Most Condescending Man in Congress is a tough competition, but Mitch McConnell made a strong play for the title at a speech in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, on Tuesday. This would be the tiny event he went past a big crowd of protesters to get into, where he:
… told his mostly friendly audience that the protesters "had their shot," adding: "Winners make policy and the losers go home."
Ah, yes, I remember it well, how in 2009 and 2010 when Barack Obama was first in the White House and Democrats had a much stronger Senate majority than Republicans have now, how Mitch McConnell quietly went home and didn’t try to affect policy. Oh, wait, he did the exact f’ing opposite and worked to obstruct everything, with the explicitly stated goal of making Obama a one-term president.
But now that he’s on the other side of things, he wants Democrats to shut up and go home—except that the protesters outside his event were home, and they were trying to talk to their elected representative. As was the woman who made it into the event and confronted McConnell about coal miners’ jobs, only to have him tell her “I hope you feel better now.” There’s that Most Condescending Man thing again—and the implicit acknowledgement that venting is the only reason for any of his constituents who disagree with him to talk to him, because he for damn sure isn’t listening to anything they say.
The protesters can take some solace in the fact that McConnell also condescended about Donald Trump:
“Am I a fan of all the tweets? Use your imagination,” he chuckled at an event with constituents in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. “But if you focus on what the president is trying to accomplish, and you believe America needed to go in a different direction, I think he’s been doing all the right things.”
The little orange man can tweet embarrassing and dangerous things and I’ll ignore that and the possible Russia ties and pat him on the head and tell him he’s a good boy as long as he’s ready to sign my agenda of kicking people off their health insurance and giving giant tax breaks to rich people.