August 15, 2022      7:40 PM

HK: Dueling outrages: How Mitch McConnell may have blunted the presumptive GOP midterm tsunami

Outrage over abortion restrictions vs outrage over executing a search warrant on a former President. Which is most durable in raising voter intensity?

Just a month ago, Republicans justifiably relished their likely takeover of the US Senate and House of Representatives. Along the way, they were expected to consolidate power in red and purple statehouses in a post redistricting year.

Frankly, many on both sides of the aisle were clearly stunned that Mitch McConnell’s egregious middle finger salute to the Constitution would come back to bite him so quickly. The Dobbs Supreme Court decision may very well have dropped Republicans in the grease and at the worst possible moment for them.

A supporter of so-called “originalists”, McConnell brazenly ignored the “originalist” constitutional mandate for the Senate to advise and consent on presidential nominations—particularly the Supreme Court.

The political world is full of irony. But it is a particularly delicious irony that McConnell flouting the Constitution by denying President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland even the courtesy of a hearing would bring the wrath of the political universe down on Republicans so quickly.

By Harvey Kronberg

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