How Republicans Screwed Themselves With McConnell's Senate Seat

Julie Roginsky

Here is what we know about Mitch McConnell. On June 14, the 84-year-old senator was taken to the hospital during a medical emergency at his Washington home. He has now been hospitalized for almost a month and his office has refused to say why. It has refused to disclose his diagnosis, his treatment, or his prognosis. He has not appeared publicly and he has not released a video. He has not spoken on camera or seen by reporters. There is literally no proof of life.

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But Republicans would like you to know something reassuring: They have had extremely detailed phone calls with him. Not hello-and-goodbye calls, mind you, the kind you have with a sick friend. Not two-minute exchanges in which an ailing colleague says he is hanging in there. Nope. These are apparently long, meaty, wonky conversations — the kind of conversations that make it clear the man nobody has seen is not merely alive but busily pondering the minutiae of American governance from his hospital bed.

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What an extraordinary coincidence. Did McConnell set an alarm for the very specific 20-ish minute duration for each of these calls?

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Republicans need the seat and they screwed themselves on how to fill it in the event of a vacancy. This is a massive self-own — and one that is a chef’s kiss as the master manipulator of senate procedure, McConnell, fades from the scene.

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/how-republicans-screwed-themselves