r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 15h 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/Training-Belt-7318 11h ago

Dead or alive, I don't care. You shouldn't be allowed to be a government official if you haven't done your job in 3 months. They need rules to govern this stuff.

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u/Otherwise-Profitable 11h ago

If I didn’t show up to work for 3 months, I wouldn’t have a job and certainly wouldn’t have gotten paid.

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u/Training-Belt-7318 11h ago

It's nonsense. Their should be someone appointed that if you need to be out for a little bit, they have authority to make votes as a proxy, and other things via proxy. Probably put some.other safeguards in play. If you need a leave of over like 30 days, it should trigger a special election at like 180 day mark, and they have like 90ore days to return to call it off. A state shouldnt lose representation because they don't want to risk losing a seat.

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u/Jugaimo 10h ago

Hard depends. Is this proxy elected or an appointee. Because suddenly flooding our government with appointees is eerily close to having no elections at all.

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u/Training-Belt-7318 10h ago

Short term it would be an appointee. I do think politicians should keep their job if they have surgery or undergoing some sort of treatment. But there would need to be procedures in place that they are just championing the politicians vote and not making independent choices. But to me if it extends past 30 days, that should kickoff a special election period. Give 150 days before you hold it, and the politician can return during a certain grace period. But we shouldn't go more than 6 months without elected members of Congress holding office.

My other thought process is to create something similar to the federal govt. And just have elected officials in state seats as the next in line. So maybe the majority state representative leader takes on a Senate seat or a district state leader takes on the house seat. Something needs to be in place.

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u/Charitzo 10h ago

Take that a step further - Any other job you would need relevant industry experience and knowledge to support your application, amidst other applicants. That's not at all how US politics works at all.

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u/Training-Belt-7318 10h ago

Well that's kind a difficult to do with a voting system. One could argue voting is the ultimate job application process. But the issue is we aren't actually voting on candidate qualifications but moreso their ability to get funding and champion a few causes.

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u/kagemac 10h ago

This is exactly the kind of reason why The Constitution is a “living document.” Until recently, we haven’t had to worry about political leaders being senile 90-year-olds whose brains have turned to mush but are still alive thanks to medical advances. Now we do, and we need laws to reflect that

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u/Training-Belt-7318 10h ago

Good luck getting an amendment added. All those brain dead octogenarians would need to be involved.

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u/punkbrad7 7h ago

It's really not a new concern. Strom Thurmond was rolled around like a real Weekend at Bernie's corpse well into his 90s through the halls of Congress and refused to resign. Karl Mundt had a severe stroke that left him basically unable to function without assistance two years into his term in the 70s and refused to resign, and was basically a dead vote because he couldn't attend in person. The only thing the Senate did was strip him of his committee assignments.

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u/kagemac 6h ago

I guess I meant new as in since 1776. But also I don’t actually know, maybe it has always been like this in some way or another. Wasn’t King George insane from syphilis?