Mitch McConnell, 82, has five of nine lives left, sprains wrist in fall

 Mitch fell in 2019 and broke a shoulder, requiring surgery.

Last year he fell and was hospitalized with a concussion.

Mitch is a childhood polio survivor who in the US Senate saw to it that Trump's appointments to the Supreme Court were confirmed.

 

 

The US Senate Republican election of John Thune over John Cornyn and Rick Scott to Majority Leader isn't surprising except to MAGAs who can't imagine that Thune beat Trump in South Dakota by 37,785 votes in 2016

 Thune has been dutifully serving Mitch McConnell for years and has the seniority and credibility demanded by his colleagues.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

 

 

Judicial overreach drives Trump critics within the GOP to support him, including Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Mike Pence

 Even former Trump Vice President Mike Pence, who has refused to endorse Trump, called the verdict an “outrage.” ...

“He might win in a landslide,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) last month about the political impact of a guilty verdict on Trump’s chances in the general election. “It looks so awful.”

Paul noted that New York’s statute of limitations had expired on Trump’s falsification of business records, which forced Bragg to combine them with campaign finance violations to bring his case forward.

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Senator Mitch McConnell, 82, will step down from his GOP leadership position in November

 WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November. ...

McConnell’s path to power was hardly linear, but from the day he walked onto the Senate floor in 1985 and took his seat as the most junior Republican senator, he set his sights on being the party leader. What set him apart was that so many other Senate leaders wanted to run for president. McConnell wanted to run the Senate. He lost races for lower party positions before steadily ascending, and finally became party leader in 2006 and has won nine straight elections.

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Mitch was 64 when he took over in 2006.

Senator John Thune, 63, is a favorite to succeed him.

Republicans want the guy who got them the Supreme Court to resign

 

Nearly Two-Thirds in GOP Think McConnell Should Resign

Brady Knox, DC Examiner

Conservatism in Congress is insignificant: Some revolt, huh?

 

McConnell Overcomes Senate GOP Leadership Challenge in 37-10 Vote 

Kevin McCarthy beats far-right challenger 188-31 to lead House GOP

Ann Coulter says Republicans shouldn't waste their time defending their incumbents or primarying them, just vote for the Democrat

 Spending energy, time, volunteers [on primaries] is a zero-sum game when it comes to campaigns. We can not waste our time defending incumbents. As bad as Republicans are, there are a lot of bad Republicans, but there are no good Democrats. So do not primary an incumbent. Do not waste the time and money.

Here.

Yeah, well, we wouldn't have the Manchin reconciliation bill in the first place if Trump hadn't screwed Perdue and Loeffler in Georgia

 Trump: Dems Played McConnell "Like a Fiddle" on Reconciliation Bill

Trump should just shut his yap already and GO AWAY!

 

Mitch McConnell flies to Ukraine hot on the heels of Nancy Pelosi, so when's Peter Meijer going?

 

Cocaine Mitch to Dems: You want to spend $3.5 trillion without us? Then raise the goddamn debt limit without us, too.

 

Democrats are squealing like pigs over Cocaine Mitch's supposed Supreme Court hypocrisy, but there isn't any

Americans put Republicans in control of the US Senate again in 2018, with Trump in the White House, so Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for what's about to happen, and Harry Reid in particular for trashing the filibuster rule for judicial appointments.  

From the story here, which explains it all:

The reason is simple, and was explained by Mitch McConnell at the time. Historically, throughout American history, when their party controls the Senate, presidents get to fill Supreme Court vacancies at any time — even in a presidential election year, even in a lameduck session after the election, even after defeat. Historically, when the opposite party controls the Senate, the Senate gets to block Supreme Court nominees sent up in a presidential election year, and hold the seat open for the winner. Both of those precedents are settled by experience as old as the republic. Republicans should not create a brand-new precedent to deviate from them.

Rick Wilson, a Republican who supports Joe Biden and opposes Mitch McConnell, had some amusing opinions about them both in the recent past

 

Cocaine Mitch gonna rip up Nancy's Articles of Impeachment today

Senate Republicans believe they have the votes to prevent calling witnesses Democrats should have called in the House, McConnell preparing to wrap it up on Friday

Story.

The time for witnesses is past: McConnell should call the bluff of the Senate's Bolton Republicans and dare them to vote to remove Trump

Matt Taibbi: Bernie Sanders "poised to receive the same kind of bump Trump got in 2016 from media stupidity"

Here in Rolling Stone.

I don't think so.

Biden's lead today over Sanders is 8 points, higher than it was in March 2019 when Sanders peaked at 24.0 in the polls. Sanders is at 20.4 now.

No one has been able to dirty up Biden enough to bring him down. Meanwhile both Bernie and Warren have brought themselves down by their own radicalism.

And now the revenge of Nancy Pelosi's impeachment will sideline the radicals for a while, just as Iowa prepares to vote.

The radicals' only hope is a quick trial from Cocaine Mitch.

Everyone on the Democrat side who wants to drag out this impeachment is on the side of sidelining the radicals.

Cocaine Mitch's offer to Speaker Pelosi

Cocaine Mitch has the power to drag Joe Biden kicking and screaming and compel his appearance before the US Senate, which would be highly entertaining

McConnell can't do anything relative to impeachment because the House hasn't followed through

Technically there is no impeachment until the House gives the Senate the articles.

So, as far as the Senate is concerned, nothing has happened.

If the Senate acts in any way other than to pretend nothing has happened, it will be muddying the constitutional waters. 

Trump should go golfing with Mitch. Or better yet, to the horse races.

It's more complicated than Mark Levin says: Sean Davis points out Senate rules require articles of impeachment to be delivered by House managers to the Senate, and changing those rules is too heavy a lift

Nancy Pelosi is a wily devil. She already knows how to use the rules against the Senate.

Seems like quite a vulnerability in the balance of powers which she is exploiting to grab the power for the House over the Senate and the presidency.

Ask yourself who benefits from the 22nd Amendment? And the 16th?

We have the tyranny of the legislative, despite the founders' many warnings.

McConnell must go nuclear to fix this, but probably will not. The gravity of the situation certainly calls for it, but the political toxicity would be just horrific.