This should be LeaderMcConnell’s last stint as Senate Republican leader, writes QuinHillyer.
It’s not that McConnell has been a failure as a leader, nor that any Republican in the Senate has shown greater tactical acumen. That’s why he will be leader again for the next two years — and not undeservedly so.But by the end of 2024, he will have been his party’s Senate leader for 18 consecutive years, and he will be just shy of 83 years old.
McConnell’s aims are also usually solidly conservative, although right-wingers intent on short-term “wins” sometimes don’t see the big picture the way he does. Moreover, while he did a great job focusing on conservative judges in the second decade of this century, he frustrated conservative efforts in 2007-08 to make judicial nominations a high-profile battle because, back then, he didn’t realize that nomination fights were a political winner for the Right.
It also is at least arguable that a little more hardball from McConnell in 2009, who did fight hard but absolutely did not use every trick in the bag of parliamentary procedure, could have stopped Obamacare from passing. It’s a complicated story, with several “what-ifs,” but some of us forever will believe McConnell lost a winnable battle there.
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