{"id":93939,"date":"2021-03-26T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T07:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=178805"},"modified":"2021-03-26T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T07:50:05","slug":"mcconnell-the-man-without-juxtapositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/26\/mcconnell-the-man-without-juxtapositions\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: the Man Without Juxtapositions"},"content":{"rendered":"
The marvelous thing about Mitch McConnell is that he\u2019s unaffected by juxtaposition. Of course it was just a coincidence-his comments about the Biden stimulus package that, he said, uses taxpayer dollars that encourage people not to work, and the Inspector General\u2019s report about the activities of McConnell\u2019s wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who used taxpayer dollars to help her family in a way that could be said to encourage them not to work. Some people would be embarrassed by the timing of the report. Not Mitch. Consider his comments on the floor of the United States Senate and in interviews with Fox News on the effect the Biden stimulus package would have on the country.<\/p>\n
On March 3, 2021, Mitch explained to Martha MacCallum on Fox News, that as a result of the Biden package: \u201cThere is a concern about making it more advantageous to stay home rather than going back to work. If we could do it all over again, we-meaning Republicans-may offer an alternative that we think fits the situation. And it\u2019s considerably less than $1.9 trillion. . . .\u201d At a press briefing before it was voted on, he described the bill as \u201cwildly expensive\u201d and \u201clargely unrelated to the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Led by Mitch, the Republicans in the Senate, to a man and woman, ever mindful of their taxpaying constituents and the need to protect the taxpayers\u2019 dollars and make sure they are appropriately used, on March 6, 2021, voted against the stimulus package sent to them by the House. It was hardly Mitch\u2019s fault that three days before the vote took place, and on the same day he was being interviewed on Fox News, we learned of Elaine\u2019s lack of concern for the very same taxpayers that Mitch was so interested in protecting from Biden\u2019s profligacy.<\/p>\n
On March 3, 2021, a report<\/a> was released by the Transportation Department\u2019s inspector general. The report disclosed that during Elaine\u2019s tenure as transportation secretary under the trump administration, she used her office staff who were paid by taxpayers, to help her family. Her family has a shipping business that has extensive China ties.<\/p>\n The report that was released on March 3 was preceded by an investigation by the Transportation Department\u2019s inspector general into Elaine\u2019s conduct while acting as Secretary. Following completion of that investigation in December 2020 the inspector general referred the report to the trump justice department for possible criminal investigation. To no one\u2019s surprise, the trump justice department did nothing. Nonetheless, the report was not ignored.<\/p>\n On March 3, 2021, a 44-page report that detailed the results of the investigation into Elaine\u2019s conduct as Secretary was delivered to the House. In delivering the report, Mike Behm, the Transportation Department\u2019s deputy inspector general said in the letter that accompanied the report that: \u201cA formal investigation into potential misuses of position was warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n