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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), a die-hard fan of University of Louisville athletics, took to the Senate floor this morning to promote the big intrastate matchup in Saturday's Final Four.
McConnell promised the game between his Cardinals and the University of Kentucky Wildcats would be "one of the greatest moments in Kentucky sports history." He predicted the winner of the game would continue to win the entire tournament.
A giddy McConnell said, "Never have these two teams faced each other in the Final Four with the stakes so high. If the excitement and frenzy and turbulence that's been stirred up in Kentucky this week could be harnessed we could solve our energy crisis. Basketball fans from Kentucky have been waiting their whole lives for this game."
He even took a gentlemanly dig at the Duke-UNC rivalry. "So my friends in North Carolina can hear it, U of L and UK have the best rivalry in all of college basketball and the commonwealth of Kentucky is the best college basketball state in the nation," he said.
McConnell was the student body president at the University of Louisville. He also graduated from University of Kentucky law school.
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"Took to the Senate floor"? Don't these people have anything more important to discuss on the Senate floor than athletics? What about jobs?
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Hey Nurse were you this outraged when Obama showed up on the TeeVee filling out his bracket?
Jesus, get a life.
Hey, WCA, how's the childish tantrum thing working out for you? You seem to be using it a lot lately.
Do you mean like when that moron Harry Reid "Took to the Senate floor" to defend federal funding of a "Cowboy Poetry Festival" in Nevada??
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0311/Reid_Save_federal_funding_for_the_cowboy_poets.html
Geez, Sailcat, I'm not the one who hopped on here to spew outrage over the story.
Your comment seems to be misplaced.
Perhaps you should ask nurse.
Yes, so many Kentucky GOP gas bags, but no way to collect it. I propose we shove a pipeline up their @$$.........
Tell those "BUMS" to get back to work ...These clowns truly need someone who can fire them on the spot for this crap !
Nice to see the gentleman from Kentucky enthused about something. Be nice if he tried to channel some of that enthusiasm towards helping the American people (BTW, prediction for the finals - UK vs Kansas - with UK winning)
McConnell of 'make Obama a one term President' infamy, is no gentleman.
chilled,
Just trying to keep up with Senate protocol.
@phine
I must admit the idea of McConnel enthused is pretty funny.
Maybe if McConnell spent as much time trying to create jobs as he does promoting Kentucky basketball, the hillbilly couch potatoes he represents would have something to do in between games.
But Mike, don't you and your friends hop on here every Friday touting the latest great Jobs report?
A jobs report that has been steadily getting better since the 2010 elections?
Looks like the Republican house is doing exactly what it said it was going to do.
Hey White Trash Auto, McConnell said he was going to make Obama fail. In that respect, he's not doing what he said he was going to do. But keep promoting Kentucky basketball anyway....
Well Mike I'm a Big Ten fan so I'll be rooting for OSU this weekend.
Noticed you didn't have anything to say about the jobs reports.
Man you people are predictable.
BTW it's "Collar" not "Trash". That is one weird spell check program you have. Might want to get it checked.
Alan,
The picture of him getting excited at watching the Kentucky game just boggles my mind! (Although I can picture him sitting in a recliner with a glass of Kentucky Bourbon in his hand!) Mitch McConnell just doesn't appear to be the excitable type. (Of course, I could say the same thing about a lot of the members of the Senate on BOTH sides of the aisle)
"McConnell is a member of the Baptist Church. His first wife was Sherrill Redmon, later divorced, they have three daughters, Elly, Claire, and Porter.
His second wife, whom he married in 1993, is Elaine Chao, the former Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush (the first Asian American woman to serve in the Cabinet).
Senator McConnell's personal fortune was between $9,839,049 to $44,587,000 in 2010 and he was ranked as the 10th wealthiest member of the U.S. Senate."
I guess the old coot got excited about Ms. Chao. I wonder if they used contraception? Did he financially support his three children? Hard to picture 'the turtle' as a playa!
cnilled,
Is it possible the old saying "still waters run deep" may apply here?
Anything is possible, phine.
The winning team gets to wax his shell and feed him lettuce and strawberries. Oh...the humanity.