The opening line of Thursday morning’s Politico Playbook plays on lyrics from Atlanta rapper Ludacris’s 2002 hit “Move Bitch” ft Mystikal and I-20 to segue into what the aftermath of Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell’s surrender to MAGA would look like. Not hard to imagine that a millennial-aged Politico writer thought they were being extra clever getting it past their boomer or Gen-X-born editor as a person unfamiliar with the fairly obnoxious and uninspired track.
Further down is an actually newsworthy quote from a Senate GOP source on the plans to maneuver a MAGA Republican into the top spot rather than would-be McConnell successors and current lieutenants John Barrasso, John Cornhole Cornyn, and John Thune. “The idea that it’s just between the ‘Three Johns’ is an outdated narrative from a year ago. There will be somebody else – and possibly a scenario where none of the ‘Johns’ can get consensus, so it takes another candidate to step in,” the source said. There’s no mention of Rick Scott as a potential leader, lol.