Punchbowl News reports that the former Senate majority leader, who is retiring after his current term ends in January, lost consciousness at his Washington, D.C., home at 8:36 a.m. on June 14, before a dispatcher sent over an Advanced Life Support ambulance. Journalist Desiree Townsend posted a recording of the call from the emergency dispatcher Tuesday afternoon to X.

  • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    You know, dying in office used to be notable and fairly uncommon. Mostly assassinations, plane accidents, etc.

    But now our government is more of a hospice than anything else.

  • NM_Gringo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We’ve reached peak Republican when we have to demand proof of life from the hospital for a GOP senator from a state with a Dem governor.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    If McConnell dies, then the governor will choose his replacement, and the governor is a Democrat. Unless he wants to completely END his political career, he will choose a Democrat.

    The Senate Republicans won’t want that, so it’s a pretty good bet that when McConnell dies, they will keep it a secret for as long as possible.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        7 hours ago

        Who, the Senate? There’s no approval process for Senators, that’s for presidential appointments. In KY, the governor just appoints them, and they’re the new senator from Kentucky.

        That doesn’t mean that Trump and the MAGA Senate won’t unilaterally rewrite the Constitution, and insist on approving the new senator, and insist on taking it all the way to the SCOTUS, where they will lose, but have successfully kept him out of office and voting for months.