Mitch McConnell may be making the most important mistake of his career
by E. J. Dionne at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-may-be-making-the-most-important-mistake-of-his-career/2017/05/10/7ea476f6-35ba-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html?utm_term=.315a785011e0
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Is McConnell really sure he wants to stand with a man who will spew out attacks on anyone and everyone who gets in his way?
By contrast, many of McConnell’s Republican colleagues have begun disentangling their party from a presidency that is likely to end in a train wreck. Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) said he spent “several hours trying to find an acceptable rationale for the timing of Comey’s firing. I just can’t do it.” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (N.C.) said he was “troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey’s termination.” Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.) joined in calling the timing “very troubling.”
Someday, McConnell will wish that he sounded more like Flake, Burr, Sasse and similarly minded Republicans. All of them are aware of how absurd it is for Trump to pretend that a concern over Comey’s behavior in the Hillary Clinton investigation — the very behavior the president once praised as demonstrating Comey’s “guts” — is the actual reason for the firing.
McConnell repeated White House talking points justifying Comey’s firing by noting that Democrats had eviscerated Comey’s handling of the Clinton matter. What this misses is that many who thought Comey was wrong in the Clinton case were also strongly opposed to his being fired. Since readers have every right to question whether columnists are being consistent, this is what I said on a radio show in January:
“However angry liberals and Democrats might be at Comey for what he did, I think the worst outcome might be for Donald Trump to name a director of the FBI and that, at least in Comey’s case — and I’m very critical of him on what he did here — we know he has a history of independence. And I would really not be comfortable with Donald Trump having even more influence on the FBI.”
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