For Mitch McConnell, it's all about him

An excellent editorial from the Courier-Journal about last weekend's speeches at Fancy Farm:

Mr. McConnell, 72, leader of the Republicans who hold a minority in the Senate, listed as his top priority... himself.

"There's only one way to begin to go in a different direction," he thundered in the closing line to a speech that lasted under six minutes. "That's to change the Senate and make me the leader of the new majority and take America in a different direction."

While identifying his personal advancement to Senate majority leader as an overriding goal, Mr. McConnell gave scant attention to the more than 4 million Kentuckians he represents in Washington. He acknowledged only vaguely the unenviable plight of some people in his impoverished state with dismal rankings in so many areas including education, death and disease.