Not the way to play it

The Republicans are thinking confidently they're going to take the Senate this November.  They've got worse job performance ratings than the Democrats in Congress, but only by a little.  It's gonna come down to local politics, what's important in that state, how far the Tea Party pushes the Republican candidates to the right to get their vote, and how much this scares the Democrats and independents into coming out and voting to keep the dangerous idiots out of the Senate.

We can hope.

But as an ADDED incentive, we now have Mitch McConnell basically promising to pass dumbass ridiculous spending bills if the Congress is all Republican, and outright daring Prez Obama to veto them, thereby resulting in a government shutdown.  Or maybe several of them.  If the Democratic press can keep promoting and tweeting and Facebooking and Instagramming and Pinning and all the other ways to get the word out that this is Mitch's damn-the-torpedoes, damn-the-country program, then this may spill over into the state-by-state elections that he needs to win to get control.

We can only hope.

So what is Mitch saying, then?  From the superbly liberal Greg Sargent:

The real consequences of GOP control of the Senate

     "The emerging strategy: Attach riders to spending bills that would limit Obama policies on everything from the environment to health care, consider using an arcane budget tactic to circumvent Democratic filibusters and force the president to “move to the center” if he wants to get any new legislation through Congress. In short, it’s a recipe for a confrontational end to the Obama presidency…

…asked about the potential that his approach could spark another shutdown, McConnell said it would be up to the president to decide whether to veto spending bills that would keep the government open."

There's a word for a guy like McConnell.  It's a slang term for the outlet of the rectum.

Keep talking, Mitch.  And be loud enough to make sure the voters that need to hear your horrifyingly dangerous message -- Democrats and independent moderates -- can hear you.