Mitch McConnell - Creepy or Cunning?, 3407

Good evening, I’m still reporting on the coup.
I’m hot and cold on Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell. I can’t figure him out.
It’s not being billed as such, but it appears that McConnell has won once again in the battle over a second coronavirus stimulus bill.
It is billed in the mainstream media as “compromise” between the House Democrats led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Republican Senate and White House - but was it? 
That’s the way the mainstream media - which now sadly includes Fox News - will present it.  Both sides gave in and finally reached a bill they could support.
But if you look at the facts, that is not what has happened.
Pelosi was pushing an enormous stimulus package of over $2 trillion that was loaded with special interests that she knew would never pass on their own merit, baling out Democratic cities and states that have squandered their money among other things.
Pelosi once again overplayed her hand.  She thought that the Republicans would be so desperate to get a second stimulus package passed before the election that they would allow the Democrats to stuff it full to overflowing with Democratic pork and policy.
McConnell simply said no.  The Senate has produced several stimulus plans that eliminated the Democratic pork and although still enormous spending bills, were not nearly as enormous as the Democrats.
The bill that looks like it will be approved in the next few days is less than $1 trillion.  Much closer to what McConnell proposed than what Pelosi had the House pass. 
The position of Pelosi and the Democrats not surprisingly is completely illogical.  They argued that people were in desperate need of immediate help, but that help had to be $3.4 trillion.  Pelosi earlier refused to consider the Republican offerings because they didn’t spend enough money. 

If people are in desperate need of immediate help and you can’t give them $3.4 trillion immediately, it makes sense to bite the bullet and give them $1 trillion immediately and then argue about $2 trillion dollars later.  It’s not logical to say the need is so immediate that it has to be $3.4 trillion or nothing.
If someone really needs $1,000 to pay their rent and all you can offer is $500, not many people would turn down the $500 because it’s not as much as they need.
Maybe some Democrats who have the ability to think, convinced Pelosi that her position was absurd, or maybe because she is over 80 years old, she just got tired.  But for whatever reason, McConnell is winning this battle also, by waiting and plotting which are things he does really well.
McConnell is an easy guy to hate and it seems that Democrats and Republicans who don’t happen to be Republican senators, join forces against McConnell regularly.
But when the rubber hits the road, McConnell produces.  President Trump wanted Amy Coney Barrett confirmed before the election.  McConnell said she would be and she was.  Earlier he wanted Brett Kavanaugh confirmed and despite the fact that he had to defend comments made in his high school year book before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was.
McConnell couldn’t stop Trump from being impeached, but he held his votes together, with the notable exception of Sen. Mitt Romney.
Trump with good reason brags about the over 230 judicial appointments he has made.  Those appointments are all for life which means long after Trump leaves the White House he will be having an impact on how the laws and Constitution of this country are interpreted.
Trump made the nominations, but it is McConnell who got them confirmed. 
McConnell is not flashy and not the least bit telegenic, but he is a master of backroom politics which is why the people who know him best his fellow Republican senators show him such support.
Now McConnell is in trouble or saying that Joe Biden was elected president.  It doesn’t seem to have been a wise statement, but McConnell tends to be four or five moves ahead of most of us.  It’s a case when, for all he has done, he deserves the benefit of the doubt. 
McConnell keeps coming through for Trump and there is no reason to doubt that he will in this case also.
I’m still reporting from just outside the citadel of American freedom. Good day.