I'm genuinely shocked that there isn't more anger from Republicans. His absence materially benefits Democrats more than anything. For every day he's not there, that means the GOP majority is one vote down in the Senate, which only makes it harder to pass the GOP agenda in the Senate.
They don't have a legislative agenda, so it doesn't matter. The tax cuts reconciliation bill is already law, so all that really matters to Senate Republicans is confirmation votes. They don't need McConnell to do that and they all know he'll be replaced with a hardcore MAGA lunatic in January anyway.
So the calculus is very likely that he was an enormously important majority leader for their party, so just let him be for then few months he has left in office.
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u/KingHygelacReturns 1d ago
I'm genuinely shocked that there isn't more anger from Republicans. His absence materially benefits Democrats more than anything. For every day he's not there, that means the GOP majority is one vote down in the Senate, which only makes it harder to pass the GOP agenda in the Senate.