I’m not yet ready to call Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a dead man walking. Still, saying the Kentuckian’s leadership of Senate Republicans is on life support and hanging by a thread, you bet.
As we reported earlier on Monday, the Senate’s much-anticipated so-called “bipartisan” border “security” bill was finally released late Sunday evening. Despite protestations to the contrary from Senate Democrats and Republican Sen. James Lankford (Okla.), one of the bill’s architects, the proposed legislation turns out to be just as disastrous as its Republican opponents predicted it would be — make that worse.
Adding insult to injury, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) swooned over Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for his help on the bill: “I have never worked more closely with Leader McConnell on any piece of legislation as we did on this.”
Schumer’s…
