The secret behind McConnell’s reputation has been his ability to evade responsibility for suboptimal outcomes. He does so by blaming others when things do not turn out as expected while simultaneously taking credit for ensuring that they did not turn out even worse.
Most of the time, that meant blaming former President Barack Obama and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., for the fact that Senate Republicans did not accomplish more in specific legislative debates, such as those over the debt ceiling, government funding, and Obamacare.
While leaders have always blamed their adversaries for their shortcomings, McConnell’s willingness to blame his fellow partisans sets him apart. For example, he routinely assigned blame to Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund, and the candidates it supported in Republican primaries in 2010 to explain why the GOP failed to capitalize on the Tea Party movement and retake the majority that year. In doing so, McConnell also conveniently overlooked the early support DeMint gave to rising GOP stars such as Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
And after Republicans finally won a majority in the 2014 elections, McConnell regularly defended the lackluster bills he brought to the floor and passed with largely Democratic votes by pointing to what he portrayed as the obstinate refusal of conservatives such as Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to compromise.
At this point the GOP is probably going to lose control of both Houses of Congress in 2018, and it is entirely due to Mitch McConnell being a big-government, anti-conservative shitstain, who has spent the past decade doing his utter best to destroy the Tea Party movement and Trump voters while coddling the Democrats. He is a pathetic waste of oxygen, who has one, uno, singular victory under his belt as the Senate Majority Leader, despite having GOP control of the House, Senate, and Oval Office. Gutless, spineless, clueless and hopeless, he careens from one complete failure to another, always blaming someone else for his total inability to stop kissing Democrat ass and stabbing GOP voters in the kidneys. He only punches to the Right, and Virginia is the perfect example of what happens under his "leadership".
Mitch McConnell needs to retire, go home, and spend the rest of his life letting the rest of us try to repair the damage he's done.
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