{"id":1211594,"date":"2022-01-12T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211594"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:19:18","slug":"profoundly-unpresidential-mcconnells-fiery-floor-speech-about-biden-has-everyones-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/profoundly-unpresidential-mcconnells-fiery-floor-speech-about-biden-has-everyones-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Profoundly Unpresidential\u2019: McConnell\u2019s Fiery Floor Speech About Biden Has Everyone\u2019s Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprofoundly-unpresidential-mcconnells-fiery-floor-speech-about-biden-has-everyones-attention%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211594&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ripped into President Joe Biden\u2019s comparison of his political opponents to segregationists during his call for Democrats to eliminate the filibuster and pass a pair of election bills.<\/p>\n<p>The president \u201cdelivered a deliberately divisive speech that was designed to pull our country further apart,\u201d McConnell said of Biden\u2019s Tuesday speech at a rally in Atlanta. \u201cTwelve months ago, this president said we should see each other not as adversaries, but as neighbors. Yesterday, he called millions of Americans his domestic enemies. Twelve months ago, the president called on Americans to join forces, stop the shouting, lower the temperature. But yesterday, he shouted that if you disagree with him, you\u2019re George Wallace. George Wallace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite defending the filibuster throughout their careers in the Senate, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/11\/biden-filibuster-georgia-voting-rights\/\">Biden<\/a> and Vice President Kamala <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/11\/kamala-harris-filibuster-republicans-mitch-mcconnell-letter-elections\/\">Harris<\/a> called on Senate Democrats to eliminate the procedural tactic and pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bills would effectively <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/easier-to-cheat-harder-to-prove-former-top-dhs-official-testifies-election-reforms\/\">nationalize<\/a> election laws by restoring a legal provision allowing the Justice Department to challenge state laws as discriminatory. They would also mandate extensive early voting and absentee ballot provisions, as well as prohibit bans on ballot-harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>Biden claimed that opponents of the two bills were siding \u201cwith voter suppression over voters\u2019 rights,\u201d adding that history would \u201cbe even less kind for those who side with election subversion.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/11\/joe-biden-elections-bills-segregation-filibuster\/\">(RELATED: Biden Attacks Senators Who Oppose Elections Bills By Comparing Them To Segregationists)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several senators in Biden\u2019s own party, most notably Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, oppose eliminating or weakening the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>As Senate Majority Leader, McConnell repeatedly refused to eliminate or weaken the legislative filibuster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden \u201ccompared a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors. How profoundly unpresidential,\u201d McConnell added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting the tied Senate and the Democrats\u2019 four-seat majority in the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader claimed that Biden received a mandate for \u201cjust one central thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridge a divided country, lower the temperature, dial down the perpetual air of crisis in our politics. That is the one central promise Joe Biden made. It is the one job citizens actually hired him to do. It is the one project that would have actually been consistent with the Congress that voters elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut President Biden has chosen to fail his own test. The president\u2019s rant yesterday was incoherent, incorrect, and beneath his office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing commentators blasted McConnell\u2019s remarks. MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyAnnReid\/status\/1481326933765992453\">accused<\/a> him of being \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">this generation\u2019s Strom Thurmond, James Eastland or Bull Connor<\/span>,\u201d and the Republican Party of being \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">the party of insurrection.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Mitch McConnell seems very angry he has been called out for his racism,\u201d former NBA player and social media personality Rex Chapman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexChapman\/status\/1481328905562861568\">claimed<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Conservatives endorsed the speech, with Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy describing it as an \u201cexcoriation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is worth watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeaderMcConnell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LeaderMcConnell<\/a> on the Senate Floor right now excoriating <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a>\u2019s speech yesterday filled with lies and vitriol forever cementing his divisive, incompetent legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiproytx\/status\/1481327929418264579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Mitch McConnell just hit Joe Biden so hard that Corn Pop felt it. Holy moly what a speech<\/span>,\u201d CNN\u2019s Scott Jennings <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottJenningsKY\/status\/1481336494908444679\">joked<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ripped into President Joe Biden\u2019s comparison of his political opponents to segregationists during his call for Democrats to eliminate the filibuster and pass a pair &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}