Guest blogged by Jim Cirile
Into each life some rain must fall, only in the case of Senator Addison “Mitch” McConnell, we’re talking a force 5 tropical storm. Republican Senate leader McConnell’s seat was considered in play and was high on the Dems’ wish list–not only because a win in Kentucky would get them very close to the magic filibuster-proof 60 votes, but because McConnell was a filibuster-happy Bush loyalist, crushing Democratic initiatives in their tracks (note to filibuster-petrified Democrats–you can learn a thing or two from Mitch. Filibusters–they’re not just for Republicans anymore.)
McConnell survives to be a big ol’ flat tire on (what will hopefully be the) Obama administration, stifling investigations, chipping away at what’s left of the US Constitution and ensuring the money continues to flow into the military industrial complex. Sigh.
Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are already in the basement cooking up whatever they can put in th stew to stymie any program that Obama puts forward. Their plan will be to do everything possibe to keep the financial mess where it is, to work to keep Irag and Afghanistan a mess and then in 2010 blame it all on the democrats and try to win back a majority in the congress. What else can you expect form a guy that looks like a lizard.