If there's one thing that both Republicans and Democrats can reliably rally around, it's hating Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Like baseball, watching him try to steer the unwieldy Senate in this or that direction is a tedious, seemingly unending endeavor punctuated by brief moments in which it looks like something might happen but almost never does; unlike baseball, in the Senate the players usually have more alcohol in them than the spectators.
If you are a Republican, however, the Senate's current inability to do anything at all especially peeves you because you were told that once America got back to a Republican Senate to go with their Republican House, all the nation's problems would be solved. And you believed that. Well, presuming you were stupid, anyway.
In a phone appearance on Glenn Beck’s radio show Monday, the host asked [Republican presidential contender and store mannequin brought to life by the power of imagination Scott Walker] whether members of “the establishment, like Mitch McConnell” are “part of the problem” in Washington.
“Yes, I hear it all the time, and I share that sentiment,” the Wisconsin governor said. “We were told if Republicans got the majority in the United States Senate, there would be a bill on the president’s desk to repeal Obamacare. It is August. Where is that bill? Where was that vote?”
Well golly, Glenn Beck's radio listeners, isn't this a stumper? We were told Obamacare would be repealed and everything would start being Not Terrible if only
more Republicans were shoveled into Washington offices, and yet that thing did not happen. Again. As per usual.
Scott Walker, of course, has a remedy for this. His remedy to the stagnation of the Republican "establishment" in Washington is to elect establishment Republican Scott Walker and send him to Washington, because then we'd be able to fix all these things up for sure. And if you believe that, you might be the sort of person who would consider voting for Scott Walker.