Mitch McConnell Is Already Trying to Train Wreck the Biden Admin
On this special episode of The New Abnormal LIVE, Rick, Molly, and Daily Beast editor Michael Tomasky tackle what Biden, Dems, and McConnell's next moves should be.
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It is said that before Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, a group of Republicans got together and vowed to oppose everything that he would do, or rather, try to do.
Did the Trump loyalists on the hill and Mitch McConnell’s Republicans huddle together last night and make a similar vow, this time for President-Elect Joe Biden? It’s a possibility, says Michael Tomasky, special guest on today’s members-only episode of The New Abnormal, which happened LIVE on Zoom.
Even if they didn’t, Tomasky and co-hosts Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast know that Mitch’s sneakiness isn’t ending with the Trump administration. Take the impeachment, for example, says Rick.
“They’ll pretend they’re doing to convict him,” but they, mainly Mitch, won’t, he added.
“If he meant it, they would have done it. I think he’s leaning slightly more toward it, only because the '22 [race] map is staring at him a little bit.”
They’re all still tied to the race, so Mitch’s games will continue. In fact, he’s already trying to train wreck Biden. “If Mitch McConnell wants Josh Hawley to wear a Spongebob outfit, he will do that. He is letting Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz play their game,” says Rick.
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Speaking of the Biden administration, the crew shares what 46 should say in his inaugural address, and the question almost leaves them stumped.
“There needs to be an acknowledgment of the precarious place we’re in. He needs to explain to the American people what a perilous place we’re in and what we can do to come back,” says Tomasky.
Rick agrees: “You can’t have a car crash like this and not talk about it. There needs to be some sternness to it, too.” And Molly goes even further. One word: accountability.
Plus! Rick, Molly, and Tomasky surmise what Trump could have possibly said to Biden in the letter he left for him (a mention of a gorilla channel??), how the Bannon pardon was a “fuck you moment,” the DNC’s next moves and, of course, the Trump administration’s very last Fuck That Guy, to which Rick and Molly bring the heat.
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