Tuesday, September 18, 2007


Mitch Hit by Two Blows in Same Day

UPDATE Below

Not only did today see Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell outed as one of the most corrupt members of Congress, a new poll revealed how deeply unpopular he is in his home state.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released its report Beyond DeLay: The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and two to watch) this morning, Mitch prominent on the list, and lots of gory details.

This afternoon, the Lexington Herald-Leader and WTVQ-36 released more results of its recent comprehensive poll, these revealing that 55 percent of Kentuckians disapprove of McConnell's position on Iraq. Thirty-eight percent approve, and seven percent are undecided.

MediaCzech at BluegrassRoots has the details.

UPDATE, 7:23 p.m.Thanks to corpus juris for noticing that I had typed "Thirty-eight percent disapproved" when of course it should read "Thirty-eight percent approved." Guess all that disapproval of Mitch made me giddy. I have corrected the sentence.