Posted on 02/28/2024 4:13:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced Wednesday he will step down from his leadership role this fall, citing his age and health.
“One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” the 82-year-old Senate leader said. “So I stand before you today… to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.”
Federalist CEO Sean Davis reported that Senate insiders see McConnell’s decision as both a concession and a power grab.
“Even a growing number of moderates were angry at the chaos he was sowing in the conference,” one senior Senate GOP aide told Davis. “An open rebellion against McConnell was in the works due to his ‘repeated sabotage of Republican priorities and border inaction.'”
McConnell, another aide said, is just trying to get ahead of “a possible defenestration.”
To conservative voters long frustrated by McConnell’s two decades in leadership, it’s long past time to usher in a new generation to the upper echelons of government. McConnell’s blunders leave a legacy of distrust among Republican voters eager for their elected leaders to fight for substantive change. It’s part of why the Kentucky lawmaker persistently polled as the most unpopular politician in the country.
Here are some of McConnell’s worst moments as Republican Senate leader.
One of McConnell’s latest blunders came in the form of a bipartisan spending bill to codify the Biden administration’s open borders into law. Earlier this month, the Republican Senate chief deputized Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford to put forward a $118 billion spending bill with $60 billion for Ukraine and $20 billion for the....
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Blame the rest of them. They pick their leaders with no input from outside.
I think if you read off a list he would just stand there speechless with his mouth open for 2 minutes.
Too late.
The damage is already done.
Exactly..
Not if he sheds these mortal coils first.
Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā ) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.
That sounds abt right.
He and Ronna McDaniel in the same week? Is this a good omen for our side, or an prelude to even worse Republican leadership? Let us pray.
Very glad McConnell is leaving - should have been gone years before.
However, Thune? Cornhole? So many transGOP to pick from. I have no confidence that the transGOPers in the Senate will pick anyone other than a Mitch clone. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
I am glad to see Mitch give up leadership. But, I must tip my hat to him for pushing through Amy Coney Barrett. Whether she is a good, conservative Justice remains to be seen, but it would have been easy for him to not confirm a Justice in an election year. Where would we be with another Biden Justice on the court?
Why does Mitch step down from his Minority Leader position and let someone more able start right now?
ChiCom $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$s.
What a wasted life.
They weren’t blunders. He did it all deliberately.
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There’s that...true.
There’s also all of this - a number of these you posted yourself. And Trent Lott and Bill Frist would never have accomplished this - I recall nothing they did to remember like this - not in a positive sense, anyway:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3813935/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3666187/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3899895/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3898508/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3858897/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3810493/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3813596/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3809881/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3809413/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3808766/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3807902/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3802091/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3841810/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3832362/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3594005/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3551395/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3885234/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3696494/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3694219/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3609318/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3409995/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3542892/posts
” transGOP “
good one .... first time I have seen that.
fits a bit more with the times than rino ..
you know I am stealing it ...... right?
🔝🔝
We all know these are repeated, incessant, deliberate and perverse betrayals.
Fool me once, shame on Turtle. Fool me 1001 times???
got nuthin, we just suck!
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