Mitch McConnell Slithers Off Into The Sunset
FOTP News in Review for . . . Sunday, April 28th, 2024
My father used to say about people like Mitch McConnell: “What happened to him? The charm school he went to must have gone out of business.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who stays away from Sunday morning talk shows more than Stephen Fry skips church, stopped by NBC’s Meet the Press — Host Kristen Welker, more accurately, stopped by his crib — to . . . well, it’s tough to know what he was doing or why he agreed to do come on the show.
(“Mitch McConnell” and “crib” should never occupy the same graf. Sorry. Won’t happen again.)
“Well, it is a honor to have you,” said Welker at the start of the interview.
Really, Kristen? It’s a honor to interview this profile in courage?
Despite leaning toward convicting former President Donald Trump of incitement of an insurrection following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell later backed down after realizing that his Republican colleagues weren't on the same page."If this isn't impeachable, I don't know what is," he told two longtime advisors over a Chick-fil-A lunch in Kentucky on January 10, 2021, the book says.
He then not only didn’t encourage his caucus to impeach Trump, he didn’t even vote to impeach him.
"I didn't get to be leader by voting with five people in the conference," McConnell told a friend, the book says.
Fuck Democracy. It’s too much work wrangling votes.
Maybe it’s a small matter but NBC apparently didn’t like Welker gushing over McConnell, for it omitted how honored Welker was from the official transcript of the show.
(That framed “Reagan Bush’84 . . . McConnell” on the shelf should be a reminder, too, if such reminders were necessary, that the good old days of Republican Party weren’t that good, either.)
The senator announced in February he was stepping down from GOP leadership, saying at the time, “One of life’s most under-appreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” he said. “So I stand before you today ... to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.”
Such is the corrosion in the GOP these days, we might miss him.
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