Well, by now you already know the unfortunate but sadly not surprising results of the Kentucky senate races from last year as Mitch McConnell is still in office, ready to use the filibuster at any moment’s notice to thwart all the effort that needs to get done. (I forget, wasn’t he in favor of getting rid of it when the time to confirm Neil Gorsuch came along?) It was also dumb that we saw ads complaining that his opponent, Amy McGrath, was too liberal instead of what could have been a real complaint about her. Some who knew her would call her more of a DINO than too much on the side of liberals.
What Amy McGrath did wrong was largely with her ads. She could have pointed out that Mitch had only three endorsements out of the whole Republican Party. She could have repeatedly pointed out all of the things that weren’t getting done with Mitch in charge. But she didn’t do this in the end leaving many unaware of his inaction. And while she was hardly alone in this, she did not point out the problem with the government shutdown.
It took Mitch all of a few hours after Scalia died to say that Obama shouldn’t get to put a new person on the court due to it being too close to the presidential election when Scalia died in that February. And it took him the same short amount of time to demand that Trump better get to put someone on the Supreme Court when Ginsburg died even closer to the election. He knew that if this didn’t happen, Republican’ts could lose control of the presidency, the Senate, or, as what we would see happen, both.
Mitch has far too much power and control over what he does. Trump could not have done as much as he did without Mitch’s help. I would have rather Trump won and Mitch lost and not just because Trump would be term limited. He won’t even debate someone if a woman is doing the debate at hand, which is quite a problem.
Of course, some people want to vandalize or steal political signs. This is a bad idea and not just because the supporters of said candidate would get a new sign and thus spend money on this person’s campaign. That is why I wouldn’t do that. Plus, you know, it’s illegal to vandalize. One can only hope that people find good ways to deal with this if they are on the receiving end of such a thing with their own political signs.
As the world becomes more woke and deals with racial injustice in a better way, we still have to deal with the fact that although lynching is hopefully much less common today than it was in the past, there still aren’t any anti-lynching bills passed. Both of Kentucky’s senators are to blame for this and I plan to post a reminder of this when Rand Paul is up for reelection next year in 2022. One needs to be done and you should tell your senators of this now in the present.
You know what’s dumb? After all that Mitch has done during the last years of the presidency of Obama by refusing to hold hearings on judges, ensuring that many vacancies remained open when Trump took office, he has the audacity to say that it is the left that wants to pack courts. He has done all of this effort to pack the courts even by putting Barrett on the court and he still wants to complain that it is only the left that packs the court or wants to.
When it comes to the pandemic, Mitch has been dealing terribly with it. The first relief bill might not have happened at all if enough Republicans in the senate weren’t quarantined at the time. The second one happened really late when Trump was a lame duck to make it seem like the senate was doing something. The third one happened without any Republican’ts voting for it. And this is the party that cares about others? Plus, the moment something happens, he then takes credit for something he had nothing to do with. Here’s how they have been handling the pandemic poorly in the present and past.
Then we get to the Post Office crisis which is sadly still ongoing even now. Due to how the Spoils System is sadly alive and well, a Trump donor with zero Post Office experience got to be the highest person in that office and the board of people on the Post Office are all Republican’ts due to Mitch refusing to hold votes on the seats that have to be held by the other party.
At least those in Kentucky have some good news to celebrate with something. But I can’t quite remember what the next two articles are about. I just know that I felt that they were worth sharing at some point in time so I hope that you like them.
Of course, something weird is going on with Mitch or at least had at one point. He already wants to change how the Kentucky governor would appoint a new person to the senate since he must have worries about whether or not he will live to the end of his term on January 3, 2027. I do think that he will leave office that day. It won’t be because he lost reelection or renomination. It will be because he retired from office. But he shouldn’t get to change the laws just because of the fact that he’ll have to deal with the fact that there will be a Democratic governor of Kentucky until at least December of 2023. Plus, as a federal office holder, he shouldn’t be able to tell a state wide office holder how to run his job. Sadly, a veto would be overridden. But there could be some sort of issues still with Mitch’s health. Is it life threatening? Who knows? Maybe he tried to use the resurrection stone, unaware it was a horcrux. Or maybe he made one.
At least Mitch is the minority leader now instead of the majority leader. He probably doesn’t like this and will do whatever he can to reclaim the majority in 2022. I doubt that he will ever be a good and non polarizing figure in politics. We’ll all be better off without him in the future. But until that eventual day when he is out of office, we are all unfortunately stuck with him.
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