I'm sad for Mitch McConnell

This time it was only the flu that sent Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the American ALPHA MALE of Senators since 2000, to the hospital.

Glad they are being cautious with him.

Because Senator McConnell appears to be quite fragile.

And that's normal! There's nothing wrong with that.

He's ELDERLY.

I don't agree with Mitch McConnell on just. about. anything. politically speaking.

I believe what he did to Merrick Garland and the country in 2016 (then turned around and showed everyone what a reptile he actually is - politically - when he shoved Amy Coney Barrett down our throats in a hyperspeed confirmation process, adding insult to the injury of the death of an American Icon and Hero, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 2020 - remember his sly little grin on that stage as he said "oh... we'll fill it") was absolutely awful and unforgivable and disgraceful and unAmerican and borderline treasonous.

And - we've all seen the videos. Mr. McConnell walking slowly, with help, and still falling. hard. at the Capitol.

Mr. McConnell talking coherently, on a perfectly sound-of-mind train of thought, and then in the middle of the sentence, just stopping and staring, and he's not there anymore. Or so it would seem.

I'm no neurologist. I have no idea what is precisely going on. One scary thought I have when I see him freeze like that is - to Mr. McConnell, is he aware in his head that he's not talking anymore? Is he horrified and frustrated because he's having thoughts that he wants to say but he can't get his body to say them? Or is he just not there anymore for that brief time?

If this were my grandpa or my uncle or my dad I'd tell him - you need to see doctors, a lot. I love you and it's time to talk about you being in an assisted living community, or, since you are rich enough, turning your home into basically an assisted living community.

His brain isn't going to go back to how it was. Again, not a neurologist, but as far as I know, we can't regenerate neurons yet. Not at that age anyway...

Has he had strokes? TIAs? Heart attacks? I have no idea what it is. But it's obviously something like that, something that serious, involving the brain.

For his own sake, and for his wife's, former Secretary of Labor and former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao - just retire Sir.

If, let's say, you don't die tomorrow. What are you going to accomplish before your term is over that you haven't yet done?

You're not the Leader anymore. Your health is clearly fading. Your place in history is what it is.

Retire, go home, RELAX, WRITE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT POLITICS AND PUBLISH THEM, do rehab, exercise (carefully), watch wheel of fortune, drink warm glasses of milk, take your metamucil, do crossword puzzles, spend quality time with your wife, take care of yourself...you know...old people stuff...

While you still can!

AND!!

Kentucky's governor (Democrat - Andy Beshear) DOESN'T APPOINT US SENATORS IN THE EVENT OF A VACANCY. In such cases, the voters of Kentucky elect a new Senator in a special election, and... Kentucky doesn't traditionally (recently) elect Democrat Senators...

Bottom line is - you're accelerating your death by still working at this point.

That would be true if you were a cashier at Wal-Mart. But you're not, you're a US Senator, which is objectively a pretty demanding job, especially if you take it seriously, which you definitely always have and always will (unlike current Indiana Governor and former one-term Senator Mike Braun, who appears to just want to be well known and influential and important for the sake of it).

And if (by some very unlikely circumstance) your break with Trump (who you clearly don't think the world of personally) means that you're patriotically trying to remain a relative Republican voice of reason in the event he does something really bad...

...don't worry about that Sir. That's not who you are anyway.

History will remember you as a Machiavellian (the mean interpretation) or perhaps cunning (the nice interpretation) long-time Senate Majority Leader. Line one of your historical obituary will say - "he wielded the power of the Senate like few before him."

What it won't say - "He was a voice of reason in times of national strife."