It has been nearly six weeks since McConnell cast a vote in the Senate, just days before he was rushed to the hospital on June 14 by emergency responders.
The Daily Beast made multiple requests for information with the offices of all seven other members of the Kentucky delegation about whether the members of Congress had been in contact with McConnell or even bothered to reach out to the former Senate Majority Leader. Our questions were largely met with silence.
Only Rep. Andy Barr’s office responded and simply pointed to the congressman and GOP Senate nominee’s comments in Lexington one month ago, where he told reporters after an event in Lexington that he had exchanged text messages with McConnell. That was on June 21.
The offices of Paul along with Reps. James Comer, Brett Guthrie, Morgan McGarvey, Thomas Massie and Hal Rogers did not say whether they’d been in contact with the senator or his staff.
Beshear’s office confirmed with the Daily Beast on Tuesday that the governor has still not received “any communication whatsoever” from McConnell.
The Democratic governor and rising star in the party is now facing backlash for not going further by appointing a replacement or calling a special election amid McConnell’s radio silence.
The Democratic governor and rising star in the party is now facing backlash for not going further by appointing a replacement or calling a special election amid McConnell’s radio silence.
Yep. Just go ahead and call the special election.
If the Republicans want to stop that, they’ll have to sue to stop it, and that lawsuit will have to provide proof of life in order to go anywhere. If they can’t provide proof of life (for obvious reasons), then their lawsuit will go nowhere and the election will proceed. (And, of course, if they can, then the judge would halt the election.)
Republicans would’ve have called a special election the moment a democrat senator got the sniffles, yet here we are
McConnell would have skipped right ahead to appointing whoever the fuck was the most evil and compliant.
Gettin’ roasty, Moscow!
Makes you wonder if they’re all on the same team and 90% of everything you see is just for show, with one side always blaming the other side for everything wrong with the country, but most all of our government officials are getting huge amounts of money and free forever healthcare. Everyone is always concentrating on “it’s because of the dems\repubs that our government is fucking us” and never “our government is fucking us”. Always divided while the rich and powerful laugh their asses off.
That’s how i’ve been seeing it lately. There is still about 20-30% of the population though still seeing this as an “own the left” game, which is fucking us hard.
Depending upon how we want to define “alive” they very well could provide that proof of life, and then the Republicans would just call the Democrats stupid/evil/whatever
Technically the wording is “clearly incapacitated”
and then the Republicans would just call the Democrats stupid/evil/whatever
Okay. They do that every day anyway.
Spoiler:
He died weeks ago.
I’ve heard Beshear isn’t pushing harder because McConnell not being present is better than a special election that puts a new actively voting Republican in office. I can see the logic.
But then, if we were ever going to flip that seat, now it’s the time. So I do wish he just called the special election and let McConnell’s ghost hold a press conference to reassure everyone he is only mostly dead.
Kentucky is not likely to flip that seat unless Beshear himself runs for it or his dad comes out of retirement.
Dad has entered the chat
The Democratic governor and rising star in the party is now facing backlash for not going further by appointing a replacement or calling a special election amid McConnell’s radio silence.
And rightfully so. They’re pulling a weekend at mcconnell’s, to the detriment of his constituents, and he’s doing jack shit.
You … Want Mitch back in Congress and voting?
They want the senator to do his job, and if not possible, to follow the rules and get someone else in. They want the people pulling a McConnell and trying to run the clock out to suffer consequences for not doing the bare minimum that is their job.
We want the people orchestrating fraud on the American people to be arrested.
Ahhh, right. I keep forgetting Lemmy is where leftists go to prove they’re just as stupid as maga.
Wanting justice is…stupid?
This is your argument? Seriously? Heaven forbid I smarten up enough to desire criminals be left to continue their crimes against the American people. Bet you thought this was a brilliant zinger, huh?
Bet you thought this was a brilliant zinger, huh?
It just seemed like a clear observation TBH. The left makes just as stupid arguments as the maga crowd all the time. They just justify them because “we’re right and they’re not”.
I’m sure they do. Mine, however, was not one of those, and your response to it was asinine.
Oh yeah - your “we want to prosecute people for things we perceive as wrong but which may or may not be illegal for reasons” was a brilliant work of art.
