This week,
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told countries involved in
negotiating a U.N.-brokered international climate change agreement that they
should “proceed with caution” because of intransigent opposition to
Obama’s efforts to significantly scale back U.S. carbon emissions.*
“Whatever the president may say, whatever the
rest of the world may negotiate, the people’s senate of the United States of
Amer’ca will not give up our right to be the fart in the room,” McConnell rumbled.
“I’m not shittin’ you.”**
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*The first paragraph is from Colbert King’s
perceptive essay. Read here!
**I made up the second paragraph, but it
comports with the facts. I mean,
listen. You can’t hear McConnell thinking this?
listen. You can’t hear McConnell thinking this?
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