Thanks to the 2006 and 2008 elections, McConnell has a very weak hand. That will change next year, if conservatives do what they have to do.
Replace them all.
While that's true, the GOP has been thinking tactically while the rats have been thinking strategically as exemplified by the healthcare fiasco. If it doesn't get stopped in the House by Stupak & Co., then I think we'll need a Divine Intervention.
It started in the 1990s after taking over Congress and thinking that if the GOP took over K Street lobbyists, then the GOP would be on easy street. It got worse with Bush and Rove's compassionate conservatism and their expansion of gov't. The GOP was supposed to take over DC for the foreseeable future. After 2004 the GOP had the Senate 55 - 45. It's more than Iraq, Katrina and corruption that they are now at the crappy end of 60 - 40. The biggest other factor explaining it, although particular races can be explained by 3rd party candidates, was spending like drunken sailors.
Then the GOP totally blew it with immigration. Amnesty was supposed to be a one time deal. Fool me once, shame on you. There's not going to be a second chance. Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Republicans oppose giving drivers’ licenses to undocumented immigrants. So do 68% of Democrats and 75% of those not affiliated with either major political party. There is little difference along gender, age, or income levels. IIRC, a Marist or Siena poll in NY had almost an identical result, NY of all places.
I'm not holding it against McConnell personally, but our Senate Minority Leader needs to be able to get in front of a camera like Schumer without being as obnoxious. He needs to say the rats have refused all GOP amendments for healthcare reform.
Senate pubbies have been the epitome of what's wrong with the GOP. The Senate, the world's greatest deliberative body, so they say, is emblematic of the go along to get along BS in DC. Enough is enough already. The rats are led by the hard left and their moderates are really liberals. It's worse than that with their healthcare proposals. These socialists are in bed with big pharma and the insurance companies. McConnell & Co. need to be calling them on it.