With the news of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) imminent retirement Wednesday, we’re left to examine the legacy of someone who has forever changed our government.
He wanted a Court that would deliver a modern version of Dred Scott, and he got it.
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
The oft-repeated phrase, “Fuck Mitch McConnell” comes to mind today.
At one point, Elaine Chao actually thought that was a good idea.
So glad Garland waited 2 years to start the investigation.
I don’t understand why everyone says Bragg’s case is weak. He literally has tangeranus’ signature on the check. Am I missing something?
Thanks a lot! I used to enjoy rainbow sherbet.
Bravo, Kate. Bravo. That is some damn fine writing.
I don’t know that people say it’s weak, so much as that the penalties are largely meaningless. Even if he gets convicted, he would face a fine* and probation, most likely.
* though a fine of any size could be an issue for him at this point.
Fuck Mitch. I hope he dies, so I can piss on his grave.
Thanks, Kate. Even though it is well known, it deserves to be said. McConnell may not have broke the Constitution, but he bent it mightily in ways that would embarrass most used car salesmen.
He helped mold a Republican party defined not by its own policy aims, but by thwarting the opposition.
In this, he was following the orders of the donor base to make no progress toward deflating their buried assets. He did okay by that standard. But Trump’s base does not have the same love of stasis. Policy has less interest for those who simply want revenge.
I wonder how bad it would have been for the GOP if McConnell had ripped off the bandaid in 2021. My own opinion is that they would have maybe maybe not retaken the House in 2022 but would have recovered by 2024.
You can also thank Merrick Garland for this disaster. He sat on his hands and did everything he could to delay actually bringing this case. This is much a failure of Merrick Garland as it is anyone else.
Remember when he froze at those press conferences?
I think we all know that he sharted.
No. It’s not. Don’t both-sides this shit.
Ask not for whom the knife is whetted, it is whetted for thee.
Not changed so much as damaged but the turtle is pulling his head into the shell now.
Mitch is a small man who played big dog a long time – exercising power, kicking ass and enriching himself pretty much at will – but his back is exposed now so he’s reducing the size of the target there by leaving his official leadership position. There is one thing small men truly hate and that is being successfully challenged and their real stature exposed.
McConnell’s animus towards Obama and Obama’s partner, Biden, seemed particularly acute; e.g., attempting to limit Obama to a one-term president while killing his historic healthcare policy, blocking his appointments and packing the courts with reactionary judges, etc. I’ve always wondered if, like Trump, there was more than racial animus involved: an outraged ego over some slight perhaps? ISTR an incident while Obama was senator where Obama apparently confronted McConnell on some matter, buttonholing him in the senate hallway; perhaps that was it.
Or Mitch is just a dick. Whatever, good riddance. So much for legacy.
I would type something lucid, but I’m too furious.
The SC decided the case of Nixon’s tapes – over the summer! – three weeks after hearing arguments and less than three months after Sirica asked them to intervene. This Supreme Court (and we know which portion) can’t even go to the bathroom without dragging its feet over the proper toilet paper.
The orange guy has truly broken this country (with help from dutiful, fair-minded bureaucrats like Merrick Garland).
