If, in January 2015, someone had asked me if I could imagine that, in November 2024, the American people would be ready to re-elect as president a man who, on losing his first attempt at re-election in 2020 had summoned a mob on January 6, 2021 with the express purpose of pressuring the U.S. Congress…
Tag: Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell: Farewell to a sh*t
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Mitch! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose,…
Political Notes from All Over
George F. Will, critical race theorist par excellance There was a time when I made a virtual albeit entirely unpaid cottage industry out of making fun of George F. Will, working up such labored funnies as Two-parent families iz da bomb, says Ramblin’ George Will, snickering at the twice married, frequently adulterous when married and…
Mitch McConnell’s “backbone” revealed to be a chocolate éclair! “It’s a miracle”, doctors say.
Surprised? I’m not. Days after Mitch McConnell scornfully denounced President Trump on the Senate floor following the Jan. 6 sacking of the US Capitol, saying the bloodthirsty mob had been “fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth because he was angry he’d lost an election,” Mitch was saying that if Trump won…
Mitch McConnell reportedly working behind the scenes—to continue working behind the scenes
Mitch McConnell forthrightly criticized Donald Trump’s outrageous behavior, both before and on January 6, blaming him for the criminal assault on the Capitol, and then voted against instituting an impeachment trial of Trump in the Senate, on the specious grounds that Trump cannot be tried by the Senate now that he is out of office….
McConnell to Trump: “You weren’t supposed to use me! I was supposed to use you!”
WashPost reporters Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker fill us in on what future historians will undoubtedly refer to as “the Revolt of the Bitches”—the painfully reluctant decision of Vice President Mike Pence not to fulfill President Trump’s demand that his Veep piss all over the U.S. Constitution and unilaterally declare Donald Trump effectively President for…
The Republican Party Has Its Reward
After kissing Donald Trump’s ass for more than four years, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally noticed his mouth was getting dirty. Said McConnell, shortly before all Hell broke loose: We’re debating a step that has never been taken in American history, whether Congress should overrule the voters and overturn a presidential election. I’ve served…
Feuds, Zoom, and Italian Food. Oh, and also bullshit. How Politico makes Mitch McConnell’s slimy deal sound cute.
Paul Krugman, not always my favorite knee-jerk liberal, gets it right: Mitch McConnell spent $900 billion to elect two Republican senators from Georgia, but once the election’s decided, won’t spend a dime to help 300+ million Americans, because economic stimulus only makes sense when a Republican president is in office. Politico, to its discredit, weighs…
Which is worse, kissing a fourteen-year-old girl or torture?
Roy Moore, the kissin’ judge, seems to be just about the limit for a lot of people, everyone from the reptilian Mitch McConnell—“I believe the women”—to compassionate libertarian Nick Gillespie—“Roy Moore and the End of Republican Credibility”—not to mention one-time Republican hitman Rich Lowry—"He can’t quite bring himself to deny dating underage girls”. Of course,…
Ed Rogers, Hustler Without a Hustle, Politique Without a Party
If you had asked me, six months ago, to come up with a name for right-wing K Street cowboy/honcho Ed Rogers, I might have chosen “Smarmy McSmarmface”, or something, well, equally smarmy. But today I think I’d have to go with “Sad Little Man”, which isn’t really a name but does capture the fact that…