Pierce: Mitch McConnell Is Appalled That Someone Is Practicing Politics Against Him
Mitch McConnell Is Appalled That Someone Is Practicing Politics Against Him
They have no shame, and they are capable of anything. We ought to bear that in mind between now and November.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAR 17, 2020
Don’t think it hasn’t occurred to any of them. In fact, don’t be too sure there isn’t a working group right now inside Camp Runamuck, spitballing ideas on how the current pandemic can be weaponized in order to keep the president* in office if things seem to be going sideways in the fall. Once you accept the fact that this administration* respects no democratic institution, or any of the norms that allow those institutions to function, it’s easy to see clearly what’s possibly coming down the tracks.
There was a good-faith public health argument to be made that Ohio should not hold its primary election on Tuesday. But there was no excuse for the hash that Republican officials made of the process of postponing it. First, Governor Mike DeWine and Secretary of State Frank LaRose sought to postpone the primary unilaterally. A local judge monkey-wrenched that plan. Then DeWine and Ohio’s public-health director, in apparent defiance of that judge’s ruling, ordered the polls closed. Late Monday night, the state’s supreme court bailed everyone out by ruling in a separate case involving a state judicial candidate. That decision essentially gave DeWine and LaRose the power to push the election back to June...
And then there’s Mitch McConnell, who is being absolutely adorable these days. From the Lexington Herald-Leader:
I mean, seriously, isn’t that just darling? Mitch McConnell, stirring himself into a righteous froth over politics being practiced against him, and hiding behind sick people to do it. At the moment, he’s trying to get elderly Republican judges off the federal bench so he can install more Federalist Society larvae in their seats before the clock runs out this fall. He’s also sitting on a coronavirus relief bill in the Senate. So how dare anyone practice politics during this time of national emergency?
They have no shame. They are capable of anything. We should all bear that in mind. Self-quarantine is a good environment for counter-plotting.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31701753/mitch-mcconnell-amy-mcgrath-ads-ohio-suspends-election/
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you have put on all Americans Moscow Mitch. You will pay dearly at the ballot box. 
