Mitch McConnell needs to resign, and the Senate needs enforceable rules to remove members who are cognitively incapacitated and refuse to step down. McConnell has frozen mid-sentence at press availabilities — twice — while staffers rushed him off camera. His family and staff then kept him hidden from public view for three months. That's not a temporary medical leave. That's a cover-up.
The pattern isn't new or partisan. Dianne Feinstein served while similarly incapacitated. Kay Granger was living in a memory care facility while still holding a House seat. These aren't isolated cases — they're symptoms of a Senate with no mechanism to remove members who can no longer serve. The Senate has rules for almost everything except this. That needs to change. A standard modeled on the Twenty-Fifth Amendment's incapacitation provisions would give Congress the tool it currently lacks.
McConnell's constituents in Kentucky deserve a senator who can actually represent them. Propping up an incapacitated officeholder to protect a party's seat count is a betrayal of the public trust. Push for his resignation and sponsor legislation creating a congressional incapacitation removal process.
First sent on September 17 by Jeffrey Barlow
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