So, people get old.
I’m getting old but, since I will live forever, I don’t really care…I have an eternity to get hair plugs.
But at some point you just start embarrassing yourself, becoming Crypt McConnell.
Joe Biden’s issue wasn’t only about getting old, even though the media continues to phrase Biden’s dementia as an age issue rather than a straight-up medical issue. It was about being senile.
Differently, McConnell is not any more stupid and evil than he has been for the past 637 years – he almost assuredly understands his current physical limitations.
But besides being unable to walk, he is now unable to politic. A vicious nasty man with no actual political policy framework – in other words, Nancy Pelosi in drag – with his “stepping aside” from Senate party leadership, he is now the picture of complete impotence.
And he did so without the humor and charm of Bob Dole:
Followed, of course, by:
Down boy, indeed.
McConnell’s inhuman political and physical flabbiness has hallmarked his entire career and - like fellow deep state homunculus Dick Cheney’s – has been a complete disservice to the nation.
Unsurprisingly, he does not even have the decency to understand when he has to leave.
Well, that might not be quite true.
If it weren’t for the local politics, it would be simpler. If he left now, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear would get to appoint his replacement.
So, in truth, it may be best that Mitch keeps filling his seat until he, sometime before 2027, most assuredly begins filling his pants.
Of course, if Crypt – Aka Chinese Finger Trap - McConnell decides his last two years will just involve voting against anything Donald Trump recommends, it may not really matter.
2026 cannot come soon enough.