US Senator Mitch McConselle (R-KY) gives his thumbs to the nomination of Tulsi Gabard as director of President Donald Trump’s national intelligence in Senate House on February 12, 2025 in Washington, Columbia District.
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It is difficult to say that about a delicate politician in a wheelchair, at the dusk of his political career and his life, which is finally trying to do something decent. Approaching 83, suffering from many health problems, giving way to the leadership and probably does not work, the former leader of the majority of Senate Gop Mitch McConsuel suddenly collected integrity to vote against some of the worst nominees Donald Trump, including Minister of Defense, Director of the National Tulsi Gabbard intelligence, and on Thursday the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy -Younger. In Gabard and Kennedy he was a single republican vote “No”.
It is difficult not to consider this as a belated attempt to save his political heritage after a 40-year-old career in the Senate to understand that he is not behind the worst trump, now that Trump is expanding the possibilities of fascists and future flowers, not to mention people, who do not qualify for their positions (and this includes the acting President Elon Musk). I am a pretty forgiveness person, more ready to welcome Republicans on the popular front against Trump – even Liz Chenya – than many of my colleagues on the left. McConnell tragic performance. But I cannot collect mercy to praise Senator Kentucky for a belated and useless prowess. When he had tight control over the Senate Republican, he did not use his power against Trump. Now that it is powerless, it makes the Quixotic Feints with integrity and independence. This is not convincing.
All because Mitch McConsol alone is a republican who is most responsible for the absorption of his party’s Trump. It began when it expanded the powers of the worst (at the time) elements of GoP as Barack Obama was elected president. Before the average terms of 2010, he said“The most important thing we want to achieve is President Obama to become a simultaneous president.” He refused to repel to Trump’s racist statement that Obama was not born here and thus was an illegitimate president, saying that he had accepted the “word” Obama, which silently ignored that there was proof that Trump was lying.
And although McConselle was unable to refuse Obama of the second term, he effectively reduced him for the whole year, when he brazenly blocked the appointment of President Merick Garland for the success of the über-conservative Antonina scoli in the Supreme Court in January before Obama left his post. He abandoned his argument in 2016, advanced through the Conservative Christian lawyer Amy Horse Barrett to replace Ruth Badard Ginsburg not a year before the 2020 elections, which Joe Biden won.
When Obama received his appointment, he had the right, and Biden replaced Ginsburg when he took office in 2021, the Democrats will have a majority of 5-4 Supreme Court.
The McConella’s judgment guaranteed that Trump received three Supreme Court elections in his first term, and that 6-3 conservative majority not only overthrew Rooe v. WadeConstitutional abortion protection but also found last year that Trump used wide immunity From the criminal prosecution for the “official” actions he initiated as the president – including firing the tough dismissal of the Capitol and the coup attempt on January 6, 2021. When Trump ran out the clock and won re -election.
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However, equally bad, after McConsol personally accused Trump of the uprising, calling him “virtually and morally responsible”, and suggested that he could even join impeachment, he refused to vote to condemn Trump after the House I impeded him. He also refused to whip his mostly obedient GOP Senate. Seven republican Senate voted for Trump’s condemnation, however, adding up to 57 senators, but the law requires two-thirds. McConsel suggested that the president could be the right result; The conservative court he established made it impossible.
I don’t even deepen into other political misconduct McConso – lantern among them Citizens united The decision that eliminates the financing of the two -party campaign and allows the harmful flood of dark money into American politics. He did a lot of bad things, but the way he expanded Trump and expanded his control as many ways will always be worse.
Several respectable voices will not change, Mitch. But I’m sure you have people who will tell you differently.
