After an electoral defeat in 2008, the Democrats seized the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Oval Office, a 66 -year -old Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell He took out a road map for his colleagues in the Republican Party. Plan the best part of the next decade? Obstruction, obstruction, obstruction.
This exile platform was established quickly, as it radically changed what the Republican Party saw its purpose. He was asked in 2010 about the priorities of his party, which will follow a possible shift in the strength of the capital in the upcoming renewal elections. Barack ObamaAgenda in its cradle.
“The most important thing we want to achieve is that President Obama be president in the same -term,” McConnell I told the National Journal.
McConnell maintained his gathering in the lock step, and offering a battle even Obama’s most popular initiatives. Early signs showed the extent of its grip on the Republican Party. It is not a Republican for the Senate Vote Subordinate The law of welfare at reasonable prices. Almost Vote The 2009 recovery law aims to enhance the frequency for us and reduce the pain of market collapse.
His ability to obstruct improvement with age. During the 118th conference, the House of Representatives led by the Republican and Minority Party led the happy Republican Party of the Senate in its Legislative session in its least -term session.
Maconel He announced his retirement from the upper room On Thursday, he chose to bend from the 2026 Senate elections. But his legacy is likely to live in the wake of the digging of a new generation of the stubborn Republic of Maja. Senator has been the impact of Kentucky for decades on legislation, courts and the basics of leadership of Congress itself makes him the most exciting men in Capitol Hill.
“American Democracy Stations”, the New York Times, Jamil Boy McConnell, announced in A. Post to Bluesky, Adding that the Senator was “a wicked effect more than John Calon“Skilled southern politician and notorious defender of slavery.
For Acolytes McConnel, I kept a Power Kentucky broker “Cooling” The Senate is alive, while maintaining a barriers to the legislation higher than a simple majority and preventing two democratic presidents from enacting their business schedules.
Stroke
The Senate may have a floors of deep political divisions, but McConnell called his ship and withholding nearly an amazing amount of the Democratic Party’s efforts to rule. As a political world Bert Rolkman Put it in Paper 2012, The “Senate opposition tactics of the Senate” did not make a “cooling bowl” like the deep freezer of legislation.
The number of Republicans in the Senate outperformed the majority of Obama’s presidency, but this did not prevent them from preventing hundreds of bills and nominations. Republicans used Filibuster and skin in the upper room. An actual condition of 60 votes to enhance legislation from the discussion that was actively killed by majority laws in sessions exposed to the Democrats.
In addition to the talent of McConnell to whisk the votes and stop the opposition at the parties, everything in everything was made about any efforts from the two emerging parties upon its arrival. The ability of the minority to put the laws on laws was merely a humor for its most extreme and influential strategy. McConnell supervised a historic effort to limit the Obama administration’s appointment to federal officials and judges, and to transform the previous two -party process into another front of the trench war.
By 2013, the Republican Party in McConnell presented nearly half of all the gathering movements on presidential nominations in history, a Study of Congress Research Service In 2013 I found. Frozen from the alien Harry Reed He amended the rules in 2013 to allow clotting with a simple majority on the nominations (Supreme Court judges, except for).
McConnell lost that particular battle, but he won the war. Using the same logic, the Senate led by McConnell in 2017 increased the rules more to allow the simple majority to violate candidates for the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court formation
When justice is in the conservative Supreme Court Antonin Skalia In early 2016, President Obama gained an opportunity to tilted the balance in a court equally divided. Upon obedience to the retreat of conservatives, Obama was nominated moderate Merik Garland To the vacancies in the Supreme Court.
Garland, Uta Sinator Orin Hatchman It is called “consensus candidate” In the years before the nomination, it did not approach the bench.
McConnell evoked a prior to the Senate membership of Stonnol Garland’s confirmation, claiming that the Senate should not confirm those appointed to the Supreme Court in the last year of the presidency. The historical basis or not, the McConnell room successfully arrested the vacancies even after the 2016 elections, in which the president is Donald Trump It was chosen to fill it.
Confirmation of the consensus across the party was far from the feet of reason when the McConnell Party won the power in 2016. With an opportunity to increase the judiciary for a generation, the majority leader abandoned his standards in previous sessions and helped Trump Ram Goroch, Brett Cavano, and Amy Kony Barrett Through the room. In the appearance of brutal peeling in particular of the McConnell veil of the standards, Barrett was nominated for the court less than six weeks before the presidential elections.
McConnell and Trump focused on laser on the minimum courts, The accumulation of the broader judiciary With 226 right -wing judges in just four years, the number of appointments to appeal to the presidents competed for a period of time.
“100 % of our focus on stopping this new administration”
McConnell could have retired with a truly impressive legacy in 2021, after stopping a lot of Obama’s agenda in the second term and reshaping the Supreme Court. But he stayed at the head of his party when the Democrats won the division of 50 seats for the Senate, a majority with former Vice President Kamala Harris, in the hope that the Biden administration will get sick.
In the middle of 2021, the juvenile leader promised again a obstacle.
“100 percent of our focus on stopping this new administration,” McConnell said. “We have faced severe challenges from a new administration, a narrow majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate between 50-50 to turn America into a socialist country, and this is 100 percent of my focus.”
While some bills have retracted cracks, as Democrats in the Senate obtained budget allocations packages that require a simple majority of legislation, McConnell has prevented most of the Biden agenda.
Former President Biden resorted to the use of the administrative authority to achieve its goals. Several bureaucratic and organizational victory was killed by the Biden Administration by the judiciary, which McConnell pushed to the right. Student debt reliefFire weapons and protection of discrimination for LGBTQ+ Americans have faced road barriers in the courts.
Lying in it
McConnell leaves the Senate’s leadership with a few friends on the new right. Despite his work to instill the Trump friendly judges, President Donald Trump is noisy about his contempt for Kentukian.
Voices against Trump Anti -science The cabinet candidates have proven to raise poetry and Trump Contact McConnell “Mentally not equipped” to lead from the firm office.
But McConnell chose to spare Trump in each pass. In support of the President in 2020 and 2024, and until Trump’s spare in a accountability trial in the Senate after he led a violent crowd of supporters to stop the certificate of Biden’s victory in the elections, McConnell threw his strongest critics on the life line.
McConnell is the tallest party leader in the history of the Senate. But it is unlikely that this is the first thing that anyone remembers about it. The heritage of Senator is now the usual abuse of the institutional handrails of the political opponents ’clinic-where the Democratic Republican Party is holding bases in the stone while they are in the minority and increasing the basis for power. His hard work that grinds the efforts of good religions to stop will lead to the superiority of any other aspect of his career.
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