Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is dismissing the fact that popular vote loser Donald Trump leaked highly sensitive classified information to Russian officials (who Trump says he met with at the direction of Vladimir Putin) as nothing more than "drama" in the White House. Clearly, it’s drama that's getting in the way of his tax cuts.
Asked for follow up and whether he had anything more to say about the situation or his president, he had one word in answer:
As long as Trump is willing to rubber-stamp McConnell's agenda, he can do anything. He really could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and Mitch would not bat an eye. This is not normal. This is incredibly dangerous. Democrats recognize that, but have yet to escalate their tactics to combat it.
We all know McConnell's methods. He takes a totally outrageous stance, bends his caucus to his will, and muscles it through until he wins. He continues to conduct the Senate as if it is business as usual, and the passage of time generally makes it so. So he succeeds in doing something as unconscionable as blockading President Obama's Supreme Court nominee for a year to steal that seat—and it worked. He did it.
He'll do it again with Trump if he can. He will normalize Trump and everything he does, as long as it means McConnell can get his agenda through.
If Democrats don't do everything in their power to stop it, they'll be complicit.
They have to refuse to allow business as usual in the Senate until McConnell is forced to do his job. That means delaying everything, objecting to every unanimous consent request, and forcing roll call votes on everything that they can. It means showing up on the floor when any Republican speaks—but particularly McConnell—to make them yield to questions about their ongoing fealty to the national security threat in the White House.
Sign and send a letter to Senate Democrats: Shut the Senate down until we get a special prosecutor