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From Daily Kos: Moscow Mitch's shameless crocodile coronavirus tears over Kentucky campaign fall short

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By JOAN McCARTER

Moscow Mitch has proven himself willing to mess around with your life and health during this time of global pandemic. He's taken his own sweet time—and the nation's time—in having the Senate act on the second big coronavirus response bill from Nancy Pelosi's House. True to form, however, he has a great sense of urgency when it comes to his own political skin.

McConnell is politicizing the crisis at home in Kentucky, asking likely Democratic challenger Amy McGrath to suspend running campaign ads for the duration of the pandemic. "Amy McGrath’s decision to blanket the airwaves with deceitful ads during the coronavirus outbreak is tasteless and shameful," says his campaign manager, Kevin Golden. As if McConnell postponing a vote on a pandemic response bill for three days and counting so he could take a victory lap on getting another unqualified federal judge on to the bench wasn't tasteless and shameful.

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