McConnell Lives

It's just that nobody can see him.

My use of the word "can" here is not meaning "is allowed".

My use of the word "can" here means "is not possible".

Nobody "can see" Ol' Mitch because he's invisible.

If he weren't invisible we could see him.

Since we can't see him, he's invisible.

I know, John Thune, Scott Jennings and John Barrasso have had substantive 20-minute conversations with him; but they haven't seen him.

Hearing is not seeing.

And asserting to have heard is not hearing; it's an assertion of hearing, not a documentable, truthful statement.

Since the three asserters are political actors, such assertions are likely to be lies.

So why would somebody lie about hearing Mitch McConnell?

For that matter, why didn't they Facetime him?

With Facetime they could have seen him.

Here's why they lied and didn't Facetime (not my words; I am using somebody else's words; they are as well said as I would have said them, so cutting and pasting is here employed; the words are from an Opinion Piece by Jason Miciak).

"The GOP desperately needs McConnell alive and functioning so as to avoid a Democratic governor appointing a replacement and a wide-open primary prior to what was to be a normal GOP-favoring November election.

If McConnell dies or resigns before his term ends, Governor Beshear (Democrat) would appoint a temporary replacement. There could then be a special election for the remainder of the term. By keeping McConnell “alive and engaged” past the key August cutoff (at least 20 days away) the GOP avoids triggering a special election that could introduce chaos, new candidates (including potentially, Thomas Massie mounting a challenge), or give Beshear more influence over the temporary appointee."

As Jason Miciak points out in a different part of his opinion piece, we may be on the brink of one of the most delicious ironies in American history: The same asshole that blithely used his power as Senate Majority Leader to finesse two Supreme Court seats with capricious and arbitrary rule changes may remain in office long after being dead.

I guess if he's invisible, he can't be proven to be dead.

And he stays in the Senate.

Makes Grassley look vital.