Opinion
Mitch McConnell is giving up one leadership role in the Senate for another — head of the Republican resistance should President-elect Donald Trump overreach.
World & Nation
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell fell and sprained his wrist while walking out of a GOP luncheon, his latest medical incident.
A childhood polio survivor, Mitch McConnell said any of Trump’s picks requiring Senate confirmation should ‘steer clear’ of efforts to discredit the polio vaccine.
Letters to the Editor
Mitch McConnell deserves a peaceful retirement. He does not deserve the praise he’s getting as a savvy Republican leader in the Senate.
For every healthy 80-year-old like Mick Jagger, there are more suffering from age-related decline. The presidency, Congress and Supreme Court need upper age limits.
Politics
The Republican leader froze up while answering a reporter’s question for the second time in just over a month, standing silently for around half a minute.
If McConnell takes a break from the Senate, it’ll be for health reasons, not age alone. Just as questions surrounding Sen. John Fetterman aren’t about his age but about his capacity to do the job.
When Feinstein gets flummoxed and McConnell freezes, it invariably redounds on those other geriatrics, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
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