With each passing day, Mitch McConnell shows himself to be a more disgraced public figure...

[kentuck]

...and human being.

He let all of this crap happen. He could have stopped it before the first impeachment but he didn't. He could have stopped it after the 1st impeachment if he had chosen. Just as he was heavily critical of Trump after the attack upon our Capitol and the 2nd impeachment, he never did anything about it. He could have. But he didn't.

He is looking like the most disgraced politician in Washington, with the possible exception of Donald Trump.

Mitch McConnell bears a ton of responsibility.

[Botany]

1. Oleg Deripaska, and Moscow Mitch's Kentucky Aluminum plant

Nastya Rybka, Oleg Deripaska, and Moscow Mitch's Kentucky Aluminum plant.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/19/2059096/-Nastya-Rybka-Oleg-Derpipaska-and-Moscow-Mitch-s-Kentucky-Aluminum-plant

Link to tweet

[Champp]

2. Republican Russian stink level approaching Nuclear-Fart level

[Botany]

3. Russia funneled 10s of millions of $ to republicans in 2016 through the NRA

If America's democracy is going to survive we need to out the Russia/GOP/Fox News/QAnon links.

[Champp]

9. Russia is America's sworn enemy

But the Republican greed overcame loyalty to the USA.

Disgusting Republican betrayal of America.

[Botany]

10. Russia is also helping in the spread of anti vaccine madness too.

n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Mitch was bought by the backchannels.

Republicans and good ole boys have something in common. They use their power to use the private sector to make sure money and resources go to the right parties, and then they can spend the rest of the day circumventing and obstructing government process for everyone else.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. "Let this crap happen"?

Mitch was an active participant. Long time participant.

I believe charges are in order.

[kentuck]

5. Yes, he was a participant..

But, as their leader, he could have stopped much of it.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. What is Mitch approval ratings in Kentucky?

He needed their help to get elected. He didn’t want to stop any of it. His traitorous behavior is how is gained/holds power.

Active. Witting. Participant.

[TxGuitar]

17. Stopped?

He was probably one of the main architects.

[Bev54]

7. Ass far as I am concerned he owns it all!

He could have shut Trump down in the beginning, instead he used him to get his wife a position of power to further enrich her, her family and of course himself. It is all power and money. He is responsible for Trump having the power he did.

[Hortensis]

11. True. But I believe he's been heavily involved for a long time in a plot

to install an authoritarian government controlled by an ultrawealthy RW ruling class. Probaby of faux-democracy type; some people like to complain that's what we have anyway, no resistance there. Those he's thrown in with are far bigger powers than tRump, though not bigger than the RW voters who slipped their leash to elevate tRump as their leader. Only temporarily, though, until they get control.

And they have been doing well. Overall, the RW powers have been able to turn both populist rebellions (against them!) to their advantage, accelerating their takeover.

So my take is that it was not a case of whether McConnell could have, but rather how he and his cabal needed to handle onrushing events to their best advantage. For now they must have the support of trupist voters.
But potentially having to answer to, and survive, a depraved, extremely vindictive dictator foisted on them by their out-of-control populist base was never their plan.

[CentralMass]

14. +1

[fescuerescue]

12. Except he still has a huge amount of power

Usually disgraced public figures lose all their power.

Not this guy.

wth.

[dutch777]

13. He knows no shame and it will all be without penalty

KY keeps electing him (and Rand Paul) and he will die rich with many lauding his name. Sad commentary but it is why we are where we are.

[maxsolomon]

15. "Death needs time for what it kills to grow in"

-William S. Burroughs

McConnell uses obstruction, anodyne language, inaction, & silence to achieve his aims. He is rarely explicit.

Short term, he wants a GQP Senate Majority, but I don't think he cares about the House or Presidency as much. He knows where the Power to stop progress actually lies, and where it is achievable. The antiquated Senate.

He also cares that the GQP remains viable in the long term. To that end, he holds Trump at arm's length, but won't engage him directly. You rarely beat Trump by getting into the sty with him. Mitch is putting him out to pasture, s l o w l y and carefully.

It would be good if he passed peacefully in his sleep, around the same time as Trump does the same. I will not mourn either.

[lame54]

16. He wants to see it before he dies

[marble falls]

18. So, after 40 years or so, is he approaching bottom yet?

[bullwinkle428]

19. To paraphrase Shrub - "Who cares about how history judges me - I'll be dead

at that point!"

Mitch couldn't give a happy monkey fuck about anything other continuing to get re-elected, which he manages to pull off every cycle, and amassing more power. Nothing else means a thing to him.