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Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.

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These are, after all the same monsters, who, while in a wheelchair, try to remove health rights and services (abbot), who, whilst being gay, will try to get rid of gay rights (graham) and whilst saying they’re protecting children, defend pedos (all of the GoP).

And right now, because McConnell is incommmunicado, those monsters don't have enough votes to pass most of their evil Republican bills. McConnell is performing his greatest service to the USA right now, by being unavailable.

Or in McConnell's case, not quite leaving it. If he was gone he would be immediately replaced by someone like him. So it's a good thing he's only mostly dead and Miracle Max isn't around.

This is really two separate issues: a senator's health and the policy debate over paid family leave. They shouldn't automatically be treated as the same argument.

They may not get subsidies but with their BIG SALARIES and the FACT that WE pay for the MAJORITY of their healthcare they DON'T need it! The Avg American family or Single person DOESN'T make $174K a year!

McConnell needs to stay a Senator until January 2027, because his absence makes evil GOP bills very hard to pass. He was already retiring. Please no replacement, that's so much better for the USA.

Congresscritters have to get their health insurance on the ACA Marketplace. It's written into the ACA. They're competing with everyone in DC. Congressional staff and other unelected employees get the old government insurance plans.

We have health insurance through my husbands work for an annual physical he has routine bloodwork done because he didn’t have it drawn at the right place he was charged 500 for the lab work, no one told him that this is health insurance

Yeah, so over the grift. If he’s dead and receiving pay this will be fraud. Like when a meth addicted moves into their meemaws house and cashes her social security check. Same but worse.

Best use of my taxpayer money for his salary ever man, skipping votes and making it harder for MAGA thugs in the senate to pass their nonsense? I got no issue lmao

Something has to be done about our legislative body getting better benefits than the people they represent. Wages, healthcare, medical leave, housing allowances, lifetime retirement benefits, using insider information to enrich themselves through stock purchases, etc.

It's also the same Mitch who held up Obama being able to appoint a judge to SCOTUS. If he was alive and this was a dem, there would already have been a senator appointed.

Fuckers, Democrat or RepugniCON, Congress needs to be revamped. They should have to shop the same health insurance plans the rest of us do, NO insider trading, and they CERTAINLY don't deserve a pension after serving only 5 years!

Yes, vote blue, but serious reform needs Amendments, Amendments need 38 state legislatures to ratify, Republicans are fine with the status quo, and they control 28 state legislatures out of 50. Progressives and liberals have to move into Red states and flip legislatures.

And we regulars have FMLA,, which means NO PAY. I’m sure Mitch is still drawing that big fat paycheck and all those fabulous benefits. If he’s still even alive allegedly…

Can you get by with this, have you figured out why bribery & corruption is in politics look at states like Kentucky they dont give a shit to destroy their state or the country over pushed billionaire oligarchs policitians on them or USA!If they did they make it illegal no matter the political party!

US Congresscritters have to get their health insurance on the ACA Marketplace like many Americans. It's only the unelected employees in Congress who have the old government health care plans.

I’m currently working in an understaffed office situation. I’ve gone into work sick. Again, I’m not trying to make it about me. My point is that he’s apparently been unable to perform his job for a month and a half. Most Americans don’t have anywhere near this privilege.

Let's get it straight - it shouldn't be privilege. It should be standard. Don't be mad at McConnell because he has what everyone should. We're not crabs in a barrel. Be mad at your employer for not offering these benefits you deserve and let's pull everyone up to where we should be.

and not the first time he has been on extended leave, you know if your employer has medical leave and you use it for say maternity leave you get a percentage of your salary, limited to 6wks & it’s classified as disability leave-bet Mitch is pulling a full check

Doesn't matter. If Beshear does nothing, Republicans are down two votes in the Senate. If Beshear arranges a Republican replacement as under Kentucky law he must, Senate is down only 1 Republican vote. Let him stay Senator until the next Congress, it's better for the USA.

Jun 24, 2025. Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said during a closed-door meeting with Republicans on Tuesday that people worried about cuts to Medicaid in the Senate's reconciliation bill will "get over it..."

Mitch McConnell stole a SCOTUS seat from Obama refusing to hold hearings or a vote for nominee Merrick Garland in 2016, but allowed the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett 8 days before the 2020 election. And, Moscow Mitch voted to acquit Trump’s after Jan. 6th 2006 insurrection.

Andy Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, it’s past the time to grow a backbone & use some Republican style grit…name Moscow Mitch McConnell’s replacement now. A Republican Governor would have done it by now!

Think about it, since you seem not to have done so: If Senate Republicans don't get a replacement, they're down 2 votes. If Beshear manages a replacement, who will be Republican under Kentucky law, Republicans are only down one vote in the Senate. Please Beshear, help the USA by *doing nothing*.

Republicans including Mitch don't vote for anything that benefits the American worker or support assistance programs for average Americans. They will bail out big corporations give tax incentives deregulate & engage in cronyism. They're in bed with the rich.

Yeah, every member of Congress should have the same level of healthcare coverage & minimum wage as the average person in the U.S. Watch how fast those things would change, if that were so.

They shouldn’t get healthcare at all. They don’t work full time, they skip out of sessions. They shouldn’t get healthcare, retirement or a full salary. It was meant to be a part time service to your country, not a free ride on taxpayers.

Apply what you know about averages. Congress members get paid ~275,000 dollars a year, dont pay for Healthcare, and have all of their "work" travel subsidized. City hall janitors get paid ~27,000 dollars a year. PERIOD. WHAT IS THE AVERAGE OF THOSE TWO THINGS?

Congress members, House and Senate, under the ACA, have to get their coverage through the ACA Marketplace. The DC one. Congressional *staff* still have the old government health care plans.

No. Every member of Congress should have the same level of healthcare coverage & minimum wage as the poorest person in the U.S. If that was the rule everywhere in the world, we'd all be living in a much better place.

I totally understand. This is why we must demand that our so-called liberal members of Congress fight for us to get what they have . It’s never been made as a national issue.

William Pannapacker – “Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.” It's not so much the liberals in Congress, as it is the third of voters who don't vote, or vote for a third party candidate.

So called??? Wait one darned minute… how about we elect people who give a darned about the people of this great country regardless of party! If I had my way we’d do away with parties and labels that serve to divide us.

The govt. has NEVER given us anything. We people had to fight for many decades to achieve a minimum of human rights, incl. voting, pro-choice, LGBTQ equality & unions. And after all that work & time, the govt. can take it all away in a year or less. 😡 Liberals IMHO are merely fascists w/manners.

And their wages should be the average of the electorate/district they represent.Then we might actually see them trying to improve things instead of all the gameplaying

This particular fetid bag of Kentucky horse shit has been brain dead for decades. It's just taken the morons of the Greedy, Obnoxious Perverts party this damned long to realize it. And now, they're trying desperately to turn it into propaganda. May they all die in screaming agony. SOON.

What’s truly fucked is that the gerontocracy has such an iron grip on power that they’re allowed to keep their seats when people begin to question if they’re even fucking alive anymore. These people are bananas. They worship the unborn and the possibly dead, and insist on exploiting the living. ☠️

"It's okay when we need medical insurance. It's not okay when you do. We want to live free and happy. We want you to suffaaahh!! MUHAHAHAHA! Mine is an evil laugh!" - MAGA Mantras

Shhh. If he stays an incapacitated Senator until the next Congress, Senate Republicans can't easily pass anything, having lost both Graham and McConnell. We want him to stay a Senator. Only MAGA wants him replaced quickly.

Because McConnell isn't cooperating with the replacement process, possibly because the current replacement process is likely unconstitutional *in Kentucky*. If he pops up and says, "Seat's Empty!", that means future Democratic Govs might be able to appoint Dems to replace Repubs.

I had to pay $200 to get antibiotics from urgent care. Life saving anything shouldn't be behind a paywall that high. Scarlet fever (strep throat) is going to affect kids horribly when parents can't afford antibiotics. 10 years ago, urgent care was $45.