Just a quick blurb about the continued hot mess that the Republican Party has become, in particular with the allegations of sexual assault against Roy Moore that is putting the Republican Party’s control of the Alabama Senate seat in jeopardy.
It is quite the statement that Mitch McConnell is considering a plan that would allow Jeff Sessions to return to the Senate.
The conversation centered on tax reform, but the Senate Republican leader also proposed a dramatic idea: that Sessions run as a write-in candidate or be appointed to the seat he held for two decades.
Does anyone else grasp the absurdly peak schadenfreude that is occurring right now?
This would mean that, thanks to Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, his SuperPAC, and several other wealthy GOP fundraisers, just wasted millions of dollars on a heated Republican primary, and have probably already sunk millions more in this contentious run-up to the general election, that saw many Republicans siding with a child molester (guess it’s fine as long as he wasn’t wearing a dress and sneaking into women’s bathrooms, amirite?), wasting those millions of dollars in the state of Alabama no less, only to end up with the same exact Senator that they had less than a year ago. And that’s still just a maybe; that is actually probably their best-case scenario.
This is just about the quintessential example of Republican Party incompetence, and as I have said before, they have only themselves to blame by embracing Donald Trump.
At the end of the day, the idea that Sessions would return to his old Senate seat seems downright laughable. But my feeling is that, by the time the Special Election for this Senate seat is over, either Doug Jones and the Democratic Party claim the seat, Roy Moore wins and the Republican Party goes along with it just like they did with Trump, or something far more bizarre happens.
And in all of these scenarios, the Republican Party winds up looking a-moral, foolish, and weaker than when they started.