Note to Mitch: Voters reject obstructionism

This editorial ran in the Herald-Leader on Nov 8:

(Mitch McConnell) signaled his intent to keep obstructing Obama unless the newly re-elected president moves to the "political center."

Obama just received more than 60 million votes and scored a 303-206 victory in the electoral college (pre-Florida), which raises obvious questions: Where does McConnell think the political center is? Isn't that what elections tell us?

If ever the Senate Republican leader should show some humility, it's now. Not only did McConnell fail to achieve his publicly stated "single most important" goal of making Obama a one-term president, he also presided over a loss of Republican seats in the Senate.

Senate needs new Republican leadership

The Courier-Journal ran this editorial on Nov 8:

“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president,” Mr. McConnell, the Senate minority leader and Kentucky’s senior senator, told The National Journal.

He has failed utterly, a stunning failure driven home by Mr. Obama’s decisive win Tuesday over Republican Mitt Romney. One of the country’s top Republicans and leader of Senate Republicans, Mr. McConnell has crashed and burned in the single most important goal he set for himself and his party.

...Mr. McConnell needs to get out of the way and let someone with a true vision for this country take over.

Voters turn down Rand Paul's brew

A good editorial in today's Courier-Journal:

Mr. Paul spent time, money and political capital supporting five GOP candidates in U.S. Senate races ranging from a West Virginia election where the Democratic incumbent was never at risk to a Montana election where the Democratic incumbent never had a chance.

...Thankfully, voters in the five states where Mr. Paul tried hardest to influence the races rejected the extremist tea party candidates and chose instead to support moderate Democrats who will work to get things done in Washington.

We can only hope that Senators Paul and McConnell paid attention and realize that tea party extremism is not what this country needs or wants.