Calling Mitch McConnell’s Debt Ceiling Bluff

Sotto Voce Declarations
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell woke up on the wrong side of the bed on Monday. Who could blame him? His summer vacation’s been ruined. President Trump’s been riding him all month like a pack mule.
The spoiler of Mitch’s summer vacation. People should generally avoid finding themselves on the receiving end of the master Tweeter’s fire and fury mode if they suffer from conditions such as geographic distance insufficiency or complete lack of nuclear deterrent syndrome. [PT] What’s more, on Monday McConnell had to rise early and put on his suit and tie like an ordinary working stiff. While his Congressional cohorts were busy vacationing in their summer recess, McConnell had important business to tend to that couldn’t wait until the return of Congress on September 5. Namely, he had to make a public display of unity in his home state of Kentucky with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Following a social media lambasting of a deplorable taxpayer by Mnuchin’s new bride, and Mnuchin’s visit to Fort Knox to confirm the ‘gold is safe,’ it was finally time to get down to business.

This post was published at Acting-Man on August 25, 2017.