Opinion: Beware Mitch McConnell Post Impeachment
Posted at 4:00 am on February 5, 2020 by Mike Ford I am not generally a Mitch McConnell fan. His litany of sins is long and egregious. He along with Paul Ryan, essentially rolled newly minted President Trump on the first budget, getting him to sign off on a huge deficit increase. He followed that up by interfering in Alabama’s 2017 Senate Republican primary, resulting in the election of a liberal Democrat (Doug Jones) for the first time since 1997.
Having said all of that, an honest pundit (which I do try to be) should give the devil his due. In matters of procedure, process and when it gets right down to it, political hardball, McConnell is the master. Take judicial confirmations for instance. Over at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern writes
The continued churn of Trump’s judicial confirmation machine ensures that the impact of his soon-to-be-tainted presidency will be felt for decades.
Obviously Stern is no fan of the President, but he recognizes the assembly line efficiency of the current judicial confirmation process, a process largely quarterbacked by Majority Leader McConnell. Here is the confirmation score to date:
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https://www.redstate.com/darth641/2020/02/05/opinion-beware-mitch-mcconnell-post-impeachment/
