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Honestly at this point I think the governor should just declare Mitch to be either deceased or unable to serve and start the process of appointing a successor. Then if Mitch's team challenges him, say look I want to be wrong please produce the Senator for an in person visit or appearance of any kind, or shut up.
Because if you strip away the politics, McConnell is there to represent the interests of his constituents. If he is unwilling or unable to do so then he should be replaced.
Guys. Guys. I've got it. This is poetry.
Hello everyone it's me Mitch. Im doing well. Thanks for all th
August 3rd 🪦…
He's passed on! This senator is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If they hadn't nailed him to the hospital bed he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!! HE IS AN EX-SENATOR!!
His soul has left, but his shite remains
Call for the special election anyway.
If he’s alive he’s gotta say something to stop it.
That's what I've been saying: Call their bluff, by appointing a replacement, and make them sue the state to stop it. The only way to stop it is to demonstrate to the judge that the Turtle is still swimming, and if he is, then great, MAGA wins.
But if they can't, MAGA's got some 'splainin' to do.
They'll update on August 3rd to avoid the special election
Imagine not showing up to your job for 43 days and even the governor is demanding that you do something, but you’re just like “nah” and nothing happens to you and you keep your job.
#nokings?
Well all you have to do is work hard enough to buy your own lawless reality. They’re living the American dream, I think?
The actual one, yeah.
So we’re calling mildly worded letters an order now? He’s doing the same bullshit everyone else does. Every week that gets added to this he writes another letter. MF the deadline for the election is next week.
For context Senator Ben Lujan from New Mexico got BRAIN SURGERY after a STROKE. He returned to work after a little over a month. He took less time off than McConnell has had for what is allegedly only a minor case of Pneumonia.
Why does Trump get carté blanché but when it’s anyone else they just throw their hands in the air. Beshear needs to just hold the special election. Watch how fast they provide information.
Props to Senator Lujan. One month after any surgery is intense, let alone brain surgery.
Maybe he should try to contact him for comment via a séance.
yeah he has a good reason for not resigning, being dead and all.
Yet, the Democratic governor of Kentucky continues to be a chicken-shit coward. He has the power to end this now, but he's too much of a coward to do anything. He can simply declare the seat vacant by death or incapacitation and call for a special election. If McConnell still walks among the living, then he can show up in court to prove his health quite easily. It would be the quickest court case ever.
This is squarely on the hands of that sniveling coward Governor Beshear.
He can simply declare the seat vacant by death or incapacitation and call for a special election.
Can he actually?
Sure. Whether or not its constitutional, etc. is really beside the point. Any official challenge to the governor's declaration would necessarily involve demonstrating that McConnell is alive and well (or not). In either outcome, the question of the governor's authority would be moot.
Waaaah, but what if we caaaan't? What if it doesn't work? What if the courts just overrule it?
Who fucking cares if it doesn't work? Try it anyway and quit being a god-damn child.
Let's stop this self-defeating, surrender-in-advance attitude. Here's an idea. Try having a god damned backbone. Try it anyway and see if it sticks. As long as you have a half-decent legal case, give it a go.
Liberals are shiftless cowards. Republicans will happily try a dozen things out, expecting only one or two of them to hold up in court. Democrats second-guess themselves into paralysis.
Yep, completely gutless/meaningless: "If the Senator is unable to respond for either of those or other conditions, consider this letter a demand for his Senate staff to be honest and transparent with the people of Kentucky."
It should be a specific date and time when he'll start the replacement process with a specific date and time when he expects the new person to be sworn in.
I wouldn't like to be the guy that claimed mitch mcconnell was dead and then having to recuse myself because he comes to the court.
And I would get laughed at in the internet
Why would you have to recuse yourself. Just say glad to see you’re alive Mitch and cancel the election.
Andy Beshear is a little bitch. Bust in there with your goons and end this fucking play already.
Shove an air hose up his butt and make his head spin.
McConnell doing what he's best at: stalling
Mitch is feeling much better lately.
Went for a hike today:
Then they visited Paris:
And stopped by Euro Disney:
Why not replace McConnell anyways and let them prove otherwise?
Because Kentucky law says Beshear would have to call an election so a Republican would get in anyway. But that law might be unconstitutional from what I've read. But also is it a fight worth spending political capital and legal fees on when realistically it won't change anything and there'll be a new Republican Kentucky senator in 6 months?
yes, because otherwise Beshear looks like a total do-nothing tool, and the dems REALLY need to prove to their voters that they actually do something, or people wont get off their couches again.
a Republican would get in anyway
That Republican might be Thomas Massie, though, which they REALLY want to avoid at any cost.
Absolute best case scenario.
Plus new Senators need to be sworn in which I'm sure if a dem won the special election the republican controlled senate would just simply not swear them in.
Cool, let's fuckin make them do that bullshit then.
I'm tired of going "well if we fight back, they'll just fight back". Like yeah, they are actively fighting us. We are in a fight. We're being punched in the face. If we punch them, they will punch us. If we don't punch them, they will still punch us.
I'm tired of being punched. I want to punch.
And if McConnell DOESNT give an Update before August 3rd then Beshear will send ANOTHER Angry Letter!
Even the article says this is likely to not do anything. Its time for the people of Kentucky to burst into every hospital with their cameras ready. Demand they see their senator is cognizant.
This is just the bare minimum that should have been demanded weeks ago and honestly he should have just started the appointment process by now, assumed he's in a Weekend at Bernie's situation, played the Republican lowball game and let the political chips fall where they may.
While the language in Beshear’s letter is strong, it likely won’t do anything. McConnell, like every member of Congress, can essentially go on paid medical leave for as long as he wants. The fact that our elected officials don’t really have to prove that they can walk, talk, and think coherently—while we still pay them—is disgraceful. Maybe Beshear should just pay McConnell a visit himself, and bring a camera crew with him.
The blue collar worker should try this approach. Oh, right. We wouldn't have a job in a few days.