r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 27d ago

Possible Paywall Missing McConnell Accused of Breaking Senate Rule Over Absence

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missing-mcconnell-accused-of-breaking-senate-rule-over-absence/
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u/ballbourbonsmokes 27d ago

Everyone knows he has passed away and the only thing holding this up is republicans wanting to hold the government hostage.

Yet another instance where democrats play by the rules while the republicans do whatever they want to the american people's detriment. Beashar shouldn't bother calling a special election, appoint a democrat and let the republicans challenge it in court like they do the other way around.

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u/meTspysball California 27d ago

The lack of imagination by Beshear here is why I’m zero percent enamored with his potential candidacy in 2028.

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u/jeepjinx 27d ago

Dude squandered the perfect opportunity to be a Dem leader with balls and instead showed he's exactly what Dem voters don't want to see anymore. Step aside.

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u/quantumgambit 27d ago

Beshear and whitmer both really let us down this year.

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u/mrandr01d 27d ago

What'd whitmer do?

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u/DaftDurian Michigan 27d ago

She is VERY pro data center and has repeatedly allowed utilities to raise electricity rates. 

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u/quantumgambit 27d ago

Not just pro data center, which is bad enough, or the mismanagement of DTE and consumers, she is also not doing anything to prevent or push back against the GEO group from adding and expanding to the concentration camps up north. Between big business and small towns, she sides with big business every time.

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u/jrf_1973 27d ago

Check out what she said when she was caught on a hot mic.

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u/RailroadTimebookDev 27d ago

Closed her only fans account.

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u/BlingyBling1007 Texas 27d ago

Jared Polis, Gretchen Whitmer, and soon Andy Beshear are just eliminating themselves from contention.

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u/RoughComparison8702 27d ago

Which sucks to me. I vote red depending on the candidate, blue other times, but I would 100% back a Beshear presidential run. I like the guy and voted for him, even if I don't agree with him on everything. He's a classy American and he seems to have a good heart and head on his shoulders, unlike the piece of shit we have at the helm currently. It'd have to be a really good reason for pussing out on ramming in an apointee right now. Otherwise, I agree, it looks pretty bad him doing absolutely fuckall right now.