Yeah, I should be happy. Two things that I wanted to happen so much that I was afraid to say that I wanted them to happen—the collapse of the Republican attempt to repeal ObamaCare and the victory of presumptive senator Roy “Super Bigot” Moore1 in the Alabama Republican primary—have happened. But I’m still not happy,…
Tag: Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell’s pathetic ego versus Donald Trump’s pathetic ego
In the annals of ignominious pusillanimity1, few events gleam with a more sickly hue than the recent spat between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump over who was “more” responsible for the “not repeal and not replace” ObamaCare debacle a few months back. It’s only “fitting”, I suppose, that Donnie was “right”:…
Thank you again, John McCain!
Every Republican with a conscience—that is to say, all seven of them—must be down on their knees thanking John McCain for putting what is very probably the last, or at least penultimate, nail in the coffin of the Republican’s grotesque “ZombieCare” bill, so named because the only people who would benefit from its enactment are…
Mitch McConnell, boneless or soulless? Or both?
Winston Churchill, clearly in a bitchy mood, once said of Labor Party Leader Ramsey MacDonald “I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum’s Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The…
The silence of the Donald, the pusillanimity of the Republicans
Okay, Donald Trump hasn’t been entirely silent. “Trump proposes a law that’s existed for 20 years”, snickers USA Today with well-earned glee, reporting on our president’s proposed crackdown on free-loading legal immigrants, who, naturally, aren’t free loading at all. Then there’s his epic links “faux pas”—running his golf cart onto a green because he’s too…
Meaner than a snake and smarter than one too: Inside the mind of Mitch McConnell
I once called Mitch McConnell a “reptilian vote-counter”. Well, that insult still goes, because it’s true. Mitch can count votes, and here’s what he comes up with. The last time the Republican candidate for president won an “honest” majority was George H. W. Bush in 1998. And if George H. W. ran today, he’d get…
Mitch McConnell, Absolute Asshole
For a glimpse at DC ego in action, check out Kentucky Sen. Mitch “Mitch the Bitch” McConnell berate, belittle, and bedrabble AEI policy nerd Norman Ornstein for having the temerity to ask the senior senator from the Bluegrass State, aka “the Chinless Wonder,” a question he didn’t want to answer. I suppose that a right-wing…