A lot of things are happening in this 2024 election cycle. All attention, understandably, is on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. That’s as it should be, since that’s the key race. But whatever you do, do not minimize some massive changes which are afoot that are carved in stone. Foremost amongst those is that the GOP senate leadership is changing after 17 years regardless of who wins the White House. That’s how long Mitch McConnell has been the leader of the Senate Republican Conference and he is stepping down.
Who will replace him? Who knows? And if this was a less than incendiary presidential race, or if the Republican party wasn’t in shards on the floor, there would be a lot more attention being paid to that particular transferrence of power. The Senate leader for either party is a key Washington player and McConnell has served in that capacity longer than anybody so far. Yet, he’s moving off the chess board with nary a ripple, considering how these things usually go.
However, McConnell is possibly ending his career with one hell of a closer and that is to make Donald Trump look even worse than he already does — and right as the first ballots, but certainly not the last — are being cast in this fateful election. McConnell’s biography, The Price Of Power, is set to drop October 29, one week before Election Day. Tell me that there’s not some passive-aggressive action directed at Trump in that choice of a date? And it’s vintage McConnell. McConnell doesn’t want to tell Trump to his face, or say publicly, what he thinks of him, but he’s sideswiping him on his way out the door. It’s a very old school Republican move to make and considering who he’s making it against, the guy who destroyed what was left of the GOP, it’s tragi/comical.
Though McConnell has hardly made a secret of his contempt for Donald Trump in the past, Axios reports that an upcoming biography reveals how behind closed doors, the veteran lawmaker went as far as backing Department of Justice probes into Trump’s role in the Capitol Riots and his alleged concealment of sensitive government documents.
“If [Trump] hasn’t committed indictable offenses, I don’t know what one is,” McConnell is understood to have told Michael Tackett, deputy Washington bureau chief of the Associated Press, in an August 2023 interview for The Price of Power, due to hit shelves a week before the November election.
“There’s no doubt who inspired [the Jan. 6 riots], and I just hope that he’ll have to pay a price for it,” the Republican leader reportedly adds.
It follows after earlier sneak-peaks at the upcoming book revealed McConnell had privately described Trump as a “stupid”, “ill-tempered”, “narcissit[ic]” and generally “despicable human being.”
Now I know exactly what you’re thinking. If McConnell thinks and feels this way, why did he endorse Trump for president in March? My best answer for you is that it’s because he’s hardwired into the Republican id, a kind of Borg collective consciousness, where no GOPer can think outside the box. To possessors of that hive mind set, you vote for anyone with an “R” behind their name, period, end of story.
Of course McConnell knows what a POS Trump is. How could he not? But there’s still that rush of primal thought, what if Trump could win anyhow? Yes, he’ll likely topple the geopolitical structure and we could all be speaking Russian in ten years, as we’re annexed as a colony, but in the meantime, McConnell’s best instincts tell him, there will be that many more court appointments, maybe even a SCOTUS seat if Republican luck really holds.
And that, too, is vintage McConnell. McConnell knows how to manipulate the levers of power and he knows how politics works. I give him credit for all that. His problem is that he didn’t have enough character to stand up to somebody like Trump, and instead, the Republican party handed over the keys to the coffers to Trump and his corrupt family, without even a whimper.
There was a brief moment, prior to Lara Trump becoming the RNC head, when one Republican in Mississippi was putting together a referendum for the RNC, so that Lara Trump wouldn’t totally be controlling the money. That referendum died quickly and never found its way out of committee. A few weeks later, Lara and Michael Whatley were unanimously confirmed by vocal acclimation to run the party.
Although since then we have heard many rumors that Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles know more about where the money is going than Lara Trump does.
This is how a political party dies. Mitch McConnell didn’t have the moral compass to join with the likes of Dick or Liz Cheney, but he is dropping his literary bomb on Trump the week before Election Day. Considering his character, it’s perhaps miraculous that he’s doing this much. And maybe that’s how we should look at it, as a glass half full proposition.
For Moscow Mitch, the price of power was his soul. Oh and he tossed in his intregrity, honor and whatever remained of his ethics too. A true Republican.
Moscow Mitch never had any of those things! Ever having had any of of them would disqualify him from being republican!!
McConnell is no better than grump. He obstructed Obama during the entire 8 years, stole a Supreme Court seat from him, refused to follow through on grump’s impeachments, now says he’s endorsing him. In back rooms he’s admitted to what a POS he’s endorsing and doesn’t have the decency, integrity or guts to say it out loud. He’s no better and no matter what he writes in his book, he has failed this nation with his extreme partisanship.
There will be no literary bomb. McConnell is still too much of a the kind of pet that purrs to actually say anything against the orange monster. In plain language, he is nothing but a Pussy!
If McConnell were a real man, he’d have forgone endorsing trump. I’m not even saying he had to endorse V.P. Harris or anyone else but he left his manhood on the floor along with any shred of good character he might still have possessed-for him to call trump despicable is like the pot calling the kettle black to say the least. While any criticisms he might make to trump in his little book will make trump apoplectic with rage therefore not a bad thing, I hope he has one hell of a lot of remaindered books.
Naaw, RW McConnell is a filthy bastard. Rotten to the Core!
With McConnell’s deep, dominating voice, he has shown his true colors .. as rainyj above, reminds us, The Turtle, actually said the GOP was the party of NO, also, actually stated he would fight EVERYTHING Obama tried to get done, then, interfered with virtually ALL, messing with the whole system and Obama on everything as the perfect ass hole would …
But anything he can do to aggravate Trump, is a real stab at getting Trump to self-ignite, a final burn as he collapses in front of the whole world … The election results may, in it’s final count, destroy Trump, it will create an amazing turn of events … Trump a babbling nut job, tied to a gurney all the way to an asylum for the criminally insane, I imagine the Judges will grab any property’s value to pay towards his fines and support for his feeble mind at the asylum as a ward of the state …
Funny thing is Ms. Harris and her VP can slide into office without any noise from Vance since he was NOT running for president and the GOP has no time to replace the Orange GAS BAG, with a different leading BS expert … The ballots are already signed and delivered for a rash of our voters, poor Vance will be tied to a ghost restrained for his and everyone else’s safety, a true mess at any rate but, the view is easier on my own mind, Trump in his wheel chair, drooling as usual, running his wheelchair into a wall near the front door, tap-tap-tap, an orderly, grabs the chair and heads him back to his room, “Now Donny, you will fed in a few minutes, wholesome vegetables and brazed fish … If you throw your plate again, we will run your dinner through a blender and you will get a rubber cup and a straw” …
If Don the Con thinks going to a mental lockdown will keep him more safe and comfortable, there is definitely enough time left this month for another October surprise …
Nooooo! Trump must be there for the day/result. We cannot afford any doubt of his rejection by America. Lady MacBeth: Thou has scotched the snake, not killed it.
Oh, Darrel, this has been my wish since tRump came down his schlocky golden escalator! To have him committed to an institution for the criminally insane would be SOOOOO much more satisfying than Reikers! He IS criminally insane, and people in those institutions rarely get out for any reason. Thanks for painting such a clear picture of where tRump belongs. I will hold this thought until this election is over and all the RWNJs melt into the floor like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz!
If they were going to take trump out of action for being loony tunes, he’d be gone already. He has demonstrated multiple times, multiple and multiple times, and still more multiple times, he is a whole choo choo train short of a load. He IS suffering from some sort of dementia and it doesn’t matter which kind, he is no longer cognitively solvent as it were. No, his lack of any cognitive ability serves his financial supporters/pacs very well. They know, just as everyone with a few working brain cells knows, should he get back into the w.h. vance will gather together whoever might be necessary to 25th amendment trump’s ass right on out of there. Having a scumbag like vance standing behind you, heir apparent to the throne, is not a safe or sane move. I’ve said it before, he had a very loyal lap dog in pence, who wasn’t going to step one little tootsie out of line and he did prove that on Jan. 6th even if trump didn’t see it that way. trump has done so many dumb things in his life there is no way to count them all but replacing pence at all but especially with vance was dumb, dumb, DUMB.
That none of trump’s “loved ones” have clued him into this for certain scenario is just one more sign they could give two shits less about him.
Sadly character disorders don’t respond to treatment, and Fat Donnie is a malignant narcissist. I want him in jail or in an ankle bracelet, confined to his FL apartment, able to watch others play golf. He can only have certain visitors, selected by a judge who Jane Loose Cannon. His phone calls require permission and are recorded. He isn’t allowed to give interviews.
And Mar-a-Lardo will become worthless because he was the big draw for 8 years. Even the members from the Pre-Trump era will withdraw, not wanting to be associated with the Biggest Loser.
Doesn’t matter a da*n what he says in the book, what he said and did while Twitler was in office will leave him a legacy no one should want. He’s a vile little turd who should be remembered for holding his nose and hiding in his shell.
Saying one thing in this stupid little book of his and then turning around to endorse/support trump really says something about mcconnell and none of it is good. It is a pathetic end to a long political career during which he garnered a great deal of power and accomplished much. I might not agree one iota with what he has done during his years in office but he sure as shit did a great deal of it.