RINO 'Cocaine Mitch' McConnell To Step Down As Senate Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who turned 82 last week and has suffered multiple public 'glitches,' will step down from his Senate leadership position in November after maintaining power for almost two decades as the longest-serving Senate leader in US history.
McConnell was set to announce his decision on Wednesday in the well of the Senate, AP reports.
"One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter," he said in prepared remarks seen by the outlet. "So I stand before you today ... to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate."
While he'll no longer be leader, McConnell will serve out his Senate term, which ends in January 2027, "albeit from a different seat in the chamber."
It also arrived, as noted above, after two major health scares and his party shifting towards anti-war populism ushered in by President Trump.
The impending leadership vacuum raises questions about the direction of the Republican Party. His successor will inherit a party at a crossroads, caught between its pro-establishment faux-conservative roots and the real conservative national-populist wave that has reshaped it's identity in recent years.
We always think "good riddance" initially when a snake like Mitch goes. But then the prospect of a worse snake replacing the current snake with another comes to mind.
