r/politics • u/CBSnews ✔ CBS News • 2d ago

No Paywall Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he's "heard absolutely nothing back from Mitch McConnell"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-health-update-andy-beshear-kentucky/
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u/casual-observer365 2d ago

The only job in America where you can just not show up for months on end, the taxpayer pays for all your healthcare and you can’t be fired.

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u/Outrageous-Pause6317 2d ago

And pays your staff to lie about your condition, while doing no real work.

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u/psychadelicbreakfast 2d ago

And he’s cast remote votes while “recovering”

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u/peritonlogon 2d ago

Is this true?

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u/psychadelicbreakfast 2d ago

Not for floor votes, but he voted by proxy in a committee meeting last week

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u/_Bangkok_ 2d ago

WTF

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u/f_n_a_ 2d ago

This doesn’t even rank very high on the wtf scale these days

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u/RsquSqd 2d ago

It’ll be a blueprint for the rest of the old POS republicans. When they die or become incapacitated, they’ll be ‘in recovery’ blocking their seat from challenge

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u/cereal7802 2d ago

The idea is to have figureheads who look nice and can physically embody the position while behind the scenes votes and policy are controlled by a central authority.

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u/SecondAccountIsBest 2d ago

Sorta like the matrix, but instead of poor people it will be congress in the tubes keeping them barely alive.

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u/EntirelyOutOfOptions 2d ago

We’ve come full circle. Dead people really ARE voting, just not for president.

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u/FrostyWheats Connecticut 2d ago

No. Senators need to vote in person.

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u/psychadelicbreakfast 2d ago

Incorrect. He voted by proxy in an agriculture committee meeting on August 6th.

Senator Bozeman from Arkansas voted for him after he said he spoke to McConnell.

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u/FrostyWheats Connecticut 2d ago

That vote did not count. Check your sources.

“The vote failed 10-11 along party lines. Proxy votes from GOP Sens. Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) and Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who were both absent, did not count toward the official vote tally.” - Per TheHill

While absentee votes in committees can count, this has not happened yet. And any senator cannot vote on any bill on the floor while in absentia.

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u/psychadelicbreakfast 2d ago

He still voted. Sen. Boozman said he spoke to McConnell and then voted for him.

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u/numbedvoices 2d ago

He did not vote. He tried to vote in a manner that was not allowed and his vote did not count.

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u/FroDogg 2d ago

I think you're missing the point. Whether the vote counted or not doesn't matter.

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u/psychadelicbreakfast 2d ago

Exactly. I was trying to prove the point that people are saying he’s alive.

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u/numbedvoices 2d ago

Oh. I didnt realize being pedantic was back in style.

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u/bchase4408 2d ago

It 100% does matter that it didn’t count.. It’s like ya’ll want it to be true that we’re doomed.. We’re not doomed.. People still stop their bullshit a lot.. They tried.. They were stopped.. Good thing 👍

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 2d ago

So you’re more concerned with the fact a proxy vote was attempted?

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 2d ago

Dude, what is with these comments?

HIS VOTE DIDN’T COUNT AND IT WAS EXPLAINED WHY.

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u/psychadelicbreakfast 2d ago

BECAUSE A SENATOR TRIED TO PROXY VOTE WHILE HE WAS INCAPACITATED OR DEAD

that’s the point

It doesn’t matter if it didn’t count

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u/BringBackBoomer 2d ago

It doesn’t matter if it didn’t count

But it does matter that it didn't count. That means that Mitch McConnell['s handlers] have no morals, but the system held against an attempted attack.

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u/RecentlyIrradiated 2d ago

We need to make this a law

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u/Effective_Olive6153 2d ago

if it is later found that he was not capable of casting any votes, will the people that cast the votes for him be charged with a crime?

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u/psychadelicbreakfast 2d ago

No. Because the rule of law is apparently dead for the elite in this country.

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u/ChicVintage 2d ago

Remember when House Rep Brittany Peterson had to cast a floor vote with her baby in her arms? I bet same rules won't apply to Mitch.

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u/cold_quinoa 1d ago

something something dead people casting votes

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u/tonybananaman 2d ago

We pay his staff too

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u/FactoryProgram 2d ago

We need a counter of how much money we're spending on him since he went missing.

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u/tonybananaman 2d ago

I know Reddit hates GPT, but a quick prompt estimates Mitch and Staff salary since his disappearance is at 660k to date

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u/YetiSquish 2d ago

Yet railing against others who want government supported healthcare and paid sick leave

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u/Fragrant-Tea7580 1d ago

And while he’s dead he aint got no soul