For the senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell doesn’t have a whole lot of interest in governing. You’d think a guy as power hungry as ol’ Mitch might like to flex those legislative muscles a little more often and make the country nominally safer while he’s at it.

The man who made it his mission to block every last shred of Obama’s agenda has now unilaterally decided that we don’t need secure elections or gun control legislation despite the glaringly obvious need and popularity of both.

The reason Mitch won’t move the house bill improving background checks for gun purchases, which has been sitting on his desk for weeks, forward is because he was bought and paid for long ago. Mitch hasn’t represented the people of Kentucky for years- he’s deeply unpopular but still likely to be re-elected in a blood red state. McConnell represents the monied interests of the Republican party and he’s a very able errand boy.

He stole them a U.S. Supreme Court seat, and he continues to take advantage of poor, feckless Chuck Schumer, who would much rather be talking about gas prices than about efforts to ram through a raft of conservative judges pre-approved by the Heritage Foundation.

He won’t put election security bills up for a vote because Russian interference benefits him. He sits on gun control bills because he and the senators he leads in the Republican senate are deeply beholden to the gun lobby.

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