McConnell had better enjoy being minority leader. Come 2023 he will be just Senator McConnell for his last four years. In politics emotion is an expensive luxury, a lesson an old pol like McConnell should have learned long ago.
At War With McConnell
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Well said Mr. President. Most of this is news to me and probably many others. McConnell is only out for McConnell.
Well Baris & Barnes keep saying GOP inc believes Trump is holding them back. (And some out there believe them.)
Guess next year we’ll see for sure. I know I’m not betting against Don.
This is McConnell. He repeatedly caves on core issues and lies. He almost was replaced in the primary process several years ago. BTW, if you want to read some fishy backgrounds, read up on his wife’s family.
JFK, any suggested links? Thanks.
McConnell’s remarks were another indication, in case you needed one, of how insular and self-centered is Congress. One thing I regret is that Kentucky Republicans did not hit the eject button on him in 2014.
I’m a Sundance skeptic, but his interpretation of the man is one to consider.
There’s a school of thought about Congress that Representatives are primarily responsive to constituents and Senators are primarily responsive to donors. Another argument to return election of senators to the state legislatures.
@Art Deco – As a kentucky republican… I don’t have much excuse.
“I’m a Sundance skeptic, but his interpretation of the man is one to consider.”
But I do not understand what in the world that sentence of yours means. What the heck does a film festival have to do with interpreting a man?
https://thedailycoin.org/2021/02/15/mitch-mcconnell-deployed-his-anti-trump-ploy-in-the-exact-same-manner-he-deployed-against-the-tea-party/
Sundance is the moderator of The Conservative Treehouse. He maintains that McConnell prefers life as minority leader as his business model is optimal with 45-49 senators. Sundance is of the view that McConnell is essentially a bribe broker and that 1/3 of the Senate Republican caucus is for sale. The filibuster is crucial to his game. He’ll provide the extra votes for the Democrats to accomplish their business in return for cash and prizes. It sounds outlandish, but no more so than the nonsense we’ve been subjected to for the last several years.
The three things I liked best about the Trump years (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett) were McConnell’s doing. He held off the Garland vote, kept the Republican Senate together during the Kavanaugh chaos, and managed to get Barrett in despite his Garland move. The pro-life movement owes more to McConnell than to Trump, who just picked three names off a Federalist Society list.
In this open letter, Trump shows just how beautiful the Art of the Insult can be when it is pointed at the right target.
True then. True today.
Twain, “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” And, “Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
Re: The Constant Lies About 6 January.
One of the left-wing activists facing criminal charges for his involvement in the so-called Capitol riots received $35,000 from both CNN and NBC for footage he recorded of a Trump supporter being fatally shot inside the Capitol building, according to records he filed in federal court on Tuesday.
From Instapundit, The razor-wire barrier, military vehicles blocking streets and National Guardsmen manning checkpoints are going to remain in place at least until the Fall, Tristan Justice of The Federalist notes.
So, remember last summer when Antifa and Black Lives Matter were burning down cities, assaulting a federal courthouse, destroying police precinct headquarters and beating Trump supporters on the streets of the nation’s capital?
That was when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi accused National Guardsmen dispatched to protect the courthouse in Portland, Oregon, of acting like “storm troopers.”
But that was then and everything changed on January 6. Now, the Capitol looks like an armed camp. Madama Speaker will only give up those guardsmen when, to paraphrase Charleton Heston, they are pried from her cold, dead fingers (speaking metaphorically, of course).
The three things I liked best about the Trump years (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett) were McConnell’s doing.
I loved how McConnell and Ryan made getting the wall built a priority. And his militant response to judicially-imposed homosexual pseudogamy. And his yeoman efforts to kill off corporate welfare (like the ExIm Bank).
Ah. Now I get you, @Art.
Though I do not believe the theory is as outlandish as you think.
Destroy the GOP
The Democrat Party would love that.
The problem isn’t ‘the Republican Party’ as a whole, but with the Capitol Hill – K Street nexus and some equivalents in state capitals (e.g. Brad Raffersperger). We’ve also seen that the political journalists in the Acela corridor have been (more often than not) quite alienated from ordinary Republican voters. (George Will is the echt example of this). Fully 70% of the House Republican caucus voted to leave the odious Liz Cheney in her position; she should have received 5%. Keep in mind that the thesis that characters like McConnell and Cheney and Ben Sasse are advancing is witless and is only advanced because (1) they’re contemptuous of the people to whom they are speaking or (2) they’re so steeped in the stupidities of their social circle that they’ve stopped noticing they’re not making sense. (My wager would be that Sasse is category 1 and Dr. Numbnutz from Louisiana is category 2).
One thing that disconcerts is when you hear that McConnell and McCarthy have collected a lot of chits through fundraising and candidate recruitment. Both seem odd activities for the congressional floor leaders. What do we have the national and state committees for but to do this?