Revisiting Mitch’s Record: Poor Show for GOP Leader
The Post’s editorial criticizing former President Donald Trump’s attack on Sen. Mitch McConnell is misguided (“Trump Is Utterly Wrong on Mitch,” Editorial, Dec. 20).
McConnell is a relic of 1970s politics who is still playing the Republican vs. Democrat games and has failed to recognize the socialist onslaught against our country.
Our country is over $29 trillion in debt, and the Republicans, under McConnell’s leadership, are just as responsible for this fiscal mess as the Democrats because they have just sat back and let it happen and even facilitated the debt by allowing Democrats to raise the debt ceiling.
In the end, it is the American taxpayer who is the one taking it on the chin, and Trump recognizes this. The taxpayer is the ultimate victim of the games politicians play. William Millward
Hobert
McConnell is a career swamp politician in the same ilk as our current disaster of a president, Joe Biden.
To give him credit for Trump’s court appointees and doing his job in a then-Republican-majority Senate is a complete joke.
The majority of this country is sick and tired of politicians like McConnell and Biden.
Bryan Carty, Nesconset
I read the editorial on McConnell with interest. I’m not a big fan.
As much as I liked what Trump did, it is time to move on. He caught the ear of voters by talking about issues we wanted changed. And he did accomplish a great deal, even though he was assaulted by the media.
But I think it’s time for
new leadership all around. The likes of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, McConnell, Sen. Chuck Schumer, President Biden, Trump et al are out of step with society today.
Trump heard the unrest and anger brewing. He might have been truly great if the Democrats and far left had not bombarded him with false accusations daily. They cost us so much in taxpayer money and in possibilities.
I’m curious to see who can step forward and lead us next time. We need a new group of leaders, tuned to our real wants and needs — a group who might even work together. Theresa Rohr
Hamburg, NJ
Trump is not “utterly wrong on Mitch.” It’s your editorial that is utterly wrong on Trump.
McConnell has never fully committed to supporting Trump. Sure, McConnell always liked to put on a convincing show pretending he was a team player, but he proved that loyalty to Trump and the GOP was the furthest thing from his mind when he backed Biden’s infrastructure bill.
Just because he managed to confirm nearly 300 judges and three Supreme
Court justices doesn’t make up for his four-year betrayal of Trump.
Trump has good reason to want to get rid of McConnell. After all, the so-called infrastructure bill is mostly porkbarrel spending with very little going to infrastructure.
McConnell’s support of the bill was dishonest, and if he can’t be honest, then he should step down. J.J. Cravatto
Ramsey, NJ
McConnell could have done more. What we need is a Republican Pelosi in the Senate. He should have taken lessons from her on how she keeps her party in check.
Hopefully he will not run for Congress again. There are so many RINOS who need to retire or change their party, since they are not acting like Republicans.
Trump had every right to say what he did.
Ruth Ort, Maitland, Fla.
Rarely do I disagree with The Post’s editorial positions, but McConnell needs to go.
When the heroes of 9/11 began getting sick and dying in large numbers, Sen. McConnell was the chief obstructionist to giving them the help they deserved.
We now have a bigger crisis with our veterans who have been sickened by toxins from burn pits.
McConnell had no problem with helping Democrats waste billions on phony “infrastructure,” but watch: He will have to be humiliated again, by people like Jon Stewart, before there is a dime for our sick warfighters. Bob Porch
Marlton, NJ