Our reckless ‘Senator No’

The season of primary caucuses and elections reveals a country awash in anger and frustration directed at a government that is not doing what American government was designed to do: serve the needs of the people.

In fact, our government seems to be doing almost nothing at all. Why? Who jammed the wheels of progress bringing them to a grinding halt? Who encouraged divisive factions within the Republican Party, carefully feeding and nurturing obstructionists?

The culprit is not the rude and surly Donald Trump. He is merely the mischief maker who leaped from the opened bottle. I don’t believe it is President Barack Obama, who generally gets blamed for most evil and is given little credit for much good.

It is our very own Dr. No, Sen. Mitch McConnell, who vowed to obstruct anything the current president put forth.

McConnell has made good on his promise. No to jobs bills, no to cleaning up the environment, no to affordable health care and now no to filling the vacant seat on the Supreme Court.

To give him credit, McConnell gives new meaning to the word no. I hope history will tell the full story of his unbridled recklessness, which has led to such dangerous shredding of the fabric of our society.

This story was originally published April 7, 2016 at 7:35 PM with the headline "Our reckless ‘Senator No’."