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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[–] 108 points 2 months ago (69 children)

He’s the executive. Doesn’t he have law enforcement capabilities of some kind? Can he launch an investigation? These democrats are humiliatingly weak.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (17 children)

    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.

    These democrats are humiliatingly weak.

    A Governor only has authority in their state....

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Can the Democratic mayor of DC do a wellness check?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (13 children)

    Which means he also has authority to call a special election but he was weak and didn’t do that.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    He can’t call a special election unless there is or was a vacancy.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    There is a vacancy. If that's wrong, Mitch is welcome to prove otherwise.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Can the Governor of Texas unilaterally declare Jasmine Crockett as dead and appoint someone else to hold her seat?

    There would be all kinds of abuses if Governors could do as you suggest.

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