IMPEACHMENT/MITCH MCCONNELL/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the face of an earthshaking political storm, Mitch McConnell seems unmoved. The Senate majority leader has kept a sphinxlike pose during all manner of President Donald Trump controversies. But with an impeachment cloud settling over Washington, McConnell is revealing even less than usual. The GOP leader is saying very little to his members about either his mood or his own view of a political threat that could imperil not just Trump but his Senate majority, according to interviews with nearly a dozen senators. But on Wednesday evening McConnell dismissed criticism of the readout of Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president and said it is ‘laughable to think this is anywhere close to an impeachable offense’…Those comments come on the heels of McConnell allowing a nonbinding sense of the Senate resolution to pass on Tuesday that directed the Trump administration to share a whistleblower complaint about Trump’s interactions with foreign leaders with congressional intelligence committees.”
–Burgess Everett, “‘Ice in his veins’: McConnell steers GOP through Trump’s Ukraine scandal,” Politico, September 25, 2019 7:30 pm