{"id":2661,"date":"2020-05-04T16:35:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2020-05-04T16:35:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:35:48","slug":"mitch-mcconnells-shameless-pursuit-of-power-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2661","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell\u2019s shameless pursuit of power, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;It\u2019s pretty hard to find any important issue that he hasn\u2019t switched positions on at some point or another when it was convenient for him. Whether it\u2019s abortion or campaign spending or many other issues, he just switches like a chameleon when he needs to and I hadn\u2019t really realized how many times he\u2019s done this and how easily he did it.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;I interviewed one of McConnell\u2019s biographers,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/1\/21\/21063824\/impeachment-trial-senate-mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\">Alec MacGillis<\/a>, and he pointed to the same thing: There\u2019s just no consistent commitment to anything in McConnell\u2019s political life except for winning the next election.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/4\/30\/21234505\/mitch-mcconnell-trump-republican-party-jane-mayer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/4\/30\/21234505\/mitch-mcconnell-trump-republican-party-jane-mayer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s pretty hard to find any important issue that he hasn\u2019t switched positions on at some point or another when it was convenient for him. Whether it\u2019s abortion or campaign spending or many other issues, he just switches like a chameleon when he needs to and I hadn\u2019t really realized how many times he\u2019s done this and how easily he did it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I interviewed one of McConnell\u2019s biographers, Alec MacGillis, and he pointed to the same thing: There\u2019s just no consistent commitment to anything in McConnell\u2019s political life except for winning the next election.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[756,757,755,694],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-flipflop","tag-issues","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}