Jake Maccoby (@jdmaccoby) April 7, 2021

Not least because the story about Colorado voting law being "just like" Georgia's:

Colorado’s elections rules are objectively, significantly less restrictive than Georgia’s. Here’s a point-by-point explanation of how Gov. Kemp, Sen. Scott, Sen. Cotton and others have been false or misleading: https://t.co/pyp7Er0Ju2

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 7, 2021

Is such utter bullshit even NPR called it "disinformation" (NPR speak for "lie").

There’s a reason the GOP is coming up short.  This is FDR’s first term after 4 years of Hoover.  Biden may actually be too old to run for a second term, but there’s a possibility of establishing a Democratic paradigm in the Presidency that could mirror the one that went unbroken until Eisenhower; and even Nixon was more liberal than any Republican still in that party.

Tectonic plates are always moving.