It is a pathetic display but on the other hand, members of Congress are surrounded by staff which includes people very familiar with a variety of issues who guide the politician down this or that path. I have to wonder just how much any member of Congress is in charge of what he or she says and does even in full health. How many are productions of their staffs?
I don't think he's actually back. He is gone mentally. Lol! His aides might as well be the ones who are the elected ones since they're making the votes for him.
I don't think he's actually back. He is gone mentally. Lol! His aides might as well be the ones who are the elected ones since they're making the votes for him.
I wonder if Glitch McConnell has a sister / daughter who can be shoehorned into his position when the ol' skeksis finally dries up and blows away... like the closet homosexual war monger Lindsay Graham. (People who are still that repressed in this day and age can NEVER be trusted, btw. They project their self-hatred onto all of humanity and use their power only to destroy.)
Such a chummy club the Senate. They protect that unwritten rule about staying in office until putrefaction begins. This guy is no better than Charlie McCarthy sans the hand up his ass. But the performance is the same: someone else's voice thrown to give the appearance of speech, of life. At this point the analogy is perfect, take an axe to Mitch and he would splinter like cordwood. I believe that crustacean Diane Feinstein went out the same way with aides telling her what to say, when to visit the powder room, when to drool, when to smile, when to frown. It's a ridiculous statement on so-called representative democracy. And it's amusing in the sense that these people will utterly debase themselves to remain in office, to remain relevant.
SCOTUS was similarly made pure parody when incapacitated Ruth B. Ginsberg refused to let go; yet she is heralded as a great SCOTUS justice. (To be fair, SCOTUS and its "justices" have been shite in just as many instances as they have been worthy of their monumental esteem. The court's cowardly handling of the 1873 Susan B. Anthony's case--under slimy justice Ward Hunt's direction--comes to mind, which added at least 50 years to the long plight of women's suffrage. And then there was the more recent Citizens-United case.)
And everyone criticizes the DSA's platform to abolish the Senate, a bunch of do-nothing, middle finger to their constituents because I got mine and you can fuck off!
The funniest part of the Times article is where they recount how McConnell “seemed to freeze while speaking in public” — episodes that were caught on camera in which he clearly froze. Imagine the headline: “Twin Towers Seemed to Fall.”
O/T
Well...WTC-7 did "seem to fall" (at freefall gravitational velocity).
I call bullshit. As reported elsewhere, Sen. John Hoeven mistakenly told McConnell to vote no, saying later he thought the vote was on a procedural motion. He was on one side of McConnell; Chair Boozman was on the other side. Aides sit to the rear, not to the side. McConnell aide Terry Carmack joined in telling McConnell the proper vote was “aye.” We have to remember that McConnell has lost much of his hearing.
Correct. I was doing politics in my small Town here in France. I became more and more deaf. Hearing Aids do not work for me so how am I supposed to help our citizens?
Earbuds are now approved, and seem to work well, for hearing issues, and are much less expensive. They have helped people I know who have hearing problems.
WTAF, Ken? Mitch? Are you there, Mitch? Mitch? Come in, Mitch. Mitch? What an absolutely disgusting display of using a very ill man to do the GOP bidding on the Farm Bill by one STINKING vote!?!?! Horrifying!!!
You can see and hear clearly in the video that the aide on his left — and, yes, to the rear — tell him, "No." Oh, and, no way Hoeven would just be covering for the rolling-dead Patriarch. And even if he wasn't, how's the reported-elsewhere account any better, materially?
They’ll wheel him in with a portable defibrillator on his lap before you’ll see this mummy retire.
LOL! Glitch McConnell will be wheeled in like Hannibal Lecter on a dolly--without the mouth guard.
He really deserves to suffer more, a lot more, before he goes - and Caitlin Johnstone can say at least both he and Lindsey Graham are dead.
"— amid an eye-popping 71 percent disapproval rate from Kentuckians in March, before his hospitalization —"
Fine now, but where were these Kentuckians the last time he was on the ballot, and the time before that, and the time before that, and the time...
"Now God is responding in kind, casting McConnell as the villain in a sad sequel to The Mummy" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
It is a pathetic display but on the other hand, members of Congress are surrounded by staff which includes people very familiar with a variety of issues who guide the politician down this or that path. I have to wonder just how much any member of Congress is in charge of what he or she says and does even in full health. How many are productions of their staffs?
I don't think he's actually back. He is gone mentally. Lol! His aides might as well be the ones who are the elected ones since they're making the votes for him.
I don't think he's actually back. He is gone mentally. Lol! His aides might as well be the ones who are the elected ones since they're making the votes for him.
I wonder if Glitch McConnell has a sister / daughter who can be shoehorned into his position when the ol' skeksis finally dries up and blows away... like the closet homosexual war monger Lindsay Graham. (People who are still that repressed in this day and age can NEVER be trusted, btw. They project their self-hatred onto all of humanity and use their power only to destroy.)
I'm sure the Attending Physician was called in to certify that Mitch is in the same tip-top shape that First Felon enjoys.
Such a chummy club the Senate. They protect that unwritten rule about staying in office until putrefaction begins. This guy is no better than Charlie McCarthy sans the hand up his ass. But the performance is the same: someone else's voice thrown to give the appearance of speech, of life. At this point the analogy is perfect, take an axe to Mitch and he would splinter like cordwood. I believe that crustacean Diane Feinstein went out the same way with aides telling her what to say, when to visit the powder room, when to drool, when to smile, when to frown. It's a ridiculous statement on so-called representative democracy. And it's amusing in the sense that these people will utterly debase themselves to remain in office, to remain relevant.
Meanwhile, in the real world, almost no one doesn't get the boot in their fifties. And SCOTUS has determined ageism is AOK.
SCOTUS was similarly made pure parody when incapacitated Ruth B. Ginsberg refused to let go; yet she is heralded as a great SCOTUS justice. (To be fair, SCOTUS and its "justices" have been shite in just as many instances as they have been worthy of their monumental esteem. The court's cowardly handling of the 1873 Susan B. Anthony's case--under slimy justice Ward Hunt's direction--comes to mind, which added at least 50 years to the long plight of women's suffrage. And then there was the more recent Citizens-United case.)
I could not agree more — all points.
And everyone criticizes the DSA's platform to abolish the Senate, a bunch of do-nothing, middle finger to their constituents because I got mine and you can fuck off!
But where is Hunter’s Hawg?
The funniest part of the Times article is where they recount how McConnell “seemed to freeze while speaking in public” — episodes that were caught on camera in which he clearly froze. Imagine the headline: “Twin Towers Seemed to Fall.”
O/T
Well...WTC-7 did "seem to fall" (at freefall gravitational velocity).
I call bullshit. As reported elsewhere, Sen. John Hoeven mistakenly told McConnell to vote no, saying later he thought the vote was on a procedural motion. He was on one side of McConnell; Chair Boozman was on the other side. Aides sit to the rear, not to the side. McConnell aide Terry Carmack joined in telling McConnell the proper vote was “aye.” We have to remember that McConnell has lost much of his hearing.
If the guy can't hear, and a hearing aid can't help, he should just retire. I'm just waiting for him to drop dead during a hearing.
Correct. I was doing politics in my small Town here in France. I became more and more deaf. Hearing Aids do not work for me so how am I supposed to help our citizens?
Earbuds are now approved, and seem to work well, for hearing issues, and are much less expensive. They have helped people I know who have hearing problems.
Cannot use anything in my ears I get infections and they don't work. In October I am having surgery..........hoping it works.
We don't pay much for hearing aids here in France.
WTAF, Ken? Mitch? Are you there, Mitch? Mitch? Come in, Mitch. Mitch? What an absolutely disgusting display of using a very ill man to do the GOP bidding on the Farm Bill by one STINKING vote!?!?! Horrifying!!!
You can see and hear clearly in the video that the aide on his left — and, yes, to the rear — tell him, "No." Oh, and, no way Hoeven would just be covering for the rolling-dead Patriarch. And even if he wasn't, how's the reported-elsewhere account any better, materially?