The retirement of a Chinese agent.

Seung Min Kim
@seungminkim

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitch McConnell will step down as the Senate's Republican leader in November, ending a record run in the powerful post.

This means McConnell will also leave the Senate. This controlling cocksucker narcissist will not serve as merely "1 of 100." He will ragequit like Kevin McCarthy did.

He is too exalted a being to serve in any capacity except king.

Before you celebrate, note that McConnell's term is incomplete. And the governor of Kentucky is a liberal Democrat, Andy Bashear.

Bashear will appoint a Democrat to fill the seat until a special election is held, and he will have every incentive to delay this special election as long as the law permits. (I don't know how long -- maybe three months or six months at most, I'd guess.)

Now, Kentucky's legislature passed a law, anticipating that Mitch the Bitch might die or quit, that says that the governor can only choose a replacement from a list of nominees the legislature selects. And the Republican legislature will of course nominate a list of Republicans.

However, Bashear says that law violates the state constitution, which gives the governor this power and does not mention a role for the legislature. Generally, a mere law cannot deviate from or change a constitution. The constitution sits on a higher plane and can only be modified by amendment.

I don't want it to be true, but I think Bashear i right here.

So... Mitch McConnell is going to do exactly what I feared he would do when he insisted on running again despite his advanced age (and massive unpopularity) and give this seat to the Democrats.

These old powerhungry monsters just will not think of anything except their own desperate need to control. It is control that sustains them, like blood sustains an ancient vampire.

And they will not give up control until they have one foot in the grave, or more.