Mitch and Trump Split the Sheets

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist 

One developing political story this week that got swept aside by Ted Cruz's fun-in-the-sun Cancun vacation was the widening rift between Moscow Mitch McConnell and Putin's other puppet, Donald Trump.  Trump's focus was, is, and always will be on  whatever benefits him, whereas Mitch seems to be more attuned to the survival and growth of the Republican Party, which, in turn, will keep him in power in his beloved Senate.

For the Republican Party to sustain itself and grow, Mitch has to focus on two groups.  First he has to keep the Trump base in line and loyal to the party - and second he has to somehow placate the GOP's big-money donors, many of whom quit writing checks to Republican office holders as a result of the Trump-instigated attack on the Capitol on January 6th.

For weeks McConnell allowed the rumor to circulate that he might vote for conviction in the Trump Senate impeachment trial - and his wife, Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigned her cabinet position early in what seemed to be a personal protest of the way Trump had handled the attack on the Capitol.  But then the day before the vote in the impeachment trial, Mitch gave a political nod to Trump's base by announcing that he would vote for acquittal.

Not long after the impeachment vote, Mitch McConnell stood on the Senate floor and delivered a blistering attack on Trump, one in which he blamed the former President both for encouraging the attack and for not doing anything to bring it to an end - and a day or so later he wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal which also excoriated the ex-President over the insurrection.  McConnell spoke out against Trump in order to let the important donors know that the adults were once again in charge of the Republican Party.

Trump, of course, fired back.   He issued a statement (obviously written by someone with a more expansive vocabulary than his own) calling his former court-packing accomplice "a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack."   Then he went after Elaine saying that the McConnell family had "substantial Chinese business holdings," a not-so-subtle reference to the Chao family's shipping firm that is linked to Chinese state companies.

The former lovestruck duo, who between them filled one-third of the Supreme Court and a multitude of federal judgeships, is breaking up - and not in a polite way.  It's already a loud and messy split, and, with any luck at all, it will get worse.   Spill those family secrets, guys, as you struggle for custody of your party.  Drag that dirty laundry out and hang it from the rooftops.  And never - ever - forget:  it's not about what's right for the country, it's about you keeping your power!

Now fill those buckets with warm, aromatic manure and start slinging.  America will cheer you on!