What’s up with Mitch McConnell?
I guess we know where he is – he’s been in the hospital for about three weeks. We simply don’t know why, or anything about his condition:
Here’s some gossip on the subject, though:
Neighbors of Mitch McConnell’s Capitol Hill home in Washington, D.C. have said the house hasn’t seen anyone come or go since his latest health scare.
The former Senate majority leader had not been seen in public for weeks before he was found unconscious after an apparent heart attack at his home on June 14, according to EMS dispatch audio.
One of his neighbors explained to independent journalist Desirée Townsend that she saw him being taken to the hospital by paramedics, but has seen no activity at McConnell’s nearly $2 million Washington house since.
“I haven’t seen anyone,” she explained.
And his wife?
Chao, who formerly served as transportation secretary in the first Trump administration and labor secretary in the Bush administration, traveled to Beijing and met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng just three days after McConnell’s hospitalization.
Curiouser and curiouser.
His Senate office has for days refused to answer basic questions about his health, and has only repeated that he is “working closely” with staff on Senate business while Congress is out of session. They have not answered questions about the senator’s treatment, prognosis, or timeline for his full recovery.
Far-right influencer and Trump confidante Laura Loomer alleged on Monday that the Kentucky senator was “brain dead” and would not be returning to Congress, citing a “high-level source close to the White House.”
Who knows? Not I.
What a terrible so-called wife.
Loomer’s account is plausible. BTW, McConnell’s youngest daughter has disabled her X account. Has anyone plumbed the dealings between Chao’s family and figures in the ChiCom political elite?
OUT: The Kremlin gerontocracy
IN: The DC gerontocracy
Hang in there, senator. I guess. Kentucky governor Beshear is a Democrat. Although the legislature passed a law (over Bashear’s veto) that he has to accept their nominee, he will probably refuse to accept it, leading to a court battle. Is it better to have a democrat or no senator?
Bob Wilson:
No senator is better.
Well of course McConnel’s staff and family are going to keep the grift going, as long as the pitiful husk of him is still breathing. Without him warming that Senate seat, they have no status, no “pull”, no influence — and his staffers would at the very least, be hustling for a new job; most likely one without any prestige at all.
Best to just stuck him in a plant pot in the corner of that nice office and remember to water him a couple times a week.
Why yes, I’m cynical about this sort of thing – it’s just good pattern recognition.
Where does the Senate Majority Leader stand on the “unfortunate accident “ succession list. Yes I could look it up but I’ve had 5 CT scans already these two weeks with another for Friday. Too darn tired.
Be a shame if lots of known entities are “indisposed” and we get an incapable enigma.
The people claiming to talk to him come across as lying. It would be trivial to show a still of him talking on the phone. Show him eating his oatmeal. A still reading the paper. Anything. Nope, nothing, just bullshit fake calls. Dead turtle.
CE, we don’t know what we don’t know.
Yes, very curious about the travel of his Wife. Trying to get a new place to live in Beijing?
Does the U.S. have an extradition treaty with China?