Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear sharply criticized Senator Mitch McConnell and the Senate at large over the Kentucky Republican’s prolonged absence from Congress due to health issues.
Beshear, a Democrat, said on Friday that he still had little information about the condition of McConnell, who was hospitalized in mid-June and released from a rehabilitation center earlier this month.
“I’ve received absolutely nothing, and that’s the same that the people of Kentucky have received,” Beshear told MS Now. “This is why the Senate feels broken. These guys don’t think that they have a boss when the people of Kentucky are their boss. They don’t feel like they are accountable whatsoever.”
Beshear called on McConnell to make a video or call into a news show to update the public about his health.
The governor can’t actually do anything in this situation.
Think of how it could be abused if he could. Any Republican governor would be able to unilaterally declare Democrats as unfit for office and appoint someone else to Congress. If that were possible to do, don’t you think they’d be doing that constantly?
He could have gone through the actions that would be done if McConnell had been declared dead, and then dared them to provide proof of life to invalidate his actions.
Make no mistake: He was NOT powerless.