Mitch McConnell has somehow decided that the way to handle Amy McGrath, the first woman to fly a combat mission for the Marine Corps and the first woman to pilot the F/A-18 on a combat mission, is to laugh at her. And to laugh about coronavirus. You have to see it to believe it, McConnell laughing, giggling, chuckling malevolently over his dereliction of duty in saving the nation from this pandemic.
“The House passed a bill in May, and the Senate went on vacation,” McGrath says over the soundtrack of McConnell’s laughs. “You just don't do that. You negotiate. Senator, it is a national crisis,” she continued, as he continued to giggle. “You knew that the coronavirus wasn't going to end at the end of July. We knew this,” and he’s still laughing. “Here's the thing. If you want to call yourself a leader, you've gotta get things done. Those of us who served in the Marines, we don't just point fingers at the other side, we get the job done.” Chuckle, chuckle. In that 30 seconds, Mitch McConnell showed Kentucky, showed the world, who he is.
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He passed the buck. He blamed Democrats. “Look, I know how to make deals,” he said. “I made three major deals with Joe Biden during the Obama era. What the problem is here is the unwillingness of the speaker to make a deal.” Right now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in talks with the White House. McConnell has the Senate on recess, except for the Judiciary Committee which is jamming through another one of Trump’s unqualified judges. McGrath pointed that out, as well.
His “one job,” she said “is to help America through this crisis right now in passing legislation to keep our economy afloat so that people can make ends meet. And instead of doing that, he is trying to ram through a Supreme Court nominee right now, instead of negotiating, which is what he should have been doing all summer long.”
McConnell's contempt, demonstrated fully while he laughed over coronavirus, dripped from his summation of McGrath's career. “She mentions she was in the Marines about every other sentence,” McConnell said. “I think her entire campaign is: she’s a Marine, she’s a mom, and I’ve been [in Washington] too long.”
“Senator,” McGrath answered, “you’ve been there for 36 years. How’s it looking, Kentucky?”
