The Misadventures of Moscow Mitch--From the Nation: Mitch McConnell Is Even Worse Than Trump
EDITOR'S NOTE: Today, we're starting a new feature titled "The Misadventures of Moscow Mitch." We will regularly post stories from a variety of sources about Kentucky's senior senator who has few peers in union-busting. Mitch McConnell's idea of "free enterprise" is union-free. McConnell has been in the Senate since 1985. During that lengthy tenure, he has supported the union position on legislation just 12 percent of the time, according to the AFL-CIO's Legislative Scorecard.
The president and the Senate majority leader have both gone AWOL in a crisis.
By JEET HEER
The United States passed a somber milestone on Tuesday, as the number of deaths officially attributed to Covid-19 exceeded 100,000. The only commemoration that Donald Trump undertook was a tweet boasting that “if I hadn’t done my job well, & early, we would have lost 1 1/2 to 2 Million People, as opposed to the 100,000 plus that looks like will be the number.” Aside from this note of self-congratulation, he spent the day on unusually frenzied attacks on political and journalistic foes. He mocked Joe Biden for wearing a mask and railed against “crazy Nancy Pelosi.”