president elected with a yawning popular vote deficit nominates a justice for whom rules were changed to a seat that was held by obstruction
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) April 6, 2017
McConnell's real feat was to refuse to give any hearing to Garland and to go nuclear without putting the slightest dent in both-sides-ism.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 6, 2017
Addison Mitchell “Mitch” McConnell Jr. is generally regarded as a political opportunist whose only real loyalty is to the career of Mitch McConnell. But his latest maneuvers to steal a Supreme Court seat for the most retrograde elements of the Republican Party put him in cahoots with fellow flower-of-Southern-manhood, Attorney-General-by-grace-of-the-President-Asterisk, Jeff Sessions. Future historians — assuming there are any — will speak of these two and their GOP cronies as modern historians do of the antebellum Congressional cabal that was willing to tear the country apart rather than give up their “inherent privileges”…
McConnell is one of the leading figures destroying the American experiment and ending the American century. #PowerUberAlles #Traitor. https://t.co/14GkZ25JRM
— Thomas Levenson (@TomLevenson) April 6, 2017
1. A narrative of 21st century decline in national governance will center on McConnell:
– Starting in 2006, when Dems took back the Senate.. https://t.co/4EqV5E2K5V— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 7, 2017
3. – After 2008 election he of course declared that measure of success would be limiting Obama to one term, and thwarting legislation.
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 7, 2017
5. – In summer of 2016, put the kibosh on FBI going public w warning of Russian interference in election https://t.co/evgN4SwZXi
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 7, 2017
7/7 As I say, historians of our era can do worse than telling story of collapse of national governance via Addison Mitchell McConnell. /end
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 7, 2017
@JamesFallows And here he is looking pensive and perhaps rueful having perpetrated all this: pic.twitter.com/pbzyvlBteC
— JimInMissoula (@JimAtSunburst) April 7, 2017
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