The Senate Must Be Taken

 

In 2009 Mitch McConnell vowed to make Barack Obama a one-term president and to block everything he attempted to do. Though Mr. Obama was re-elected and had some memorable achievements, McConnell, once he became Majority Leader, effectively blocked many of President Obama’s initiatives including, most notoriously, Mr. Obama’s choice to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. Mr. McConnell’s intransigence has since been made more virulent by Donald Trump, who has used his one-term presidency to dismantle a multitude of Obama programs.

Now, more than a decade later, and after hypocritically rushing through a Supreme Court appointment in the middle of an election, Mr. McConnell still poses, and promises to be, a roadblock to the agenda of a new Democratic administration. The implementation of McConnell’s threat hinges on the outcome of the two senatorial elections in Georgia.

While the country agonizes in the throes of a pandemic, an economy on life support and a wave of racial unrest, a continued government stalemate is inevitable unless Democrats can wrest control of the Senate from McConnell.