Well, it’s nice of Mitch McConnell to be voting the right way on the nominations of Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., but it’s also completely performative bullshit.

Way too late, McTurtle, way too late.

Mitch McConnell, the man who broke the Supreme Court, the Senate, and arguably the United States, now wants to do the right thing.

Way too late, McTurtle, way too late.

McConnell — if you don’t remember — is the guy who introduced the new theory of Supreme Court nominations, which is to not even give the other guy’s nominee a hearing, and just wait for the next election. Wondering if the Democrats will have the balls to follow that playbook.

Without McConnell, Merrick Garland would have been a Supreme Court justice, where he could have done much more good than he did as Attorney General.

Then, shortly after the January 6th insurrection, McConnell failed to lead his caucus in voting to convict Trump after his second impeachment, when fellow Republicans Richard Burr (North Carolina), Bill Cassidy (Louisiana), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitt Romney (Utah), Ben Sasse (Nebraska), and Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania) already had.

I mean Susan Effing Collins got out of her “I’m concerned” neutrality and voted for conviction.

As the Senate Majority Leader and leader of his caucus, McConnell surely could have found nine more Senators to vote for conviction, and bring them to the needed 67 seat supermajority.

But McConnell didn’t do it.

To object now what Trump is doing is way too little and way too late.

(To be fair, a Senate conviction does not automatically bar a President from re-election. However, the Senate has the option to hold an additional vote to bar the individual from holding future federal offices, including the presidency. This disqualification requires only a simple majority vote.)

History will not be kind to McConnell, although a fat lot of good that does for the rest of us.