Mitch McConnell : The Senator of the Century (Part 3, Special Edition) A Giant Retires

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In this Special Edition of our show we are adding a third installment to the special series we ran in January looking back at the life and career of Senator Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Republican Leader in the history of the Senate. In our special series in January we profiled the leader and his historic role over the past 40 years in the Senate. We even labeled him as the Senator of the Century. It would be hard to find an argument against the statement. He totally changed the direction of the Federal Judiciary especially the Supreme Court.
We added this episode due to the announcement that he would be stepping down in November after the 2024 election as the Senate Republican Leader. This announcement caught us here off-guard and we look at it with some level of actual fear. As far as we are concerned Senator Mitch McConnell has led not only with integrity, he has often been the only adult in Washington D.C. on either side of the aisle. In an era of midget sized leadership from literally almost every position in Government he has been a giant and often he has alone been the one voice of reason at the helm and without him there it is almost scary where things may actually go for our republic.
In this episode, we will look at last week’s announcement and this episode will feature the full Senate floor speech by Mitch McConnell.

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Chapter

1. NBC News coverage of Mitch McConnell's retirement announcement (00:00:00)

2. Music Intro (00:02:01)

3. Host Randal Wallace welcomes you tot he show and talks about the McConnell retirement announcement (00:02:26)

4. Lawmakers react to McConnell stepping down from Republican Leadership - ABC News (00:07:31)

5. Host Randal Wallace introduces the retirement speech of Senator Mitch McConnell on the Senate Floor (00:15:42)

6. The Retirement annoucement speech from the floor of the United States Senate by Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, The Senator of the Century (00:18:45)

7. Silence in honor of the retirement of Mitch McConnell (00:27:44)

8. Closing music (00:27:52)