'Mitch McConnell undid 213 years of Senate history in 33 minutes' via PostOpinions
By Dana Milbank Dana Milbank Op-ed columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 3 at 8:00 PM Members of the Senate used to call their institution the “world’s greatest deliberative body.”Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , in his latest move to seize power by dismantling the chamber’s centuries-old safeguards, was about to push through another vote to break another rule. But first he gave a speech blaming the other side.Pointing at the Democratic leader, Charles E.
And McConnell took this extraordinary step — the “nuclear option,” as it is known — on the mundane matter of confirming an assistant secretary of commerce who had no opposition. He did it even though the Senate has confirmed more appellate-level judges for Trump than for any president during his first two years in office going back to at least Harry S. Truman.
McConnell has a history of doing things for short-term tactical gains, regardless of the cost. He did more than anybody else to open the floodgates to unlimited dark money in politics, famously declared his top priority was for President Barack Obama “ to be a one-term president ” and killed the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016 by refusing to act on it.
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