Mitch McConnell has to be finished as the caucus leader for the Republicans in the Senate.
McConnell gave a speech Monday demanding a "Yes" vote on that atrocious border bill that Melissa Mackenzie and I both wrote about here at The American Spectator on Tuesday and discuss in the next episode of The Spectacle podcast.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recommended that Republicans vote against the $118 billion border security bill, at least for now.
On the policy side, Democrats will now insist that this weak "Deal" establish the contours of any future "Deal." In other words: The Republicans have announced that they seek only the tiniest breadcrumbs in exchange for mass amnesty; why would Democrats ever agree to offer more than breadcrumbs in any "Deal"? McConnell has committed us, out to the medium future, to sharing the Democrats' Amnesty First, Security Last agenda.
What McConnell has done in taking an issue that had gone absolutely, utterly septic for the Democrat Party - an issue that held the promise to ruin Democrats in all federal elections this fall - and offer a Solyndra-style bailout in the form of that border bill has been to utterly and completely neutralize the issue.
These are the people who have remained loyal to McConnell, by far the least popular politician in Washington and the one constant factor in the Republican Party's thorough underachievement in election after election in every cycle since 2008.
Because of the terrible border deal McConnell had Lankford craft in concert with the execrable Chuck Schumer and his flunkies Chris Murphy and Kyrsten Sinema, the GOP is now locked in a box of its own making.
https://spectator.org/this-has-to-be-the-end-of-the-road-for-mitch-mcconnell/
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