UPDATE: Monday PM: Has anyone with credibility actually seen and/or talked with Mitch McConnell? There is no date stamp on the picture, and why didn't he make the newspaper's date obvious to clear the air. Still suspicious? See this: https://www.wlwt.com/article/sen-mitch-mcconnell-gives-update-on-health/71910759
Most of us remember the confrontation between then President Obama and McConell when the Senator caused gridlock in the 2010s declaring his primary political goal was to make Obama a "one-term president. That didn't happen but this...
McConnell opposed Obama with every move the President made and stonewalled an administration that could have put the U.S. on the right track for years. I called McConnell a racist, "The most despicable U.S. politician ever," back in June 2019, and I have never changed my mind. Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt, a longtime GOP insider who has served as a political strategist for George W. Bush and John McCain..."resulted in an era characterized by routine filibuster usage, historic government shutdowns, and the unprecedented blockade of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in 2016."
"declared Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 'one of the greatest villains across America’s 250-year history.'”
He goes on to say...
"Americans cannot trust carefully curated assurances from political allies whose first instinct is to protect an institution, a party, or a reputation — particularly when those assurances come from people who have no credibility whatsoever."Schmidt expands the above to include Scott Jenning, as well as Senate Majority Leader John
Thune and his number two John Barrasso from Wyoming. Each claimed to have spoken to Mitch McConnell by phone for 20 minutes each. But why should we be surprised that top Re3publicans are lying; the precedent comes from the top down, Donald Trump. The Lincoln Project co-fonder shows why we can't be sure any of the above three spoke to
McConnell...
"not only is it highly unlikely that McConnell was capable of having such a conversation, noting that “an 84-year-old who had CPR performed on him before being put in an ambulance has a roughly six percent chance of ever walking out of a hospital,” but Americans have no reason to believe leaders who are unwilling to give a straight answer to who won the 2020 election."
Kentucky’s Gov. Andy Beshear asked for the second time to release information on his hospital confinement that began on June 14, and hasn't been seen in public since. Beshear sounded like he was almost pleading...
“Let’s end the crazy speculation,” Beshear wrote on social media. “Just tell us what’s going on.”Beshear, of course a Democrat, and is seen as a possible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.It has been weeks since Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, has spoken out. Everyone, including Republicans, thought it was particularly strange that Chao flew to China just days after her husband went to the hospital. Even more so that she set up a meeting with China's Vice President during her visit. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as boisterous as ever, even without her congressional seat, labeled Chao a Chinese spy. Here's the scenario...
Apparently keeping China happy is more important that her husband's health. But there is a report from a medical source that appears to be credible...
Elaine Chao meets with Chinese V.P.
In a statement, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America backed Chao’s unexpected trip. “Chao said maintaining stable U.S.-China relations serves the interests of all parties, and expressed the willingness to continue making efforts to promote practical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between the United States and China.”
Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, appeared on CNN to discuss the situation. Asked what the June 14 EMS call indicates about how serious the episode was, Faust said: “When we hear that, we often get a call like that saying we have a patient coming to the hospital receiving CPR. And what that means is that their heart has stopped, and if CPR does not work, we will have to pronounce them dead.”
Faust noted that only about a quarter of people who experience cardiac arrest survive to the hospital. He was clear that he was not speaking to McConnell’s case specifically.
Faust and his hospital are located in Boston, which broaches the question, 'why don't we have a report from George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C. where McConnell was admitted? And here is yet more mystery...
McConnell’s office provided its first meaningful update on his condition on June
22, saying he is “continuing his recovery,” “continues to improve,” and is well cared for, while declining to disclose the nature of his illness, name the hospital, or offer any time frame for his return. His staff waited eight days after the hospitalization to say even that much, and only confirmed he would not be voting that week.
There's more...
McConnell’s office would not even confirm whether he was conscious and would not say whether he was on life support. When pressed for clarification, a spokesperson pointed only to a statement released on July 2, saying: “Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital.”Laura Loomer, a crackpot by most standards, but still close associate of Donald Trump, says, McConnell was “officially brain dead” and would not be returning to Congress. And, on Sunday, radical right Utah Sen. Mike Lee said that even members of Congress don't know the current condition of Mitch McConnell. As Yul Brynner would have said, "Tiz a puzzlement."Just so you know where all this far-right domination is coming from, it stems from as far back as Newt Gingrich in 1994 when he was architect of "Contract with America," the beginning of Republicans' lust for power. After him came Karl Rove, spawned by Geo. W. Bush, followed by The Tea Party and finally MAGA, Donald Trump's gang of hoodlums that have attempted to take over all facets of the U.S. government. Mitch McConnell has been a key player in this movement during his control of the U.S. Senate
It has been a carefully planned strategy by the GOP that has overshadowed the efforts of Democrats for years, and continues to hamper their efforts to wrest control from the radical right.
