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

    Sharply criticized

    Well that’ll teach them.

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

    If only there was SOMETHING he Could do! OH WELL!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    I totally understand the frustration, but my understanding is that there is really nothing he can legally do about it. What exactly do you think he should be doing that he isn't? If there is something that he's legitimately not doing I'd like to know about it.

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    [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Kentucky's governor is basically Chuck Schumer, all bluster. What a disappointment.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Lol at this thread ripping on Andy Beshear for not "doing something!" while totally excluding the actual fucking culprit AND his enablers from the entire conversation.

    Also lol at all the people who, when directly asked, "What do you think the governor of Kentucky can do that he isn't already doing?" either fall silent, or instantly refer to the extensive law libraries they keep in their prison wallets to extract answers not found in reality.

    So many people trying so, so hard to indict the only official actually doing what they can within the law -- while giving the actual miscreant a complete pass. Stop missing stair around this dead or dying motherfucker already, jesus. Do you think he's going to come get you like the ghoul he is?

    Or to put it another way, Mitch McConnell, who is the actual individual deserving of your ire (remember this point) is physically in DC. DC is where he collapsed and was hospitalized, and just a couple days ago there was a video of a DC power broker coming out of McConnell's DC townhouse. It is safe to say that DC is where Mitch McConnell -- or at least his mortal coil -- is physically located right now.

    Now let's look at the law. Gov. Beshear is not the mayor of DC. As the governor of a state, Gov. Beshear has no federal authority to do anything at all. Gov. Beshear has authority in the state of Kentucky, and only in the state of Kentucky.

    Meanwhile, DC is not in Kentucky, which is very probably why McConnell is staying in DC.

    To recap: at any point since mid-June, McConnell himself could have put a stop to this circus in a single heartbeat -- but instead of going after him, you're all focusing your anger on the governor of the state of Kentucky who is left as powerless by McConnell to go after him as you are, yet who is still doing everything he can legally do.

    Or to put it another way, Gov. Beshear has NOT forgotten who the actual fucking culprit of this scenario is, which is far more than can be said for so many in this thread, lol.

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    [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    At this point it's going to HAVE to be a closed casket and/or private funeral unless they pumped that body with the most chemicals known to man and put him in a freezer in the arctic.

    Also whomever the mortician or whatever is they're probably rolling in the dough right now. probably the best thing that happened in their career.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Poor wikipedia editors have been waiting on his page for so long they begun unionizing.

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