It’s long past time for Mitch McConnell to retire, pick up his gold watch and fade away forever. It’s painfully obvious that Mitch isn’t interested in the American people or he’s got a fatal case of DC-itis. Either way, he’s got to go.
On his radio program, Todd Starnes suggested that Mitch McConnell had intentionally sabotaged the House and Senate Republicans’ campaigns in 2022. While I think that isn’t credible, I think it’s easy to prove that Sen. McConnell is out-of-touch with Americans. I also wonder whether he’s willing to play second fiddle to Kevin McCarthy, who will likely become the Speaker come January 3, 2023.
That means McCarthy, not McConnell, will be the lead negotiator on budget bills. That’s got to eat at Sen. McConnell’s ego more than a little bit. McConnell prides himself on being a great negotiator, though I think that’s more ego than statistical reality. The reality is that Sen. McConnell is afraid of government shutdowns. Democrats know this and they use that as leverage against McConnell.
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