Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “was confronted Friday night by some angry diners who loudly berated him for his politics,” TMZ reports.

“The Kentucky Senator was eating dinner with his wife at Havana Rumba in Louisville, when 4 men confronted Mitch. The main aggressor screams at McConnell, ‘Why don’t you get out of here?  Why don’t you leave the entire country?'”

“The woman who shot the video tells us, before she started recording, the main aggressor slammed his fists down on McConnell’s table, grabbed his doggie bag and threw the food out the door of the restaurant.”

“This Congress has been the best two years of my time here.”

— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in an interview with the Washington Examiner.

Matthew Yglesias: “At the end of the day, the belief that getting two Supreme Court nominees confirmed reflects some kind of peculiar legislative genius on the part of Mitch McConnell doesn’t stand up to any kind of scrutiny. After all, Barack Obama and Harry Reid also got two Supreme Court justices confirmed. So did George W. Bush and Bill Frist. So did Bill Clinton and George Mitchell. That’s just what happens.”

“That’s not to deny that McConnell is a shrewd legislative tactician — he’s an experienced politician and legislative leader, and he’s good at his job. It’s just to emphasize that, in many ways, circumstances make the man.”

“Had the 2016 election broken slightly differently, after all, the blockage on Merrick Garland might have ended up looking like a fiasco that ultimately allowed President Hillary Clinton to swap him out in favor of a younger and more left-wing justice.”

“I’m stronger than mule piss.”

— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by the New York Times, explaining to President Trump just how committed he was to pushing Brett Kavanaugh through to Supreme Court confirmation.

McClatchy: “To Republicans, McConnell is now a 21st century political hero, a leader who refused to surrender to political correctness or to the loud, angry, persistent voices of the left.”

“Party loyalists are enthusiastic about McConnell’s ability to harness collective rage over what they saw as Democratic gamesmanship, and laud his strategy of directing that disgust towards a cherished outcome: Giving a conservative judge a lifetime appointment on the most powerful court in the land and the power to shape the judiciary for a generation. Back home, he has all but assured himself an easy sail to victory in his 2020 GOP primary election.”

“Democrats, on the other hand, have never been more energized to take McConnell down, from inside the state and beyond.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “has described holding up President Obama’s Supreme Court pick for a year as one of his proudest achievements, ‘the most consequential decision I’ve ever made in my entire public career,’” the Washington Post reports.

“It looks likely he will soon get another big Supreme Court win to put up next to that: Confirming Brett M. Kavanaugh after the judge was accused by three women of sexual misconduct, a scandal that has pitched the Senate and the country into a divisive and partisan debate over gender and power.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s “good name and his family have been dragged through the mud with a campaign of character assassinations based on allegations that lack any corroboration,” the Washington Post reports.

Despite a reopened background check, McConnell made clear in his speech that Republicans will move ahead on the nomination: “The time for endless delay and obstruction has come to a close. We’ll be voting this week.”