As a former GOP POTUS appointee I agree with published reports that Mitch McConnell is deserving the mocking and dissection.
Following his second seize-up in front of TV cameras. The Republican Senate minority leader is as responsible for America’s fascist turn as Donald Trump is. The more humiliation for him, the better. Additionally, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell froze when speaking to the press again. That’s twice now in roughly a month. Once again, his frightening medical episode is being used for social media fodder, but folks should also focus on his recent actions, which have been dreadful.
That said, his second seize-up, which seems related to a recent concussion for which he was hospitalized, has sparked another round of debate over age – and it’s just tedious. There seems to be a bipartisan consensus among the opinion leaders of Washington that when an elected official is no longer transparent about the consequences of aging, then it’s probably time to retire. The idea seems to be that if they aren’t being transparent, they are staying in office for themselves, and not for the people whom they serve.
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Here’s National Review:
I realize no politician wants to leave office because of health problems. But they’re not in those jobs to make themselves feel good and important in old age; they’re in those jobs to serve the public. Senators Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Dianne Feinstein, and POTUS Joe Biden, — they have all been in public office for decades. And if they want to stay in office, the absolute minimum they can do is provide the public with full and unvarnished information no minimizing, no begrudging the legitimacy of these questions about their health.
This seems like a principled position, and maybe it is. But there seems to be something that the opinionhavers forget. So what if McConnell isn’t being transparent about his cognitive decline? Is it preventing him from voting the way a majority of the residents of Kentucky want him to? I doubt it. I doubt, too, that poor health is preventing him from fulfilling his obligations. He has an office full of staff prepared to do what needs doing. In the end, the most important thing a senator can do is vote – indeed, it’s the only thing of consequence. If he must be wheeled onto the Senate floor, so be it.
These are not normal people. This, too, seems to be forgotten. Senators, presidents, representatives, justices, senior officials – these are the country’s elites. They get the best of everything, including health care. We like to say that they serve democracy but we know that democracy serves them. Normal people struggle to find health care for Grandma and Grandpa. Not so the country’s elites. Healthcare struggles to find them.