Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.

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    I vote we have a law where politicians have to have logos of their sponsors emblazoned on all their suits

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      This. Lawmakers should have to dress in polyester jumpsuits, covered in advertising, just like the folks in “Idiocracy.” If they’re going to BE removed, they might as well LOOK like them.

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      1 year ago

      s/uits/kins

      and now im with you.

      It’ll be awkward when they all have 666 branded on their foreheads though