The one positive thing I can say for McTurtle is he knows the Senate manual of procedure backwards and forwards and nothing gets done he doesn't want done. He absolutely stonewalled BHO’s legislative agenda after the Gopers got the Senate back. The Turtle is establishment through and through but like his predecessor Byrd he knows his words and music..
That’s because Mitch has been in politics since he was knee-high to a June bug. Dr. Frist only got into politics the moment he declared for the Senate in 1994. He was attacked for not having cast votes for office before he ran. As I said, he was fine as a backbencher, but he couldn’t handle a leadership position against others who had spent their entire lives either in or running for office. Dingy Harry had 4 decades in the political game when Frist had just 1 when he was made Majority Leader.