In McConnell's defense, he's dead and can't stop this charade even if he wanted to. On the other hand, leveraging someone's death for political leverage is kind of his whole thing, and his ghost is probably doing back flips in hell.
Kyle GriffinBeshear: McConnell is "ruining" his legacy. "…I know he thinks his legacy is being the longest-serving majority leader in the Senate's history." "Guess what? On his Wikipedia page five years from now, that's going to be a paragraph. But what we're going through right now is going to be a page."