Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear sharply criticized Senator Mitch McConnell and the Senate at large over the Kentucky Republican’s prolonged absence from Congress due to health issues.
Beshear, a Democrat, said on Friday that he still had little information about the condition of McConnell, who was hospitalized in mid-June and released from a rehabilitation center earlier this month.
“I’ve received absolutely nothing, and that’s the same that the people of Kentucky have received,” Beshear told MS Now. “This is why the Senate feels broken. These guys don’t think that they have a boss when the people of Kentucky are their boss. They don’t feel like they are accountable whatsoever.”
Beshear called on McConnell to make a video or call into a news show to update the public about his health.
Maybe?
He was “sent home” but that’s likely a DC residence.
If he said he was in Kentucky, then Kentucky authorities can (and should) dona wellness check.
If he said he was in DC, then Kentucky would have to request DC authorities do it.
A Governor only has authority in their state…
Can the Democratic mayor of DC do a wellness check?
Yep, I already said Kentucky can request it, but DC could do it unprompted and justify it due to him being a Senator.
Normally authorities would go years before getting pro-active. It’s only after a family member or employer reports they stopped hearing from them.
Republicans have the Senate, his family is in on it…
So the only avenue is Kentucky asking about their representative really.
In true mcturtle fashion, it’s exploiting a lot of grey areas and norms.
The only avenue? Or they could just, like, fucking do it
Which means he also has authority to call a special election but he was weak and didn’t do that.
He can’t call a special election unless there is or was a vacancy.
There’s a lot of accounts that are going to show up and will just keep saying Democrats are useless.
You won’t be able to use facts or logic to convince them otherwise, because they’re just trying to depress Dem turnout months before a very important midterm election
Bingo.
Hahahaha. You’re fucking kidding me. First off, check my tenure and post history here. Second off, I’m very much a “vote blue no matter who, during the general” and a very liberal person. The governor of Kentucky is rolling over and being useless when he should be standing up to what’s going on. Should people vote less? Hell no, I honestly believe voting should be mandatory and that everyone is registered automatically the moment they turn 18. But none of that precludes me from criticizing who is in office.
There is a vacancy. If that’s wrong, Mitch is welcome to prove otherwise.
Logically I agree. However legally he can’t call a special election. I agree he should be removed but there is no mechanism for that.
Well, he could have, up until the deadline the other day.
As for “legally,” guess what: stopping him would require Mitch to file a lawsuit and show up to win the case, which is exactly the fucking point anyway! So the governor should absolutely gone ahead with the appointment regardless of whether it was “legal” and dared the GOP to object to it!
Like it or not, because of fuckheads like McConnell, this is how US politics works now. You have to try every dirty trick to gain advantage, or you lose to the other assholes who do.
Literally all that was required of the situation was to call a bluff, that’s all they had to do. Apparently, decorum is more important than actual governance, according the democrats and half the piss ass apologists in this thread.
He has made the argument that federal law (17rh amendment) supercedes state law on that front and so he’s allowed even now to start a replacement. He just needs to fuckin do it and let someone call him on it though if that’s his position. Take a page out of the trump playbook.
Which mean he would if they found out he was dead or incapable.
If you don’t understand, ask questions.
But even genuine ignorance is dangerous right before a big midterm
Are you really that placated by “oh he’s alive, trust us?” with all of the subterfuge that the Republicans do? It would have been easy to call for it and then say “I look forward to be proven wrong when I talk to him in person”
Obviously not, and at this point I don’t understand how you’re not understanding this…
You’re saying if someone thinks step 1 should be done, they think he’s fine.
I have no fucking idea why anyone would think that, it’s completely irrational
Yet here we are…
It’s like if someone told you they were getting a prostate exam, and you called them an idiot for not thinking they can get cancer.
Just what the actual fuck are you even talking about?
It’s an election season, and an important one at that. The irrational actors are coming out of the woodwork to tell everyone how worthless and incapable they believe the dems are.
Here we go again…