After handily steering a majority of his party away from convicting former President Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol last month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Monday to clean up lingering questions about the GOP’s morally dubious decision to effectively let Trump off the hook.
Embarrassing pet stain.
What’s so hard Mitch… the answer is cowardice.
“The nation needs real constitutional champions, not fair-weather institutionalists”
Mitch… wrong again, the nation needs fewer assholes (i.e. Republicans in office)
More false equivalence. That’s the only thing Republicans these days can use in an argument. Honest history will not be kind to him or his party.
I personally will never forgive him for his role as Senate majority leader of allowing the US covid-19 fatality total to be as high as it is owing to the lack of respect of best medical practice and scientific approaches to fighting the virus. If there was a political issue, openly speak about it and make your point of view known. But he and the party were cowards.
But he used Trump to enact the far right agenda with respect to the judicial system and the suppression of voting rights, both of which are necessary in order for the Republican Party to remain relevant as demographics are working against them and they know it.
Sorry, I have no personal or professional respect for Mr. McConnell - he is what is wrong with this country. Too many people in this country will continue to pay the price for his lies and leadership.
I am so confused - Mitch never worried that much about explaining his totally ludicrous actions before. It is the first time I can remember him trying to take a genuine moral stand, and obviously he does not actually know what that is and is having a very hard time trying to fake it.
Keep talking, McConnell. That hole is not as deep as we want to see it. I can still see the top of your pointy head.
Just wait!! I’m sure the proof of the massive fraud about which Trump so helpfully informed the nation is lurking out there! All will be revealed!!!
This guy got bamboozled, but like so many of a con man’s marks, he still hasn’t figured it out:
Eshelman told the Post he still thinks there was “some misbehavior” in the presidential election.
When you’re explaining, you’re losing. Keep explaining, Mitch.
Our job was to defend the Constitution and respect its limits. That is what our acquittal delivered.”
That’s weird, 'cause I thought it delivered an emboldened authoritarianism in American life, an invitation for further insurrection, and a sealing of your fate as the Senate’s most craven and opportunistic amphibian*.
ETA: *reptile, dammit.
McConnell doesn’t know what circular logic means, does he?
Moscow never had any honor. Now he’s quartering to try to create the illusion that he ever had any.
It won’t work, Moscow. Everyone knows who you are.
Trying to justify his acquittal vote to GOP donors to stop them from fleeing the party. Trump is toxic outside of the MAGAverse, so McConnell is trying to square that circle with the donor class.
Moscow Mitch is the kind of soulless cynical unpatriotic scumbag who has no core beliefs. He just says stuff. I never believe a word he writes or spews.
Trying to hang on to both the MAGA crazies and the moneyed “traditional conservatives” is always going to produce some gyrations that look an awful lot like a game of Twister. “Dignified” is not the word that comes to mind.
Total bull on McConnell’s part. The Democratic House Impeachment team proved conclusively that being “out of office” is irrelevant to the impeachment process. Wasn’t he listening?
Nice setup, by the way. To have plotted this fig leaf even before the House started its impeachment discussions. “The House delivered the articles too late.” Because he adjourned the Senate and refused to call it back, despite the national emergency that saw 30,000 troops stationed around the Capitol to protect the Congress and the transition of power.
Then Mitch attempts to cement his place in history by a blistering, well-documented excoriation of Trump – while simultaneously propping him up. People just read the words, ya know. They don’t bother with context. Like Trump’s mouthpieces parsing the dead text of Trump’s incitement speech.
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time … and that’s the Republican base. It remains to be seen whether Republicans can fool all of the people all of the time, however.
“The nation needs real constitutional champions, not fair-weather institutionalists,” McConnell said, swiping at Democrats. “The Senate’s duty last week was clear. It wasn’t to guarantee a specific punishment at any cost. Our job was to defend the Constitution and respect its limits. That is what our acquittal delivered.”
You know how to defend the Constitution and respect its limits while applying a specific, Constitutionally sound punishment? By filing a bill that asks the Congress to act on Section Three of the Fourteenth amendment: this would disqualify the man you say is responsible for the attack on the country. My guess is that he isn’t interested in that, and that his caucus would rebel.
McConnell insisted that the Constitution’s text is “unclear.”
Well, “advice and consent “ is pretty clear and you ignored it for Merrill Garland, so why act now as if something that is not clear is clear to you?
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Yeah, there was “some misbehavior” all right — but all on the GQP side, you know, the side he gave money to.
What’s this? Someone actually calling McConnell to account? Why, he’s gotten away with whatever he’s wanted to for decades where everyone just shrugged and said, “Well, he’s the most powerful man in DC whaddya gonna do?” He’s got Koch’s, ALEC and Lord knows what else owning all Rs in the state poisoning that well all to hell. Now he wants the state leg to pass a law that says if he retires or dies, the Dem Gov. must replace with an R. And they’ll get that with their toxic super majority. I say have some Dem change their registration to R and put that person in if they’re going to do that.