Last month, Mitch McConnell (R-Galapagos) said of the Tea Party: “I think we are going to crush them everywhere. I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.” This month, McConnell may well have torpedoed his chances of that by saying that bringing jobs to Kentucky “is not my job. It is the primary responsibility of the state Commerce Cabinet.” McConnell made those remarks to the Beattyville Enterprise, and he’s regretted them ever since:
It seems my message got lost in translation, and I was surprised to see a headline about my visit that sent the exact opposite message to the one I was trying to convey. In my travels across the Commonwealth, I hear too often how government is blocking job creation. It’s up to all of us — at the federal, state, and local levels — to fix that.
It’s understandable, since translating turtle to English isn’t easy, but his remarks were pretty clear and straight forward, and “it’s not my job” is not the same thing as “it’s up to all of us.” It makes it sound like the sort of “us” that can be expected from people with authority –i.e., the “us” and “we” that means “you, not me.” The McConnell’s Democratic opponent, Alison Grimes, fired back at McConnell, according to the Houston Chronicle:
Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes wasted no time attacking McConnell for his comments to the newspaper and used the opportunity to tout her jobs plan that would, among other things, raise the minimum wage and invest in infrastructure. Grimes added that her top priorities as U.S. Senator would be “creating good-paying jobs for Kentuckians and growing our middle class.” “It is reprehensible that Mitch McConnell believes that it is not his job to help Kentucky families who are struggling to make ends meet,” Grimes said in a statement provided by her campaign. “This latest shock from Senator McConnell reinforces the fact that the only job he cares about is his own.”
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