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| Little Marco. Photo by Greg Nash/Getty via David Frum's impeachment piece from Wednesday in The Atlantic. |
One of the things really striking me in the course of the impeachment proceedings was the appalling personal weakness of those tough-guy pro-Liberty Republican senators, which we often don't see because they have so much ability—I won't call it "power"—to make everything worse. It may sound like a paradox, but it's an ability born of failure, and impotence, and inability to rise to an occasion, and it got me ranting:
Then what the fuck is it good for. Congress should be the branch that guarantees democracy. I don't want soft legislators like you getting pushed around by loony dictators because oh the Constitution didn't give me explicit permission. Jesus Christ you're pathetic.
— Chase Me Ladies I'm on the Calvary (@Yastreblyansky) February 14, 2021
"I'd love to do something about the psychopath who drove a murderous mob to trash my building and kill people who work here but oh my stars I'm not sure if the Constitution wants me to so I'd better play with my fucking phone instead."
— Chase Me Ladies I'm on the Calvary (@Yastreblyansky) February 14, 2021
How can you be so little and not ashamed?
And then there was Mitch McConnell, explaining how he knows Trump is guilty but doesn't think it's proper for him to do anything about it. Of course we know (I think Steve was the first to clarify this for me) what he really means, which is that his political position requires him to say both that Trump is guilty (for the suburbans) and that he's not guilty (for the rustics) and so by God he'll say both regardless of the contradiction, but the logic he used in his remarks showed what a loser he really is, and got me going:
I'd like to brush my teeth this morning but I'm not sure the Constitution says I can.
— Chase Me Ladies I'm on the Calvary (@Yastreblyansky) February 14, 2021
And a discussion of the role of the Senate majority leader led me back to him:
Senate majority leaders don't have ideas. They count votes and hammer out debate rules and (hopefully) push the ideas of people like Elizabeth Warren. This is true even of the greatest majority leader, LBJ.
— Chase Me Ladies I'm on the Calvary (@Yastreblyansky) February 14, 2021
McConnell has anti-ideas. He's actually a shitty majority leader, in spite of the immense power he's managed to accumulate, who's never accomplished anything--all his victories are blocking and tearing down.
— Chase Me Ladies I'm on the Calvary (@Yastreblyansky) February 14, 2021
No argument from me. He is loathsome.
— blue meme (@TheBlueMeme) February 14, 2021
I always want to get bogged down in semantics.
— Chase Me Ladies I'm on the Calvary (@Yastreblyansky) February 14, 2021
But seriously what a stupid goal. To accumulate all that power and do nothing with it. I can't respect that, and it looks bogus--if he tried to do something we'd find he really doesn't have much power at all...
Also should have gotten rid of Trump. You could tell how much he hates Trump from his remarks yesterday but he spent 5 years allowing Trump to walk all over him and treat him like a servant. He's the one person who really could have done something but he's a frightened weakling.
— Chase Me Ladies I'm on the Calvary (@Yastreblyansky) February 14, 2021
Exactly. It's like codependency theory. The battered wife obeys the husband to retain her power in the relationship. It's true in a horrible way, but it's the wrong way to look at it. What she needs is the power to get out.
— Chase Me Ladies I'm on the Calvary (@Yastreblyansky) February 14, 2021
Maybe McConnell has some ideas. Or...
Or technical ideas, the kind of ideas a majority leader does have, as with the line I started with in the OP--counting votes and hammering out procedural rules. He's a real majority leader in that sense, just as much as Mitchell/ Reid/Schumer, but I still think he's a weakling.
— Chase Me Ladies I'm on the Calvary (@Yastreblyansky) February 14, 2021
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