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.

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    2 days ago

    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”

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      Obviously not, and at this point I don’t understand how you’re not understanding this…

      1. Do a welfare check
      2. If he’s dead or incapable, do a special election.

      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?

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        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…