Editorial,
The Week in Review – Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
04.08.2017
The Senate Majority
Leader is a guy named Mitch McConnell. He is from Kentucky. He has been the
leader of the Republicans in the senate, as the minority leader from 2007, and
as the majority leader since 2015. His career in the senate began in 1984, and
he is his State’s longest serving Senator.
I think he hates the
institution.
His wife Elaine Chou has
served is currently serving as Secretary of Transportation in the fake
president’s administration. She served as Secretary of Labor for George W.
Bush.
I think he hates the Senate,
and all of the institutions of good government, as do the rest of his republican
croonies on the hill, because he has once again moved to undermine them and
make them less relevant.
His tenure as the
Republican leader has been a total disaster for the institution he serves in, and
now he has taken the Supreme Court of the United States with him.
This is a man who cannot see
what is good for the country, beyond what is good for his ideological agenda,
and his ideology is simple. It is not liberal or conservative, it is partisan,
and its aim has one purpose; the concentration of power.
Mitch McConnell does not
love his country, and neither do the rest of the Republican shills who he convinced
to vote to eliminate the filibuster, and forever wipe away the power of the
minority to influence the legislative process.
A precious few of
colleagues have criticized him for this, lamented it in public, Like Senator
John McCain of Arizona, but that old fool voted for with his party anyway.
I am glad he never became
president.
On the evening of Barrack
Obama’s first inauguration. Mitch McConnell met with his Republican team, and
stated that the primary goal of their party was to limit President Obama to one
term.
The country was in a deep,
economic crises. The “Great Recession” was in full effect, and they were not
focused on legislating to fix our problems, they were concentrating on
obstruction.
As the Minority Leader McConnell used the
power of the filibuster to block, or slow down every major piece of legislation
put forward by the Democrats. He used it to block or slow down every
appointment that required Senate confirmation. He did it for years until
finally the Democrats used their Majority power to modify the rules on some
appointments. Mitch McConnell condemned them for this, and then…in 2015 the
republicans took control and he became the Majority Leader. He continued his
pogrom of obstruction, refusing to allow any legislation to come forward that
would be politically beneficial to the Democratic Party, regardless of whether
the country would benefit from it, or the people in his home state.
He was determined that
the Democrats have no victories.
Fourteen months ago
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died. President Obama nominated a man that
most court watchers agreed, was a down the middle centrist. Mitch McConnell
refused to allow that nominee to even have a hearing. He used his power as the
Majority Leader t launch an two pronged attack on both executive power and the
structure of the Supreme Court, and he won.
Then T-Rump took office.
He nominated a man who many people believe is a judicial ideologue, a man who
pretends to be some kind of a constitutional originalist, or textualist or some
such lie, but who also believe that corporations are people and have a right to
influence our elections with unlimited anonymous dollars.
Democratic senators, in
minority, promised to filibuster the nomination, demanding a more centrist
nominee. Mitch McConnell and his Republican ilk, eliminated the filibuster rule,
and made the senate into a place where the majority rules, and rules
absolutely. This is completely contrary to the intentions of the framers of the
constitution.
McConnell did this gleefully,
literally expressing glee that he had taken these steps. “A great day,” he
called it. As the Senate voted to confirm a man to the Supreme Court who plagiarized
his doctoral thesis, and his books in print.
These Republicans do not
care what they destroy to achieve their ends and serve their masters, they are
barbarians, they are the Hun. They will burn the whole thing down, stand in the
ashes and call it victory.
That is what passes for
leadership in the Senate today.
I am glad the Democrats
forced the issue. They are dealing with people who will not compromise. There was
some suggestion that they should wait to pick their battle at another time, as
if the Republicans would ever become more reasonable.
I think it is more
important to pull the mask off and reveal them all for the frauds they are,
fake leaders, managing phony institutions, for a fake president.
God bless America.
