A fair point. But I find it ridiculous to regard them as boogeymen. The Congressional leadership gets far too much blame around here in my opinion, they reflect their members not the other way around. I fail to envision things being much different if they were replaced. If McConnell dropped dead this very instant his successor would likely be Cornyn.
McConnell sure did well blocking Merrick Garland. With a few more Senators he could repeal Osamacare, and it’s not as if another leader could do it now with the intransigence of McCain, Collins and Murkowski and the rigid foolishness of Rand Paul. Herding cats.
Both Ryan and McCo will eventually be replaced, and promise you FR will come to hate their replacements too, the nature of the job.
I think McConnell deserves a lot of credit for his work as an opposition leader but he can’t seem to translate that into success now that his party is in the majority and holding the WH
Ryan just isn’t a leader. When he was a young up and comer he appeared to have good instincts but good instincts -and even good policies -don’t necessarily mean somebody is qualified to head up a legislature.