{"id":777,"date":"2026-07-02T07:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:39:05","slug":"lets-be-honest-mitch-mcconnell-is-dead-why-is-he-still-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationallogisticspost.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Be Honest. Mitch McConnell Is Dead. Why Is He Still In The Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mitch McConnell is dead. You might not have heard about this and that\u2019s not an accident.<\/p>\n

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Mitch McConnell was found \u2018unconscious\u2019 in DC home last month, may have suffered heart attack https:\/\/t.co\/mxntnb48ux pic.twitter.com\/nL3YJEFpjR<\/p>\n

\u2014 New York Post (@nypost) July 1, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\ud83d\udea8 REPORTED 911 Dispatch regarding Sen. Mitch McConnell:<\/p>\n

Dispatched 8:36 to his home in DC on June 14th\u2026 Requesting EMS stating \u201cunconscious and needing ALS (advanced life support).\u201d<\/p>\n

Is Mitch McConnell even alive? We the people deserve to know. pic.twitter.com\/g0PEL7nkSa<\/p>\n

\u2014 Erikaaa (@ErikaCA47) June 30, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They may have him hooked up to machines so they can claim he isn\u2019t dead, but the guy is dead. He might be even deader than Moqtaba Khameini, whom the Iranians still won\u2019t show us.<\/p>\n

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It has been over two weeks since 84-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell was hospitalized on June 14, and the lack of concrete updates from his team is fueling intense public speculation.<\/p>\n

While his office has issued brief statements claiming he is recovering and remains engaged\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/7KQ6t8ucqE<\/p>\n

\u2014 Erica \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@EricaRN4USA) June 30, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Actually, more than being dead, he\u2019s a metaphor for the Bush Republican establishment which pretends that the Democrats are the same people they were when Bill Clinton was president and that it\u2019s Trump who\u2019s a threat to the status quo.<\/p>\n

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In 2026, amid the massive challenges facing the country, Kentucky now has a corpse for a senator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

And the Mitch McConnell Dead Republicans hang on and hang on, past the point where they could be replaced by the people the voters would choose.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s remember the situation McConnell has created in Kentucky with respect to his succession.<\/p>\n

Kentucky has a post-turtle \u2014 that isn\u2019t meant as a reference to McConnell\u2019s succession, it\u2019s a reference to the old joke about a post turtle being a turtle which rests atop a fence post, has no idea what he\u2019s doing there, doesn\u2019t know what to do while there and doesn\u2019t know how to get down \u2014 Democrat governor named Andy Beshear, who, a bit like the current lifeless iteration of Mitch McConnell, is a legacy of that state\u2019s former politics. Beshear has been in office for eight years, not altogether as a result of the damage to Kentucky Republican politics Mitch McConnell did over the last couple of decades, and McConnell has hung on as a senator under the narrative that were he to retire, Beshear would appoint a Democrat to fill out his term.<\/p>\n

Kentucky\u2019s GOP supermajority legislature addressed this in 2021 by passing a succession plan requiring the governor to pick from a list of three nominees by the state executive committee of the party of the outgoing senator \u2014 meaning that Beshear would have to pick from three Republicans the Kentucky GOP would send him. Beshear vetoed that bill; it was overridden. Then he refused such a hypothetical choice and promised a massive legal fight.<\/p>\n

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The legislature then passed a bill which took the governor out of the equation altogether and forced a vacancy until a special election could be called, making Kentucky one of five states taking interim Senate appointments out of the governor\u2019s hands. Beshear vetoed that bill as well, and again his veto was overridden.<\/p>\n

That was in 2024. Mitch McConnell, who was glitching severely in public appearance after public appearance that year, relinquished his position as the GOP Senate caucus leader. He could have retired and allowed his seat to be counted in the 2024 election cycle. That would have given Kentucky a very orderly succession to replace him.<\/p>\n

But nope. He didn\u2019t do that. Probably more to the point, McConnell\u2019s staffers, who have an outsized amount of influence over the horrific performance of the GOP Senate caucus \u2014 which has been a problem for a long time \u2014 wouldn\u2019t allow him to do that.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say \u201cnot that he wanted to,\u201d but for the fact that nobody knows what Mitch McConnell wants anymore.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an utterly stupid situation, and the people responsible for it know that. Rather than be accountable and transparent about what they\u2019ve done, they\u2019ve spent almost three weeks hiding McConnell\u2019s condition from the public.<\/p>\n

Even that is too generous. They\u2019ve spent SIX YEARS doing this. When it was obvious back in 2020 that McConnell was physically and mentally unfit for another Senate term.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Why? Shouldn\u2019t it have been obvious that McConnell was ready for the glue factory then? Can you think of any situation in American history where a politician \u2014 and here I\u2019ll use the Corporate Mitch McConnell rather than McConnell himself, much like I had to discuss the Corporate Joe Biden for four years when it was clear that the corporeal Joe Biden was, more or less, a nugatory entity \u2014 has forced a state legislature to dance on a string for a succession of years attempting to manage his decline into a comatose state?<\/p>\n

The answer is simple. McConnell and the people who control him knew that his elected replacement would likely be a different kind of Republican, and they didn\u2019t want that. So they\u2019re trying to ride this out to the finish line with a dead man.<\/p>\n

When at any point since the legislature passed the current succession plan (or even before then), he could have bowed out somewhat gracefully and allowed someone possessed of full faculties to replace him \u2014 and presumably work to support the agenda of the elected Republican president \u2014 after a special election.<\/p>\n

But we can\u2019t have nice things.<\/p>\n

Instead it\u2019s the better part of three weeks of limbo. No proof of life. No press release. In fact, McConnell\u2019s office hasn\u2019t sent out a press release since June 9, and before that they hadn\u2019t sent anything out since May 21.\u00a0 But all of McConnell\u2019s staffers still have jobs and they get to take turns pretending to be a U.S. Senator while their boss apparently lies in a vegetative state at some undisclosed location.<\/p>\n

Perhaps there\u2019s a compromise to be had. Move McConnell and all his assorted equipment to the Rotunda \u2014 so we can get the lie-in-state segment of this out of the way. Maybe his staff can move their desks there as well, so we can see the inner workings of that office. Who\u2019s the actual senior U.S. Senator from Kentucky, and how long has he or she been serving?<\/p>\n

In 2026, amid the massive challenges facing the country, Kentucky now has a corpse for a senator \u2014 warm or otherwise \u2014 and the people who have kept it there aren\u2019t willing to say so even now.<\/p>\n

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