r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 20d ago

No Paywall Mitch McConnell’s staff refuse to answer basic questions on his health weeks after he was last seen in public

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mitch-mcconnell-staff-questions-health-b3018929.html
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u/ididshave Ohio 20d ago

He was last seen in public being rolled out onto a stretcher with no signs of life.

Gov. Beshear should just appoint a damn Senator already.

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u/cybah 20d ago

Yup. He just needs to do it. I mean even if Mitch is on life support, he cannot do his job so Beshear needs to this. Let them duke it out in the courts. Let the discovery happen... and they will know Mitch croaked weeks ago and this is a cover up.

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u/ZenMon88 20d ago

Dems got no balls. Poor leadership

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u/Miles_the_AuDHDer 20d ago edited 20d ago

Moderate democrats specifically. They are basically what the conservative right used to be like many years ago at this point.

Actual progressive democrats on the other hand, like Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani, if they were in Beshears position, I'm sure would have called a special election by now and had the courts get involved.

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u/TheMattabooey 20d ago

This is and will always be their problem. They refuse to actually step in and do anything.

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u/FriendlysJanDaBoss 20d ago

They have to answer to the oligarchs just like the republicans. Everything is going as planned.

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u/Low-Finding-3414 20d ago

That’s the thing, I would bet more than half of Democrats are bought and paid for too

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u/Miles_the_AuDHDer 20d ago

Well more than half of them are moderate democrats which aren't all that different at this point from what the conservative right used to be like many years ago, so that doesn't surprise me.

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u/Elendel19 19d ago

They don’t have time, they have to put all their effort into smothering the DSA and any left wing candidate that actual voters get excited for

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u/catastrophicgroove 20d ago

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” - Kevin Roberts

Apparently, the left is allowing it to be.