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A Kentucky Objection to McConnell's Pandering to Millionaires and Billionaires

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When the political mercenaries of American oligarchy jet off to consort with their electoral paymasters, they never imagine that the interactions will have consequences with constituents. The meetings are conducted in secret, the commitments that are made are never supposed to be revealed.

But, as Mitt Romney learned during the 2012 campaign, this is a new political era -- when the old back-room banter about abandoning "the 47 percent" can go public and become the rallying cry for an opponent.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell was learning that Wednesday, as revelations about the top Republican's pledges to serve the agenda of the billionaire Koch brothers came back to haunt him on the campaign trail in Kentucky. Within hours after the revelation of McConnell promising a room full of millionaires and billionaires that he would block minimum-wage increases, the extension of unemployment benefits and student-loan debt relief, his Democratic challenger was signaling that the senator would be held to account at home.

Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic candidate whose populist challenge has made McConnell's re-election race a polling "toss up," responded by linking the incumbent's remarks at the secret session to those of Romney at a secret session in 2012. "I think Mitch McConnell got caught in his 47 percent Mitt Romney moment," she told CNN. "I think it shows the extent and the lengths he will go to to pander to his party millionaires and billionaires at the expense of hurting Kentuckians."

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