Separated at Birth?

Many politicians remind me of animals -- Tom DeLay was a snapping turtle; Joe Biden a badger; Bill Clinton the B'rer Rabbit (for several reasons, not just his skills as an escape artist), and so on.

For several weeks now it's been nagging me that Sen. Mitch McConnell -- the Uriah Heep-like Republican Senate Minority Leader -- also reminds me of a particular creature. But I haven't quite been able to put my finger on it.

Until today, when I saw him in a news photo that made the resemblence so clear it dredged his doppleganger up out of my subconscious. Something about that glazed, unfocused, round-eyed stare . . .

What do you think?

Updated 9:20 PM ET: How my fixation with politicians and animals got started.

One is an ugly but cunning reptile with a voracious appetite, which lurks in the scum at the bottom of ponds and greedily devours any weak or defenseless creature that comes within reach of its powerful jaws. The other one, of course, is a snapping turtle.