McConnell, the longest serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, said in a floor speech that his “current term in the Senate will be my last.”
“Regardless of the political storms that may wash over this chamber … I assure our colleagues that I will depart with great hope for the endurance of the Senate as an institution,” he said.
A large cohort of ambitious Kentucky Republicans has long been angling to succeed the 83-year-old former Senate GOP leader, who has held his seat since 1985.
I think it’s far more good than bad. He helped create a monster that he could never control. His monster was always going to be a monster with or without him. So at least with him going there’s a chance there will be one less skillful madman near the levers of power.
The problem is that on certain specific issues he was occasionally the voice of something resembling reason among Republicans. I highly doubt that his replacement will be anything but a pure MAGA nut job.
His “occasional voice” was often the opposite of how he voted. He said that J6 was impeachable, then voted against it, saying “He’s been voted out, so it doesnt matter.” He was voted back in, which a conviction wouod have prevented, so it very much mattered.
This of course was a convient excuse to sound reasonable and act maliciously. Almost any “principled” stance of his is countered by his actions.
I mean they did elect Beshear, so there is hope.
mitch could whip the senate into line if he wanted to , much like pelosi did with the house. mitch apparently held senators election funds in his superpac, i think thats why.