That was a Palpatine laugh I've ever heard it
That's what I was saying! It makes sense, given that McConnell basically is Palpatine, if he were a Republican and the Senate Majority Leader. He's one of the most evil men ever to have walked within the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
I don't think he's any more evil than your average Republican Senator or Representative. He's just more shameless (maybe more honest) than the rest.
That's precisely what makes McConnell so detestable. That, and the fact that he is the Senate Majority Leader-and hence has been in the position to push the Republican agenda through and obstruct over the past dozen years.
I don't think he's done anything during that time that any other Senate Republican wouldn't also have done.
In fact, I'm going to play devil's advocate here and argue he's actually done some real good by making the Senate and the federal judiciary more (little-d) democratic. He's destroyed a bunch of norms that were deeply unfair to begin with. Why should a Republican majority confirm a liberal Supreme Court nominee? Just because a sitting justice died on one day and not a few months later? That's arbitrary. Why should Republicans not use the agreed upon rules to pursue the agenda their voters sent them to Congress for? The parties have different values and objectives, and nobody complains about partisanship in other countries' legislatures. If Democrats want a liberal Supreme Court, they should win control of government and make one. If they want to pass laws, they should win control of the Senate and change the rules to make that possible with their majority. It's obscene to expect Republicans to betray their constituencies and help pass the opposition's agenda. Nobody expects Democrats to do that.
The Senate is not a democratic institution by its very nature. Nice try, though.
It should be! And what I'm arguing is that McConnell is nudging it in that direction.
" honestly guys, tearing down centuries of Senate norms and replacing even attempts at bipartisanship with knee-jerk gridlock an attempt to enforce a narrow vanity of the popular will on the large majority is not just McConnell's right, but his patriotic Duty!"
So sad that we got rid of the eye roll icon for posts like this
