Mitch McConnell stood on the Senate floor Monday and made his mouth move and say out loud words about Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) who died Saturday evening. He said things like "I will miss one of the very finest gentlemen with which I have had the honor to serve," and that it is "our privilege to return some of the love John poured out for this country."
Such a privilege that he won't even commit to seriously considering the idea of renaming the Russell Senate Office Building after the man, instead creating some kind of a "bipartisan gang" that'll meet and not decide on anything concrete it can actually do to honor their former colleague. Because that's McConnell, and all of his Republican minions will happily go along with that. Include McCain's successor to the chair of the Armed Services committee, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) who says McCain was "partially to blame" for the horrendous treatment and disrespect Trump has always shown him.
This isn't particularly surprising, however deplorable. Recall that incident back in May, when a White House aide "joked" that McCain's opposition to a torture architect—Gina Haspel—heading up the CIA didn't matter because "he's dying anyway." Six days after that remark was leaked, Republican senators met with Trump in a private lunch. Not a single one of them confronted Trump about it. Not a single one asked for Trump or anyone in the White House to apologize for it. Why not?
In the words of Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), one of the supposed resisters among Senate Republicans, "That’s not what we do in those meetings."
Clearly that's not what they do. Because that would mean opposing Trump, and not a goddamned one of them is going to do that. Not over collusion with Putin, not over his loutish disrespect for their long-time colleague.
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