The professionally Republican have been pretending to have 20-minute discussions with Senator Mitch McConnell in an effort to keep the Democrat governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, from appointing a replacement.
Beshear has now openly began to challenge the assertions of the professionally Republican team and demand proof of life and capability or he will replace McConnell.
WASHINGTON DC – Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he is willing to launch a legal challenge to allow him to choose Mitch McConnell’s replacement if the senator cannot return to office.
Beshear, a Democrat, told MS NOW’s Politics Nation host Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday that he “might make some news right here” while revealing the potential options he has as governor to replace the 84-year-old, whose health has been the subject of intense speculation for weeks.
[…] there is a Kentucky constitutional provision that says that I appoint all state officers when there’s a vacancy,” he added. “The question is, does that apply to federal offices? Well, before there was ever a law in Kentucky on how this would work, multiple appointments were made by governors, assumably under that provision.” (read more)
This would be the ultimate Democrat Lawfare at work.
All the RINOs have to do is produce Mitch smiling and waving from his wheelchair as his aide pushes him into the ice cream shoppe.
The RINOs are pulling another version of Lawfare.
McConnell is essentially a democrat, so exactly what would be the difference. Stroke-recovering Fetterman would make a better RINO than Mitch Riga-tortoise McConnell
Agreed.
And oh, I just stole “Riga-tortoise”.
Lay more claymore comments like the above fellow American.
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I am surprised that Beshear hasn’t appointed someone yet. Why not? He’s a Democrat, he can do whatever he wants.
Last I checked the Kentucky Revised Statutes required a special election and the Governor could not just appoint someone.
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/chapter.aspx?id=37589
See 118.720.
118.720 Proclamation for special election for Congressional representative or
United States Senator — Winner of special election to hold office for remainder
of unexpired term.
When an election is to be held to fill a vacancy in the office of representative in
Congress, or in the office of United States Senator, a proclamation therefor, in lieu of a
writ of election, shall be issued and signed by the Governor and shall be directed to the
proper sheriffs. The proclamation shall be published by the sheriffs as required by KRS
118.750. The candidate who is certified as the winner of the special election shall hold
the position of the office of which he or she has been elected for the remainder of the
unexpired term.
Effective: April 12, 2024
History: Amended 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 187, sec. 1, effective April 12, 2024. — Amended
1986 Ky. Acts ch. 470, sec. 34, effective July 15, 1986. — Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch.
130, sec. 148, effective June 21, 1974.
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=54597
Rep. Beshear is blowing smoke. This is the new law but it has not been tested. The scuttlebutt here in Kentucky is that he will do whatever he wants and be challenged in court. Do not be surprised if he names himself or the current Democrat nominee for the November election.
It would seem that Beshear has a lot of butt hurt over the current process, since he vetoed it in 2024 and the Republicans in the state legislature overturned his veto.
Even if Beshear managed to get a court to throw out the current process for filling a U.S. Senate vacancy, it would revert to the previous process requiring him to pick from a list of three provided by the KY Republican Party executive committee. So he still would not have the ability to select himself or another Democrat. But that previous process was only put in the law in 2021 and also was never tested in court.
If he could get both the 2021 and 2024 changes thrown out, then he might be able to appoint himself or another Democrat, but there is only 112 days from right now to the next general election, and all indications are that Republican Andy Barr is going to win in November. He has almost no time at all to get anything done to allow him to pick who he wants, so what is he really trying to accomplish here?
Of course, if McConnell is sentient, the solution seems simple: get him interviewed live on TV and then Beshear has nothing much further to say. Is he sentient?
I think you missed the sarcasm.🙄
Rest assured, he has some very, very liberal names to choose from. I don’t know who but Andy does.
Could things be much worse without MCknuckle. Let the clown show begin circus fans! 😎
Popcorn is all ready for the microwave Sir!!!
If you think Platner was a radical choice for the DNC Marxists, wait till you see who Beshear tries to advance.
Ashley Judd
Forgot about her. On purpose.
Or Rex Chapman, Lol
Dixie Chicks?
It’s just “The Chicks”, you raaaciiiiiist. [sarc]
He might try to name himself. He can’t run for governor again.
Yep, I think you are on to something there.
Are there no rules or laws in Congress or Senate when it comes to the health of these geriatric patients ?
Supreme Court as well because we sat and watched FNC run a Ruth Ginsburg has passed away only to never see her again and life support or a performance by the DS keeping her vote alive.
Turtle boy and many in his condition should be expelled and removed from government when they can no longer stand on their own two feet let alone being married to a PLA-CCP agent.
If our Founding Fathers would have put in term limits (among other things) if they could have seen the future.
Our Founders did have term limits in the Articles of Confederation but realized how bad an idea it is, they eliminated it in our US Constitution
N/M
N/M
No Minds? 😉
McCONNELL MYSTERY
[…If McConnell dies or resigns due to incapacity, then Kentucky’s Democrat governor, Andy Beshear, gets to appoint his replacement.
Thankfully, state law requires that the appointee be drawn from a list submitted by the departing senator’s party. So you’d still get a Republican, but which Republican becomes a huge, bloody, political knife fight.
…Ironically, Democrats have to keep their big fat mouths shut, which must hurt like the Dickens. They can’t complain, since they concealed stroke victim John Fetterman in the hospital and then inpatient care for ‘depression and post‑stroke complications’ for months at a time in 2023, while insisting he was still 100% fit to serve, working from his hospital bed, and using carefully staged appearances and letters from doctors to calm concerns.
Whenever Republicans questioned Fetterman’s capacity or demanded more detail, Democrats and most corporate media framed it as discriminatory ableism and bad faith, not as any kind of legitimate transparency issue about a sitting senator. After all, expecting a United States Senator to be able to form a coherent sentence is a hate crime.
And that’s without even getting into the whole “Biden is sharp as a tack” thing.
…If McConnell somehow finishes out his term, the November winner —presumably Andy Barr, who is strongly favored to win— simply takes office as usual in January 2027. But if McConnell dies or resigns before then, Kentucky’s 2024 succession law kicks in: a special election must fill the vacancy.
But there’s a practical cutoff, around August 3rd, for calling a special election in time to coincide with this November’s ballot. If McConnell can keep the EEG beeping till after that date, the seat could then sit peacefully empty until November, or even longer, depending on how the timing interacts with various filing deadlines.]
–Jeff Childers, attorney
See more:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/mystery-turtle-sunday-july-12-2026
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THANK YOU!
I missed that one on Sunday because I an not a paid subscriber. I ger this when clicking your link:
Bonus subscriber post.
How about the great people of Kentucky recall turtle traitor
As a conservative Kentuckian, Mitch won only because the Democrat was so terrible. Her whole campaign was, “I was a fighter pilot, a marine, I am a mom and I’m not Mitch.” She would have been a solid D-party vote, a gun-grabber, a pro-lifer and obstructing the Trump agenda. Now, I’m not a 100% Trumper but he is certainly making the liberal heads explode and that is all the better.
This could end up being an unforced loss of a Senate seat to the ever more rabid DSA dims IMHO.
I really don’t think that the Senate GOP desires to be in the majority after the mid-terms.
If the Governor of Kentucky appoints a dim does the Senate have the capability or choice not to seat the appointee? They make their own rules to suit the moment after all…….
I think you’re right Monti. I believe the Senate GOP…hell, MOST of the GOP are just as focused on destroying this country as the demo-commie-pinko morons are.
Trust no one!
They are focused on whatever their money donors tell them to focus on, and representing their citizen constituents doesn’t even make the list.
A direct negative effect of the 17th Amendment… they no longer represent the STATE at all. They’re nothing more than glorified congressmen.
$5.8 BILLION IN DC LOBBYISTS FUNDING/yr for House/Senate members decides who gets appointed to Federal legislative seats, peons, not your easily manipulated electronic voting machines, regardless of how much cheating gets thru unchecked. Why do you think so many retire as multi-millionaires? Plus full salaried benefits they vote for themselves after short terms in office?
And that includes the newly sainted Lindsey Graham!
good question,but even if they could block the appointment of a different senator you know thune will not block it.
I did some searching and seems that the Senate could question the appointment and refuse to seat based on the process in Kentucky due to the Kentucky laws calling for a special election vice gov appointment.
FWIW.
We may find out cherokeepeople…..
Thune just got EXPOSED as having received $1.58 MILLION DOLLARS to kill the SAVE AMERICA VOTING ACT, you think he is going to change his mind because the 84% of USA citizens demand it?
He would much prefer ducking behind the shield of being in the minority after the mid terms.
??? what is the source on this?
Timing deserves scrutiny, right after Lindsey Graham’s replacement was sworn in?
Gibbs rules 39 and 40.
Disclaimer…I know Gibbs was an actor…but these Gibbs Rules really do speak volumes.
Let us hope that after the presidential address Thursday night some of our political actors will be busy with other concerns rather than their usual machinations Aggiegirl.
Again, I wonder about why it was announced 4 days ahead of time…I think we are starting to see why!
The story is (the subject) was leaked…..I remain skeptical.
By Kentucky law, he can’t replace a Senator.
I hear you booger 71 but since when have dims shown any concern for the law when it comes to obtaining more power?
The KY Supreme Court has already upheld the law (passed in 2024 I think) Beshear vetoed it, but it was overturned.
“I really don’t think that the Senate GOP desires to be in the majority after the mid-terms.“
TRUTH! You are exactly right.
Beshear, now there’s a Democrat piece of work.
Kinda explains the weird McConnell photo.
all I see is cocaine howdy doody…
Now thats funny
The GOP steps on the rake yet again. This was totally avoidable, but the RINO’s all cling to power. The Dems do too, but Mitch is our problem.
Age limits, if not cognitive testing. I don’t want a guy or gal who is no longer fit to drive to drive my country.
He will do it even if he can’t do it. Dems just appoint people now like true Republic hating communist. He will appoint someone and then say, “what you going to do to stop me”.
Kentuckians, for a MAGA state you sure know how to elect some piss-poor people to people to represent you.
The illegal voting is the cause.
Unfortunately, we are not the only state with this problem
Over the past year was there ever a window to replace Mitch with a Special Election?
Many of us think that McConnell was hanging in there just to prevent Beshear from having a say.
He is retiring in Jan 27.
The Governor has every right to demand legitimate proof of life. That dopey photo doesn’t amount to that. I’ve watched a couple of vids which support the fact that particular pic was taken some time ago, while he was in a rehab facility following one of his falls.
The fact that Elaine almost immediately high-tailed it to China is significant. If the KY governor appoints a Dim – well, not much of a loss as Old Mitch was about as reliable as Romney, McCain, Murkowski.
WHO does anybody know with a spouse as sick as the turtle that leaves the country instead of their bedside? These are not humans. Remember when Pelosi missed her own brother’s funeral so she could go do politics?
These self appointed ‘elitists’ don’t think about love and marriage, like we normal people do. And in her case…?sarc
Unfortunately, seat count is done by the (D) and the (R) of the seat holder. If (D) has more seat holders, then all the machinations are under (D) ‘s control.
Yes, understood.
Current count: GOP – 53; Dims – 45; Indys – 2 (who vote with the Dims)
The ONLY chance the RINOS have at staying in power is to vote for the SAVE ACT and pretend to be statesman. I know it sounds crazy but I am right.
The DSA can beat them at the cheat. The useful idiots will vote for the DSA.
The only chance they have. Is to do a better job st pretending to be statesmen who actually care about their constituents. If they do that, they can play off their name recognition and have a chance at keeping their seats. If they don’t, the DSA will crush them.
Ironically, voting for the Save Act, to prevent the cheat, is their only chance of saving their seats.
They don’t want to be in the majority. They are paid more to be in the minority. Never forget, Rs want money, Ds want power!
That WAS true in the past. Now that tactic is “generals fighting the last war”.
Schumer and Jeffries recently got a dose of the new game being played . The DSA is crushing the new game.
If the Old Guarf wants to protect their seats from the DSA, they will need to do a better job at pretending to be true statesman and hope that their name recognition will help drag them across the finish line.
The prize is the grift. The Save Act is all that stands between them and the DSA selecting someone even more corrupt to replace them.
They either get on board the Trump Train or get left standing alone at the station.
Lol!!! The schadenfreude is sweeeet.
And history shows the communists won’t allow the Schumer and Collins types on board their train.
The communists understand they can get true believing idiots like Walz and Kamala to do their bidding it FOR FREE.
He should have retired long ago.
Relax. There is a law in place that requires the governor to call a special election.
https://www.lex18.com/news/state-of-the-commonwealth/kentucky-law-requires-special-election-to-fill-vacant-u-s-senate-seat-not-appointment
You are correct; however, the governor is just trying to make news and draw attention to himself:
“…Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he is willing to launch a legal challenge to allow him to choose Mitch McConnell’s replacement if the senator cannot return to office.
Beshear, a Democrat, told MS NOW’s Politics Nation host Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday that he “might make some news right here” while revealing the potential options he has as governor to replace the 84-year-old,…”
🙂
“Beshear has now openly began to challenge the assertions of the professionally Republican team and demand proof of life and capability or he will replace McConnell.”
I wish he would do a [fake] news conference for the MSM just so I can make popcorn.
I will be making popcorn on Thursday.
Having bags ready in the cupboard is the standard in the house. Salted butter at the ready in the fridge. 😋
“Salted butter at the ready in the fridge”
Yes, I melt mine in the microwave in a double boiler. I put the butter in a ceramic coffee cup, then place the cup into a ceramic bowl with about 1 inch of water in it. In the winter sometimes I will have room temperature butter out. Without central A/C, I do not do that in summer.
Now don’t laugh at me but I asked several different AIs and this is what they said:
Under current Kentucky law (House Bill 622, enacted in April 2024), if U.S. Senate seats become vacant — for any reason, including if Mitch McConnell is deemed incapacitated — the governor:
A special election will have its waters muddied by one Tom Massie……..with the assistance of the troll Rand Paul.
2 asshole babies from the same mother. Always wanting all the attention but doing nothing to earn it but make a lot of noise.
Sounds just like Prince Harry.
Beshear made that comment just before the Mitch McConnell proof of life photo/post.
This would not be an issue in the Commonwealth of KY if the 17th Amendment had not been added to Our Constitution. Prior to the 17A, the KY State House and Senate selected both Senators.
The 17th allowed Senators to be elected by popular vote. This removed power from the States IOW it stopped the States from controlling one branch of the Federal govt – The Senate. The Senate was the collective voice of the States.
Prior to the 17th, the individual States, either the Governor or State House and/or State Senate selected your 2 Senators AND the State’s had immediate RECALL authority as outlined in the State’s Constitution. Today a Senator is accountable to no one but their next election. 17th Amendment has no RECALL provision for Senators. That was no accident!!! Adding, changing or repealing a Constitutional Amendment is a long torturous path to success.
Especially one affecting any CongressCritters bec Senators and US House Reps alike will feel threatened by the loss of power. But Senators need to be accountable to someone other than themselves – but IMHO the repeal of the 17th is an absolute necessity.
Also, I’ve never actually checked, but I’ve read that every State still has the language in their State Constitution for Senator selection and recall should the 17th get repealed.
It would have to be a republican if he did appoint someone, right? While I consider McConnell a few sticks less than a democrat, he does have a republican seat. Therefore, would his replacement not have to be a republican, even a pretend one like McConnell? One thing on the positive, he would not have the clout McConnell still has.
Well that should be enough to bring the Turtle out of his shell, Climb on the fence post and declare he is fit as a fiddle.
China wife is gripping his left arm so tight its cut off the circulation in his hand, however, the hand does not match the arm up the sleeve.
Constitutional provisions?? Provisions??? WE don’t need no stinkin’ provisions!!! El Hefe Beshearez
Does the gov want to appoint al not so sharp to the senate?😂
I watched al and some local police escort him through a airport terminal area years ago.
Al was in a hurry.
He came across to me a a fast moving dufus with some jessie jackson clout.
I was not impressed.
fast talking/ moving impresses some people but not me.
He’s dead. Appoint MASSIE!
Graham died and his sister now has his seat. It only seems right and traditional that Mrs Turtle should have Mitch’s seat.
Yes, I’m being a smartass.
The Gov should just go visit the turtle. If he is in a rehab center he is well enough for visitors.
Andy Beshear is a DemonCrat and a rotten human being.
Having said that (as I brace for incoming attacks), what would be so bad about the evil Beshear breaking the law and violating the Constitution to pick a replacement right now? Here are my reasons:
1. If Beshear would do that, there would certainly be a RepubliCon legal challenge.
2. As part of the legal process, the RepubliCons would almost certainly be forced to provide “proof of life.” And I’m not talking about some AI generated phony picture. McConnell would have to show himself to the court.
3. That right there would be the end of the matter. If The Turtle is conscious and healthy, he can resume his work in the Senate. If he’s gorked out on a machine, or if he’s already assumed room temperature, then Kentucky law and the Constitution may be
followed to pick a replacement.
Whatever happens, one way or another, Beshear and the lying RepubliCons will both be revealed as fools and gangsters.
More people need to be exposed to that unfortunate truth.
The photo of McTortoise holding up the newspaper was sad. Have the kidnappers issued a ransom demand yet?
😂
McCONNELL MYSTERY
[…If McConnell dies or resigns due to incapacity, then Kentucky’s Democrat governor, Andy Beshear, gets to appoint his replacement.
Thankfully, state law requires that the appointee be drawn from a list submitted by the departing senator’s party. So you’d still get a Republican, but which Republican becomes a huge, bloody, political knife fight.
…Ironically, Democrats have to keep their big fat mouths shut, which must hurt like the Dickens. They can’t complain, since they concealed stroke victim John Fetterman in the hospital and then inpatient care for ‘depression and post‑stroke complications’ for months at a time in 2023, while insisting he was still 100% fit to serve, working from his hospital bed, and using carefully staged appearances and letters from doctors to calm concerns.
Whenever Republicans questioned Fetterman’s capacity or demanded more detail, Democrats and most corporate media framed it as discriminatory ableism and bad faith, not as any kind of legitimate transparency issue about a sitting senator. After all, expecting a United States Senator to be able to form a coherent sentence is a hate crime.
And that’s without even getting into the whole “Biden is sharp as a tack” thing.
…If McConnell somehow finishes out his term, the November winner —presumably Andy Barr, who is strongly favored to win— simply takes office as usual in January 2027. But if McConnell dies or resigns before then, Kentucky’s 2024 succession law kicks in: a special election must fill the vacancy.
But there’s a practical cutoff, around August 3rd, for calling a special election in time to coincide with this November’s ballot. If McConnell can keep the EEG beeping till after that date, the seat could then sit peacefully empty until November, or even longer, depending on how the timing interacts with various filing deadlines.]
–Jeff Childers, attorney
See more:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/mystery-turtle-sunday-july-12-2026
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That was the law in 2021, but that changed again in 2024. Now there is no list submitted. And the governor has no right to appoint.
Beshire is paaaissed as one of the boys on the short list with Kalamaram he was not chosen for that VP slot. He is off the charts DSP. So is the chick holding down the Lt Gov. with him.
Is he truly “vacant”? If he hasn’t resigned, then no. Just because he’s sick doesn’t mean he has quit. That means nobody can get sick, have surgery, therapy, whatnot. And I’m no fan of Cocaine Mitch.
This could work in our favor if it causes the 17th Amendment to be unconstitutional.
As an amendment, the 17th is integral to the constitutional now. It says there should be elections to fill a vacancy. But like everything in the swamp no one really cares what the Constitution intended – only how they can get judges to interpret it.
The Founders generally left it up to each state to fill senate seats, vacated or term expired, because the Senate was created to represent the States not the people.
Power in the hands of the States is counter productive to centralizing Federal power so the 17th was foisted upon the free people through ignorance of history. The power brokers wanted more power by establishing and controlling state elections for Senators. Now in this case they want more power by ignoring the requirement for a special election.
It is just a big criminal cabal.
>> The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
The Democrats engage in smash-mouth politics. The Republicans just play games.
Democrats drive the marxist agenda, Republicans pretend to fight them.
Mitch is more subversive than a Dumycract, so what is the difference?
To quote the Queen herself ~ “at this point what difference would it make”
A buddy was telling me that when Governers replace US Senators, they have to select someone from the same party as the departing Senator, but that rule could differ in some states.
Anyone know what KY is like?
The mindset is that anything that promotes the Marxist Democrat oligarchy is both good and legal, eh? So one wonders why this POS hasn’t already “made news” with an appointment, if only a temporary one..
More than a little tacky and heartless. Dancing on his grave while he is still alive.
Aside from whether the governor can or will appoint someone, how is it legitimate that the people in Kentucky (or any state) appoint a senator from a particular party, and then under these circumstances the governor can appoint someone from the opposition??
“Weekend at Mitches”. lol Fox News says Mitch is recovered and healthy. Personally, I think Elvis has left the building…with Mitch, Michael Jackson and John Wayne by his side.
McConnell is effectively a democrat anyway.
Interesting dilemma. 🕶️✝️🕶️
Kentucky governors don’t pick replacements for empty senate seats since 2024.Why does he think he can do that?
Oh the drama. Had the Republicans fought for the two senate seats stolen in 2024, they’d have a bench so to speak, and majority not in question. (Nevada was one, believe AZ was the other.) But current thin majority just as The Turdle designed it. Rich!
He’s no worse than the last president we had and I don’t remember this Democrat saying a word about being concerned about signs of life back then.
Doesn’t Kentucky have to do a special election according to their replacement laws?