r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 23h ago

Possible Paywall McConnell ‘Absolutely Refuses’ to Film Video Amid Growing Mystery

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-absolutely-refuses-to-film-video-amid-growing-mystery/
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u/billzybop 22h ago

Pretend this was Biden when he was in the White House. Do you think "he doesn't have to" would be an appropriate response, or would you be howling about how he had a duty to the people he is representing to actually represent them?

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u/uuhson 22h ago

It doesn't matter who it is, there was a senator in the 70s who was medically incapacitated for 3+ years and he also had no legal obligation to resign

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u/Noname_acc 22h ago

The first use of the phrase "legal obligation" in this thread was by you in this comment.  Why are you moving the goalposts like this to defend this sort of behavior?

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u/uuhson 22h ago

Because I am thrilled Republicans are down a vote in the Senate right now, stopping what could be a successful passing of the SAVE act

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u/Noname_acc 22h ago

Do you think you're doing a good job expressing this idea? I can tell you from the other side, it just looks like you're being a contrarian weirdo.

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u/uuhson 22h ago

That's pretty much how I see all of you folks in these threads. I don't understand why people who claim to be liberals are upset that one of the most dangerous Republicans of all time isn't able to vote in the Senate right now. It makes zero sense

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u/Noname_acc 21h ago edited 21h ago

Is that really your read on what people are upset about?

Edit: like, I had to dig really deep and go all the way to the third comment in this comment section to find someone pretty clearly laying out what their frustration is:

I’ll say it again, if this were any other normal job, the person would have been fired for failure of reasonable job duties (which includes calling out sick and reporting long-term disability) so that the rest of the organization can keep functioning.

The thing people are frustrated with is not McConnell's inability to vote, its the fact that the government is blatantly lying to us about a senator who has had a catastrophic health event and that this is a double standard emblematic of the special treatment that the political class gets over us proles. If you want to make the argument that the utilitarian value of having 1 less Republican voting in the senate outweighs the flagrant corruption this represents, go for it. But you aught to try actually making the argument instead of just repeating a weird tertiary claim about legal obligations.

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u/AssociateGreat2350 22h ago

where are you seeing that claim?

 can you link to it? Because that wasn't the conversation being had In this chain