I wonder if he can even make it to the end of his term. He knows the Democratic governor of Kentucky will not appoint a Republican to replace him, so he’s going to fight that.
It's funny how on certain topics (and to be clear, VERY few), the Dems and reps are the same. The Dems have feinstein who's in a similar state, and she's got people keeping her in office because they don't like who the governor is(n't) going to pick
Feinstein is an order of magnitude more cognizant than McConnell, and yet a great many Dems want to see her removed also…and you just don’t see that kind of parity with the GOP.
But you're right, there's at least calls from the Dems to kick her out, so there is a decent difference between the two parties. I just wish the leadership felt the same way.
Leadership wants her out, and she finally accepted the option of letting another Democratic senator temporarily fill her position on the Judiciary Committee while she was unable to attend for many, many weeks in the most recent episode - but Republicans refused.
At that point, Democratic leadership can decide that they want her out so badly that they’ll simply hand Republicans a win. Or they can try to get her back in her seat with her hand on the button, so that Democrats can get at least a few wins in the Judiciary Committee.
I want Feinstein out, but I still think Democratic leadership made the correct decision.
There’s reports from colleagues that they need to repeatedly reintroduce themselves to her during the same meeting. She was completely unaware of her own months long absence from the capital.
There’s definitely more Democrats calling for her retirement than GOP calling for McConnells (AFAIK there are zero), but saying she’s an “order of magnitude more cognizant” is pretty damn generous
That’s not what anyone was objecting to. He’s frozen for a minute twice whereas she was unable to even be at the capitol for months and then was unaware of that fact when asked
She is MAGNITUDES worse than McConnell and it isn’t even close.
Having a several minute long seizure of some kind is, in my opinion, significantly worse than any behavior Feinstein exhibits. It was bad enough it happened once. If it’s happened twice on camera we have to assume that it happens more off camera and that it’s now a regular occurrence. Regardless, that part of my comment was intended to be subjective. But all you said was “Uhhh. That’s just not at all true.” without specifying whether you were challenging one word of my comment or the entire thing, so I’m forced to interpret your statement as a challenge to my entire comment. Also, you misquoted me. I said “an order of magnitude” not “magnitudes”.
Barely. But yes, because despite the confusion, her brain still displays at least some function, as opposed to fucking blue-screening like a just-unplugged Chuck-E-Cheese android.
I think some people might read this comment and think you are describing some satirical hyperbolic scenario. But given what we have seen from conservatives over the last few years, It's not just possible, it's their normal.
William Rehnquist had a speaker installed in his private bathroom and the last couple of years on the court, he would suddenly disappear from the bench during oral arguments, but never worry, he could still hear them arguing on his special toilet speaker before making decisions that would affect hundreds of millions of people.
Like they did with Strom Thurmond. Dude had to be wheeled onto the Senate floor and looked half dead by the end.
Part of the reason this happens is committee seniority is determined by length of time in the Senate, so to control committees it's important to keep Senators in office as long as possible for both parties.
Under the amended law, the governor now may only choose from three names recommended by the executive committee of the outgoing senator’s state party, and must make that selection within 21 days of receiving the list from the party.
With both of Kentucky’s senators currently being Republican, the choosing of those three nominees would be up to the executive committee of the Republican Party of Kentucky, which is made up of 54 members.
After a vacancy is filled, there would be a special election with an open and bipartisan process — often referred to as a “jungle primary” — allowing any candidate gaining 1,000 signature to run. A candidate with more than 50% of the vote would win, but if no one wins a majority of the vote, the top two vote getters would go on to a runoff election in 70 days.
The timing of that election would be determined based on when the vacancy occurred.
If the vacancy occurred more than three months before a regularly scheduled election, that’s when it would take place. It the vacancy occurred less than three months before an election and a regular election is scheduled the following year, the latter election date is when the vote for the Senate seat would occur.
Seriously. A few years ago he’s spearheading the party to remove rights from people and now he’s too old to speak. There has to be room for retirement between those steps.
He has an R next to his name. His own political ads could say “I’m too incapacitated to run and if you vote for me I will murder your family” and republicans will still vote for him
The world would be a better place if he choked on his own tongue while waiting for needed medical care like so many Americans that he helped keep from having healthcare.
I know it's not nice to be piling onto an ailing old man who probably isn't going to be around much longer, but yeah when he was in good health he was an awful person who didn't give a single fuck about anyone else who was having a hard time, and had literally decades filled with opportunities to help people who were worse off and squandered them all just to accumulate more worthless power and money for himself.
Keeping him in power does nothing but harm other people and the country in general IMO, although to be fair that was also true before his health started to go south as well.
I agree with (possibly) none of McConnell’s policies and I’ll never forgive him for the un-American things he did as senate majority leader. I certainly don’t care for him but that it is quite sad to see him like this. I hope he can make a graceful exit from politics and live the rest of his years in peace.
I agree it is sad but also when he was well, if he'd seen someone else in the condition he's in now and had the choice to either cure them or make $1 for himself that he didn't even need, I'm 100% convinced he'd have walked away a dollar richer.
That being said, yes, McConnell is one of the key architects of how dysfunctional our system of government has become. From using the filibuster more times during the Obama administration than all prior administrations COMBINED, to blocking a legitimately named Supreme Court Justice, not by allowing him a fair vote, but by denying him a hearing AT ALL.
BUT…
Now hear me out… BUT…
He does have three daughters, Porter, is actually an activist:
You can make fun of the guy, you can hate the guy, but before you wish death on the guy, take just a moment to consider his family and how they must feel watching him break down like this live on camera, not once, but twice.
Had his ilk not stood in the way of healthcare reform and medical research, he might still have enough of a mind to feel guilty. I wish only that he were well enough to register how much he deserves every bit of loathing that’s directed at him.
Edit: I think I replied to the wrong comment but I’m still angery. (•ˋ _ ˊ•)
I’ve accepted this for so long as baseline knowledge that I’ve kind of forgotten some of the headlines. Can someone toss me a few bullet points of the bullshittery?
I’ll assume you’re not a disingenuous republican. Off the top of my head:
Getting in the way of fucking everything Obama tried to do, including passing the ACA.
Disgustingly putting his thumb in the eye of everyone who voted for Obama by blocking Merrick Garland’s nomination to the now illegitimate and flagrantly corrupt supreme court (unworthy even of capital letters).
Unabashed support for putin’s agent in the white house. Up to and including voting to acquit during the impeachment hearings.
There’s more, but fuck it, I have a show to watch.
The “fun” part of his acquittal vote is that he said he was guilty, but since he had lost the election already, casting a guilty vote would be the wrong thing for the senate to do.
He wanted to both appease trump voters by voting not guilty, and appease saner moderates by calling him guilty in the press.
I once heard him speak about ONE time in ‘97 how a ‘dumuhcrayut’ spoke 3 minutes over their time and he’d held a grudge ever since. That it was his motivation for destroying our system. He’s been a plague for at the very least 24 years but likely his whole career.
Moscow Mitch needs to have retired a long time ago.
Get rid of all politicians over the age of 55 or 60. Allow them to be maybe advisors but at this point these people have been unhelpful to the larger younger population.
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