Sen. Mitch McConnell announced his decision to step down as the Republican leader in November on Wednesday and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports was quickly ready to kick the “very hypocritical” and “tainted” McConnell out the door.
Senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake didn’t use the word “hypocritical,” but he might as well have as he mourned:
I’m thinking the last two Democratic presidents to great end, that they couldn’t move through things that even had significant popular support because of the — essentially, protections for the minority within the Senate. That has lasted up until now, through now. McConnell, as all of our viewers will remember, was one of the most vocal proponents of protecting the filibuster for legislation, the 60-vote threshold for legislation, despite being perfectly comfortable lowering it for Supreme Court…
