the Kentucky lawmaker hasn’t voted in nearly a month
Missing X votes per term should be grounds for impeachment or recall or something. Being unable to fulfill your obligations to your constituents and still occupying the position is disgusting. I don’t really agree with his constituents, but we all deserve our constitutionally guaranteed representation. People deserve sick leave, but there needs to be a mechanism to stop this kind of exploitation of basically an unreplaceable position.
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Not voting is perfectly valid. It’s what the Democrats should do.
Also if this is implemented a majority can get all other members kicked out by making a surprise session at 2AM or something.
Simply add a “No vote” option, but needs to be pressed like “Yes” and “No”. Also, it should not be possible to call a surprise session at 2am.
“Abstain”
Thank you! I knew there was a word for it but could not think of it.
It’s already an option for both chambers
Then, not voting should not be allowed ever (except sick days, of course, but those need to be justified like any other worker).
Elsewhere someone suggested it should be mandatory and not an option and I made a similar argument as you. I agree that it shouldn’t be automatic, but people should have the option to recall them for excessive absences in my opinion. I’m not suggesting it be required or anything.
Recall should be an option yes.
Rigor tortoise.
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Totally a normal thing a person does when they’re trying not to scream at everyone to leave them alone because they’re trying to mourn they deceased parent because dirty soulless politicians want them to keep the death a secret for their political games.
Totally normal to have your wife fly to China as soon as you have a heart attack and are sent to the hospital, too /s
Of course she took off as soon as she could. She never expected that job to last over 33 years!
Yes, she had to file her dossier with the station chief.
The only question swirling in my mind is how long they’ll Weekend at Bernie’s him before admitting the truth.
After August 3 apparently, after then it is too late to put someone in for him until the election.
That only works if they can keep everyone involved quiet. If he’s actually deceased, that fact is going to leak.
My totally unfounded theory is that he’s just hooked up to a bunch of machines to keep him “alive” and they’ll pull the plug after that.
It really does make the most sense given the info at have so far.
Makes sense, sounds horrific, especially I’d the only reason is political.
In Texas they keep braindead pregnant bodies alive so they can give birth months later, even against family wishes.
Hos daughter getting off of X and all the other silence. It feels like someone pulled everyone aside and was like "we’re gonna keep this dude “alive” and you all need to just take this for the team otherwise the democrats will win…or something.
Makes the most sense to me.
“He’s not dead, he’s just pining.”
Sounds like he’s brain dead which fits with “found unconscious”. They can keep him on life support for months
That’s my guess as well. There was also reporting that said CPR was administered. When that is done on a frail elderly body, it creates many more problems than it solves.
He started with cardiac arrest and now he’s got maybe a chest full of shrapnel as well: he’s only leaving feet first, IMO.
5% survival rate for people his age.
Knowing Trump he’ll let it slip as soon as he can.
They’re not dumb enough to tell him, right?
Didn’t even know the guy… I like my politicians alive
He’s probably on a machine.
Death certs are public, give it two weeks and you can just foia the answer.
If he “dies” more than 90 days before the election they have to do a special election.
There clearly needs to a rules for circumstances like this. The people do not have a functional representative at the moment and haven’t for month. That isn’t democracy and is not what the intent is. Y’all need to organize with each other and become actively political. I don’t mean protests and marches, I mean help each other learn how the procedures of politics functions and start using them.
Rules don’t matter any longer in America. They only matter insofar as they’re enforced, and they’re not being enforced against the powerful.
Yes but low level politicians aren’t bureaucratic geniuses and they don’t have the functional support of the powerful members of the GOP, yet they are required for the running of things to happen. People won’t be engaging with Turmp and Co. they will be engaging with Nancy Nobody in district 590.
I have absolute confidence there are plenty of average people smart enough to outmaneuver these low level GOP idiots, if they put their focus there. The battleground the average person engages on isn’t national politics, it’s local politics and the goals there are absolutely achievable if people group the fuck up already. Any new movement to take on the gop has to come from the bottom up because it requires people who don’t know how to politic, to learn to do so, and those skills are developed in the small ponds.
He’s as spry as a dead 92-year-old man.
This ENTIRE situation is PROOF that Trump runs the MOST TRANSPARENT Administration EVER!
-Free Thinking Alpha Republicans!
It’s actually Free Alpha Republicans Thinking
I think there are way more wishes of “drop dead already” than “speedy recovery”…
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She’s probably also tired of seeing the celebrations of his impending death, if he isn’t dead already.
Sorry girl. Your dad is a traitor piece of shit who may be in the top 10 list of people who have done the most harm to this country.
He’s dead and we all know it. Instead of pretending that’s not true, they should just wrap his deboned corpse around a robot dog and send him back to work, the GOP will probably give “him” a standing ovation for his dedication.
Using “hospitalization” a bit loose here, huh? Booked into one of those rooms with the refrigerated human-sized drawers.
