Master of the Minority Mitch McConnell's Immodest Turn In a beautiful, if perhaps unintended, exposition of the hypocrasy of the McConnell legislative obstruction program in the Senate, a New York Times "Congressional Memo: "Muscle Flexing in Senate: G.O.P. Defends Strategy," quotes the Senate Majority Leader today as follows: I think we are being consistent here against higher taxes, consistently against greater regulation, consistently against creating new causes of action in bill after bill after bill. It's a positive message of our vision of America. It is a reiteration of last week's Times article, All the Makings of a Carnival, Except the Fun that we highlighted in Cirque du Senate. So, how well is the McConnell program working? "We have a pretty good sense that the public has figured out they are not too happy with this new Congress." That is, very well indeed. Positively.