Politics
Mitch McConnell is Having Trouble Giving Up Power
He is being short-sighted, rather than looking to the midterm elections
Well, that didn’t take long. It was only a few days ago that I was celebrating the fact that I would still have Mitch McConnell to kick around. Who knew that I would be brushing up on my soccer skills so soon?
Good ol’ Mitch is having a teeny tiny problem giving up power in the Senate now that the Democrats have a teeny tiny majority. He’s been large and in charge since 2015. That’s not easy to walk away from.
Just so that we are all on the same page, let’s quickly review what is going on in the Senate. Thanks to the voters in Georgia who sent their Republican senators packing in favor of two shiny new Democrat senators, the Senate is now evenly split, 50–50 with VP Harris casting the tiebreaking vote.
In theory, this looks simple, but it’s not. McConnell as the leader of the Republicans and Schumer as leader of the Democrats have to hammer out an agreement on how responsibilities will be divided, what’s known as a power sharing agreement.
Schumer wants to do the logical thing and adopt a power sharing agreement similar to the one adopted in 2001, the last time this happened. Under that type of…
