Mitch McConnell needs to hang on until after the KY-Gov election in Nov.

[Wanderlust988]

We don't need him dying or resigning right now cause that'll nationalize the race between Gov. Beshear and Cameron. The whole race will be about Beshear attempting to challenge the law in court that says he has to choose a Republican.

Beshear is doing well in the polls right now and we don't need this happening. Mitch needs to cling for another couple of months. Nationalizing this race would be terrible for Beshear. Kentuckians are much more likely to vote Dem in state/local elections than in federal races.

For everyone saying he needs to resign...NOT RIGHT NOW.

[Thunderbeast]

1. Thank you for the strategic insight!

[Polly Hennessey]

2. Prop him up and move his mouth until November.

[OrlandoDem2]

3. Side note. Why is the KY Democratic Party able to get a Democratic governor but Florida cannot?

What is the KY Democratic Party doing right that our state party in Florida is not doing? We haven’t won a gubernatorial election in FL since about 1994. I wish my state had a more effective Democratic Party!

[Celerity]

11. KY has run better candidates, IMHO, for starters, and the KY Dem state party has not been a hot

mess like the FL state Dem party has been.

[Conjuay]

19. Because all we had was a rewarmed

Republican.

[Comfortably_Numb]

4. Weekend at Mitch's

[Lenny Flank]

5. if he kicks the bucket ...

... will we be able to invoke the McConnell Rule and not allow a Minority Leader to be appointed during an election year ... ?

(evil grin)

[drmeow]

20. This was my thought! nt

[Bev54]

6. I am ok right now and Beshear has set something up so he can still appoint

a senator of his choosing. He will have a fight on his hands either way with the governorship may as well give the dems another senator.

[Cha]

9. Really? can you tell me what

Gov Beshear has set up? I've read it both ways.

That would be amazing if only for a little while.

Still, Mitch Bucks trump & if someone like Rick trump humper Scott gets into minority leader it would be worse.

[Bev54]

16. I didn't research it, but read an article awhile ago that he found a legal way

This is from a different article, the one I read was awhile ago but is basically the same thing

"Though his veto was overridden, Beshear wrote that the changes of SB 228 violated provisions of both the federal and state constitutions on how U.S. Senate vacancies could be filled.

Beshear said the changes violate the 17th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which sought "to remove the power to select U.S. senators from political party bosses."

"It delegates the power to select a representative to an unelected, unaccountable political committee that only represents a fraction of Kentuckians, when a senator is supposed to represent all of us," Beshear wrote.

The 17th Amendment states that "the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct."

Beshear also wrote in his veto statement that SB 228 violates Section 152 of Kentucky's constitution, which states a governor "shall" fill appointments or vacancies in the state at large. The governor wrote that "no conditions, qualifications, or limits are placed on that appointment power" in that section of the constitution."

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/28/heres-how-kentuckys-law-works-for-filling-u-s-senate-vacancies/70484359007/

[Cha]

17. Mahalo for that, Bev! Hoping for

Gov Beshear to be able to do what the Constitution says he can.

Beshear also wrote in his veto statement that SB 228 violates Section 152 of Kentucky's constitution, which states a governor "shall" fill appointments or vacancies in the state at large. The governor wrote that "no conditions, qualifications, or limits are placed on that appointment power" in that section of the constitution."

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/28/heres-how-kentuckys-law-works-for-filling-u-s-senate-vacancies/70484359007/

[MaeScott]

7. If it comes to a vacancy

Andy should not fill it, just “think about it” and leave it open until election

[Cha]

8. I agree.. and not just for this Excellent

reason I hadn't thought of.. TY!

Mitch is bad but who's next? Rick trump humper Schot?

At least mitch bucks trump.

[waddirum]

10. Mitch ain't long for this world

Wishing and hoping and praying won’t make any difference in the timing of his inevitable resignation.
If it happens before the election, so be it. Gov. Beshear should appoint whoever he wishes and let them sue.

[GreenWave]

12. If he passes, let John Stewart in a turtle costume fill in.

[drmeow]

13. Can he die

an agonizingly painful death on Dec 1?

[dem4decades]

14. Why not Thanksgiving eve‽

[drmeow]

18. As long as the results are in

works for me! I just picked 12/1 cause I knew it was post election - it was an arbitrary date.

[zuul]

15. Someone needs to give him hourly B-12 shots then.

Dude ain't looking too good. Vultures are already circling overhead.