Mitch is always up front about his plans to destroy democracy, I’ll give him that:
Mitch McConnell in…
2010: “Single most important thing is for Obama to be a one-term president”
2021: “100% of my focus is standing up to the Biden administration”
And remember this from December, 2019:
The Senate majority leader boasted about stacking the courts with conservative judges under Trump.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday night bragged about blocking President Barack Obama’s attempt to fill federal judicial vacancies for two years. Then, he laughed about it as he discussed the Republican Party’s effort to stack the courts with conservative judges under President Donald Trump.
“I was shocked that former President Obama left so many vacancies and didn’t try to fill those positions,” Fox News host Sean Hannity said to McConnell.
Obama didn’t leave those vacancies so much as he was blocked from filling them by a GOP-controlled Senate led by McConnell ― something the majority leader was quick to point out.
“I’ll tell you why,” he said. “I was in charge of what we did the last two years of the Obama administration.”
Then, he laughed:
“I will give you full credit for that, and by the way take a bow,” Hannity said. “All right, that was good line!”
McConnell not only blocked federal judges, he prevented Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland from even getting a hearing. In 2018, McConnell told Kentucky Today that the decision to block Garland’s appointment was “the most consequential decision I’ve made in my entire public career.”
I’d guess he would say ramming through Amy Coney Barrett in the waning days of the 2020 campaign ranks right up there too. Remember, he didn’t try to hide what he was going to do. When asked years earlier what he would do if faced with a similar situation as the one Obama faced and a vacancy came up in the last year of Trump’s term, he smugly replied, “we’d fill it.” And he did.
Anyone who believes that Donald Trump is the only toxic influence on democracy in the GOP hasn’t been paying attention. The Big Lie isn’t the only game in town.