Crafty Old Mitch

I’ve been thinking about President Trump’s impeachment lately - well who hasn’t - and what Mitch McConnell will do when it finally gets to the Senate.

Oh, it could be really exciting. And, not in the way you think.

I’ve been watching that silver-haired fox from Kentucky for a long time now, and a couple of things have become clear.

Right now, he can only get things done if President Trump wants him to. He has lost control of the Republican Party, because every day it turns more and more into the Trump Party.

So, he’s used his power as head of the Deep State to lead Donald Trump down the path to impeachment. Yes, like the brilliant strategist he is, Mitch McConnell is getting ready to get rid of the President.

He knows that if Donald Trump gets re-elected, we will be facing another election in four years where the Republicans will give our nation its first woman President - Ivanka Trump.

He can’t have that. And, it will happen as long as Donald Trump is President. After all, who else would give him a free pass once he is out of office.

Now we know his supporters won’t let him get overthrown. No, that would be wrong.

But, somehow, this threat to his power got through the House of Representatives - you know, the thing the Democrats control.

And, strangely, the President didn’t really oppose it. “Bring it On,” he said, taunting Nancy Pelosi. “No witnesses. I want witnesses,”  he told Fox News.

And who watched this all, quietly smiling and throwing out enough smoke so that no one knew what was really happening?

Yep. Mitch McConnell.

I think that he and Nancy Pelosi had a secret lunch somewhere and planned the whole thing. He told her there were some reliable Republican senators who would support kicking Trump out of the White House if they could get some cover, and Nancy Pelosi came up with a plan.

Let’s hold things up for a few weeks, and argue about procedure. You talk about bringing in Joe Biden’s son as a witness. I’ll cave and let Rudy Giuliani in as a witness too. Just give me two other witnesses to be named later.

And they clinked glasses and toasted to the happy future.

Republicans - the old ones who were also a part of that Deep State - got the tax cuts they wanted, the judges they wanted and the ability to regroup after Hurricane Trump blew itself out of Washington.

Democrats get what they want too. They traded one year of Mike Pence for eight years of whoever they decide should run for President on their line.

They will win and reform the government. Republicans will re-discover their fear of the growing national debt.

We will finally get out of Afghanistan. And, we will have a new president who can find Afghanistan on a map.

See, everybody wins.

Oh, that crafty Mitch McConnell.