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GOP Leader McConnell remains in hospital after concussion
Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | March 9, 2023 | AP Staff

Posted on 03/09/2023 10:55:23 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell suffered a concussion after a fall at a local hotel and remains hospitalized “for a few days of observation and treatment,” a spokesman said Thursday.

The Kentucky senator, 81, was at a Wednesday evening dinner for the Senate Leadership Fund, a campaign committee aligned with him, when he tripped and was admitted to the hospital, his office said. The dinner was at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC, formerly the Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C.

Spokesman David Popp said McConnell is being treated for a concussion and “is grateful to the medical professionals for their care and to his colleagues for their warm wishes.”

In 2019, the GOP leader tripped and fell at his home in Kentucky, suffering a shoulder fracture. At the time, he underwent surgery to repair the fracture in his shoulder. The Senate had just started a summer recess, and he worked from home for some weeks as he recovered.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: geezer; hospital; mcconnel; mcconnell; ministroke; senile; tripped
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To: fieldmarshaldj

LOL!!! SO TRUE!!


121 posted on 03/09/2023 3:58:56 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Good thing he’s not a horse huh Moe.


122 posted on 03/09/2023 4:00:34 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The wonder if he’ll have boot or a black eye? I say boot.


123 posted on 03/09/2023 4:07:29 PM PST by Fairhairedboy (MAGA)
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To: canuck_conservative

he should be in prison


124 posted on 03/09/2023 4:27:29 PM PST by Third Person
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To: Yossarian

the rules are the governor has to appoint someone from the same party as the seat he is filling


125 posted on 03/09/2023 5:27:09 PM PST by Mom MD ( )
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To: AU72

Send them here to me, I can take care of them properly.


126 posted on 03/09/2023 5:33:52 PM PST by davidb56
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To: Yossarian

Pretty sure they usually appoint someone from the same party......likely another Rino.


127 posted on 03/09/2023 5:37:24 PM PST by davidb56
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To: SecondAmendment

I hear the Chinese make som good pain pills and smuggle them across the border, something called fentinese?


128 posted on 03/09/2023 5:41:58 PM PST by davidb56
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To: Mariner

Hey watch that! ;D


129 posted on 03/09/2023 6:48:38 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: davidb56

It is time for Mitch to retire being that men age faster than women. He’s stumbling now like Biden. I retired at 85 and now I’m pushing 90 and I go out and walk some blocks to the P.O. for my mail. I live alone. On nice days I walk out to the riverside and sit in a bench. I think I probably have the right to say, “Mitch, it’s time to give it up. You are weak kneed and you know it.


130 posted on 03/09/2023 6:59:20 PM PST by WVNan
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To: Osage Orange

2 celebrity deaths today. One more needed for the golden Trifecta.

Mitch, or Fetterman?


131 posted on 03/09/2023 7:22:48 PM PST by miserare ( Free Jacob Chansley!)
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To: WVNan

Well, God Bless you! I am 67 and learning that I got to start lifting weights because I am losing my balance. I work PT and sit 5 hours a day. And of course I am hearing Sitting is the new smoking. I should blame it on my dog. He died at 20 Years old in 2021. We walked 3 times a day. I was in great shape. Once the winter came and he wasn’t here I stopped walking. BIG MISTAKE!.


132 posted on 03/10/2023 5:35:21 AM PST by COSIllinois
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To: Political Junkie Too

Exactly! Pre-leadership Mitch wasn’t a pretty face with good hair like Frost and Lott. He walked the walk better than most allegedly on our side of a chronically broken senate and demonstrated he knew how to leverage whatever little power he possessed when he wished. Alas, post-promotion, he ‘evolved’ to wishing less often. He’s thus a cautionary tale.


133 posted on 03/10/2023 5:51:25 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Told you good folks out there in America land that God and his son Jesus Christ are all powerful in trying to save our once great country.....the USA!!! Watching Fake POTUS, Joe Biden tumble. time after time and Republican, Mitch McConnell trip and fall is the word and action, from our Lord & Jesus Christ, for these two failures to leave their public office!!! Sadly the American people just stand by and let these America haters destroy our country day after day as they, the citizens of the USA, do nothing!!! Go figure!!!


134 posted on 03/10/2023 8:13:14 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: WVNan; COSIllinois

Good Bless You both! (Sounds like he has, so far...)

My ‘rule’ is that I bundle up and walk every morning if it’s above freezing. My Beagle loves the routine and always scares up a rabbit or two on our walks.

If you do nothing else, walking is so important for so many health reasons.

In your mid-60’s isn’t too late to get another dog. (I’m 62) I adopted two elderly Lady Basset Hounds a few years back. They were already 11 and 12 years old, but they had some of the best years of their lives on our farm, no doubt. They were City Dogs and had never been off-leash.

At least we’re all still off-leash, LOL!


135 posted on 03/10/2023 8:20:47 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: antidemoncrat
“GOP Leader McConnell remains in hospital after concussion”

Maybe he had a stroke which caused him to fall hitting his head. There might be More to this than we are being told.

136 posted on 03/10/2023 8:25:24 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Paul R.

KY legislation prevents him from appointing a full throated honest lib, or a re-registered recently lib as a replacement, which leaves it better than some states. But note the three choices come from the state party’s Executive Committee. In most states that’s a bunch of RNC level RINOs who’ll annoint one of their own and then push them as an ‘incumbent’ in the next primary season. However a few states have shown their Exec Committees can be taken over by the grassroots. In a state election year perhaps the KY grassroots will try that.


137 posted on 03/10/2023 8:28:16 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

All my dog’s are off Leash and I lived in the Big City Chicago, and now I am in Springfield, Illinois.

Why? That’s how I grew up. My dad was the supreme ALPHA, infact he raised a bunch of ALPHAS! Sarcasm was our communication of coice. It was survival of the fittest. ( That’s why I adore TRUMP)

But, going back to the dog story, My expectation is for my dog to listen to me, yeah, once in awhile they act up, but for the most part they know who the boss is! And we spoil them to death, so they are happy to listen. Except Sammie who lived to be 20. He had schnauzer in him and I learned 1 thing, SCHNAUZERS are ALWAYS the BOSS!!


138 posted on 03/10/2023 9:14:49 AM PST by COSIllinois
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To: Tell It Right

Obviously Trump’s fault! (/s)- Mitch needs to be put on a respirator just to be sure that he gets all the treatment that he deserves.


139 posted on 03/10/2023 11:17:15 AM PST by matthew fuller (Democrats aren't about Socialism or Communism. They are about Ghettoism, genocide and infanticide.)
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To: Avalon Memories

BINGO!


140 posted on 03/10/2023 3:16:47 PM PST by acapesket (all happy now?)
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