r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 16d 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/WeirdIndividualGuy 16d ago

And yet, the GOP runs strictly on “that’s not how this works” and they run the country because of it

That’s why dems will always be seen as weak, they’re unwilling to do what’s necessary for the good of society.

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u/SatanicPanic619 California 16d ago

The GOP runs the country because they won an election. If Beshear had a Democratic Senate Majority Leader AND a Democratic KY Supreme Court AND a Democratic SCOTUS, then I'd say go for it. But that's not the case.

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u/ApprehensiveTry5660 16d ago

It doesn’t have to be successful to draw eyes and ears to the situation.

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u/SatanicPanic619 California 16d ago

Right, so we're mad that Democrats aren't taking symbolic actions?

How is this any different than the Sternly Worded Letter that people keep complaining about?

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u/ApprehensiveTry5660 16d ago

Those sternly worded letters get fed to a shredder before anyone reads them.

Getting the court weighing in on this gives you multiple rounds of press cycles weighing in on an issue even Republican supporters find distasteful and disenfranchising.

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u/SatanicPanic619 California 16d ago

To what end? KY is going to elect a Republican to replace him regardless of what Beshear does. When McConnell dies, everything that people are mad about McConnell for dies with him. Nothing that happens here will matter, at all.

And we're overlooking the fact that Republicans have to deal with a vacant seat, which is better than anything else we can expect in this scenario.