Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., again boasted that he blocked former President Barack Obama from fulfilling his constitutional obligation to fill the late Antonin Scalia's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Kentucky Republican has previously crowed about refusing to hear the nomination of Merrick Garland and holding the seat open for nearly a year, until Donald Trump could nominate a conservative after his 2016 election.
"[It's] the single most consequential thing I've done in my time as majority leader of the Senate," McConnell told conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt on Monday.
The comment drew a strong reaction.
We’re living through an endless cycle of republican abuse of power and obstruction of justice that has seen two impeachments and an ongoing insurrection so far. There is no end, no bottom, they simply will not comply with the imperatives of government or institutions of justice
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) June 14, 2021
He's saying, "Yes, I'm disgusting and darn proud of it." What a worm.
— Denise O'Berry (@deniseoberry) June 14, 2021
@LeaderMcConnell, beg to differ, "the single most consequential thing" you've done "as majority leader of the Senate" is to not vote to impeach Donald J.Trump not once but twice.
— Louis R. Bridgeman (@LouisRBridgema3) June 14, 2021
So much for bipartisanship. Dems, wake up. Moscow Mitch and the tyrannical GOP will not work with you https://t.co/TkLOZ8B32o
— Harry J. Schiffman (@electricshop7) June 14, 2021
he's right. ending this democracy was absolutely the single most consequential thing he has done.
— Tzippy Shmilovitz 🤦♀️ (@Tzipshmil) June 14, 2021
(it also gave him eternal adoration from the beltway media).
He's correct, and it was a disgrace, a distortion of how the system should function. He knew it, and so did the so-called "moderates" in his GOP Senatorial caucus. He can high-five Hewitt now for it.
— Syncopated Politics (@SyncPol) June 14, 2021
He's not wrong. And if we don't do something to change the system he will again.
— Sassy T (@Sassyt1274) June 14, 2021
He’s not wrong. I’m pretty sure he finally broke the Senate as a functioning body by doing that. It was consequential.
— sblawyer (@stblawyer) June 14, 2021
Exactly-- that is where the end of our American democracy began -- when one man (McConnell) selfishly put his party interests ahead of American citizens. Trump then trampled on the remains. It's up to President Joe & the Dems to bring us back from the brink.
— RJ (@truthwoman53) June 14, 2021
