Monkeys typing wrote:
agip wrote:
My point is that MItch is a smart guy and knows a lot of history. He knows what the job of the senate is in terms of balance of power. I can give him a break for sleeping on the first year or two of Trumpism...but his last couple years of passivity have been absolutely inexcusable on his part. He knows the corruption and power grabbing from the WH is bad and that the Senate is supposed to stop it. But he wasn't brave enough to take steps to stop it.
He looked down at his desk and got a bunch of judges approved. And he walked away from the rest of his job, leaving the battlefield to Trump. American Villain.
McConnell has been working for a decade or more to extend the power of the right through judicial appointments. He actively and effectively slowed down Obama's federal judicial appointments and under Trump has gone into warp drive. I think he despises Trump as much as you do, but is so intent on stamping his own legacy that he is blind or indifferent to the collateral damage to government institutions.
The voting population, at least enough of it to have handed control to Trump and McConnell, is fixated on their own wedge issues which the Republicans are particularly effective at exploiting. They are more effective because the are dealing with a more homogeneous electorate than the Democrats can ever hope to have without fundamentally shifting the party platform to something unrecognizable.
The bolded part is the crazy thing...he wants to have a legacy, he wants to be remembered in history books. And he will be...as a yes-man to the worst president in American history. As a yes-man to the most corrupt WH in recent histoy. In seeking a legacy of judges...he's accomplished the opposite. A legacy of toadyism, look-the-other-wayism and corruption. And weakening of the US Senate, the body he swore to protect.