Posted on 09/01/2023 4:34:02 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
According to a report from the Washington Times, should Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) decide to step down due to health concerns, Kentucky's Democratic governor already has already made the constitutional case that he can pick a Democrat to fill the seat despite a law the state GOP majority passed in 2021.
With questions being raised about how long the senior Republican will remain in Congress after an incident last week where he stood stock-still and appeared unable to speak before reporters -- only to be led away by some of his GOP colleagues -- attention in Kentucky has turned to who will be his inevitable replacement.
As it stands now. McConnell's term does not expire until 2026 after winning re-election in 2020.
According to the Washington Times, in 2021 a GOP supermajority overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's veto of a bill that requires "the governor to file mid-term vacancies in the U.S. Senate from a list of three candidates chosen by the state party of the previous sitting senator."
As Michael Abate, a Louisville attorney who has assisted the Kentucky Democratic Party, explained, Beshear may ignore the law, appoint a Democrat, and challenge the Republican legislature to take him to court.
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There is a distinction, Guv, between “may empower” and “will empower”.
Given the unlikely chance before Nov., he wouldn’t dare. If he wins, he’d jump at it, but in that case I don’t see Mitch turning over the seat and hanging on like Fetterman or Feinstein.
It seems to be a concussion or heart condition, not dementia or Parkinson’s. McConnell may be needed next year in case a SC vacancy occurs.
Nor can I imagine him running in ‘26.
All which is why I would prefer to see the Senate GOP caucus only convince McConnel to relinquish his Senate minority leader position, allowing the GOP caucus to pick a new one, after which the Senate GOP can do like the Dims have done with Feinstein, just let McConnel sit till his regular term ends, after which he can be convinced not to run for reelectio in 2026.
How that man was ever elected governor of KY is still a mystery to me. Oh wait, election fraud, that’s right!
I’m just amazed that Biden wanders around like a nursing home resident, Feinstein looks like she’s on death’s doorstep and Fetterman can’t speak in complete sentences, but the only person anyone talks about stepping down is McConnell.
He is bluffing.
Ignoring the law, it’s what Democrats do.
Like we'd notice a difference.
The law.?? There is no law, there is only the majority. It’s called “democracy”.
We had some fraud too. Not on blue state level, but enough (IMO) to flip it to Baby Doc Beshear last time. It is gonna happen again. The KY supreme court will side with Beshear if past history is any guide.
I despise that slimy CS.
Sometimes people have no foresight.
As far as belittling teachers....many of them need more than belittling. If KY has a strong Teachers Union though, you MUST be forced to LOVE them. Unions killed all GOP in NJ.
Hope the upcoming election is better for the state.
That governor was trying to restore some fiscal sanity in the teacher & state employees’ retirement\benefit package. Kentucky has one of worst funding to liability - 2008 it was the worst in the nation.
The republican governor got demagogued out of office over it!
Ah yes... Democrats don’t need to follow laws.
They control the justice system that would prosecute them after all...
told ya’ so.
On average, Democrat Senators and Congressmen are both a couple years older than Republicans. This would seem to indicate that Democrat voters are more comfortable with people who are older and out of touch with new ideas like the the freedom of speech in social media.
Basic tenet of communism, laws are weapons that apply only to the serfs and only the communist rulers can wield them against the serfs...
It’s very simple.
McConnell, for all his (manymanymanymany…) faults, blocked Mary Garland, the current Attorney General who transitioned to a full-of-retribution petulant 14-year old girl, from getting in SCOTUS.
You can draw a very bright line from that action to the repeal of Roe, the NY State 2nd Amendment ruling, and the EPA defanging cases from last term.
> There are no laws. It’s 2023. There is only Power. <
Unfortunately, you are quite correct. The opposition party - and the press - were both supposed to push back against such excesses.
But the GOPe just doesn’t care. They’d rather go golfing at their country clubs, and then meet with their big donors. There’s no money for them in rocking the boat.
And the media is so deep into the Democrat’s pocket that they’d cheerfully declare Biden to be the reincarnation of Moses if they were told to do so.
Sigh. A Trump 2024 victory is the Republic’s last hope. And a faint chance that is.
When will republican/ conservative voters learn it’s the POLICIES that matter. If you’re a republican state don’t elect a Democrat scum who will do everything opposite to what you want.
And don’t stay home because the republican doesn’t comb his hair, or is rude, or any other stupid reason.
Vote for the policies.
Why does the GOP play by ANY rules???
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