Glitchin' Mitch

 Mitch McConnell seems to be having a series of mild seizures in public that cause him to freeze. Naturally, that means that Joe Biden should step aside, because this primary season is really boring for the political press, as it's just a rematch of 2020. I mean, who cares about the future of American democracy and the rule of law? It's SOOOOO BOOOOOORING. 

Back to McConnell, the clear mirror image for Democrats is Dianne Feinstein, who has clear dementia and should resign. The problem, however, is that Feinstein is on the Senate Judiciary, and if she resigns, the Republicans will deny - hell are currently denying - the Democrats the ability to replace her. So Feinstein - like McConnell - is being propped up by staffers and, in Feinstein's case, required to say what her staff tells her to say, because the Senate is so fucking broken.

And it's Mitch McConnell who broke it. Now, Biden has gotten an extraordinary amount of "stuff" through the shadow Congress and he was able to use his knowledge of the Senate and the people who work that to maneuver legislation and appointments through that body in a way that was obscured by Manchinema's high dramatics. But the Senate is still pretty broken.

One of comments at the link notes that McConnell's replacement from Kentucky will almost certainly be a worse human being but less effective. 

I disagree.

McConnell's breaking of the Senate has happened. His use of the archaic procedural bullshit that is "Senate tradition" is now common practice. Sure, he was able to help Trump pack the Courts, but that has already happened and any Republican who comes after him has the playbook. 

What's more, we have an ongoing example of an awful fucking human being using the insights of Senate obstruction that McConnell pioneered: Tommy Tuberville. Tuberville is holding up all promotions in the military because he wants to deny female service members (or the female spouses of service members) from reproductive choice. Almost everyone thinks this is awful, including most Republicans, but the Senate is so awfully broken that he continues to get away with it.

Mitch McConnell is a bad person with a singular insight into how to turn the Senate into a roadblock for needed reforms in America. That cat is out of the bag and mauling everyone in sight. 

It is conventional wisdom that Democrats face a tough Senate map ion 2024, and unless Dobbs saves them, they could likely lose their majority. Even if  McConnell is gone, his legacy isn't going anywhere.

On a different note, yes, Joe Biden is old. So it Donald Trump. Pelosi has stepped aside to let a younger generation lead the House Democrats. Regardless of what happens next November in the Senate elections, it's time to move on to a younger generation of leadership that's less enthralled with the bullshit traditions of the sclerotic Senate.