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Mitch Votes His Conscience (As if.)
If I read my news feed correctly, there were three “Republican” votes against Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense: Senators Murkowsky and Collins — who are Republicans because? — and the “most consequential majority leader in American history,” Mitch McConnell. You remember Mitch. He used to be somebody. He wasn’t anybody good, but he was somebody. Now, he’s nobody. He has gone from being the man who broke America to a feckless footnote on the Senate’s abdication.
McConnell’s lone male vote against Hegseth— the two women RINOs were going to vote “No” anyway on account of, you know, he’s a misogynist drunk — points to Mitch’s complete lack of consequence these days. He could not persuade one fellow Republican — the poor sod still thinks he is a member of the party because his voter registration card says so — to vote against Trump’s dreadful pick. I’m not even sure Mitch would have voted “No,” if his vote actually mattered.
And so this hollow man’s world ends as Eliot predicted, not with a bang but a whimper. His vote on Hegseth says so much by meaning so little. I have nothing to add, really; I just feel obliged to piss on the Devil’s grave when I get the chance.