President Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell are not friends — at least not in the sense of how any normal person would use the word.The one-time colleagues arrived in Washington with deeply contrasting goals and styles. They share opposite stances on a host of issues.
On the other side of the Capitol, Speaker Mike Johnson is a former Ukraine aid skeptic who seems unable or unwilling to lead his chaotic membership that borderlines on ungovernable.McConnell's repeated references to President Ronald Reagan in the speech announcing his decision only further signaled over far the Republican Party has drifted from some of the Reganite influences that once defined it.None of these bipartisan laws would have seemed like a big deal a generation ago.