{"id":4710,"date":"2010-08-06T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/08\/mitch-mcconnell-reminded-that-everything-is-saturday-night-live.html"},"modified":"2010-08-06T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T12:06:00","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-reminded-that-everything-is-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/08\/mitch-mcconnell-reminded-that-everything-is-saturday-night-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell reminded that everything is Saturday Night Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">Despite<\/span> desperate attempts to maintain a level of maturity in an increasingly <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\"><span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">pre<\/span><\/span>-pubescent society, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/40733\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\">was reminded by freshman senator Al <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\"><span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Franken<\/span><\/span> that the modern <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">approach<\/span> to debate should involve behavior honed on the hardened battle plains of <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">kindergarten<\/span>. Of course, the <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\"><span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">MSM<\/span><\/span> chalks this up to the whole Senate needing a break from not getting things done, rather than the adolescent maturity levels one has come to expect from certain national leaders: <\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502331185976612482\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_J1G_DOabPa0\/TFw1D6CwloI\/AAAAAAAAAGE\/qEKk5JWCELQ\/s320\/alfrankenbunny.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:85%\">P.S. I know the pic\u2019s a cheap shot, especially since he did, at least, apologize. But if Senator <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Franken<\/span> would stop acting the part, he would stop inviting the references. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite desperate attempts to maintain a level of maturity in an increasingly pre-pubescent society, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was reminded by freshman senator Al Franken that the modern approach to debate should involve behavior honed on the hardened battle plains of kindergarten. Of course, the MSM chalks this up to the whole Senate needing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mitch McConnell reminded that everything is Saturday Night Live<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Despite desperate attempts to maintain a level of maturity in an increasingly pre-pubescent society, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was reminded\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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