Excuse Mitch while he disappears

Trump's thumb thing is catching on

After Mitch McConnell's remarkable series of freeze-ups and falls last year, I was kind of surprised to see him back in the headlines in 2025.

But of course he was, first by falling down another flight of stairs (as I foresaw), and then, most recently, by actually voting against some of Trump's worst cabinet picks: Hegseth, Patel, Gabbard and noted brain-worm host RFK Jr. 

No doubt he meant it as some kind of legacy move, kind of like when John McCain did the famous thumbs-down against the GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. 

But McCain's vote actually mattered, didn't it? Whereas the feeble McConnell was left to close out his career with the emptiest of gestures and the contempt of both Democrats and the Confederacy of Cowards he enabled for so long. I guess that's fitting.

 Mitch could have made an historic difference in 2020, when Trump twice faced impeachment. America would have been the better for it. Instead he sat on his withered hands. That's the way the world will remember him: utterly useless when push came to shove.