cheated out of our celebration parties.

A cousin who had cardiac arrest last week, I believe they are going to unplug the machines this coming week.

I bet it is something like that except they will keep him on the machines until after the 3 month time politically.

OTOH, even if he was dead and off of machines, MAGAs would keep it secret, if tge6 could. But the chances for leaks then would be greater than if they leave him on machines, even without hope of recovery.

and they are keeping him that way, as to not detract from Trump's 250 celebrations...........

If they announced it, the 250 celebrations would be overwhelmed by the massive number of Americans, out in the streets celebrating McConnells passing........

His burial plot needs to be surrounded by acres and acres of concrete pavement with surface drains.....same for Trump's burial site, and many other Republicans graves.....

If he was dead, that wouldn't be kept under wraps for long. Someone would let that news out.

Could possibly get 10 more years and 100s of votes out of him.

"Mitch - we are going to pass 10,000 volts through you. If you jerk, we'll call that a 'YES' vote for our party."

you can be sure the g-damned republicans would do that.

Especially since these people are on payroll

you will get more straight-ticket Rs in November of a midterm or presidential year, and this is a mid term year.

Demand proof that they're not pulling a Weekend at Bernie's.

For all the horrendous things he has done over the years, he has been a solid NO vote on the SAVE act. If KY replaces him in a special election, the replacement will almost be guaranteed to be a YES, I don't want to risk that YES being the one that passes it in the senate since it has already passed in the house.

might it be possible they don't have the votes to confirm a new Supreme Court nominee before the new Congress is seated. Most of them hate Trump enough they might just want to send him a big Fuck You. And if they're dead or dying, that works too. At least we can hope then we take the Senate.

of a high-ranking person, I was told I couldn't because I was not a family member.

Plenty of coverage about Paul Pelosi hitting a parked car, though, isn't there?

"Liberal" media my ass!

One less vote in the Senate for the repubs

Who exactly is going to determine he is unfit for office and force him out?

He is clearly unwell but they are hiding him to protect his image, not due to a special election.

And there’s not much benefit here because Republicans have one less vote while he is MIA.

He can't vote remotely. If he is alive, they could a la Strom Thurmond bring him in a wheelchair to vote up or down. If he is dead, they have one less vote.

Now, there already is a Democrat and a Republican who have the nominations for November. I wonder if Kentucky law would allow both parties to skip the primary and have an early election. It seems they changed the law twice recently. The first time was to have the Governor pick one of the people on the Republican list (McConnell's party), then to cut the governor out altogether to have a special election. I bet they regret the last change.

I would have thought they would want to get a Trumper replacement in ASAP. Remember, McConnell is a strong defender of the filibuster and is against the SAVE Act. Fortunately, even if they wanted to I don't think they can replace McConnell fast enough to pass and implement the SAVE Act. It does mean if a special election is called Democrats should demand primaries.

...eom.

It seemed so easy.............

Get some obscure, under-the-radar Kentucky Democrat to switch his party registration to Republican, get named by Beshear to fill out the rest of McTurtle's term, and just vote with us (after all, if Fetterman can vote with them, and they raise no objection....).

Perform a “wellness” check on McTurtle before he shuffles off to hell.

There’s more to this than McConnell being ill.

signaled that he's doing well -- or had bitten the big one.

...and hurried to get home before he gives up the ghost! 👻

They know that Gov. Beshear will appoint a Democrat and they don't want to see that happen.

Poor Moscow Mitch, no fancy state funeral for him. Maybe they'll scatter his ashes over the Lincoln Reflecting Pool?

In Kentucky, the rule is that Governor has to replace him with a member of their own party.

Right now, there is a non-voting, Senator. Having him replaced would give them not only a voting Senator, but also a few months of name recognition. Increasing his chances of winning an election.

It just isn't what was put forth here.

Moscow Mitch will keep leaking formaldehyde and they'll keep pumping him full of drugs 😡

Truly a scumbag human that will goto hell.

Wow. Great phrase. And I hope it is glued down to his legacy.

But they’ll never use it. Republicans don’t seem to have much of a relationship with the truth. Unless they can “modify” it to suit their overriding agenda.

Just for the record, I don’t trust Republicans anymore than I can pick up my house and throw it down the hill.

just like Republicans