Is something wrong with Mitch McConnell?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/0/05/Beaker.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/280?cb=20101015151246

sorry guys. This is supposed to be a pic of Beaker.
Here's his wiki: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Beaker

This is your original image that you tried to post. If you use the IMG tag instead of the URL tag, it will embed the image to the post. Also, it all of the information after .jpg was not needed.

[Anonymous]

Mitch had polio when he was younger:
"Post-polio syndrome (PPS) usually occurs 15-40 years after the infection and recovery. PPS is believed to be the result of a deterioration of nerve cells called motor neurons over many years that leads to loss of muscle strength and dysfunction. Polio and post-polio syndrome are caused by poliovirus."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/0/05/Beaker.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/280?cb=20101015151246

sorry guys. This is supposed to be a pic of Beaker.
Here's his wiki: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Beaker

This is your original image that you tried to post. If you use the IMG tag instead of the URL tag, it will embed the image to the post. Also, it all of the information after .jpg was not needed.

Thanks! separated at birth...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To me it looks like he is having absence seizures. Not strokes. Not really commenting on the obvious point that all of these old farts should be returning but the physical phenomenon doesn’t look like a stroke or dementia to me. Absence seizures.

So what causes an onset of absence seizures? Brain tumor?

He had a fall a few months ago, so maybe it's seizures from hitting his head. Anyway, it's time for him to step aside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a law in Kentucky that the governor (a Democrat) has to appoint a Republican to replace McConnell should he leave office before the end of his term. My question is...is there a minimum amount of time that this person must be a member of the Republican party? Can Beshear's preferred pick switch their registration to R so that they now qualify for appointment?

A) That’s a good idea and so befitting Mitch’s legacy
B) Some think that law is unconstitutional

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Backing up a minute, can someone explain to me how the R's are holding Feinstein hostage? Feinstein could step down and Newsom would name her replacement, another reliable D. It seems to me that in her lucid moments she is just plain stubborn or in denial about her abilities and cognitive function.

Anyone?

[Anonymous]

Hey guys, no worries, nothing to see here. The Congress doc says McConnell is totally fine. All good! /s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Backing up a minute, can someone explain to me how the R's are holding Feinstein hostage? Feinstein could step down and Newsom would name her replacement, another reliable D. It seems to me that in her lucid moments she is just plain stubborn or in denial about her abilities and cognitive function.

This is covered extensively in the Feinstein thread. Of course Newsom would name her replacement in the full Senate, but Senate Republicans will not agree to replace her on the Judiciary Committee, which would remain deadlocked without her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Backing up a minute, can someone explain to me how the R's are holding Feinstein hostage? Feinstein could step down and Newsom would name her replacement, another reliable D. It seems to me that in her lucid moments she is just plain stubborn or in denial about her abilities and cognitive function.

Anyone?

This article explains it: https://time.com/6281088/dianne-feinstein-quit-supreme-court/

Here’s an updated take that will undoubtedly draw some objections: Feinstein holding the seat until the election next year may be the most responsible thing she can do in case of one possible, albeit unlikely, scenario: a vacancy on the Supreme Court. In indulging her stubbornness, her ego, her paranoia—whatever we want to call it—Feinstein may be what stands between a 6-to-3 conservative Supreme Court majority tilting to a 7-to-2 position, or the key to it shifting back to 5-4. Either of those outcomes would be one liberals may regret not having taken more seriously.

The reason why Feinstein holds all this power is tied to her seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Democrats have an 11-to-10 advantage over Republicans on the panel, giving them zero margin for error in advancing President Joe Biden’s nominees for lifetime appointments to federal courts, including the Supreme Court. A tied 10-to-10 vote, at least under the current rules, leaves those nominees potentially stuck in limbo. Whenever she’s absent, Feinstein leaves Democrats on the committee with an insufficient 10 votes.

So one might argue that all that is more reason for Feinstein to resign, and let a younger, healthier Democrat take over her spot on the committee. But that’s not what would be guaranteed to happen. Even if Feinstein were to leave her seat early, allowing California Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint an interim lawmaker until after the 2024 election, there is nothing ensuring that that successor could be the 11th vote on Judiciary. Committee assignments are part of the start of every Congress, and changes are subject to 60 votes if some lawmakers object and demand a recorded vote. That means 10 Republicans would have to allow Democrats to either send Feinstein’s replacement or another lawmaker into that role. There is scant evidence that Republicans would accede to that request.

GOP is holding Feinstein's retirement hostage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Backing up a minute, can someone explain to me how the R's are holding Feinstein hostage? Feinstein could step down and Newsom would name her replacement, another reliable D. It seems to me that in her lucid moments she is just plain stubborn or in denial about her abilities and cognitive function.

Anyone?

Feinstein sits on the Judiciary Committee. Republicans have said they won't allow Democrats to replace Feinstein on the committee. It would be a deadlocked voted.

It's a very partisan move by the GOP, eroding the usual operational norms of the Senate committees.

https://apnews.com/article/feinstein-mcconnell-judiciary-temporary-replacement-66d8a1614e962ccfb7c9252c0ccf2a96#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20Republicans%20blocked,Joe%20Biden's%20stalled%20judicial%20nominees.

A partisan move led by McConnell.

Yes, just one more GOP wrench in the system to make sure that Democrats don’t have the fair say that the voters want, and one more reason why the mouth breathing “both sides” posters are completely off base.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's been "medically cleared" by the attending physician of Congress. He will continue as minority leader until they wheel him out on a gurney.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/31/mcconnell-freezes-doctor-letter/

Doctor is right. Dehydration can cause light-headedness. But that is not what we are seeing here.

Me too. That is some North Korean level dissimulation by Dr. Monahan.

It prompted me to look him up. He’s been in the job since 2009. Hem/onc.

Very odd.


Yeah, I gasped when I got to that in the article. Insulting, dishonest, and deceptive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mitch had polio when he was younger:
"Post-polio syndrome (PPS) usually occurs 15-40 years after the infection and recovery. PPS is believed to be the result of a deterioration of nerve cells called motor neurons over many years that leads to loss of muscle strength and dysfunction. Polio and post-polio syndrome are caused by poliovirus."

That doesn’t look anything like PPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's been "medically cleared" by the attending physician of Congress. He will continue as minority leader until they wheel him out on a gurney.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/31/mcconnell-freezes-doctor-letter/

Doctor is right. Dehydration can cause light-headedness. But that is not what we are seeing here.

Yeah, I gasped when I got to that in the article. Insulting, dishonest, and deceptive.

Me too. That is some North Korean level dissimulation by Dr. Monahan.

It prompted me to look him up. He’s been in the job since 2009. Hem/onc.

Very odd.

[Anonymous]

this is so sad

[Anonymous]

I feel sad for him, even though he has caused most of the US so much pain.