Mitch McConnell fundraising on killing filibuster reform

So much for comity and bipartisanship and a new era in the Senate.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) campaign is touting what it characterizes as the senator's work to stop filibuster reform in a new fundraising pitch that proclaims, "We beat the liberals.

"A group of the Senate's most liberal senators, fueled by left-wing groups like MoveOn, have been pushing a dangerous scheme to change the rules of the United States Senate and fundamentally alter the checks and balances of our system," the email, written by campaign manager Jesse Benton, reads.

He goes on to declare that McConnell "stopped that scheme dead in its tracks." [...]

He goes on to make a plea to "help me give him a little pat on the back right now" by way of a small donation.

In other words, "keep me in the Senate, and I'll keep that Muslim Kenyan president from getting anything done." That's the way to hold off a teabagger primary challenge, I guess. And to assess how serious McConnell is about working with Harry Reid.