re: #73 jeffreyw

Senator Mitch McConnell is said to believe that the impeachment effort will make it easier to purge President Trump from the party.

NYTimes link

Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, has indicated that he wants to see the specific article of impeachment that the House is set to approve on Wednesday, which is expected to draw support from as many as a dozen Republicans, potentially including Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the party’s No. 3 in the House. But he has made clear in private discussions that he believes now is the moment to move on the weakened lame duck, whom he blames for causing Republicans to lose the Senate.

I suspect that this has already been pointed out in the many posts that I have not yet been able to catch up with. (Sorry, but I am simply just not capable of reading the daily thousand+ posts and still get other things in my life done.)

As I understand it McConnell is seeking to grab and hold as much power as possible. By holding off impeaching until after January 20th he is hoping to:

1. Cripple Trump by allowing sanctions that prevent him from seeking
further office and probably help render Trump politically and financially insolvent

2. Cripple the Trump wing of the GOP by making it leaderless

3. Foist blame for the impeachment on the Democrats

Not mentioned is that McConnell is demonstrating his complete indifference for and absolute lack of concern about, the United States and its citizens in general, and his constituents in Kentucky in particular.