Media give McConnell grudging credit for … doing the right thing?
Mitch McConnell has been the man liberals love to hate, roughly forever. He’s viewed as dour, inflexible and so fiercely partisan that he would do absolutely anything to give the GOP the slightest edge. When Democrats think of the Senate Republican leader, they conjure up images of him vowing to make Barack Obama a one-term president. Of refusing to give Merrick Garland so much as a hearing while pushing Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court. Of Obama, at a press dinner, mocking the advice he’d been given to improve Hill relations: "Really? Why don’t YOU get a drink with Mitch McConn...