Nobody knows if Mitch McConnell is alive or dead. How did Congress become the ‘world’s best nursing home’?
"Nobody knows what's happening with Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. Other than that, he's in the hospital. People have been trying to get information about his condition to pretty much no avail. What do you make of the weird shroud of secrecy around the senator's health? Yeah, I mean, clearly, if they had evidence that he was doing well when actually participating in lengthy conversations about matters of state, I think that they would have released that information. So my assumption based on the fact that there's no information that's coming out is that things are not going so well. And it's generally not a good sign when you hear nothing about a politician, particularly after we have a report that they've been in cardiac arrest, which is what's happened with McConnell. We're going to get into this, but Congress is old. They just are. But how common is it for a senator or representative to be literally unable to carry out their duties for health reasons? And everybody's like, this is fine. It's incredibly common, incredibly bipartisan, maybe the one bipartisan thing that we have left. You know, Dianne Feinstein was allowed to remain in Congress for a while when it became clear for months that she was unable to really perform her duties. Eleanor Holmes Norton has, you know, also receded as well. There was a congressman, congresswoman, I believe, who was checked into a memory care facility while also simultaneously serving in Congress. So this is incredibly common. You know, the phrase that Congress is the world's best nursing home, I think sadly has more and more evidence with every passing year."
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Nobody knows if Mitch McConnell is alive or dead. How did Congress become the ‘world’s best nursing home’?
