r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • Jul 08 '26

No Paywall Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear requests update on Sen. Mitch McConnell's health

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/kentucky-governor-andy-beshear-requests-update-senator-mitch-mcconnell-health/417-b9252baa-29ab-489e-94f1-147aa41e78ed
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u/Cheech47 Jul 08 '26

the "special election" law itself is unconstitutional, it was only passed by a Republican statehouse to intentionally hamstring Beshear's ability to install a replacement Senator. Beshear needs to challenge and summarily ignore it and name a replacement Senator anyway.

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u/MoogProg Jul 08 '26

In true Mitch fashion he should just do it, and declare a replacement, letting the challanges bring on discovery.

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u/porn_is_tight Jul 08 '26

democrats would never, theyll dance around this as long as possible like the controlled opposition they are

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u/MoogProg Jul 08 '26

Strawman.

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Political donor influence is real. Calling Democrats controlled opposition is propaganda meant to distribute some common guilt over an entire party.

It is the very 'controlled opposition' is claims to rail agaisnt.

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u/porn_is_tight Jul 08 '26

It’s not propaganda if their actions show otherwise. Maybe they should stop acting like it and we wouldn’t be in the midst of a almost completed coup, open your eyes

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u/RobotPoo Jul 08 '26

Dude, both sides are NOT the same. Stop inhaling the foreign propaganda gas

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u/porn_is_tight Jul 08 '26

wtf are you talking about. I’m not saying both sides are the same, stop being so reductive

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u/MoogProg Jul 08 '26

Use of 'they'. Check. Shift blame. Check. Insinuate the reader is unintelligent or out-of-the-loop. Check.

This is propaganda, but perhaps you just ate it yourself and are spitting it back out for me today.

Not eating it. Got lunch going.

Rock on!

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u/tofubeanz420 Jul 09 '26

democrats are so meek. I wish so bad a viable alternative to democrats will spring up.

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u/OtherUserCharges Jul 08 '26

I dont like the law, but I don’t think every law we don’t like is unconstitutional. If the Republicans didn’t really have the power to do it, then it should be fought in the courts.

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u/Rnadmo Wisconsin Jul 08 '26

the "special election" law itself is unconstitutional

Why is it unconstitutional?

"When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct."

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u/OldBlueKat Jul 08 '26

First he needs proof of death or incapacitation. 

I don’t think McConnell is either dead or brain dead. I think Old Turtle is playing a tricky stall while he is recovering a bit from serious debilitation. 

And stalling votes on DJT shit he thinks is moronic but can’t/ won’t argue about for the sake of “GOP unity.”

And I bet he told GOP leaders (Thune and Barrasso) exactly that, in confidence, on the phone this week. 

But that’s just my theory.