There is no love lost between Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. You can take that one to the bank. George Conway has an encyclopedic memory. Here are a few tidbits he just dredged up, after McConnell made brief remarks in Washington about how Ronna McDaniel should not be picking out individual Republicans for censure in connection with January 6.
One way to look at that comment is that McConnell is hands down against the insurrection at the Capitol and certainly he has gone on record before saying as much.
Another thing to bear in mind is that McConnell respects government as an institution and Trump respects nothing.
absolutely no doubt about it https://t.co/HHT5YcOQfV
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 8, 2022
"I think the fact-finding [by the J6 committee] is interesting. We’re all going to be watching it. It was a horrendous event, and I think what [the J6C is] seeking to find out is something the public needs to know."
— @LeaderMcConnell, Dec. 16, 2021https://t.co/qdXHYrLj9t— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 8, 2022
The only way to do this is to televise hearings, just as they did in Watergate. That all happened in a pre-DVD world, but it was amazing how many people actually saw it live. And of course all the news shows and Sunday shows replayed tapes of it every day and radio stations aired the audio. Transcripts were published in the papers.
Those were the days, my friend, and here we are again. Another GOP president, another scandal. Although I must say, the comparison between Quaker Nixon and Game Show Host Trump ends there. Even Nixon would be disgusted with Trump if he were here to see this. I feel that much is safe to say.
I hope these hearings are televised and gives us a heads up as to when! I’ll have my popcorn and sodie pop ready! 🙂
He should have let them convict the former guy and then remove him from office.
McCONnell wants nothing more than to be majority leader once again and Trump is making that nearly impossible. He hasn’t been able to recruit his chosen candidates in NH, MD or GA. He’s deathly afraid of another election cycle like the one in 2010 when tea party favorites Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell sunk his chances or like in 2012 when nut jobs Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock thought there was such a thing as “legitimate” rape.
He can gaslight and project w/ the best of them, but he is a realist. I’m sure he is kicking himself for not convicting Trump during the 2nd Impeachment. That was his best chance of ridding the party of Trump, but Yertle couldn’t bring himself to figuratively pull the trigger.
Well, I’m sure that, if McConnell so desperately wants to return to the post of Majority Leader, he knew he *couldn’t* get rid of Trump by pressing his caucus to vote outright for impeachment or, at the very least, vote their consciences. The whole of the Party’s caucus elects their Party’s leader (who, in turn, becomes either Majority or Minority leader, depending on the Party’s status in the Senate) and I can just imagine the Trumpies literally calling for his head the day after he made such an announcement. The Trump loyalists in the Senate (well, as “loyal” as one can be to Trump since said loyalty is all opportunism to some degree . . . ) would’ve likely called for an immediate vote among the caucus to replace McConnell. He might’ve survived the vote depending on whose name was put up against him (in fact, that might’ve been the only way for him to survive if too many Trumpies got involved in their own in-fighting as to who was the most pro-Trump so they ended up splitting the anti-McConnell vote) but his overall power would’ve been hurt although little real change would’ve happened in the Senate on a day-to-day basis unless McConnell decided to get his revenge by actually helping get Biden’s agenda through.
He’s afraid of what’s to come for frump & is smart enough to jump on the right side. He’s also hoping everyone will forget his role in letting frump walk on two impeachments etc. He’s evil but he’s no fool. Turtles pull their heads into their shell on instinct.
Turtles aren’t invulnerable.
NOTE: After the WATERGATE public hearings Nixon’s approvals dropped 15 pts and his party lost the midterms.
U mean back when the Republicans had some dignity & some respect for democracy? But, I’m counting on the same. After all we are a TV culture.
How easy it is to remain convinced turtle’s shells are armor against virtually anything, the food product that comes to mind is turtle soup …
McConnell, I suppose, has a few redeeming qualities, probably need a microscope to see any … when he said, in his annoying booming voice, that he was going to stop President Obama at every turn, making him a one-term President, I new for a fact, yertal was indeed, the kind of freak that would hand out candy an trick-or-treat night laced with anti-freeze … /s
At the end of the second impeachment trial of Trump, McConnell said something to the effect that what Trump did regarding the insurrection was horrendous, although he voted for acquittal anyway.