Sounds like what Republicans said about Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and then, when that was released, his long-form birth certificate.
I recall progressives (or maybe the word back then was liberal) posting that Obama should not do it.
In that case, Obama was running for office, a process where one sometimes does things that lower their dignity. Here there is no need.
As for putting this question to rest, there no one clear-cut question here such as where Barack Obama was born. The issue is whether McConnell’s condition is or was far worse than they are letting on.
At least Mitch doesn’t say he’s the healthiest man that rehab hospital has ever seen.
No, actually, it sounds absolutely nothing like that, in that it is not a baseless race-baiting conspiracy theory designed to confuse and inflame low-information voters.
There could likely be two Trump Supreme Court confirmation attempts during the lame duck session if the election puts Democrats in charge of the Senate in January. The GOP needs every senator on deck for that.
Most people don’t realize that there was a recall election for Gabby while she was recovering; the woman said it wasn’t right not to have an active representative. I voted against it.
There are lots of possibilities. That report was a lie. He had a stroke later, while recovering from the fall. Or it’s not a stroke.
To be honest, i don’t care a lot. He’s not my senator. I’m happy to have him not voting. The guy deserves medical privacy. There’s no legal requirement that a senator be fit for the job.
Whatever has happened, the odds of Mitch walking or being rolled into the Senate chamber and casting a vote are virtually zero.
Unless of course Republicans are able to pass a measure saying that a “medical intuitive” can vote in place of Mitch after determining what his wishes are.
In the end, McConnell staffers get to keep their paychecks for a few more months and Republicans can forestall the remote chance of something untoward happening as a result of a special election.
That’s true, but it’s unethical to collect money for a job that you’re not doing. Aren’t Republicans always worried about welfare fraud and able-bodied people collecting disability pay? Medical leave is one thing, but if he’s not going to be able to return to work, he should resign, if only in the interests of fiscal responsibility.
If he shows up to work next week, fit as a fiddle, I’ll eat my words, and also my hat.
That’s the one, and I note now that no one with professional medical credentials put their name on it. It’s a purported statement from McConnell himself, released at the same time as the first “proof of life” picture.
This is off-topic, but whatever. If there was a recall election for a Congressperson, it wasn’t legal and would have been tossed by the courts if it had passed and been challenged. Looking things up, I can’t find any reports of such a recall election.
That was, of course, several years before the assassination attempt and her injury, which did ultimately lead her to resign from Congress a year before her term was up.
I’ll nitpick this word choice.The “very best” medical care means the best treatment known, not “what the rich and powerful have access to.”
For example: let’s say there are various treatment options for sclerotic amniotic hematosis. (This term and what follows is made-up nonsense, as I’m not a medical professional so can’t authoritatively present any real examples.) In decades past, the best treatment available for SAH was bed rest and lumiracoxib. Later it was discovered that blood pressure medications combined with physical therapy were the best. Today, more and more physicians are prescribing a six-week course of petrofinolax followed by ongoing massage therapy, a therapeutic approach backed by rigorous evidence, and the “very best” approach available now.
So in a world that prioritized access to medical care, most people could get the very best. It’s a question of resource distribution. (Which is probably the point you were trying to make anyway.)
No. Under this scenario, they are fine with voting in a replacement during the regular November election. That will be a more controlled election with much lower chance of something weird (like Massie or a Dem) getting voted in.
If the vote for the replacement happens concurrent with the regular election, then the temporary senator would be seated as soon as the election is certified, giving them a month and half for any confirmation shenanigans.
As Governor of the state you serve, I am calling on you to directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign.
With their tales of Mitch engaging in 20-minute conversations, Republicans opened themselves up to this.
If those tales have any truth to them, it should be trivial for Mitch to record a short video message. (He can use reduced lighting if his appearance is not up to his standard.)
