Mitch McConnell's master class in soulless double-dealing
Or, how to be unkind to rat-vultures
Did you hear Mitch McConnell chortling as he walked away from the podium this afternoon after pulling off his masterful senatorial hat trick? He managed to indict, convict and exonerate Donald Trump – and himself – in a single speech, washing his hands of the disgraced former president on his way back to his office to start making calls to collect from the zillionaire Republican donors for whom he was carrying water.
After McConnell spent the last four years packing the courts of the United States with Trump’s appointees – three on the Supreme Court, 53 on the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and 162 on the District Courts – he voted to find him not guilty in his impeachment trial and then turned around and told us, almost in an aside, well, you can still charge him criminally for what he did in office, and oh, by the way, good luck convicting him with the 220 federal judges he appointed to the federal bench that I confirmed for him.
McConnell stood there on the floor of the senate and gave a class in how you can burglarize a house and get away with it by wiping away your fingerprints and brushing away your tracks as you steal away in the night with your booty.
Mitch is so, so clever! He’s the acknowledged genius of senate procedure! He managed to obstruct nearly everything Obama wanted to do and then enabled everything Trump wanted, including his attempt to overturn the election, standing by Trump’s side right up until the day the Electoral College met and certified Joe Biden the winner, and then he stood on the floor of the senate and bragged how he supported the peaceful transition of power! After Trump tried to overturn the election by loosing his violent horde of racists on the Capitol, Mitch kept the Trump base happy by voting to find their hero not guilty, then he turned around and satisfied his big business Republican donors by stabbing him in the back on his way out of the senate chamber.
Mitch McConnell is the KFC Famous Bowl of soulless hypocrisy, the Egg McMuffin of super-size corruption, the triple-deck Whopper of hollow vacuity. He should be strapped on a scrap of busted Styrofoam with a bag of bloody shark bait tied around his ankles and set out on the Japanese current, and if he survives that, what’s left of him should be staked atop a mound of swarming fire-ants in the Gobi desert and left for the rat-vultures.
Except that would be unkind to rat-vultures.
Right on. Making himself appear honorable (only to the fools who don’t know him) while trying to divert support for trump to himself. He’s all about money and power. It was a master class in devious deception and self interest.
The lowest of the low! From the one who quashed Merrick Garland, another "timetable" case engineered by Mitch himself, we have this Catch 22 in motion: can't start the trial in January when Trump is president, so start in February and then he can vote that the case is unConstitutional because Trump is no longer president. The human time clock! But mock horror at how awful his crimes were and gosh, would be nice to be able to vote a conviction, but just can't on the timetable Constitutional factor!! Time and time again, Mitch, you unprintable guy.