Big Boy Underpants?

I’ve gotten this e-mail several or maybe many times, and the last time was yesterday.

It seems Mitch McConnell is calling the clown who lives in the White House a “despicable human being?” It appears that Mitch, who possibly doesn’t consider himself to be a despicable human being, has adopted the habit of the person he does consider to be a despicable human being: calling people names. (I’m not sure if Mitch thinks that habit is part of what makes the clown a despicable human being, but if he does, it seems like a door that opens both ways. I don’t know if that makes both of them despicable human beings, or if it makes them both children who need to grow up. Although they’re both too old and entrenched to grow up at this point.

But I do wonder if Mitch considered the clown a despicable human being when the clown was previously impeached, twice, and Mitch said he didn’t care, because he was going to lean on his Republican Senate majority not to convict the clown no matter what the House concluded.

I will also take the liberty to assume that Mitch did not consider himself to be a despicable human being when he used a reportedly old theory of Joe Biden’s, with whom Mitch more or less never agrees, that a president (Obama, in this case) could not be allowed to fill a vacant SCOTUS seat if the Senate majority was the other party. (It sounds like a very irrational theory no matter who proposed it.) And if Mitch did not consider himself to be a despicable human being when Christine Ford complained that Brett Kavanaugh, who used to drink heavily, but now only drinks when he drinks, had raped her in college, but Mitch thought a very quick and dirty FBI evaluation would be more than enough to conclude that we should just forget about Kavanaugh and his college misbehavior. Or if Mitch did not consider himself to be a despicable human being when just a couple or few weeks before the end of the clown’s first term, Mitch decided this was more than enough time for the senate to examine and confirm Barrett.

But the bottom line is this: absent Mitch’s manipulations, we would not be saddled with the clown, who Mitch now thinks is a despicable human being, and who would have been convicted after one or both impeachments, nor would we be saddled with inadequate SCOTUS justices.

It’s very hard to separate Mitch’s assessment that the clown is a despicable human being from Mitch’s presumed self-assessment that he himself is not a despicable human being. Mitch appears to be criticizing or complaining about the clown, but we wouldn’t have him, and some of his stooges (or actually any of them) had it not been for Mitch. Doesn’t that make them birds of a feather?

I thought about surgery for my own career, but it appears Mitch is better at it than maybe anyone else would be.

And I’m setting aside that if this is Mitch’s idea of suggesting that he has grown up, and can put on big boy underpants, it’s way too late, and frankly, not believable.