Good Riddance, Leader McConnell

[Zorro]

The judgment of history will be damning.

By Jennifer Senior

So tell me, Mitch, in these, your final hours as Senate majority leader: Were the judges and the tax cuts worth it?

Were they worth the sacking of the Capitol? The annexation of the Republican Party by the paranoiacs and the delusional? The degradation, possibly irremediable, of democracy itself?

Those close to him say that Mitch McConnell has his eye on his legacy, now more than ever. But I wonder whether he already understands, in some back bay of his brain where the gears haven’t been ground to nubs, that history will not treat him well.

McConnell may think that the speech he gave on the Senate floor on Jan. 6, objecting to the election deniers, will spare him history’s judgment. It will not. It did not make him a hero. It simply made him a responsible citizen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/opinion/good-riddance-leader-mcconnell.html

[enough]

1. Yes, the judges and the tax cuts were worth it to him. What else matters? NT

[Glorfindel]

2. Yes, the old demon said his main job was to make sure

that Obama was a one-term president. He failed miserably at that, so nothing else matters except judges and tax cuts. I would wish that he'd resign, but Kentucky would just elect someone worse.

[Nitram]

3. The judges may very well have been worth it. They will be with us for decades.

And there's not danger they will turn out to be closet leftists. They were chosen for their ideology, not their legal qualifications and expertise.