THE AUDITION BEGINS – OVERNIGHT:  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came out bristling, responding to President Biden's marginally alive press conference.  Remember, this isn't just doing the job in Mitch's case.  He's auditioning for Donald Trump, who's been highly critical of him.  It would be bad if Trump ran for president and Mitch wasn't on his team.  I'd imagine Mitch would have to disappear, or Trump would just ignore him.  McConnell knows it would be much better if he and Trump were on good terms.  From Fox: 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell responded Thursday to President Biden's repeated claim that Republicans cannot verbalize "what they are for" to the American people.

McConnell, R-Ky., told Fox News the GOP has been vocal about what Republicans view as the most pressing issues in the country.

During his Wednesday press conference, Biden said the "fundamental question is 'what's Mitch for?'" before claiming the Senate minority leader would do "anything to prevent Biden from being a success."

McConnell strongly disagreed with Biden's claim, telling "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier, "my good friend the president got it wrong once again."

"I helped him pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill, I supported in the Senate a bill to deal with China and the computer chip shortage," he recalled.

"If the president starts acting like a moderate like he campaigned, we can do business. The reason we've not been speaking recently this year is because he adopted the Bernie Sanders prescription for America. He did that even though he got no mandate for it, a 50-50 Senate and a couple of seats' majority in the House, and they couldn't get it through."

 McConnell added that the American people, like himself, do not want the socialistic transformation of America that people like Sanders, a Vermont senator, envision. 

COMMENT:  If Mitch is willing to fight, Trump might take him in from the cold, and we could march off together to sweep the Dems from the field, although they're doing a good job of that by themselves.

January 20, 2022