He "must go now also!!!"? Good luck with that. McConnell wields considerable power inside the beltway, and he's comfortably ensconced in his Senate seat until 2020.
"Oh! But Ryan's going! Why not McConnell too?"
Sorry, Senate terms are six years, not two like the House (see Article I, section 3, clause 1 of the Constitution).
No one should praise Paul Ryan.
I’ve always thought that if a challenger, in Kentucky, could gin up some grassroots push against him, it might at least get him to do something, at least a little bit. I know they can’t be recalled but even a symbolic, recall effort would do some damage to him. He’d either give Kentucky the finger and retire with his Communist Chinese fortune or he’d have to start working, so as not to destroy his legacy. But, then again, if he does anything for the people of Kentucky, it will all be against the wishes of his corporate puppet masters.
I am so sick of this house of lords that the Senate has become.
With all do respect to our Founders and their desire for the Senate to be a place of contemplation, and the fires and passions of legislation to chill, they blew it.
We are living in a world of faster, cheaper, quicker and of Deming and 6 Sigma of which the operating procedures of the Senate are bereft of any resemblance of normalcy of "best practices" and it is lethargy and lack of leadership is worse than GM before their Bankruptcy and the sad part of it is they can't go Chapter 11 and replace all top Mgt and or the board.
At a minimum we need:
* Someone to run against Mitch as Senate Majority leader even if they fail, let him know you aren't all that and...
* Someone to put together a Corporate Style fast track series of rules and procedures, Throw out all of what they have, the way they run things their now sucks on ice.
Fix it dang it, the rest of world got with the 21st Century and the Senate is still in the powdered wig stage..